Quotes about bus
business worst-enemy innovation
Incrementalism is innovation's worst enemy. Nicholas Negroponte
business failing motto
Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior', for by living up to it there is no such word as fail. P. T. Barnum
business civility patronage
Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business.
business crowds silver
Every crowd has a silver lining.
business crazy salad-dressing
When the idea came up, (Newman's Own) I said, "Are you crazy? Stick my face on the label of salad dressing?" And then, of course, we got the whole idea of exploitation and how circular it is. Why not, really, go to the fullest length, and the silliest length, in exploiting yourself and turn the proceeds back to the community? Paul Newman
business men preparation
...." I was rather discouraged when I discovered that Paul and Hotch had no marketing survey, no business plan, no budget, no organized strategy for the introduction of the sauce. When asked about this lack of preparation, the haphazard nature of their business, Paul said, 'Me in this business is just part of life's great folly. Stay loose, men, keep 'em off balance.'"
business real thinking
I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mould society. Marya Mannes
business responsibility feelings
Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills, or the bottle.
business curves want
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. Marshall McLuhan
business ideas viruses
In big industry new ideas are invited to rear their heads so they can be clobbered at once. The idea department of a big firm is a sort of lab for isolating dangerous viruses.
business hands tyrants
Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.
business goal advertising
Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.
business science discovery
Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.
busy problem glad
Keeping busy: This is a problem that you're glad to have. Michael Winslow
business people society
People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt. Michel de Montaigne
business agency long
Chances are that neither the client nor the agency will ever know very much about what role the ad has played in sales or profits of the client, either short-term or long-term. Michael Schudson
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 artist information
The artist's business requires an involvement in practically everything... The total scope of information he receives day after day is of concern. Hans Haacke
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 acting grows
As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less. Morgan Freeman
business successful starting-up
The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world. Marc Benioff
business
There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch. Joseph Addison
business together revolution
Those revolutions are not strictly incessant; they occur in discrete rushes which are separated from each other by spans of comparative quiet. The process as a whole works incessantly however, in the sense that there always is either revolution or absorption of the results of revolution, both together forming what are known as business cycles. Joseph A. Schumpeter
business two community
All we can thus far say about the duration of the units of [the business cycle] and each of [its] two phases is that it will depend on the nature of the particular innovations that carry a cycle,... and the financial conditions and habits prevailing in the business community in each case.
business common-sense facts
It is, after all, only common sense to realize that, but for the fact that economic life is a process of incessant internal change, the business cycle, as we know it, would not exist.
business thinking littles
We always plan too much and always think too little.