Smart Business Quotes

Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market.

If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.

I know a smart business decision when I see one - choosing open standards is | a very smart business decision indeed.

When I started the diamond business, no black person, period, was in it to do what we're trying to do to change the industry. So I like to do things that I see clearly that are in my, you know, scope. And then, I had to figure how I get talented or smart business people around me to execute. That's what I have to do.

Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.

You should pursue your passion. If you're passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.

Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

Just really, really believe in what you're trying to do. Don't let people alter that. Let people advise you and lead you down paths to make smart business decisions. But trust your instinct and trust that overwhelming drive that made you put all your dreams and everything on the line.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

If you think you can't, you're right.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.