Quotes about business
business remembers-everything vulnerable
And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you're consistent, you're vulnerable to attack. Yes, it's a paradox. Now deal with it! Tom Peters
business real school
Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she'd added her second employee, she was a pillar of her 35,000-person community. No rule says that only the local banker or car dealer can organize the program to raise supplemental funds for the public library or send the high school band on a well-earned special trip. Participating in community affairs, with time more than dollars, is good business from day one. It gets your name around, adds to your distinctiveness, and, best of all, makes you an attractive employer (which is the key to sustained success).
business formulas formula-for-success
Formula for success: Underpromise and overachieve.
business design-process poor-quality
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.
business criticism way
You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.. Steve Ross
business inspirational-customer-service best-service
If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting. Stephen Covey
business great-leadership management
Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.
business insperational perfect
A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
business mind may
We may be very busy, we may be very 'efficient', but we will also be truly 'effective' only when we begin with the end in mind.
business top-management team-building
Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.
business flower water
If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
business character greatness
Most people define greatness through wealth and popularity and position in the corner office. But what I call everyday greatness comes from character and contribution.
business attitude freedom-to-choose
Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude. Viktor E. Frankl
business opportunity facts
There are unlimited opportunities for display advertising. In fact, we're in the process of massive change in the display industry - how it's bought, how it's sold, and how it's targeted. Susan Wojcicki
business believe clueless
Ignorance and arrogance are the artist's and entrepreneur's indispensable allies. She must be clueless enough to have no idea how difficult her enterprise is going to be and cocky enough to believe she can pull it off anyway." Steven Pressfield
business men victory
The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men. Sun Tzu
business art-of-war winning
The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.
business war fighting
For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
business war fighting
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
business games effort
The best mental effort in the game of business is concentrated on the major problem of securing the consumer's dollar before the other fellow gets it. Stuart Chase
business world advertising
Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.
business lying thinking
You know, there's a big lie in this business. The lie is that it's okay to go out in flames. But that doesn't do anybody much good. I may be wrong, but I think Hendrix was trying to come around. Stevie Ray Vaughan
business passing-on creating
The Treasury's plan has little for those outside of the financial industry. It is aimed at rescuing the same financial institutions that created this crisis with the sloppy underwriting and reckless disregard for the risk they were creating, taking or passing on to others. Richard Shelby
business organization shapes
Let the business shape the organization, not the organization shape the business. Richard Moran
business everyday done
We are going to continue having these meetings, everyday, until I find out why no work is getting done.
business mean trying
If someone says you're not strategic, try to figure out what that means and then tell him or her to go to hell.
business four pay
Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders. T. Boone Pickens
business winning opportunity
The first thing I did was commit to my success and playing to win. I swore I would focus and not even consider leaving this business until I was a millionaire or more. This was radically different from my previous efforts, where, because I always thought short-term, I would constantly get side-tracked by either good opportunities or when things got tough. T. Harv Eker
business today crowds
Business today consists in persuading crowds. T. S. Eliot
business talking want
I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager. Sylvester Stallone
business educational reality
More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause. Rose Kennedy
business enthusiasm way
To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully. Tryon Edwards
business two differences
The more alike two products are, the more important their differences become. Regis McKenna