Business Quotes - Page 128

Business will be either better or worse.

The business of the country is business.

We must understand that out of community and dialogue, the answers will arrive in their own time and way.

Leaders are made, not born. You learn to become a leader by doing what other excellent leaders have done before you. You become proficient in your job or skill, and then you become proficient at understanding the motivations and behaviors of other people.

Personally, I've made myself a very small window of what I enjoy in this business, which is I love being a big part of the storytelling process.

What happens when you combine blogs, Google and millions of dissatisfied customers? An e-mob.

Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free.

In a system of capitalism, as people's wealth rises, the financial incentive to serve them rises. As their wealth falls, the financial incentive to serve them falls, until it becomes zero. We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.

Well, it's taken time to get this going, but he was right. If you give people a chance to associate themselves with a cause they care about, while buying a great product, they will. That was how the RED Campaign was born, here in Davos.

Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back to the company.

Like many others, I have deep misgivings about the state of education in the United States. Too many of our students fail to graduate from high school with the basic skills they will need to succeed in the 21st Century economy, much less prepared for the rigors of college and career. Although our top universities continue to rank among the best in the world, too few American students are pursuing degrees in science and technology. Compounding this problem is our failure to provide sufficient training for those already in the workforce.

Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen.

If you believe that every life has equal value, it’s revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not. We said to ourselves: “This can’t be true. But if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving.”

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most personal desires - if they omit the irrational from their view of the possible and destruction from their view of the practical?

Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.

A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.

I believe that Jews and Arabs can live together. It's not an easy thing but I believe we can reach an agreement.

If we [are to] reach a situation of true peace, real peace, peace for generations, we will have to make painful concessions. Not in exchange for promises, but rather in exchange for peace.

My life is not my own business.

if companies are in business solely to make money, no consumer can fully trust what they do or say.

Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

We are focusing Philip Morris organization much more on the new business. We will have very few new traditional product introductions, and as markets switch to IQOS we would remove resources from the old business completely.Next year IQOS becomes profitable, so even the financing from these traditional businesses isn't necessary anymore, because it becomes fully self-sustaining.

And what most people don't understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business.

The efficient use of energy is as much an issue for Saudi Arabia, with its huge natural resources, as it is for all countries. Increased efficiency makes sense environmentally, but also economically.