Business Quotes - Page 24

To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

Conscious business.. business that is conscious of inner and outer worlds.. would therefore be business that takes into account body, mind, and spirit in self, culture, and nature. Put differently, conscious business would be mindful of the way that the spectrum of consciousness operates in the Big Three worlds of self and culture and nature.

But economic recovery must be earned. And it will be earned by entrepreneurs and it will be earned by small businesses.

Listen to your customers, not your competitors.

For no matter what we achieve, if we don't spend the vast majority of our time with people we love and respect, we cannot possibly have a great life. But if we spend the vast majority of our time with people we love and respect - people we really enjoy being on the bus with and who will never disappoint us - then we will almost certainly have a great life, no matter where the bus goes. The people we interviewed from the good-to-great companies clearly loved what they did, largely because they loved who they did it with.

Those who are skilled in archery bend their bow only when they are preparing to use it; when they do not require it, they allow it to remain unbent, for otherwise it would remain unserviceable when the time for using it arrived. So it is with man. If he were to devote himself unceasingly to a dull round of business, without breaking the monotony by cheerful amusements, he would fall imperceptibly into idiocy, or be struck by paralysis

the harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.

The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.

Everything can be improved.

It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens, how confusions that seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is heard.

I can find only three kinds of business in the universe: mine, yours and God's. Much of our stress comes from mentally living out of our business. When I think, "You need to get a job, I want you to be happy, you should be on time, you need to take better care of yourself," I am in your business. When I'm worried about earthquakes, floods, war, or when I will die, I am in God's business. If I am mentally in your business or in God's business, the effect is separation.

Mind your own business and don't eat junk food. Treat everyone the way you want to be treated, work hard and love what you do.

The old paradigm was pay to play. Now you get back what you authentically put in. You've got to be willing to play to play.

Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk, tomorrow's senior partner.

Independent artists and labels have always been the trendsetters in music and the music business.

A small profit is better than a big loss.

The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.

A sustainable business is resource efficient, respects the environment and is a good neighbour

Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Even in the face of massive competition, don't think about the competition. Literally don't think about them. Every time you're in a meeting and you're tempted to talk about a competitor, replace that thought with one about user feedback or surveys. Just think about the customer.

The qualities that make Twitter seem inane and half-baked are what makes it so powerful.

A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.