Business Quotes
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Business Quotes
These business quotes capture different sides of the experience — from struggle to strength. Find the lines that resonate and carry them with you.
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"Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship."
-- Peter Drucker"The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer."
-- Peter Drucker"Efficiency is doing better what is already being done."
-- Peter Drucker"What gets measured gets managed."
-- Peter Drucker"Culture eats strategy for breakfast."
-- Peter Drucker"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."
-- Peter Drucker"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
-- Peter Drucker"Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10% to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated."
-- Bill Gates"I am results-oriented."
-- Bill Gates"If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG."
-- Bill Gates"A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything."
-- Bill Gates"When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it."
-- Bill Gates"Don't make the same decision twice. Spend time and thought to make a solid decision the first time."
-- Bill Gates"Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency."
-- Bill Gates"I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one."
-- Bill Gates"Software innovation... requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people."
-- Bill Gates"Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are."
-- Bill Gates"Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement."
-- Bill Gates"As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others."
-- Bill Gates"Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it."
-- Bill Gates"A computer on every desk and in every home."
-- Bill Gates"The way to become a software giant is to write very good software."
-- Bill Gates"The most important thing I do is meeting with the smartest people."
-- Bill Gates"Capitalism is this mechanism where you can take a lot of resources and get them focused on a problem."
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These business quotes capture different sides of the experience — from struggle to strength. Find the lines that resonate and carry them with you.
Some of the most celebrated business quotes come from A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, among many others featured on this page.
Popular business quotes include: "Thinking is the capital, enterprise is the way, hard work is the solution." -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Also: "The talent for making money is not the same as the talent for creating value." -- Elon Musk.
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