Business Quotes
Writers are remembered for their best work, politicians for their worst mistakes, and businessmen are almost never remembered.
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
I`ve made billions of dollars of failures [...]. None of those things are fun, but also they don`t matter. What matters is companies that don`t continue to experiment or embrace failure eventually get in the position where the only thing they can do is make a Hail Mary bet at the end of their corporate existence. I don`t believe in bet-the-company bets.
When [...] you solve problems for people and they like what you have to offer, of course you automatically make money.
We`re used to thinking of the Web as a series of one-to-one relationships. [...] But behind the scenes, the Web is becoming increasingly integrated. Businesses are realizing that it`s profitable to share data.
If you're not paying for something, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold.
If the giver`s goal is to change behavior, it`s not enough to give the healthy thing - bran, let`s say - that you want them to eat. You also must give more bran than the recipient currently eats, that is, when he`s getting by without a grant. Any amount of bran he`s already eating - up to the amount of the grant - becomes cash, since he can substitute the gift bran for purchased bran, freeing up cash for anything else he might buy.
If Christmas were a government program, the Citizens Against Government Waste would classify the entire $66 billion in annual expenditure as "waste".
Nobody going on a business trip would have been missed if he never arrived.
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. [...] Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.