Business Quotes

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.

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

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

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

We have enough objects of charity at home, and it is our duty to take care of our own poor, and our own suffering, before we go abroad to intermeddle with other people's business.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

A brand is simply trust.

The journey is the reward.

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.