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Inspirational leadership connects to a highly motivated workforce which, in turn, means inspirational results
Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves.
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him.
When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to heal, so that you can skin them again.
Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale.
You'd better make it your business to understand the market. The ability to charm or play the game is useful.
If you don't succeed at first, there's no need for the F word (Failure). Pick yourself up and try, try again.
Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.
Once you have permission to talk to someone, finding new products or services for them is a smart way to grow.
One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.
Profit is not the proper end and aim of management - it is what makes all of the proper ends and aims possible
One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.
What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.
Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.
Television is one of the most fickle businesses that there are, you are in favour one minute and out the next.
Don't be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don't let the bastards get you down.
If we try and fail, we have temporary disappointments. But if we do not try at all, we have permanent regrets.
We create stress for ourselves because you feel like you have to do it. You have to. I don't feel that anymore
We know there is a problem with communication but we are not going to discuss it in front of the entire staff.
I go too fast to see much, only the tops of everything. I've got to prowl slow some time through this country.
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
Prosperity this Winter is going to be enjoyed by everybody that is fortunate enough to get into the poor farm.
I go out there to win. People don't care if you die in this business. The only way I get back is with success.
It's the behaviour of your company and its people that form your reputation, and your reputation is your brand
Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.
If you grow up in show business, you look beyond the looking glass. So, all of the surface facades get broken.
Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
Take every gain without showing remorse about missed profits, because an eel may escape sooner than you think.
Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the one with the most attractive exterior will win.
This market right now is moving on nothing more than emotions. Guess what? It almost always moves on emotions.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.
The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
The artist's business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes... when he has nothing better to do.
If someone says you're not strategic, try to figure out what that means and then tell him or her to go to hell.
Revolutionary leaders have to care more about what they think of themselves than what the world thinks of them.
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
The best advice I could give anyone is to spend your time working on whatever you are passionate about in life.
I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.
Leaders must always put their people before themselves. If you do that, your business will take care of itself.
My definition of success? The more you are actively and practically engaged, the more successful you will feel.
We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.
No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.
Building a business is not rocket science, it's about having a great idea and seeing it through with integrity.