Quotes about bus
business thinking years
I think the most important CEO task is defining the course that the business will take over the next five or so years. You have to have the ability to see what the business environment might be like a long way out, not just over the coming months. You need to be able to both set a broad direction, and also to take particular decisions along the way that make that broad direction unfold correctly.
business mistake needs
You can't overestimate the need to plan and prepare. In most of the mistakes I've made, there has been this common theme of inadequate planning beforehand. You really can't over-prepare in business!
business reality thinking
I'm a firm believer that to really understand a business takes years, not months. As an investment analyst you think you understand a business from the outside, but the reality is that, once you are inside, you can go on learning for five or ten years.
business keys people
The key is to be true to your community's norms and values. You can't just force yourself on people and try to sell them something they don't want - that's good advice for marketers generally, but particularly on community-driven sites like MySpace. You have to find ways to add value to your members' lives while being consistent with your brand's identity.
business triumph blogging
the harder the conflict, the greater the triumph. George Washington
business government people
An elected government making huge changes with the consent of its people, is being undermined by concentrated powers in unregulated markets-powers which go beyond those of any individual government. George Papandreou
business simple hands
The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting. George Nelson
business thinking want
I don't really think that there is anyone in the modern pop business who I feel I want to spar with. George Michael
business self vanity
The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.
business guy causes
The language and concepts contained herein are guaranteed not to cause eternal torment in the place where the guy with the horns and pointed stick conducts his business Frank Zappa
business media people
The media, the galleries, the collectors - it's all very chaotic actually. The artworld doesn't have this defined corporate structure that people imagine. Jeff Koons
business half
Only about half of all commercials actually work. Jerry Thomas
business use way
The best way to engage honestly with the marketplace via Twitter is to never use the words "engage," "honestly," or "marketplace." Jeffrey Zeldman
business design-work starting-up
Don't worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.
business agency confusion
An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission. Fred Allen
business should-have alive
Every business should have its biographer-not after its head is dead but to show that he's very much alive. Frank Pierson
business ill
Ill ware is never cheape. [Ill ware is never cheap.] George Herbert
business mind campaigns
We tell market researchers that we don't mind paying more for green benefits but only a minority of zealots ever really will. A campaign that delivers more widespread green behaviour is going to need to be cleverer that that. Chris Powell
business serendipity drug
Remember the Three Princes of Serendip who went out looking for treasure? They didn't find what they were looking for, but they kept finding things just as valuable. That's serendipity, and our business [drugs] is full of it. George W. Bush
bushism
This thaw -- took a while to thaw, it's going to take a while to unthaw.
business law america
America's highest economic need is higher ethical standards -- enforced by strict laws and upheld by responsible business leaders.
business government steps
Financial markets ... resent any kind of government interference but they hold a belief deep down that if conditions get really rough the authorities will step in. George Soros
business wells humans
Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.
business important saving
It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong
business games dramatic
Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business. George Orwell
business adventure optimistic
It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning. Gene Roddenberry
business years mba
Financial hydrogen bombs built on personal computers by 26-year-olds with MBAs. Felix Rohatyn
business inspiration imagination
For people who live in the imagination, there is no lack of subjects. To seek for the exact moment at which inspiration comes is false. Imagination floods us with suggestions all the time, from all directions. Federico Fellini
business fuel world
Energy is significantly underpriced in many parts of the world, leading to wasteful consumption, price volatility and fuel smuggling. It's also undermining the competitiveness of renewables. Fatih Birol
business healthy suffering
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.
business oil revolution
One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well. Fareed Zakaria
business men two
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. Ezra Pound
business fire human-nature
Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature. Francis Ford Coppola