Universal Language

There is a language in the world that everyone understands. The language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose and as a search for something believed in and desired. - Paulo Coelho

Market globally if you've got a good enough product.

Decisive Leadership

If I had to sum up in one word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act. - Lee Iacocca


Businesses should be dictatorships, not democracies.

Perceiving Desires

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

  Steve Jobs.

Your Product

When in doubt, raise money from your customers by selling them something they truly need--your product. - Seth Godin


Produce; don't just prepare to produce.

Innovation Clues

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. - Steve Jobs


And one isn't any good at doing the others job.

Purpose and Principle

Purpose and principle, clearly understood and articulated, and commonly shared, are the genetic code of any healthy organization. To the degree that you hold purpose and principles in common among you, you can dispense with command and control. People will know how to behave in accordance with them, and they'll do it in thousands of unimaginable, creative ways. The organization will become a vital, living set of beliefs. - Dee Hock


Whenever you gather others around you to advance a goal make sure they share your purpose and principles.

Preserve Substance

Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference. Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral. Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future. The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.  - Dee Hock

..... Heck with P's and Q's; mind your S's and F's.

The Gambling Business

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. - Ambrose Bierce

..... Why go to Vegas to gamble if you have a business?

Unbridled Growth

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. - Edward Abbey


Many times it is preferable to get better, not bigger.

Your Discrection

One can pass on responsibility, but not the discretion that goes with it. - Benvenuto Cellini

  Why small businesses often fail when management is passed on and, sometimes, why they flourish.

Corporate Social Responsibility

There is one and only one social responsibility of business-to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud. - Milton Friedman

  You may choose to be generous, but it is not your responsibility.

Getting There

The saying "Getting there is half the fun." became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines. - Henry J. Tillman

Trains could make the saying true again if only they were run like a business.

Your Mission

Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail. - Seth Godin


Perhaps you should pay more attention to Mission Statements than to Business Plans.

Buying Time

There is ultimately no substitute for cultural change. Checks and balances can only buy us time to achieve it. - Gus Van Horn


Whether company or country, I believe this to be true.

Art Business; Business Art

If there's a more tragic fool than the businessman that does not realize he's an extension of man's highest creative spirit—it's the artist who thinks that the businessman is his enemy. - Ayn Rand


These days there is very little distinction between the businessman and the artist.

Big Ding

I want to put a ding in the universe. - Steve Jobs

He has.

Stealing Ideas

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats. - Howard Aiken


Customers pay for, not steal, the embodiment of a great idea.

Small Oportunities

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. - Demosthenes


e.g Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Google.

All In Betting

Never go "All In" when you have a partner(s). You'll won't get all the credit if it works and will get all the blame if it doesn't. - Lyle

Risky Business

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something. - Wilson Mizner


True, but recognize the difference between risk and gamble.