Businessman Quotes

I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.

You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.

Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.

If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.

The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality.

A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.

Management must manage!

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else.

To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege.

The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.

Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.

My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.

Move to California. Malibu is paradise.

It's very easy for me to thank everyone for the incredible contribution they've made to my life.

It's the perfect definition of a settlement. Both parties didn't get what they wanted.

It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad.

I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth.

I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth.

I thought I'd be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris.

I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.