Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ross Perot

I came from an environment where if you see a snake, you kill it. At General motors, if you see a snake, the first thing you do is to hire a consultant on snakes.

Roger Staubach

At a car dealership, the person who sells the car is the hero, and also gets the commission. But if the mechanics don't service that car well, the customer won't return.

Rupert Murdoch

Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars.

Rupert Murdoch

We're starting with our own carbon footprint. Not nothing. But much of what we're doing is already, or soon will be, little more than the standard way of doing business. We can do something that's unique, different from just any other company. We can set an example, and we can reach our audiences. Our audience's carbon footprint is 10,000 times bigger than ours. That's the carbon footprint we want to conquer.

Rupert Murdoch

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Rupert Murdoch

The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years.

Rush Limbaugh

If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.

Ray Kroc

I believe in God, family, and McDonald's. And in the office, that order is reversed.

Ray Kroc

We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.

Ray Kroc

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

Ratan Tata

I don't believe in taking right decisions. I take decisions and then make them right.

Thomas Jefferson

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Robert Ringer

Don't become a slave to non-crucial matters.

Robert Reich

In the early 1970s, Milton Friedman argued that corporations should not be socially responsible because they had no mandate to be; they existed to make money, not to be charitable institutions. But in the economy of the 21st century, corporations cannot be socially responsible, if social responsibility is understood to mean sacrificing profits for the sake of some perceived social good. That's because competition has become so much more intense.

Robert Reich

As to the meaning of "corporate social responsibility," Friedman and I would agree: If a certain action improves the corporation's bottom line, there's no point in labeling it "socially responsible." It's just good business.

Richard Owen

Rapid innovation is the cure for the ills we face, but because innovation is difficult and susceptible to failure, we might need to rethink the way we approach innovation and how we drive it through our companies.

I have observed that almost all those whose labour lies in the field, and who go down to their business in the green meadows, admit the animal world to a share in the faculty of reason. It is the cabinet makers who construct a universe of automatons.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Walt Disney

We grew to our present size almost against ourselves. It was not a deliberately planned commercial venture in the sense that I sat down and said that we were going to make ourselves into a huge financial octopus. We evolved by necessity. We did not sit down and say to ourselves, 'How can we make a big pile of dough?' It just happened.

Walt Disney

My greatest reward is that I have been able to build this wonderful organization.

Walt Disney

Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.

Walt Disney

We don't make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.

Washington Irving

Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon on all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and the exchange a region of enchantment.

Walter Lippmann

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

William Tecumseh Sherman

I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive.

Walter Wriston

The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.

Walter Russell

Man's ignorance of the Law of Love in personal and world relationships will not serve as an excuse to save him from disaster. Wealth cannot be acquired from others by might, for wealth thus taken will impoverish him who takes anything which is not given. Nor can power be thus acquired, for the weakness of the despoiled will prevail against the might of the despoiler.

Walter Russell

In the business world, unwise men take more that they give. They do not realize that they are breaking the Universal Law which will eventually break them to an equal extent. It may not be balanced in the form of dollars and cents but in the loss of good-will upon which their future business depends.

Winston Churchill

The maxim of the British people is; Business as Usual!

Winston Churchill

Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men.

Winston Churchill

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.

Winston Churchill

There is no such thing as a good tax.

Winston Churchill

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.