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Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.
The biggest public fallacy is that the market is always right. The market is nearly always wrong. I can assure you of that.
An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
The amount of time people waste dwelling on failures rather than putting that energy into another project, always amazes me
The most important invention that will come out of the corporate research lab in the future will be the corporation itself.
Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.
Our company has indeed stumbled onto some of its new products. But never forget that you can only stumble if you're moving.
There are two types of people in the world, those who say 'there are two types of people in the world' and those who don't.
We've got to start making people realise that it's a proud thing to run a business, to export your goods around the country.
Don't think what's the cheapest way to do it or what's the fastest way to do it. Think what's the most amazing way to do it.
Often, the more money you make the more money you spend; that's why more money doesn't make you rich - assets make you rich.
Success is the result of clear goal, unshakable confidence, proper planning, enthusiastic ACTION and consistent persistence.
I mean, there's no arguing. There is no anything. There is no beating around the bush. 'You're fired' is a very strong term.
We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.
If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.
There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.
All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.
True cultural connection is the Holy Grail for brands if they want to create an enduring emotional relationship with people.
The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what's good.
In this business, if you don`t have the capacity to step back and have some sort of relativity about things, you're screwed.
Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.
The more diverse a research group or a business, the more robust it is, the more flexible it is, and the better it succeeds.
What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.
Organisations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity.
An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.
A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.
There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.
Small business is the backbone of our economy. I'm for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs are generated.
The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
Businesses, like babies and books, need nurturing, time, energy, love, planning and, yes, money to develop, grow and prosper.
In terms of diet, my parents had a restaurant business so I don't eat any junk food - they taught me to appreciate good food.
Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past.
Networking has been cited as the number one unwritten rule of success in business. Who you know really impacts what you know.
We believe that the business system only is the key to success. It's no miracle, only day-to-day work in the appropriate way.
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
We're in the space exploration business, and the outer solar system is a wild, wooly place. We haven't explored it very well.
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
A pack of lemmings looks like a group of rugged individualists compared with Wall Street when it gets a concept in its teeth.
Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
I used to use business to make money. But I've learned that business is a tool. You can use it to support what you believe in.
All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.
If you're a single man and you happen to be in this business, you're deemed a player. But I don't see myself as a ladies' man.
You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years.
The rise of digital technologies has eroded boundaries: Anyone can participate, start a business, and reach a global audience.
Business is so much lower a thing than learning that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first.
Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.
If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.
I learned that in dealing with things, you spent much more time and energy in dealing with people than in dealing with things.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.