Business Quotes - Page 25

People have within their own hands the tools to fashion their own destiny.

The most important thing in business is a persona, Nico,' he was fond of saying. 'People want to know immediately what they're dealing with. And when they think about you, you've got to stand out in their minds--like one of those characters in a novel.

Candace Bushnell

International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky.

Alexander McCall Smith

An entrepreneur without funding is a musician without an instrument.

Robert A. Rice Jr.

Anyone who likes or hates Dana White should take a look at this.

June White

We designed Google to be the kind of place where the kind of people we wanted to work here would work for free.- Urs Hölzle

Steven Levy

Social media allows us to behave in ways that we are hardwired for in the first place - as humans. We can get frank recommendations from other humans instead of from faceless companies.

Francois Gossieaux

...After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world. I am strongly of the opinion that the great majority of people will always find these are the moving impulses of our life. But it is only those who do not understand our people, who believe that our national life is entirely absorbed by material motives. We make no concealment of the fact that we want wealth, but there are many other things that we want much more. We want peace and honor, and that charity which is so strong an element of all civilization. The chief ideal of the American people is idealism.

Calvin Coolidge

The goal of management is to remove obstacles.

Paul Orfalea

If it was my business, I wouldn't talk about it. It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbroker's do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Oscar Wilde

Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people whom you come in contact everyday.

Orison Swett Marden

What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce ... Men must want to do things of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organisations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work, every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you overorganize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness — they cannot work and their civilization collapses.

Frank Herbert

I don't know where we should take this company, but I do know that if I start with the right people, ask them the right questions, and engage them in vigorous debate, we will find a way to make this company great.

James C. Collins

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

Richard Branson

Good brands reflect the histories of the time and the group of people that made them. They can not be copied. They can not be recycled.

Richard Branson

I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man!

Jay-Z

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship...the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

Peter F Drucker

My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as a country, to leave it to the Americans to make money from a great British invention. I appeal to the children of this country and to their Potter-fiend parents to write to Warner Bros and Universal, and perhaps, even, to the great J K herself. Bring Harry home to Britain—and if you want a site with less rainfall than Rome, with excellent public transport, and strong connections to Harry Potter, I have just the place.

Boris Johnson

Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press

Warren Buffett

A pickpocket is obviously a champion of private enterprise. But it would perhaps be an exaggeration to say that a pickpocket is a champion of private property. The point about Capitalism and Commercialism, as conducted of late, is that they have really preached the extension of business rather than the preservation of belongings; and have at best tried to disguise the pickpocket with some of the virtues of the pirate.

G.K. Chesterton

Fun is at the core of the way I like to do business and it has been key to everything I've done from the outset. More than any other element, fun is the secret of Virgin's success. I am aware that the ideas of business as being fun and creative goes right against the grain of convention, and it's certainly not how the they teach it at some of those business schools, where business means hard grind and lots of 'discounted cash flows' and net' present values'.

Richard Branson

There’s not a chance we’ll reach our full potential until we stop blaming each other and start practicing personal accountability.

John Miller

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

Henry Ford

I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.

Oscar Wilde

My advice was to start a policy of making reversible decisions before anyone left the meeting or the office. In a startup, it doesn’t matter if you’re 100 percent right 100 percent of the time. What matters is having forward momentum and a tight fact-based data/metrics feedback loop to help you quickly recognize and reverse any incorrect decisions. That’s why startups are agile. By the time a big company gets the committee to organize the subcommittee to pick a meeting date, your startup could have made 20 decisions, reversed five of them and implemented the fifteen that worked.

Steven Gary Blank

Success seems to be connected to action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.

Conrad Hilton

In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.

Warren Buffett

I built them what they wanted and I made a profit off of it. Now they call me a god...What fools these mortals be.

Benjamin R. Smith

The best way to engage honestly with the marketplace via Twitter is to never use the words "engage," "honestly," or "marketplace.

Jeffrey Zeldman

In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time.

Owen Felltham

Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they deflect him.

