Quotes About Business

I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check. If that was the case, Microsoft would have great products.

To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which you have even if you have nothing else.

There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.

Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.

Let's say you're a garage mechanic, and you have big dreams about opening up your own chain of branded garages around the country. Terrific.

Happiness is the secret ingredient for successful businesses. If you have a happy company it will be invincible.

If we don't take care of our customers, someone else will.

Our company was mortgaged to the hilt, and that did restrain us, and it's why we had to take in partners.

The single most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that there are no results inside its walls. The result of a business is a satisfied customer.

Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can't deliver good service from unhappy employees.

Does making money excite me? No, but I have to make money for my shareholders. What excites me is achievement, doing something difficult.

When people talk about successful retailers and those that are not so successful, the customer determines at the end of the day who is successful and for what reason.

Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.

Microsoft is already the most powerful company on earth but you ain't seen nothing yet.

In order to grow at this pace, there will have to be a couple of acquisitions along the way. The tricky thing is to grow at this rate and maintain a 40 percent operating margin.

It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.

There are no bad business and investment opportunities, but there are bad entrepreneurs and investors.

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Many people start a business only to make money. Just to make money is not a strong enough mission.

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.

Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.

In my cheapest moments I am apt to think that it is n't my business to be "seeking the spirit," but as much its business to be seeking me.

Drucker said: 'If you weren't already in this business, would you enter it today? And if not, what are you going to do about it?' ... Simple, right? But incredibly powerful.

We have the brand, and we have the fulfillment capability. Now we had to get the Net, and that's the easiest part of the game.