Business Simplicity Quotes

You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in one sentence, what it does... it's illegal.

The Internet is the easiest thing to get into. To be an Internet retailer, you just get that URL.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.

If you must use more than ten slides to explain your business, you probably don't have a business.

There's no great mystery to satisfying your customers. Build them a quality product and treat them with respect. It's that simple.

I do think a lot of people are trying to do important things still, and I think it is really a great thing that entrepreneurship is getting easier. When I started, it was just much harder to begin a company.

I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.

Our approach has worked for us. Look at the fun we, our managers, and our shareholders are having. More people should copy us. It's not difficult, but it looks difficult because it's unconventional - it isn't the way things are normally done. We have low overhead, don't have quarterly goals and budgets or a standard personnel system, and our investing is much more concentrated than average. It's simple and common sense.

My strengths as a businessman lie in the design and sale of women's shoes, and I have never been comfortable with complicated or technical legal or business documents.

At Shopify, we are trying to make things as simple as possible, but for the business owner, it's not unlike starting your own little shop along Main Street somewhere.

I've never met him, but I love the simplicity with which Warren Buffett describes good and bad businesses and how he makes his investment decisions.

It's so easy to make things complicated in business.

[GEICO] got to thinking that, because they were making a lot of money, they knew everything. And they suffered huge losses. All they had to do was to cut out all the folly and go back to the perfectly wonderful business that was lying there.

People always overestimate how complex business is. This isn't rocket science. We've chosen one of the world's simplest professions.

Great business turns on a little pin.

Where a chunk of business is simple, the chances are that it is.

Yeah, leading an examined life, I always say, is a pain in the ass. It adds an element of complexity to business that most businessmen don't want to hear about. They just want to call a fabric manufacturer, and say, "Hey, give us 10,000 yards of shirting."