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In life and business, there are two cardinal sins. The first is to act precipitously without thought and the second is to not act at all.
Real benefits come when managers begin to understand the profound difference between 'cost cutting' and 'eliminating the causes of costs'
When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.
I came into this music business at 26 years old. I was a fully developed man at that point. At that age, I didn't have anything to prove.
I think editors are excellent marketers. They know their audience and produce copy to appeal to them - they just don't call it marketing.
The trade-unionist has the same limitation imposed upon him as the capitalist. He cannot advance his interests at the expense of society.
Democrats lead in all the polls by at least ten points, except one.. Fox News. That is with a margin of error of plus or minus the facts.
Fashion advertisers are committed to print. It's still a growth business, almost as much for the advertisements as the editorial content.
There is no human feeling to the US securities markets and sometimes no discernible evidence of human intelligence either. But they work.
I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.
We need to make sure we have the best people we can in our operations, and that is a constant challenge. There is always room to improve.
What we are trying to do is to create a new business paradigm, simply showing that business can have a human face and a social conscience.
A generation ago, the image was that you had to trample everyone else down to succeed; but I don't believe that makes good business sense.
Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.
If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.
Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.
You know honestly, I enjoy working with everyone because remember, these were all real pros that had been around the business a long time.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
If you are looking for a kindly, well-to-do older gentleman who is no longer interested in sex, take out an ad in The Wall Street Journal.
If I were born again, I would still be an industrialist. I complain because it's very hard work with no weekends, but I would still do it.
Just because something is typed-whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book-this does not mean that it is true.
Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.
I think if we had eight or 12 of us in the Senate who came from my business background, you'd see a lot of different things in government.
We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.
If trade undermines life, narrows it or impoverishes it, then it can destroy the world. If it enhances life, then it can better the world.
In Las Vegas, people know that the odds are stacked against them. On Wall Street, they manipulate the odds while you are playing the game.
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.
The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.
It happens in this business - The Rolling Stones were ripped off, so were the Beatles. George Harrison hardly had anything left in the end.
The advertising man is a liaison between the products of business and the mind of the nation. He must know both before he can serve either.
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.
Sustainability makes good business sense, and we're all on the same team at the end of the day. That's the truth about the human condition.
The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs what you have. The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe.
Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.
Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.
Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you, no humility, no compassion.
Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.
My stepfather is my mentor. He's also like a father to me. He taught me how to be a man, how to carry myself and how to handle my business.
How do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other way and when your people are visibly growing individually and as a group.
Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do.
It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers.
Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.
When you're first thinking through an idea, it's important not to get bogged down in complexity. Thinking simply and clearly is hard to do.
All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
We have a basic notion that unless we find a solution for environmental problems, we will not achieve sustainable growth in the coming years
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.