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Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
Learning to be an effective leader is no different than learning to be an effective person. And that's the hard part
If you're hurt, lick your wounds and get up again. If you've given it your absolute best, it's time to move forward.
Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.
I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.
Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.
If you are a complete perfectionist, then the truth is that this ice skating business will drive you a little crazy!
FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.
I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
When the president decides something on Monday, he still believes it on Wednesday - no matter what happened Tuesday.
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
A banker is a person who is willing to make you a loan if you present sufficient evidence to show you don't need it.
Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.
Let us all take more responsibility not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.
A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men...
The more people we have on our team. the less room there is in the elevator and the more complicated everything gets.
The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.
A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
There is no point in retaining a brand equity if it has no traction with consumers, or has no likelihood of doing so.
I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier.
The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid.
In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.
To me, mentorships and internships are two big pillars in business development. I believe in having multiple mentors.
Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can't tell you whether someone will fit into a company's culture.
If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.
If you wait until all the lights are 'green' before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top.
It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality.
Founders are often great storytellers because they're in the business of constantly selling a dream against all odds.
The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.
In an era of transparency, you can have innovation without branding, but you cannot have branding without innovation.
In business, one of the challenges is making sure that your product is the easiest to experience and complete a sale.
I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.
I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.
A recession doubles the necessity to be really focused on three or four tactics that can prove a return on investment.
If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.
A businessman needs three umbrellas - one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train.
It's an error in judgment to bounce into starting a small business before you cash in on building a strong foundation.
As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.
Enthusiasm for conservation can be fashioned into a nasty weapon for those who dislike business on general principles.
The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.
Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too.
When I was 13, I opened my own business called The Awesome Pretzel Company, and my dad helped me build a pretzel cart.
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
Your role as a leader is even more important than you might imagine. You have the power to help people become winners.