Quotes about business
business gestures finance
Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
business want derivatives
We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options ... I am an options trader, and I don't understand options. How do you want a regulator to understand them?
business creativity imagination
Organisations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity. N. R. Narayana Murthy
business differences mind
Progress is often equal to the difference between mind and mindset.
business thinking competition
Even in the face of massive competition, don't think about the competition. Just think about the customer. Mike McCue
business communication silence
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. Mignon McLaughlin
business procrastination forever
Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all
business thinking artist
The artist's business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes... when he has nothing better to do. John Ruskin
business years careers
I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done. Meg Whitman
business people growth
Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net..
business thinking research-and-development
The fact that used cars is our largest category is a good example. We would not have sat in a conference room and said, "Hey, how about used cars?" So what can be learned that is extensible to other companies is to ask what are your customers doing with your products that maybe you didn't anticipate that they would do? How do you think of your customers as your research and development lab, as opposed to having an R&D lab at headquarters?
business believe believe-you-can
When you believe you can... you can! Maxwell Maltz
business real goal
We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
business order today
It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic, and sub-atomic, and galactic structure of things today. And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature! And you will atone! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale? Paddy Chayefsky
business men venture
The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture. Plautus
business two giving
Who wishes to give himself an abundance of business let him equip these two things, a ship and a woman. For no two things involve more business, if you have begun to fit them out. Nor are these two things ever sufficiently adorned, nor is any excess of adornment enough for them. [Lat., Negotii sibi qui volet vim parare, Navem et mulierem, haec duo comparato. Nam nullae magis res duae plus negotii Habent, forte si occeperis exornare. Neque unquam satis hae duae res ornantur, Neque eis ulla ornandi satis satietas est.]
business profit ifs
There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it. [Non enim potest quaestus consistere, si eum sumptus superat.]
business soul
Dispatch is the soul of business.
business management economics
It's better to ask the right questions than accept the status quo Phil Harding
business two greed
The top two ways to destroy success are greed and impatience
business excellence incentives
It's for management to enthuse & motivate employees towards excellence in service; the profit incentive doesn't last
business earth cost
Business and the environment: Wasting resources costs the earth - and lowers your competitive edge
business management environment
A sustainable business is resource efficient, respects the environment and is a good neighbour
business car buying
It sounds to me like selling a car with faulty brakes, and then buying an insurance policy on those cars. Phil Angelides
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.
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.
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.
business organization doe
Every organization has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does.
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.
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."
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.
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.