Quotes About Business

I had a trial run with Norman Ross for 21 years, from '61 to '82. I didn't have it in mind to open a chain like Harvey Norman. I opened one shop, but then the next thing you know, I've got another shop and then another shop.

As business models evolve, as the way you distribute content evolves, as the ability to do things online changes in terms of pricing or trial or sample, I think we've definitely always been out in front of the rest of our competitors.

The greatest challenge to most innovation centers around the world is many nations' punitive attitudes towards failure. In most of the world, if your first business fails, no one will work with you again. But, trial and error is the genesis of innovation.

So in 2000, when we changed the business model and started really focusing on that triangle and putting the customer in the center, we decided we should hold off - we've done enough consolidation; we've got enough critical mass.

Smartass Disciple: Master, you keep preaching the truth. They don't listen.Master of Stupidity: Oh that's not bad. That attitude keeps us in the business.

There are more temptations in business than in any other sphere of the society

That was an important rule of any game: always make it easy for people to give you money.

When truth and honesty is successfully intertwined into the business world of a nation, the result is a boost in commerce.

I am just a businessman, giving the people what they want.

If you have a lot of what people want and can't get, then you can supply the demand and shovel in the dough.

Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.

The first thing you need to make clear to a client is that you aren't there to answer his wants but to answer his needs.

In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to.

You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.

My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't.

The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're on the operating table.

After my death, I want to be remembered as Africa's greatest industrialist.

The difficulty with businessmen entering politics, after they've had a successful business career, is that they want to start at the top.

Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment.

A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.

Arbitration is private. It doesn't have the tools to dig into the corporate files. It's usually controlled by arbitrators who want repeat business from corporations not from the injured person.

The #1 business opportunity for those who want to create new wealth is educating consumers about products and services that will improve their lives.

The biggest problem I see among people who want to excel in chess – and in business and in life in general – is not trusting their instincts enough.

Anything that has to do with money, I want to be in that business.