Business Essence Quotes

All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.

Companies have centers of gravity. Where they are is part of their identity.

Business is just about enabling human beings, nothing more, nothing less. Businesses need to recognize this fundamental fact.

People are grateful when you make a difference in their lives. That is the essence of any successful business

Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation - literally. And 'knowledge workers' are simply those people whose job consists of having interesting conversations.

No company has a culture; every company is a culture.

The essence of business to me is great people run great companies. Mediocre people don't do a very good job.

In a very real sense, there are only two roles in organisations: customers and suppliers. Everybody functions simultaneously in both roles, whether inside or outside the organisation the essence of good business, therefore, is the quality of the relationship between customer and supplier.

To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

Technologies will come and go, so you need to be able to both ask and answer the question: What do you do as a company, why do you exist?