Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs. 

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.  

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night. Henry Ford A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it. 

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. 

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. 

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. 

Good design is good business.

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people. 

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. 

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart. 

Politics is not a game. It's an earnest business.

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.