Quotes About Business

The greatest businesspeople I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost. And by getting it right, I'm not just talking about the business. I mean that there is something uplifting, some vision, some higher end in sight that "getting it right" would serve. An ethical certainty, a moral principle, a universal truth.

Don't you see? If your business depends on you, you don't own a business—you have a job.

How can I create a business whose results are systems-dependent rather than people-dependent? Systems-dependent rather than expert-dependent. How can I create an expert system rather than hire one?

Las empresas existen sólo porque la gente quiere que existan.

you'll know that your business is destined to grow, and that once it does your job is going to be significantly different. For now, that's all you need.

Where the business is the product, how the business interacts with the consumer is more important than what it sells.

La mayoría de las empresas consideran que las personas son un problema.

And what I hear you saying is that it is this identification with my business, my Technician's need to see the business as nothing more or less than me, that is causing me all the pain I'm feeling, all the frustration I experience going to work every day. My belief that, if I'm good, the business will be. That if I work hard enough, the business will succeed.

I think that maybe inside any business, there is someone slowly going crazy.

You can't sell it when you want to, because who wants to buy a job?

Every day at IBM was a day devoted to business development, not doing business.

Nos decimos que, como todo este condicionamiento es lo habitual, para desarrollarnos, para ser más efectivos, para ser mejores personas, para ser más humanos, lo que debemos hacer es desarrollar hábitos mejores. Voilà! En lugar de intentar despertarnos, la solución es dormir mejor. Es un problema muy complejo. Puede pasar cualquier cosa. Por un lado, le he dicho que le voy a proporcionar una receta, un esquema, para lograr el éxito empresarial.

great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

a business that 'gets small again' is a business reduced to the level of its owner's personal resistance to change, to its owner's Comfort Zone, in which the owner waits and works, works and waits, hoping for something positive to happen.

Because in a business like that what your customers are buying is not your business's ability to give them what they want but your ability to give them what they want. And that's what's wrong with it!

Simply put, your job is to prepare yourself and your business for growth. "To educate yourself sufficiently so that, as your business grows, the business's foundation and structure can carry the additional weight.

It reveals an understanding of what makes a great business great. It also tells us what makes all other businesses survivable at their best; intolerable at their worst.

Knowing where the money is and where it will be when you need it is a critically important task of both the Contractor-as-Employee and the Contractor-as-Owner.

And that is the sign of a Mature company. A Mature company is started differently than all the rest. A Mature company is founded on a broader perspective, an entrepreneurial perspective, a more intelligent point of view. About building a business that works not because of you but without you.

Organize around business functions, not people. Build systems within each business function. Let systems run the business and people run the systems. People come and go, but the systems remain constant.

It's a model of a business that fulfills the perceived needs of a specific segment of customers in an innovative way.

La empresa es el objetivo más creativo y emocionante al que podemos aspirar. También es extraordinariamente divertido… si se hace bien.

But history tells us that monopolies that are truly benevolent and effective are rare.

If the forces are intense, (..) almost no company earns attractive returns on investment. If the forces are benign, (..) many companies are profitable. P. 25