Business Quotes

What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning.

My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.Great things in business are not done by one person, they are done by a team of people.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being WalMart. We make it by innovation.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

Great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.

If you keep your eye on the profit, you're going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.

Everything is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.

Customers don't measure you on how hard you tried, they measure you on what you deliver.

You can't look at the competition and say you're going to do it better. You have to look at the competition and say you're going to do it differently.

The journey is the reward.

A brand is simply trust.

Your customers dream of a happier and better life. Don't move products. Instead, enrich lives.

I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

If a user is having a problem, it's our problem.

I hate it when people call themselves 'entrepreneurs' when what they're really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell of go public, so they can cash in and move on. They're unwilling to do the work it takes to build a real company, which is the hardest work in business.

Marketing is about values. It's a complicated and noisy world, and we're not going to get a chance to get people to remember much about us. No company is. So we have to be really clear about what we want them to know about us.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.