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What attracted me towards microfinance is it's a very sustainable business, which has an impact on people's lives yet it can be very profitable.
Everyone experiences tough times, it is a measure of your determination and dedication how you deal with them and how you can come through them.
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
We want passion for our business.. workers who can interpret and execute our mission, who want to build a career, not just take a temporary job.
It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.
Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.
Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war.
People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.
I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.
Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.
When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.
My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress.
The theory of the determination of wages in a free market is simply a special case of the general theory of value. Wages are the price of labour.
If the community is happy, then they support your business and if your business is doing well, then you can give back even more to the community.
To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.
You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.
Something will master and something will serve. Either you run the day or the day runs you; either you run the business or the business runs you.
All the time, you take a look at what government rules are, so you can minimize the impact of government regulations. That's just smart business.
Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence.
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
The Web is functionally fantastic, but it's a tool. A terrific place to present information but not, at this stage, a tenably emotional location.
To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.
One of the big failings of art schools is that students aren't given any teaching on how to survive as a one-person business, which is what it is.
We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all.
If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.
A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.)
You may not like the way I deliver the truth - you may take umbrage with the way I handle most of my conflicts - but that's the way I do business.
Your mission is to find a product or service that can positively impact the lives of 1 billion people because that's the game we're playing today.
I like that combination between creativity and the creative process and the organization needed to make a business like this successful worldwide.
The artist's business requires an involvement in practically everything... The total scope of information he receives day after day is of concern.
Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.
I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
I firmly believe that success lies in the combination of both talent and business savvy, and that the magic comes through partnership between both.
Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut.
Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.
American business can out-think, out-work, out-perform any nation in the world. But we can't beat the competition if we don't get in the ball game.
The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings.
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.
I viewed it as a business, but I always viewed it as a game. An opportunity to show my skills, my basketball skills, amongst the best in the world.
God didn't have time to make a nobody, only a somebody.I believe that each of us has God-given talents within us waiting to be brought to fruition.
Truly brilliant marketing happens when you take something most people think of as a weakness and reposition it so people think of it as a strength.
You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.
I feel very strongly that you shouldn't mix your emotions with business. When it comes to my emotions, I certainly don't mix them with my business.
Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumours so little founded on truth
Energy markets can be thought of as suffering from appendicitis due to fossil fuel subsidies. They need to be removed for a healthy energy economy.