business

Realize that your life situation will never line up perfectly for you to start a business.

The most important thing to leverage is people. Their talents and connections will take you to great heights.

Seriously: Do you want to spend your working life simply being satisfied? When you look back on 50 years spent in business, do you want to be able to say, __ell, I was satisfied"?? No! Make happiness your goal. As in, __et__ make this a workplace where people are happy to work." As in, ____e been working for 50 years now, and it absolutely rocks! To me work is challenging, stimulating and just plain fun.

Opportunities are everywhere. The question is who is going to take advantage of them.

Competition in business is a blessing, for without it, we wouldn't be motivated to improve.

If you want to sustain excellence over a long time, you'd better come up with a system that works well. Anyone can sprint for a little while, but you can't sprint for forty years.

The simplest way to learn business is to study your competition and improve what they are offering.

Quickness means you are hustling.

Even if your company__ financial condition can withstand the inefficiency of quality service, your brand likely won__.

No longer will I measure myself against competitors, who don__ even know that a race is being run. From now on, I will measure myself against the man in front of me. I will measure myself against a new personal best, achieving my next ambitious goal.

In the midst of battle, you need something versatile to keep your focus

To be a great business person, you must be a great observer.

Knowledge makes us stronger, but power is not supersede by it (knowledge). Vulnerable is power without knowledge. Impracticable is knowledge without power.

If you think rightly, every problem is financial problem or eventually becomes one.

There is no blueprint to leadership, quite the conundrum in a business world where standardization is celebrated.

I have always believed that atrademark is the life of an enterpriseand that it must be protected boldly. Atrademark and a company name arenot just clever gimmicks-they carryresponsibility and guarantee thequality of the product. If someone triesto get a free ride on the reputation andthe ability of another who has workedto build up public trust, it is nothingshort of thievery. We were not flatteredby this theft of our name.

Most business meetings involve one party elaborately suppressing a wish to shout at the other: 'just give us the money'.

Business is the school of life. Success in business requires success in living.