Quotes About Business

Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back.

FDOA («Fortalezas y Debilidades de una organización a la luz de las Oportunidades y Amenazas en el entorno»; en inglés, SWOT «Strengths and Weaknesses of organization in the light of the Opportunities and Threats in the enviroment»).

They can sell at that price—and go broke and you can, too! If you base your price on your competitor's price—and they are going broke—you will, too. Typically, someone among your competition is going broke and usually is cutting prices on the way out. Owen Young, who is credited with having built General Electric, once said, "It's not the crook we fear in modern business; rather it's the honest guy who doesn't know what he is doing.

Esse protecionismo não visa proteger os artistas. Na verdade, esse é um protecionismo que visa proteger certas formas de negócio. As corporações ameaçadas pelo potencial da Internet em mudar a forma como tanto a cultura comercial quanto a não-comercial é feita e compartilhada se uniram para induzir os legisladores a usarem a lei para as protegerem. É o caso da RCA contra Armstrong; é o sonho dos Causbys.

Early in my career I had learned the wisdom of not gripping over the hand I was dealt. I had a mentor who taught me lessons about business and life that served me for years. He looked at business the way a grand master might look at a chessboard. There's nothing you can do about where the pieces are. It's only your next move that matters.

Patent licensing was not a business strategy for Pixar. It was a financing strategy, something we would do once or twice to bring in cash, but no more. It would buy Pixar time, not guarantee long-term success.

You can't have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government.

By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.

Predictions are uttered by prophets (free of charge); by clairvoyants (who usually charge a fee, and are therefore more honored in their day than prophets); and by futurologists (salaried). Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist's business is lying.

I really felt like I finally made it. Having your first fake pregnancy rumor. It was really awesome. I feel like it's part of what happens in this business, but that's a real one. That's a cool one to get.

Jobs had been famously stingy when it came to charities, arguing that the most charitable thing he could do was increase Apple's value so that shareholders had more money to give away to the causes of their choice

The businessman wants to create something for everyone, which leads to products that are middle of the road," said Brunner. "It becomes about consensus, and that's why you rarely see the spark of genius."37 Even if a great idea came along, it was impossible to get anything done. Norman described just such an occasion.

In a company that was born to innovate, the risk is in not innovating," Jony said. "The real risk is to think it is safe to play it safe.

In their constant iterations, Apple was beating the "fast followers

There are two kinds of second class men in business. There is the man who puts money first and service second. There is the man who puts service first and money second, who never has any money. The first class man in business is the man who is made up out of rolling the other two kinds into one man and working them together.

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Hong Kong" means "fragrant harbor" in Chinese. The fragrance is the smell of money.

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.

A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.

Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.

If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.

You have to understand, I don't play golf for fun. It's my business. When the mailman starts delivering mail on his off day, that's when I'll start playing golf for the hell of it. I like to play in tournaments. There are many great courses around the world that I have never played that are next door to tournaments. I have not played them because I don't play for fun