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Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.
My father runs a restaurant business in Delhi, so if I had chosen to sell kebabs, it would be far easier for me than for anybody else.
The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did.
I've also learned that you can't be all things to all people. Whatever it is that you're successful at, that has to be the No. 1 goal.
Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.
You could be the World's greatest orator and if you don't say anything while orating, they are going to walk out on you after a while.
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
No hotels have gone out of business because of Airbnb... Airbnb is not a perfect substitute for a hotel. We excel at different things.
Whenever I think about the budgetary problems, I think about the problems of Errol Flynn ... reconciling net income with gross habits.
Cecil's dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, "The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once."
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
It is the business of economists, not to tell us what to do, but show why what we are doing anyway is in accord with proper principles.
The message of the Kaizen strategy is that not a day should go by without some kind of improvement being made somewhere in the company.
I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.
They are a special breed-like normal accountants, but without the soppy sentimentality. These are the oncologists of market capitalism.
What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.
It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement.
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.
As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business.
Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?
Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.
The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.
I used to be in the real estate business, and I have three areas of interest: Chickamauga Lock, Chickamauga Lock, and Chickamauga Lock.
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.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Managers think of themselves as captains of a ship on a stormy sea. Risk for them is danger, but they are fighting it, very controlled.
I was spawned by some pretty good people in this business - Mr. Astaire, Mr. Tracy. They stopped and took their time to talk to people.
Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants to be.
The truth is women in the workplace don't have to fight nearly as hard for opportunities, or to dispel stereotypes, as they did before.
It seems to me probable that of all our economic life the element on which we are inclined to place too low an estimate is advertising.
The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it's not fun, you're wasting your life.
It takes a lot more to run a good business than just trailing commissions or kickbacks otherwise everybody would succeed, wouldn't they?
As soon as I stopped trying to think about a business idea and started focusing on what I’m passionate about, that’s when it came to me.
An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.
If you just work on stuff that you like and you're passionate about, you don't have to have a master plan with how things will play out.
I'm not British. I'm not American. I'm not French. Whatever thing they practise, that is their business. I am an African. I am Rwandese.
Business and its logic of productivity have become the reference point in a society that thinks marketing every time it opens its mouth.
When the Academy called, I panicked. I thought they might want their Oscars back and the pawn shop has been out of business for a while.
O! that a man might know The end of this day's business, ere it come; But it sufficeth that the day will end, And then the end is known.
I wish someone would give me one shred of neutral evidence that financial innovation has led to economic growth — one shred of evidence.
It had always made sense to me to build a business based on what people really wanted, rather than guess what we thought they might want.
The difficulty with businessmen entering politics, after they've had a successful business career, is that they want to start at the top.
Sometimes I feel 15; other times, I feel fully grown and mature and handling all my business. It can waver from day to day, hour to hour.
Without ... the creative imagination rushing in where bureaucratic angels fear to tread - without this, life is a mockery and a disgrace.