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If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed.
Business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important cause of business frustration and failure.
If women really earned fifty-nine cents to the dollar for the same work as men, what business could compete effectively by hiring men at any level?
An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.
You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.
I'm a great believer in the Arsene Wenger school of management - which is, you don't worry about the opposition, you just get your own act together.
The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.
Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.
The industry is littered with self-styled purists who believe the business of media.. the requirement to make a profit.. somehow corrupts the craft.
He is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house as well.
But if you do not have the Tao yourself, what business have you spending your time in vain efforts to bring corrupt politicians into the right path?
In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.
As a kid, chess was the first thing I studied in a structured way that helped me gain the discipline to study medicine and become successful doctor.
When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.
By leveraging technology, innovation, and the power of community, Weight Watchers will be able to realize the full growth potential of the business.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
That's what my specialty's always been in the wrestling business - going out there and making my opponent look better than he can make himself look.
To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.
I have learned that trying to guess what the boss or the client wants is the most debilitating of all influences in the creation of good advertising.
This may seem simple, but you need to give customers what they want, not what you think they want. And, if you do this, people will keep coming back.
I'm a catalyst for change. You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place.
For every mountain there is another one. The big question is if you reach the top of the mountain, what then? What do you do then? I suppose you die.
It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.
A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly on making the right decisions.
A mere 7% of employees today fully understand their company's business strategies and what's expected of them in order to help achieve company goals.
This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.
The future belongs to brands that do more than pay lip-service to real dialogue and recognise that their customers want them to believe in something.
All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them.
You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.
The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.
The NBA is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.
I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality
A well-maintained physique is a great business card. Ideas and intelligence are what matters, but if you have a well-maintained physique, it's better.
I've always wanted to be a businessman. No other ambitions - I just wanted to be in business, even when I was a child in Fujian province, south China.
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
While a fundamental responsibility of business leaders is to create value for shareholders, I think businesses also exist to deliver value to society.
Wall Street got drunk and now it's got a hangover. And the question is, how long will it sober up and not try to do those fancy financial instruments?
If we want to produce people who share the values of a democratic culture, they must be taught those values and not be left to acquire them by chance.
Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.
The best mental effort in the game of business is concentrated on the major problem of securing the consumer's dollar before the other fellow gets it.
I started standup at age nineteen. I decided that the only way I was going to try show business as a career was if I could make total strangers laugh.
We've weathered several periods when times weren't so good, and so I don't think we'll cancel our advertising now. In fact, we might even increase it.
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
It is futile to assume that an initially ineffective advertisement still needs to wear in; wear-in either happens quickly or it does not happen at all.
Make sure you are the boss. I don't think I would encourage executives that work for me to blog. There can be only 1 public vision for an organization.
You shouldn't focus on why you can't do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions.