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My private life is my own business.
Inside every working anarchy, there’s an Old Boy Network.
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don’t really know how the music business works.
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
If you create something, you don’t want someone else to go and profit from it; you have your right to make a living and everything. So I respect copyright. What I don’t respect is copyright extremism. And I what I don’t respect is a business model that encourages piracy.
You have to realize that the customer really is king. People who go into more established businesses probably have to be careful not to be casual about that. When you have a brand-new business, and nobody knows who you are, you know you have to work really hard for your customers.
Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
I couldn’t sell water in a desert. I have no business acumen. I can tell you why you have no business acumen, and I can tell you why your project may or may not work, but I have no ability to make money.
Chinese people, young people, they don’t go shopping a lot in department stores. All department store guys hate me. They say business is bad because of Jack.
Creating a strong company culture isn’t just good business. It’s the right thing to do, and it makes your company better for all stakeholders – employees, management, and customers.
You have to understand that every negotiation isn’t about taking everything off the table. It’s cliche, but you have to try and make sure the other side feels good and you feel good. Because in my business, when I make a deal, it just means once we’re done negotiating, we have to go off and work together.
Our core values and business ethics will always be paramount in all that we do, and we are always looking to do the right thing and settle claims fairly and accurately.
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.
I worry that business leaders are more interested in material gain than they are in having the patience to build up a strong organization, and a strong organization starts with caring for their people.
In the commercial world, you have this problem that the amount of research you can do in a company is based on how well your current business is going, whereas there actually should be an inverse relationship: when things are going worse, you should do more research.
The idea that you can create a template that will work forever doesn’t happen in any business. There’s some really, really bright people in this business. You can’t do the same thing the same way and be successful for a long period of time.
The more people you meet, and the more people you have influence over your business can scale quicker.
Digitization and new technologies are rapidly changing all industries, forcing them to prepare for a tomorrow that is unpredictable. This also applies to the industry of container shipping, ports, and logistics, which largely has been driven by the traditional business models focused on optimizing how you move goods.
It’s not the things you don’t know that trip you up. It’s the things you think you know, but you don’t. You fail to ask a certain question because you believe you know the answer. Separating your information from your assumptions can be very tricky business.
I was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a network, and I didn’t want to get that involved in the business aspect of it.
Sustainability makes good business sense, and we’re all on the same team at the end of the day. That’s the truth about the human condition.
Without our customers, we don’t have a business.
I don’t often think of Donald Trump, but his daughter is very smart. She’s a woman working in real estate, which is predominantly men, and she’s both savvy and articulate about her business and her business acumen.
Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.
Oprah Winfrey is a big role model for me from a business capacity and a creative capacity. She is an incredible interviewer who cultivated a certain style by inserting her own personhood into a show on national television at a time when no one was talking about empowerment, spirituality, or our inner lives.
The great leaders are like the best conductors – they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or ‘get rich’ in business by being a conformist.
I don’t want to do business with those who don’t make a profit, because they can’t give the best service.
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.
A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It’s my favorite part of the business, live concerts.
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
The sooner you accept the fact that you will have both successes and failures, the easier it will be to get your business and personal life headed in the right direction.
I really love travelling to places where I get to learn something new about a new group of people or a new place. Learn some history, contemplate some business ideas, and sort of get off the beaten track a little bit.
Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it’s not going to get the business.
People don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.
I don’t care what straight people do, I don’t care what gay people do. I don’t care what nobody do. That’s they business. I just care about what I do. You know what I’m saying?
If you have to forecast, forecast often.
I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.
Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.
Digital life and digital services are a multi-wave business.
Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!
My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
The NRA is funded by weapons manufacturers, and those same manufacturers know that they stand to lose some business if we pass common-sense gun legislation. As a result, the NRA contributes money to politicians to ensure that gun control never happens.
I wouldn’t say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don’t cost much to be housed.
