Business Quotes - Page 109

For small businesses to thrive, they require an environment that is conducive for growth.

One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that

The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

Premium will increasingly be defined in terms of sustainability and environmental compatibility

If you don't hire at least one or two people that are smarter than you are, then you're a terrible manager and I don't need you.

It's magazines like HITS that have to label things.

Taxes will eventually become a voluntary process, with the possible exception of real estate - the one physical thing that does not move easily and has computable value. The US has a jump-start on the practice, in that 65 percent of local school funds come from real estate taxes - a practice Europeans consider odd and ill advised. But wait until that's all there is left to tax, when the rest of the things we buy and sell come from everywhere, anywhere, and nowhere.

Incrementalism is innovation's worst enemy.

I'm not in the service business.

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?

You’ve got to be sure of yourself before You can ever win a prize.

I have come to believe, deeply and firmly, that we can create a poverty free world if we want to. I came to this conclusion not as a product of a pious dream, but as a concrete result of experience gained in the work of the Grameen Bank.

As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.

You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don't sell out for money, fame, or notoriety.

A business must have a conscience as well as a counting house.

I believe my concepts are more than just business, they are about our culture.

Even in the face of massive competition, don't think about the competition. Just think about the customer.

I was in the oil business for a while--gas and oil, check the tires.

When each of these three elements of vision-concern for excellence, for people and for the wider environment-are present, business is transformed from a tool for making profits into a creative, humane experiment for improving life.

There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world

If we agree that the bottom line of life is happiness, not success, then it makes perfect sense to say that it is the journey that counts, not reaching the destination.

Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers.

People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.

Nowadays I find chocolate and/or chocolate-based snacks to be great motivators. Everyone loves chocolate. If someone has a lot of work to do, put a piece of fudge in a glass container (so they can see it) and let them know that if they accomplish their tasks, they can eat the fudge. You'll definitely get a reaction!