If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something.
Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn’t always have to be their top priority.
The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn’t know what he is doing.
Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
An economist’s guess is liable to be as good as anybody else’s.
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It’s all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.
My father told me, never have partners.
Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.
What’s the subject of life – to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.
A group or an artist shouldn’t get his money until his boss gets his.
If you aren’t playing well, the game isn’t as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
I don’t think it’s a good idea to plan to sell a company.
If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.
It takes more than capital to swing business. You’ve got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by – Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
What we’ve gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question ‘Can we trust Microsoft?’