At the Sahara, the seats are banked and most of the audience is looking down at the stage. Everybody in the business knows: Up for singers, down for comics. The people want to idealize a singer. They want to feel superior to a comic. You’re trying to make them laugh. They can’t laugh at someone they’re looking up to.
I served in all commissioned ranks from a second Lieutenant to a Major General. And during that time, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street, and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.
I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone’s got their own definition. Mine, I suppose, is to know myself.
Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal – especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.
Starting your own business isn’t just a job – it’s a way of life.
I grew up in east Tennessee, and everybody knew everybody’s business.
I am not embarrassed to be a banker. I am not embarrassed to be in business.
As Canadians who proudly demand the equal treatment of minorities, religious freedom, gender equality and basic human rights for its citizens – allowing our political leaders to shamefully ignore these values in the name of business abroad, falls short of the high standard we rightfully set for ourselves.
I think the path is different for everybody. Go after the doors that are open to you. That has always been my motto getting into the music business. Do the things that seem to be good opportunities and work hard at it. Try to make good decisions and be nice. Hopefully all of that will pay off at some point.
God has blessed me with a wonderful family, a successful business, and outstanding employees. I do not take these blessings lightly.
Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
There was a point in the late ’90s where all the graduating M.B.A.’s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.
I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.
People who achieve the highest levels of success – whether in business or in raising families or simply in discovering fulfillment and satisfaction and purpose in life – are those who place their focus on other people rather than themselves.
If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn’t any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man’s greatest asset.
So many folks in the venture capital business are sheep that just want to follow the herd. They are momentum investors purchasing highly illiquid investments. That is a recipe for disaster.
Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God’s business.
A man should never neglect his family for business.
Where I know I wanna go is being consistent on business, and that’s just making another artist, my clothing line – capitalizing off the moment. I wanna be consistently doing that – capitalizing off every move I make.
Exchange ideas frequently.
Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football.
Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
I am thrilled to join the NBCUniversal family and to have the opportunity to work alongside many of the most talented and accomplished individuals in the business.
Being in the consumer business helps us groom talent in areas like marketing, finance and logistics. We can benchmark our outsourcing business to our consumer business and its best practices.
No matter what business you’re in, you can’t run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn’t matter how many games you’ve won.
The most important characteristics you need to succeed in business are resilience, determination and persistence.
The biggest sources of opportunity are collaboration and partnership. And today, with digital communication, there is more of that everywhere. We need to expose ourselves to that as a matter of doing business.
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
What helps people, helps business.
Don’t simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.
Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Don’t go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you’ll land in trouble too big for you.
When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
People will buy anything that is ‘one to a customer.’
I am not an economist… I am not a business technician. I am a revolutionary, and I do what is right for an economic revolutionary.
War is the business of barbarians.
And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.
I even don’t dare to watch our stock price, because this is what other people think who you are. I dare not watch it. I think, let the market take care of themselves; we should take care of the business.
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.
So often, we leave the selfless side of ourselves for nights and weekends, for our charity work. It is our duty to inject that into our day-to-day business, into the work that we do, to improve corporations, to improve civil society, and to improve government.
Farming‘s always been my business.
The way to write is well, and how is your own business.
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.
If it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative.
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.
I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand… Adventure is a state of mind – and spirit.
Nowadays, business is all about productivity – and our folks produce.
A company is only as good as the people it keeps.
Joy is the serious business of Heaven.
No partnership between two independent companies, no matter how well run, can match the speed, effectiveness, responsiveness and efficiency of a solely owned company.
As a company, we have to be very transparent. We are in a business very related to finance, and I want this company to last long, and I want this company to be audited by everyone.
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
I think that if you can achieve a balance, then you appease a lot of yourself and your career and what it takes to maintain in this business for a while.
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures.
Your mission is to find a product or service that can positively impact the lives of 1 billion people because that’s the game we’re playing today.
Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.
In high school, I worked at Abercrombie & Fitch, and once I graduated from business school at USC, I started a company with my partner and had a nine-to-seven job.
Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king’s business.
My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups – development, testing, marketing, user education.
Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything.
I’ve seen up close what can happen when actors talk publicly about their relationships: their personal life gets dismantled. It’s a show business game, and it’s one game I won’t play.
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
Girls shouldn’t worry about being the equal of men in the business world.
Every business and every product has risks. You can’t get around it.
More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
There’s no business like show business.
I like to play cards. I’m not very good, because I don’t want to calculate, I just play by instinct. But I’ve learned a lot of business philosophy by playing poker.
If you want to be more productive, then start at the start: get there on time. Whether it is a meeting, a flight, an appointment or a date, it’s important to ensure you are there when you say you will be there. This may feel like an old-fashioned tip to give, but it has served me well for five decades in business.
Rural technology is moving from kind of the back office to where everything, every company – sales, marketing, customer acquisition, new product development, media – all industries are becoming technology industries. And it’s not information technology: it’s business technology.
I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.
If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
I have learned the hard way to mind my business, without judging who people are and what they do. I am more troubled by the lack of space being provided for the truth to unfold. Humans cannot seem to wait for or honor the truth. Instead, we make it up based on who we believe people should or should not be.
In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Good design is good business.
When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
I decided that there was only one place to make money in the mutual fund business, as there is only one place for a temperate man to be in a saloon: behind the bar and not in front of it.
I got two stores, two streetwear stores, at home. Have to tend to those. Play Cloths. Have to tend to that business.
Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
I’m pretty good at weaseling my way into a job, even if I have no business being there.
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.
It is indeed true that the stock market can forecast the business cycle.
Our business is about technology, yes. But it’s also about operations and customer relationships.
My mom and dad – they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn’t the end-all. They weren’t out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about ‘What can we do as a family.’
If you are in the world of business, that means you are in the business of making money.
I’ve been in a very male-dominated business for decades. I found, particularly early on, that there’s plenty of room for passion, but there’s very little room for emotion.
If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along – whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.
More than 30 years ago, when I had embarked upon the fight against child labour, it was not even considered an issue worth any discussion. It was accepted as a way of life in India, much like it was in other countries. Today, no country or business or society can throw this issue away.
I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
The real business of life is trying to understand each other.
There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.
My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.
I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It’s that simple.
If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
I think business has to be stupider. I want to do really straightforward, stupid business – just talk to me like a 4-year-old. And I refuse to negotiate. I do not negotiate. I can collaborate. But I’m an artist, so as soon as you negotiate, you’re being compromised.
I work in a business environment forty hours a week, and writing is what I do to unwind. It allows me to transport myself to a happy place where I can indulge my hopes, beliefs, aspirations and fantasies. It also allows me to live and breathe a topic for eighteen months while I’m researching and writing.
The most dangerous thing for an entrepreneur to do is to actually go into a business that he does not understand fully.
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
Great companies are built on great products.
Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
A well-maintained physique is a great business card. Ideas and intelligence are what matters, but if you have a well-maintained physique, it’s better.
I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It’s done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.
Design has always been at the heart of our business.
Government ‘help’ to business is just as disastrous as government persecution… the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
The business of biomedical research is mostly about failure. Few projects we commission will ultimately result in success. But every study we do contributes to the body of knowledge that brings science and society closer to a solution.
I wear two hats. The one is business and increasing my shareholders‘ value; the other is social responsibility.
Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.
The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You’re encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren’t that smart, who aren’t that creative.
I have accomplished my childhood dream: to be in show business. Everybody should be so lucky to have their dreams come true. I’ve been truly blessed.
The customer reaction to Dell going private has been a lot more positive than I would have ever imagined. Customers see it as – ‘You don’t have to be distracted. Now you can totally focus on your business.’ So they see it as a positive.
I feel that business leaders with their ability to create businesses, with their ability to scale, need to play an important role in social service.