John Steinbeck

Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes -- while no becoming an extremist. ... **Most companies don't do paradox very well.**(emphasis by author)[2002] p.25f

Gary Hamel

There's no luck in business. There's only drive, determination, and more drive.

Sophie Kinsella

Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.

Sidney Sheldon

Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so long in human society - how a few people could live in luxury while billions dwelt in misery, deprivation and despair.

Muhammad Yunus

Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

Vince Lombardi Jr.

But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself.Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The deals of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!

Charles Dickens

If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.

John M. Gottman

Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.

Criss Jami

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Peter F Drucker

Steve Jobs gave a small private presentation about the iTunes Music Store to some independent record label people. My favorite line of the day was when people kept raising their hand saying, "Does it do [x]?", "Do you plan to add [y]?". Finally Jobs said, "Wait wait — put your hands down. Listen: I know you have a thousand ideas for all the cool features iTunes could have. So do we. But we don't want a thousand features. That would be ugly. Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.

Derek Sivers

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves it s amazing what they can accomplish.

Sam Walton

You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.

Ronald Reagan

Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

Kenneth E. Boulding

If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible.

T. Harv Eker

When [what you are deeply passionate about, what you can be best in the world at and what drives your economic engine] come together, not only does your work move toward greatness, but so does your life. For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work. Perhaps, then, you might gain that rare tranquility that comes from knowing that you’ve had a hand in creating something of intrinsic excellence that makes a contribution. Indeed, you might even gain that deepest of all satisfactions: knowing that your short time here on this earth has been well spent, and that it mattered.

James C. Collins

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

Zig Ziglar

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

James C. Collins

In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.

Alexandre Dumas

We have not noticed how fast the rest has risen. Most of the industrialized world--and a good part of the nonindustrialized world as well--has better cell phone service than the United States. Broadband is faster and cheaper across the industrial world, from Canada to France to Japan, and the United States now stands sixteenth in the world in broadband penetration per capita. Americans are constantly told by their politicians that the only thing we have to learn from other countries' health care systems is to be thankful for ours. Most Americans ignore the fact that a third of the country's public schools are totally dysfunctional (because their children go to the other two-thirds). The American litigation system is now routinely referred to as a huge cost to doing business, but no one dares propose any reform of it. Our mortgage deduction for housing costs a staggering $80 billion a year, and we are told it is crucial to support home ownership, except that Margaret Thatcher eliminated it in Britain, and yet that country has the same rate of home ownership as the United States. We rarely look around and notice other options and alternatives, convinced that "we're number one.

Fareed Zakaria

Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise

Ted Turner

The interest of [businessmen] is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public ... The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order ... ought never to be adopted, till after having been long and carefully examined ... with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men ... who have generally an interest to deceive and even oppress the public

Adam Smith

In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity

Sun Tzu

Advertising is legalized lying.

H.G.Wells

The best way to predict your future is to create it

Peter F Drucker

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

Warren Buffett

As far as I can tell, kids are called bossy when they behave in a dictatorial and domineering fashion. They’re called bossy when they try to order people around and refuse to listen to authority figures. Here’s a suggestion: instead of telling us not to refer to them as bossy, why don’t we teach them not to be bossy? We concentrate so much on eradicating negative words while forgetting to address the behavior that the words describe.

Matt Walsh

Beside them, little pot-bellied men in light suits and panama hats; clean, pink men with puzzled, worried eyes, with restless eyes. Worried because formulas do not work out; hungry for security and yet sensing its disappearance from the earth. In their lapels the insignia of lodges and service clubs, places where they can go and, by a weight of numbers of little worried men, reassure themselves that business is noble and not the curious ritualized thievery they know it is; that business men are intelligent in spite of the records of their stupidity; that they are kind and charitable in spite of the principles of sound business; that their lives are rich instead of the thin tiresome routines they know; and that a time is coming when they will not be afraid any more.

John Steinbeck

Today's opponents can be your allies tomorrow. And today's allies can be tomorrow's opponents.

Suzy Kassem

We are only constrained by the boundaries of our imagination

David Moffett

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