If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. |
He who knows most grieves most for wasted time. |
Tend to the people, and they will tend to the business. |
Inflation is taxation without representation. |
At a healthy business, cash is sometimes thought of as something to be minimized - as an unproductive asset that acts as a drag on such markers as return on equity. Cash, though, is to a business as oxygen is to an individual: never thought about when it is present, the only thing in mind when it is absent. |
(We) frequently get approached about acquisitions that don't come close to meeting our tests: We've found that if you advertise an interest in buying collies, a lot of people will call hoping to sell you their cocker spaniels. |
Market forecasters will fill your ear but will never fill your wallet. |
The one person who can make your business succeed is not an investor, or even a mentor. |
My successor will need one other particular strength: the ability to fight off the ABCs of business decay, which are arrogance, bureaucracy and complacency. When these corporate cancers metastasize, even the strongest of companies can falter. |
Many new start-ups in India are threatening to go to other countries to raise capital... There should be a facility for them to do that in India. |