It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
If you go back, ‘The Great Gatsby‘ would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
My philosophy is it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.
In this business it takes time to be really good – and by that time, you’re obsolete.
You can’t be successful in business without taking risks. It’s really that simple.
If someone asks me what cloud computing is, I try not to get bogged down with definitions. I tell them that, simply put, cloud computing is a better way to run your business.
What we have to do is support business, but also support our workers with job training programs and with reasonable wages.
You could have everything right but be in the wrong place. You think your business is no good, but really, the problem is your place is no good.
Our new attitude is how can we put you in front of our customer.
In business it’s about people. It’s about relationships.
If you have a business that isn’t growing the top line, it’s very hard to deliver attractive returns to shareholders.
It’s so easy to make things complicated in business.
You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you’ll never build an enduring business.
For a very long time, I wasn’t thought of as anyone with any credibility in the film world. Everybody is tramping through the swamp every day in this business. ‘I’m worth it, I’m credible – believe me, give me a shot!’ That’s the way I feel on a consistent basis.
Judges should be in the business of declaring what the law is using the traditional tools of interpretation, rather than pronouncing the law as they might wish it to be in light of their own political views.
Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.
No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
What other people think of you is none of your business.
The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.
Word of mouth is the best medium of all.
Good design is good business.
I think I’m basically a liberal Conservative – I believe in low tax, spirit of free enterprise, and in making sure that we as politicians create the framework for business to produce the dosh that we’re going to need to pay for the poorest. And the longer I live, the more I think that we all have a duty to each other.
There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it.
Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure it just means you haven’t succeeded yet.
Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
Some guys play with their heads. That’s okay. You’ve got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you’ve got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
Infrastructure is the backbone of economic growth. It improves access to basic services such as clean water and electricity, creates jobs and boosts business.
Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.
The fiesta of soccer, a feast for the legs that play and the eyes that watch, is much more than a big business run by overlords from Switzerland. The most popular sport in the world wants to serve the people who embrace it.
There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone’s business.
You have to be cynical because this is a business. Everyone is making money out of you.
Small business is America’s engine of job creation.
To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs what you have. The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe.
Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy. The other side of it is that you can’t cut enough costs to save your way to prosperity.
You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
Small business is the backbone of our economy. I’m for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs are generated.
The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
Just like the Internet disrupted the publishing industry, we’re going to see Bitcoin micropayments creating some very interesting opportunities for pay-as-you-go, pay-based-on-time online businesses and, frankly, some risks as well to the traditional business model as to how things get sold online.
There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
I believe in family values, and I believe that we all ought to be able to have a family and marry if you want to. I don’t think the government should be in that business of denying people the fundamental right to marry.
Details create the big picture.
There’s nothing wrong with raising venture capital. Many lean startups are ambitious and are able to deploy large amounts of capital. What differentiates them is their disciplined approach to determining when to spend money: after the fundamental elements of the business model have been empirically validated.
It’s all about having a product that you’re proud of and coming to work every day. Those basic building blocks are the same in any business.
Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there’s a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all… good design must primarily serve people.
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Exchange ideas frequently.
We were re-engineering the entire business and at the same time having accelerated growth. That’s like changing the engine while the plane is in the air.
What we’ve gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question ‘Can we trust Microsoft?’
I am interested in a lot of things – not just show business and my passion for animals. I try to keep current in what’s going on in the world. I do mental exercises. I don’t have any trouble memorizing lines because of the crossword puzzles I do every day to keep my mind a little limber. I don’t sit and vegetate.
Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus‘ success in the spreadsheet – basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.
War is big business. It’s a lot of money going to and fro, and unfortunately a lot of angst, and a lot of fear, and a lot of doubt. And eventually a lot of wonderful people, like soldiers, like men and women that are out there trying to do the best they can, they come back being wounded on many levels.
The luckiest person in the world is somebody who is born into a small, shabby-genteel town on a major railway connection with 24,000 souls and a bird sanctuary and whose grandfather owns a farm and whose father owns a business -whose family is mildly prosperous but not rich, which means you can leave the town.
