Business Quotes - Page 13

Ranchers need clean water for their stock, farmers need it for their crops, every employer needs it to stay in business, and every living thing needs it for life... The law needs to be clear to protect water quality and the rights of landowners.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.

The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.

I believe in the Golden Rule - The Man with the Gold... Rules.

Simplification is one of the most difficult things to do.

Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

I made a fortune getting out too soon.

One finds limits by pushing them.

The linear 'Take - Make - Dispose' system, which depletes natural resources and generates waste, is deeply flawed and can be productively replaced by a restorative model in which waste does not exist as such but is only food for the next cycle

Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.

I came from an environment where if you see a snake, you kill it. At General motors, if you see a snake, the first thing you do is to hire a consultant on snakes.

Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community? Realize that the doctor's fight against socialized medicine is your fight. We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients. Recognize that government invasion of public power is eventually an assault upon your own business.

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

There is no such thing as business ethics. There is only one kind -- you have to adhere to the highest standards.

There are only two ways to establish competitive advantage: do things better than others or do them differently.

Success is not necessarily about connections, or cutting corners, or chamba - the three Cs of bad business. Call it trite, but believe me: success can be achieved through hard work, frugality, integrity, responsiveness to change, and most of all, boldness to dream.

The sleeping fox catches no poultry.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

Who are businesses really responsible to? Their customers? Shareholders? Employees? We would argue that it’s none of the above. Fundamentally, businesses are responsible to their resource base. Without a healthy environment there are no shareholders, no employees, no customers and no business.