Business Quotes

"High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation"

"All lasting business is built on friendship"

"Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations"

"I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love"

"Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something"

"No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution"

"Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch"

"The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale"

"Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures"

"One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency"

"Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money"

"The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows"

"Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each"

"Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products"

"A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships"

"If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been"

"A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it"

"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on"

"Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results"

"There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second"

"What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'"

"Carpe per diem - seize the check"

"I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me"

"My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job"

"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it"

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure"

"A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his"

"I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations"

"The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks"

"What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life"