I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember how the car workers lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in. My father was a car salesman, and I remember how we lived. I remember how modestly we lived.
There’s nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.
Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art – or at least people call it that.
Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life’s business being just the terrible choice.
The characteristic of great innovators and great companies is they see a space that others do not. They don’t just listen to what people tell them; they actually invent something new, something that you didn’t know you needed, but the moment you see it, you say, ‘I must have it.’
If you’re not learning, then you’re stagnant. If you’re stagnant, then you’re not evolving and the business isn’t progressing.
You can’t take anything personally in this business. Follow your dreams, but there is a lot of criticism. You have to brush it off. Everybody is looking for something different.
We don’t seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for – to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.
Succeeding in business is not just about making money.
Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.
‘Handsome’ means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered – and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn’t hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business.
Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.
A disruptive innovation is a technologically simple innovation in the form of a product, service, or business model that takes root in a tier of the market that is unattractive to the established leaders in an industry.
The success combination in business is: Do what you do better… and: do more of what you do.
When we talk about ‘smart transportation,’ it is more than moving cargo from A to B. Digitization within transport and logistics means seamless service to our customers, visibility in the supply chain, and driving a more efficient business.
Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can’t miss.
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
I buy when other people are selling.
It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich.
Just really, really believe in what you’re trying to do. Don’t let people alter that. Let people advise you and lead you down paths to make smart business decisions. But trust your instinct and trust that overwhelming drive that made you put all your dreams and everything on the line.
Regrets are something you can’t really have as an actor, because ultimately you’ll end up destroying yourself… there’s a lot of disappointment in this business.
I learned this early on in the variety business: You’ve got to give folks responsibility, you’ve got to trust them, and then you’ve got to check on them.
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
At the end of the day, I am a Marwari. So I will always think of business like a Marwari!
I am not in the stock market. I am beholden to no one in what I do. If I spend billions on a fashion show, I spend billions. It’s not public. And if I am in the stock market, I am obligated to account for things, and to show what the business is doing.
It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
Business can be a source of progressive change.
I don’t want to run around and look at a shot through a monitor. That doesn’t improve what I’m trying to do. I figure, once I’ve done my job, it’s none of my business.
It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.
If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.
In almost every profession – whether it’s law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business – people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.
Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we’re going to win.
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
Before you can become a millionaire, you must learn to think like one. You must learn how to motivate yourself to counter fear with courage. Making critical decisions about your career, business, investments and other resources conjures up fear, fear that is part of the process of becoming a financial success.
Business reporting is not dealing with objects, it is dealing with relationships between objects.
While academic abilities remain integral, it is the work ethics that form the soul of the business.
I’ve never felt like I was in the cookie business. I’ve always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.
The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
The Right’s view of government and the Left’s view of big business are both correct.
Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Know your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. Love what you do or don’t do it.
We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.
I’m not a detail guy. I depend on accountants and administrators to do my detail stuff for me, but I do know the overall picture and I know that if you put business people together in a room, not just politicians, they could shrink the deficit tremendously by good business tactics.
I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people.
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.
When you’re eight years old nothing is your business.
What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.
Trying to do business without advertising is like winking at a pretty girl through a pair of green goggles. You may know what you are doing, but no one else does.
A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area’s workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today’s global economy.
I’ve always been a big believer in diversification for anybody. It’s never good to put all of your efforts and all of your time and all of your financial resources into just one project. Diversification is key for any individual and any business.
It’s a diabolical business. I can’t imagine how hellish it must be to be hounded like Amy Winehouse and people like that. I have a little peripheral place on the outskirts of celebrity, when I go to premieres and that sort of stuff, which is as close as I want to get.
I’m fascinated by the business of belief, obviously, because it’s so ever present with humanity anyway. And, you know, when you have science, which constantly talks of proofs, you have religion, which constantly talks of beliefs and faith and so on.
Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.
The church is in the hope business. We, of all people, ought to be known most for our hope because our hope is founded on something deeper than human ability or wishful thinking.
Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people.
America isn’t Congress. America isn’t Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
No one on his deathbed ever said, I wish I had spent more time on my business.
Business is the salt of life.
Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people.
The reason why it is so difficult for existing firms to capitalize on disruptive innovations is that their processes and their business model that make them good at the existing business actually make them bad at competing for the disruption.
I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities. At the same time, when I can go off with a backpack or off on a surfboard or even off on a run somewhere in the woods – that’s where I’m really happy.
I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
Starting a business and building a product are not for the faint of heart. You have to learn to not let little disappointments get you down and to stay focused on the big picture.
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it’s a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that’s all.
I have a helicopter that I use for U.K. business trips, and I fly myself. I have a yacht in Antibes in the south of France, which is a sort of indulgence, as we only use it for about four weeks a year. The rest of the time, it is chartered out to people as a business.
It takes hard work, dedication, discipline and a positive attitude to get to the top – in business or in sports.
Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.
We’re all working together; that’s the secret.
So how does the machine work that you have a financial crisis? How does deleveraging work – what is the nature of that machine? And what is human nature, and how do you raise a community of people to run a business?
God will forgive me; that’s his business.
Maybe I’m a dreamer, but I think the ordinary guy has just as much right to say ‘This is a good song‘ as somebody who is in the music business.
Politics is show business for ugly people.
I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.
There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do – but that part is for me. It’s my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There’s a sadness to it, but there’s romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.
That’s what the Affordable Care Act is all about. It’s about filling the gaps in employer-based care so that when we lose a job, or go back to school, or start that new business, we’ll still have coverage.
Your billion-dollar ideas don’t show up in the middle of dramatic distraction. They show up when you have the business and personal discipline to make space for your creative mind to flourish.
Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.
You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin’ on, I then got the money, and gone.
Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud.
Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman.
When I first started out in the entertainment business, I made a list of people I thought it would be good to meet. Not people who could give me a job or a deal, but people who could shake me up, teach me something, challenge my ideas about myself and the world.
I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
The basic principle which I believe has contributed more than any other to the building of our business as it is today, is the ownership of our company by the people employed in it.
No business in the world has ever made more money with poorer management.
Go for a business that any idiot can run – because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.
One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it’s making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it’s the people who already have strong trust relationships with you, who know you’re dedicated, smart, a team player, who can help you.
An economist’s guess is liable to be as good as anybody else‘s.
Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.
Networking is all about connecting with people. But then again, isn’t that what life is about? The more time you can find to get out of the office and build true friendships, the farther your startup will go. Entrepreneurs need to remember to spend as much time working on their business as they do in their business.
I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It’s the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.
The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’
I think the fact that I grew up in show business had a real effect on my personality. If you were born in New York during the golden age of television, and you grew up on Broadway, that marks you.
Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality its left.
All lasting business is built on friendship.
There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone’s business.
We all get into business, and we take a risk in terms of putting capital.
If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.
As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.
The more you drive positive change, the more enhanced your business model.
I’m actually very snobbish about directors. I have to say ‘no’ all the time. ‘No’ is the most powerful word in our business. You’ve got to protect yourself.
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
So much of life is a negotiation – so even if you’re not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you.
Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
We’re not uncomfortable with it, and we’ve already been through enough of the music business where I’m not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way – we’re already past saving, you know what I mean? It’s too late for us.
Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
There is no greater feeling in business than building a product which impacts people’s lives in a profound way. When we look around at the thousands of people who have attended Summit gatherings, it makes us smile to see the new friendships, business partnerships and philanthropic initiatives that each event produces.
It doesn’t matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.
Never argue with a profit.
I hate anyone that is involved in the drug business.
Golf isn’t just my business, it’s my hobby.
