Quotes about business
business thinking ebay
When I started eBay, it was a hobby, an experiment to see if people could use the Internet to be empowered through access to an efficient market. I actually wasn't thinking about it in terms of a social impact. It was really about helping people connect around a sphere of interest so they could do business. Pierre Omidyar
business technology numbers
We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.
business believe thinking
Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself Oprah Winfrey
business essentials busy
The essential question is not, "How busy are you?" but "What are you busy at?"
business decay proud
Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay. Oliver Goldsmith
business sides combination
Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.
business yelling management
Yelling is a form of publishing Margaret Atwood
business justice indispensable
To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business. Marcus Tullius Cicero
business house ornaments
My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.
business community what-if
I'm amazed by the potential of more companies employing integrated philanthropic initiatives at earlier stages in their life cycle. What if this were done on an even more massive scale? Consider what would happen if a top-tier venture-capital firm required the companies in which it invested to place 1% of their equity into a foundation serving the communities in which they do business. Marc Benioff
business successful entrepreneur
Once you know what you want and what is important for you to achieve, also define the values associated with it. What is important? That is something a lot of entrepreneurs pass by too quickly. For us, the things that were important were, No. 1, customer success. Nothing is more important to us than making sure every customer is successful in our service.
business believe thinking
Some people would argue the other side: that the business of business is business, and companies should only be focused on profits. But in today's world, I don't think corporations can only be focused on profits, because they are inextricably linked with the communities that they serve. I do not believe you can be a leader in your industry without being a leader in your community. It's a fundamental shift in how you think about business.
business team successful
Not a single, substantial, commercially-successful product had come from an adequately-finded team. They'd always come from the scrounging, scrapping, underfunded teams. Ken Olsen
business two-sides decision
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. Margaret Thatcher
business impact long
Everyone must be clear that business as usual is not an option. Most of us live in buildings erected long before we were born and our successors will have to live with the environmental consequences of the buildings we construct today. It is vital that we minimise harmful impacts for those who come after us Margaret Beckett
business successful opportunity
The rewards that will flow from a successful shift to a low carbon economy are high. Neither governments nor business can afford to let these opportunities pass them by
business eye best-practices
In the UK what we've found is that even businesses which prided themselves already on their efficient management find that a really beady-eyed scrutiny of their resource management, with an eye to environmental best-practice and long term sustainability, produce fresh efficiency and fresh savings that actually shock those in the company
business media two
There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here. Mark Twain
business inspiration humor
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
business communication skills-training
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
business gold good-times
When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.
business weakness competitors
Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses. Paul Gauguin
business pleasure
Business before pleasure ... Letitia Elizabeth Landon
business ideas young-entrepreneurs
You don't need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea. Larry Page
business believe long
We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served - as shareholders and in all other ways - by a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains. This is an important aspect of our culture and is broadly shared within the company.
business young-entrepreneurs marketing
Always deliver more than expected.
business help-and-support support-you
Enthusiasm is the way you trigger other people's emotions so they instinctively help and support you.. Paul Meyer
business party people
It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties. Oscar Wilde
business missing anxious
I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.
business marketing too-much
The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
business change civil demand government move people pressure society toward
Government will only move toward change when the people demand it. And with more pressure from civil society and government, business will change.
business industry models networks preferred public slightest tv wants whether
Governments, whether right or left, have become commissioners-in-chief, nudging and cajoling networks into preferred business models without the slightest sensitivity or awareness of what the public wants or the TV industry is capable of. Armando Iannucci
business convey government knows
Government should convey to US that it knows what to do or what not to do. (Interfering in it) is not at all the business of US.