Quote Topic: Business Quotes

“Assign each new hire to read a book and write a one-page report so you can see how serious they are about working there.”

“IT projects almost always take longer and cost more money than you expect.”

“You can shear a sheep a hundred times, but you can skin it only once.”

“You can’t build a world-class headquarters or license the slickest software until you have cash flow.”

“Every master, both in chess and in business, learns more from studying the moves that led to defeat than the ones that led to victory.”

“A solution is a one-time fix that requires you to keep reinventing the wheel and puts you in a reactionary place. A system is duplicatable.”

“Shift your thinking from ‘We need a solution for that’ to ‘We need a system for that.’”

“Effective strategy is about making a move and being prepared to launch another series of moves based on how the market or your competition reacts.”

“The person who really has the leverage is the person who needs the deal the least.”

“The less your business depends on you, the more valuable it is. The more your business depends on you, the less valuable it is.”

“It’s so important to know your own strengths and weaknesses and find a market in which you have an inherent advantage.”

“In other words, I realized that for IBM to become a great company it would have to act like a great company long before it ever became one.”