Cricket is my passion; it is my first love. So I will not act in my movies, as they will just be a side business for me.
In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that.
Infrastructure is the backbone of economic growth. It improves access to basic services such as clean water and electricity, creates jobs and boosts business.
No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.
One capability every business is expected to have is the capability to make money. It requires a certain kind of discipline, a certain kind of mindset.
If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.
Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
Only a few years after building a federal system that cleared the way for equal opportunity, Republicans faced a racist and xenophobic backlash against an active government – and they folded. By the 1880s, the party’s leaders had abandoned their message of opportunity and tied themselves to big business.
The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.
Your own business growth and success depends on many things, and along that growing path, you are going to have to concede certain responsibilities and activities – whether for your accounting, your production, or day-to-day management.
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
There is no Internet business in furniture or bedding. Zero – practically in the world.
Business is in itself a power.
Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.
Our movements and feelings are constantly monitored, because surveillance is the business model of the digital age.
Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
The Kingdom is the love of God prevailing in politics, in business, in government, in media. It is all the impact of the laws of God creating a social environment where the strong help the weak, where those who have give to those who don’t. It’s a society where relationships are built on love.
Sustainable fishing is a fraud. It’s a marketing term that really means ‘business as usual.’
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
In the real estate business you learn more about people, and you learn more about community issues, you learn more about life, you learn more about the impact of government, probably than any other profession that I know of.
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
This business is always changing. If you’re going to be a leader, you’ve got to take chances.
‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
There’s no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Creativity is an import-export business.
Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.
What kind of business world are we living in?
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.
If you aren’t playing well, the game isn’t as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.
Employees make the best dates. You don’t have to pick them up and they’re always tax-deductible.
Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.
A manager doesn’t hear the cheers.
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we’re going to win.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Money is always the least of the problems. It is finding the right business or growing the right business. You can’t do that without the right people.
To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.
I hate the word ‘break.’ It’s just a business deal at the end of the day so there’s no such thing as giving a break.
Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn’t be in this business.
My basic strategy is to stick to my core business and to my area of expertise.
Business is a combination of war and sport.
All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.
In our business, things look like a failure until they’re not. It’s pretty binary transitions.
Business has to have a seat at the table. Infrastructure isn’t going to be built properly if business doesn’t have a seat at the table. A school is not going to happen if businesses don’t work with schools about what kind of jobs they really need.
I don’t have tiffs with people. I only mind my business, but whatever interferes my freedom of expression, I have always voiced.
I’m a school dropout. So, at the age of 16, I moved to Mumbai to try my luck on some business.
Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
The girls and women of our race must not be afraid to take hold of business endeavor and, by patient industry, close economy, determined effort and close application to business, wring success out of a number of business opportunities that lie at their very doors.
With success comes responsibility of playing your part, to do what you can to help not only those that helped you get to where you’re at, but the future of who’s going to be playing a part of your business and everything you do in your entire career.
A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.
I just want to be master of my own time. It is ironic that someone in the watch business should not be in control of his time.
I believe that starting any business should be as easy as a 10-year-old starting a lemonade stand.
I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and – very important – knows how to run a business, knows the numbers.
In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.
Stationary storage will be as big as the car business long term. The growth rate will probably be several times what it is for the car business.
An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
Being a top performer – whether it’s in business or on the athletic field – requires grit and tenacity, as well as the continuous desire to become better.
Make no mistake, blockchain will be a game changer, but it is not the answer to every business opportunity or problem.
The only thing that was economic, I might say, about my music career, aside from the fact that I did everybody’s tax returns in the band, was the decision I made to leave the music business on economic grounds.
The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.
Now everybody’s got a crazy notion of their own. Some like to mix up with a crowd, some like to be alone. It’s no one elses’ business as far as I can see, but every time that I go out the people stare at me, with me little ukulele in me hand.
I am personally a big believer that technology is the biggest driver of human development, and if you can use technology to benefit people, then that’s the best business you can have.
