Quotes About Business

When you expand a business as fast as McDonald's did, part of the strength you have is the process and the efficiency.

You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance.

Your mindset matters. It affects everything - from the business and investment decisions you make, to the way you raise your children, to your stress levels and overall well-being.

Understanding variation is the key to success in quality and business.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.

You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again.

The common question that gets asked in business is, why? That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, why not?

I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage, low-benefit model of employment.

Without a plan, even the most brilliant business can get lost. You need to have goals, create milestones and have a strategy in place to set yourself up for success.

You don't build a business --you build people-- and then people build the business.

Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

The costs of poor quality are tangible; they will cost you customers and money, and ultimately affect the success of your business.

It is arguable that the success of business propaganda in persuading us, for so long, that we are free from propaganda is one of the most significant propaganda achievements of the twentieth century.

We unfortunately live in a corporate world where group decision making is made to avoid failure rather than to achieve success.

Business schools don't create successful people. They simply accept them, then take credit for their success.

A natural response to a natural phenomenon -that is the secret of success in business and management. You will always win if you rely on common sense.

Build wealth as a by product of your business success. If wealth is your only objective in business, you will probably fail.

You've got to quit lowering your standards. Set your requirements up front so when a guy hooks you, he has to know this is business.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

In business, you can have one massive success that earns $50 million overnight, and that's it. You're successful. End of story. But in the music business, you have to keep on doing it.

A good leader is not necessarily the most popular person in their business, but the best ones are liked because they are respected for their clarity and vision.

Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.

Networking is the No. 1 unwritten rule of success in business.