Quotes About Business

Ooh. Top secret angel business, huh? What're you going to do? Dance on a pinhead? Lobby for National Cute Puppy Day?

He can go to a boardroom meeting . . . he's very proper now." - Sydney Sage

hypercompetition" to characterize markets in which a firm's competitive advantage would be quickly competed away.8

Business model innovation was every bit as important as R&D or product innovation.17

extracted resources from cash-generating but low-growth arenas such

resources are directed by a governance mechanism that is separate from any given business unit.

You might contract with an innovation firm such as Innosight or Strategyn to help flesh out the business parameters and operating model.

limit the downside cultural and business risks.

training people to be able to move from advantage to advantage becomes a cost of doing business. It's just as important a bill to pay as the one you pay to keep the lights on and the computers running. Investing in people's capacity to move around removes a tremendous barrier to change and suggests a redirection of emphasis from pure deployment to creating transition capability.

To be proficient, an organization needs a governance mechanism suitable for innovation (and usually separate from the planning and budgeting processes of the core business)

The major conclusion was that this group of firms was pursuing strategies with a long-term perspective on where they wanted to go, but also with the recognition that whatever they were doing today wasn't going to drive their future growth. Interestingly, they had identified and implemented ways of combining tremendous internal stability while motivating tremendous external agility, particularly in terms of business models.

benefited from the declining category by developing an innovative business model—insurance, rather than simply relying on manufacturing.

No-one got rich being honest, the customers have to be diddled

Until the end of his life, whenever the subject of the vast growth of the LBJ Company and associated business enterprises was raised, Lyndon Johnson would emphasize that he owned none of it ("All that is owned by Mrs. Johnson.… I don't have any interest in government-regulated industries of any kind and never have had").

Your business, son." "Yes. Self. I must grok each cusp myself alone. And so must you . . . and so must each self. Thou art God." "I don't accept the nomination." "You can't refuse it. Thou art God and I am God and all that groks is God, and I am all that I have ever been or seen or felt or experienced. I am all that I grok.

It doesn't make sense. Or, rather, it makes just one kind of sense. Hanky-panky. Ben is as used to hanky-panky as a bride is to kisses. He didn't get to be one of the best winchells in the business through playing his cards face up.

The correct way to punctuate a sentence that states: Of course it is none of my business, but -- is to place a period after the word but.

We came here for a quiet, small, informal meeting—strictly business. We find you've turned it into a circus. Well, if you're going to have a circus, you've got to have elephants and there's no two ways about it.

So what is their crime? Twofold: a) The Shipstone companies are guilty of supplying energy to the human race at prices below those of their competitors; b) They meanly and undemocratically decline to share their industrial secret of the final assembly stage of a Shipstone.

If you're going to be businessmen, don't confuse the vocation with larceny.

In the bank they did the same kind of stuff the fortune-teller and the bookie had done. But they dressed better.

Condoize them for me, and I'd have income for

Our business was done at the river's brink;

I write of melancholy, by being busy to avoid melancholy. There is no greater cause of melancholy than idleness, no better cure than business.