The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.
As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.
Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.
Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.