Quotes About Business

I'm minding my own business, sir! How many people do you think actually do that by choice? Does it bother you? Of course it bothers you. A clear conscience is always supposed to bother a cripple-minded idiot like you

It is very important to discover graceful exits like that in the newspaper business, where it is such an important part of the ethics that you should never seem to be working.

In the business world I had been used to "making things happen" and focusing on results. I was continually pushing or pulling the outcomes of events and circumstances rather than focusing my highest intention and then allowing the optimum outcome to unfold.

And many of the townsfolk of Boston seem more concerned with the profit of their business than the great cause that is swirling around them.

Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That's not a criticism they're passionate about cutting hair or cooking food, and that's why they got in the business, not because they have an MBA.

In a flash I have a realization that chills me even further. While Robert and Ms. Violet knowingly engage in theatrics, that's just for business. It doesn't mean they don't actually believe this. The moving wave of leaves fades away before me, and I'm suddenly aware that the frogs have stopped their croaking. I get the feeling that I'm being watched. When I glance down at the shadows of Robert and me at our feet, a third figure now stands between us.

I am thankful in the circumstances we have not got Winston as a colleague. He is in his usual excited condition that comes on him when he smells war, and if he were in the Cabinet we should be spending all our time in holding him down instead of getting on with our business.

For a man who was to exhibit such acute political sharpness later in his career, Napoleon completely misread the revolution's opening stages. 'I repeat what I have said to you,' he wrote to Joseph on July 22, a week after the fall of the Bastille, 'calm will return. In a month, there will no longer be a question of anything. So, if you send me 300 livres [7,500 francs] I will go to Paris to terminate our business.

Oh, she meant my team members. I hadn't really processed most of them as friends yet, other than Patrick. I still wasn't sure I could call Marissa a friend; I barely knew her. Jin was closer, but he was more of a business associate. Probably.

a strategic inflection point is a time in the life of business when its fundamentals are about to change. that change can mean an opportunity to rise to new heights. But it may just as likely signal the beginning of the end

if you base your business on the volume leader, you will be going after a larger business yourself

if your organization uses e-mail, a lot more people know what's going on in your business than did before, and they know it a lot faster than they used to.

In fact , we might as well say "proprietary", which ,in fact, was the byword of the old computer industry.

Do any exceptions exist to the universality of hybrid organizations? The only exceptions that come to my mind are conglomerates, which are typically organized in a totally mission-oriented form. Why are they an exception to our rule? Because they do not have a common business purpose.

Andy replied with an answer that I did not expect: "CEOs always act on leading indicators of good news, but only act on lagging indicators of bad news." "Why?" I asked him. He answered in the style resonant of his entire book: "In order to build anything great, you have to be an optimist, because by definition you are trying to do something that most people would consider impossible. Optimists most certainly do not listen to leading indicators of bad news.

Globalization simply means that business knows no national boundaries. Capital and work—your work and your counterparts' work—can go anywhere on earth and do a job.

Grove's Law: All large organizations with a common business purpose end up in a hybrid organizational form.

As a general rule, you have to accept that no matter where you work, you are not an employee—you are in a business with one employee: yourself. You are in competition with millions of similar businesses.

Here I would like to propose Grove's Law: All large organizations with a common business purpose end up in a hybrid organizational form.

Businesses fail either because they leave their customers or because their customer leave them !

But in the end self-confidence mostly comes from a gut-level realization that nobody has ever died from making a wrong business decision, or taking inappropriate action, or being overruled. And everyone in your operation should be made to understand this.

In short, strategic inflection points are about fundamental change in any business, technological or not

Programmers need to learn about the business problem that needs to be solved.

In my world, people are always plotting. You have no idea of all the crimes people in business commit every day. Like it was nothing. Or there's a set of special rules for them. Remember when Bush made that whole speech about 'corporate ethics' last year? What a fraud. You think stuff like Enron or WorldCom is an aberration? It's only the tip. Business is a religion. Probably the only one practiced all over the world.