Quotes about business
business safety evolution
It is as if evolution has built a safety device in our nervous system that allows us to experience full happiness only when we are living at 100%-when we are fully using the physical and mental equipment we have been given. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
business reality psychics
To know oneself is the first step toward making flow a part of one's entire life. But just as there is no free lunch in the material economy, nothing comes free in the psychic one. If one is not willing to invest psychic energy in the internal reality of consciousness, and instead squanders it in chasing external rewards, one loses mastery of one's life, and ends up becoming a puppet of circumstances. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
business ocean fall
Enjoyment, on the other hand, is not always pleasant, and it can be very stressful at times. A mountain climber, for example, may be close to freezing, utterly exhausted, and in danger of falling into a bottomless crevasse, yet he wouldn't want to be anywhere else. Sipping a piña colada under a palm tree at the edge of the turquoise ocean is idyllic, but it just doesn't compare to the exhilaration he feels on the windswept ridge. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
business goal viktor-frankl
Half a century ago, the Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl wrote that happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
business discipline financial
Any good business person applies financial discipline to everything they do. Paula Wagner
business gestures way
Major brands don't know what to do with happy customers. They make it hard for customers to say thanks and way too often companies don't celebrate and embrace customers' positive gestures. Paul Walker
business commitment home
I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work. Philip Green
business make-things-happen happens
You've got to love what you do to really make things happen. Philip Green
business temptation important
The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did. Penelope Cruz
business years mba
Sometimes during the two-year curriculum, every MBA student ought to hear it clearly stated that numbers, techniques, and analysis are all side matters. What is central to business is the joy of creating. Peter Robinson
business people own-business
Oh, if people only knew how this business has grown. Pearl White
business political bedroom
The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation. Pierre Trudeau
business women learning
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. Queen Elizabeth II
business knowledge numbers
A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers. Plato
business law corporations
A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. John Marshall
business temptation might
If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation. John Maynard Keynes
business slumps found
The right remedy for the trade cycle is not to be found in abolishing booms and thus keeping us permanently in a semi-slump; but in abolishing slumps and thus keeping us permanently in a quasi-boom. John Maynard Keynes
business mind facts
When the facts change, I change my mind. John Maynard Keynes
business giving debt
Give the Germans five deutschmarks and they will save it. But give the British £5 and they will borrow £25 and spend it. John Major
business war struggle
Set the mind to work, and apply the thoughts vigorously to the business, for it holds in the struggles of the mind, as in those of war, that to think we shall conquer is to conquer. John Locke
business war philosophy
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. John Locke
business crazy people
Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising. John Lahr
business cowboy midnight
But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy. Jodie Foster
business greatness men
Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work. Joseph Conrad
business apology people
I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others. Kate Moss
business negotiation certain
The only thing certain about any negotiation is that it will lead to another negotiation . Leigh Steinberg
business years people
By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family. Lawrence Welk
business desire corporations
The modern corporation must manufacture not only goods but the desire for the goods it manufactures. John Kenneth Galbraith
business world wheels
The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version. John Kenneth Galbraith
business men careers
Banking may well be a career from which no man really recovers. John Kenneth Galbraith
business doe management
Happiness does not require an expanding economy John Kenneth Galbraith
business awards achievement
The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself. John Kenneth Galbraith
business cocky role-models
Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me. Justin Bieber