When I got there, there were two sides: business and football. Business I understand. It was pretty obvious to me what we had to do. But the football side was like the Holy Grail.
I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.
Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.
In this business, you can be at the top of the world and at the bottom of the barrel, and you're grape juice. I've been at both ends. It can make you become what you really are.
I think I was the first executive to ever speak at a Greenpeace business conference, in London in 2001. That didn't play well here at Ford, but I thought it was an important signal to send internally, that these were the kind of issues we needed to be grappling with.
I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice' was a business book. I'm very surprised and gratified that the business world thought it was one.
Everyone I put in business, I must've taught them something. They all have reaped the benefits of it. A lot of them haven't done right by me, but it's all gravy.
It's not hard to get your way when it's your way or the highway. People either follow suit or they're not around. I don't really like the sound of that, 'cause that sounds like a temper tantrum. I'm just very black and white when it comes to my business. There's really no gray area.
That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.
No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.
A well-maintained physique is a great business card. Ideas and intelligence are what matters, but if you have a well-maintained physique, it's better.
Sleep might be the most important aspect of building a great business, and having a high-performing body.
A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.
Money is available from investors as long as you have a great business model and a talented leader.
When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun!
Successful shows will always generate great business deals in the future.
In order to run a great business, you must know that a bunch of really intrinsically unhappy people, that's not a recipe for success. Don't be anywhere you don't need to be; it's just like that.
Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.
If you have a great business, if you're great at your craft people should be coming in there. It shouldn't be this secret.
