Favourite Entrepreneur Quotes
edw519: Attitude determines outcome. - Jim McGraw, COO of Marion LaboratoriesBe the first, be the best, or be different. - Jacyln EastonChance favors the prepared mind. - Louis PasteurElegance is for tailors. Don't always believe in the numbers. There is always room for human judgment. - Albert EinsteinGreat ideas come into the world as gently as doves. - Albert CamusHalf the money I spend on advertising is wasted, and the trouble is, I don't know which half. - John WanamakerI do not love the money. What I love is the making of it. - Philip ArmourI guess we can make them, although we never have. - Benjamin Franklin GoodrichI never gamble. - J. P. MorganA man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. - Charles SchwabIf I could get $25,000, I would spend $24,000 on advertising, the remainder in making Coca-Cola. Then we would all be rich. - John PembertonIf I had six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first four sharpening the axe. - Abraham LincolnThe best way to really enter minds that hate complexity and confusion is to oversimplify your message. The lesson here is not to try to tell your entire story. Just focus on one powerful differentiating idea and drive it into the mind. That sudden hunch, that creative leap of the mind that "sees" in a flash how to solve a problem in a simple way, is something quite different from general intelligence. If there's any trick to finding that simple set of words, it's one of being ruthless about how you edit the story you want to tell. Anything that others could claim just as well as you can, eliminate. Anything that requires a complex analysis to prove, forget. Anything that doesn't fit with your customers' perceptions, avoid. - Jack TroutIf you're going to lose money, lose it. But don't let 'em nose you out. - Gustavus SwiftIf you love an idea, that is good. If you have ideas as to how to work it out, that is better. - Henry FordIt's a barrier to entry because you're shooting at a moving target. - Bill George, CEO, MedtronicsName the greatest inventors. Accident. - Mark TwainNothing, not all the armies of the world, can stop an idea whose time has come. - Victor HugoPerceived truth is more powerful than truth itself. - Michel FortinPurchasers are made, not born. - Henry FordSuccess depends on how you react to unexpected opportunities. - Ross PerotThe ancestor to every action is a thought. - Ralph Waldo EmersonThe march of improvement in any given field is always marked by periods of inactivity and then by sudden bursts of energy which revolutionize existing methods sometimes in a day. - George EastmanThere was never a great character who did not sometimes smash the routine regulations and make new ones for himself. - Andrew CarnegieThink a lot. Say little. Write nothing. - J. P. MorganIf first an idea is not absurd, it has no hope for survival. - Albert EinsteinTo lead people, walk behind them. - Sun TzuWe study the methods of improving our business as we would a science. We imitate no one. - A. Montgomery WardWe took what was a luxury and made it into a necessity. Our only advantage was lack of precedent. - Henry FordWe want character to go with our goods. And 16 ounces is a Swift pound. - Louis SwiftWhat others could not or would not do we would attempt, and this was a rule of business which was strictly adhered to. - Andrew CarnegieWhat we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends upon what we look for. What we look for depends on what we think. What we think depends on what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we take to be true. What we take to be true is our reality. - Gary ZukavYou can't get wet from the word "water". - Alan WattsYou can't solve a problem with the same mind that created it. - Albert Einstein