Quotes about bus
business law forever
If you have too many problems, maybe you should get out of business. There is no law that says a company must last forever. Peter Drucker
business company customers
The true business of every company is to make and keep customers. Peter Drucker
business power information
Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands. Peter Drucker
business keys challenges
The great challenge to management today is to make productive the tremendous new resource, the knowledge worker. This, rather than the productivity of the manual worker, is the key to economic growth and economic performance in today's society. Peter Drucker
business organization doe
Every organization has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does. Peter Drucker
business real responsibility
The real development I've seen of people in organizations, especially in big ones, comes from their being volunteers in a nonprofit organization - where you have responsibility, you see results, and you quickly learn what your values are. There is no better way to understand your strengths and discover where you belong than to volunteer in a nonprofit. That is probably the great opportunity for the social sector - and especially in its relationship to business. Peter Drucker
business thinking temptation
The most critical case in a corporation, especially a big one, is when everything goes well, when you have accomplished your objectives. When the temptation is to work twice as hard instead of saying, "We have accomplished our objectives, we have to think again." Peter Drucker
business events economic
If a business is to be considered a continuous process, instead of a series of disjointed stop-and-go events, then the economic universe in which a business operates-and all the major events within it-must have rhyme, rhythm, or reason. Peter Drucker
business philosophy reading
..there is need for a person to be generally educated. Otherwise you shrivel up much too soon. Whether this means reading the bible (I read the New Testament every few years) or reading the great 19th century novelists (the greatest and shrewdest judge of people and of society who ever lived), or classical philosophy (which I cannot read-it puts me to sleep immediately), or history (which is secondary). What matters is that the knowledge worker, by the time he or she reaches middle age, has developed and nourished a human being rather than a tax accountant or a hydraulic engineer. Peter Drucker
business loss guiding-principles
(Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation of profit, it is the avoidance of loss Peter Drucker
business worry next
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. Peter Drucker
business mean corporations
The corporation is the "master", the employee is the "servant". Because the corporation owns the means of production without which the employee could not make a living, the employee needs the corporation more than vice versa. Peter Drucker
business mistake wrong-answers
The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question. Peter Drucker
business ideas people
As to the idea that advertising motivates people, remember the Edsel. Peter Drucker
business data doe
The fewer data needed, the better the information. And an overload of information, that is, anything much beyond what is truly needed, leads to information blackout. It does not enrich, but impoverishes. Peter Drucker
business communication technology
The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications. Peter Drucker
business views marketing
Marketing is not a function, it is the whole business seen from the customer's point of view. Peter Drucker
business frustration important
Business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important cause of business frustration and failure. Peter Drucker
business real thinking
I think that the best companies are companies that have a real purpose. Marjorie Scardino
business strategy shaping-the-future
Strategy is about shaping the future. Max McKeown
business differences people
The people who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials but the ones with the concern. Max Lucado
business
Those that are above business. Matthew Henry
business hands firsts
It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with. Matthew Henry
business-success equal personal-life
That my business success is equal to my personal life. Merv Griffin
business thinking age
As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer. Mel Torme
business past african-american
From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future. Mary Landrieu
business opportunity dollars
I wasn't that interested in the dollars-and-cents part of business. My interest in starting Mary Kay Inc. was to offer women opportunities that didn't exist anywhere else. Mary Kay Ash
business mistake entrepreneur
The E Myth. Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business. Michael Gerber
business opportunity entrepreneur
A true business opportunity is the on that an entrepreneur invents to grow him or herself. Not to work in, but to work on. Michael Gerber
business happens
The true start-up of a business is what happens before you start-up. Michael Gerber
business real ethics
There's no such thing as business ethics; there's just ethics. And ethics makes no concessions for the real or imagined necessities of making a profit. Michael Josephson
business circles chinese
In the 19th century China dominated the manufacture of porcelain. Then European factories discovered a cheaper method of making pottery of equal quality, demolishing the Chinese industry the exact reverse of what is happening now. World economics have turned full circle. Martin Sorrell
business way uncomfortable
The web attacks traditional ways of doing things and elites, and this is very uncomfortable for traditional businesses to deal with. Martin Sorrell