Quotes About Business

Permitieron que su ego nublara su juicio empresarial, un error muy común pero potencialmente letal.

The reality is that in the business world almost everyone is just a very small cog in a huge collection of cogs.2 2 Sorry. Try not to take it personally. Do good work. Enjoy your home life. Be happy.

ART VS. COMMERCE he artist stood back to view the geometric precision of his latest creation. Beautiful, he murmured, but will it sell? No time to examine the philosophic implications. Customers, buzzing with excitement, hovered near the piece. He wrapped up a deal quickly. This is business, the spider said with a vicious smile. It ain't art.

Just as a warm and moist environment is conducive to the spread of deadly bacteria, the worlds of politics and business especially—with their long time frames, complex outcomes, and murky cause and effect—are conducive to the spread of half-cocked guesses posing as fact.

The market was particularly strong in Chicago, which had more than a thousand known brothels.

Just as a warm and moist environment is conducive to the spread of deadly bacteria, the worlds of politics and business especially—with their long time frames, complex outcomes, and murky cause and effect—are conducive to the spread of half-cocked guesses posing as fact. And here's why: the people making these wild guesses can usually get away with it!

In a medical study, it turned out that obstetricians in areas with declining birth rates are much more likely to perform cesarean-section deliveries than obstetricians in growing areas—suggesting that, when business is tough, doctors try to ring up more expensive procedures.

Overall, a portfolio of the "good to great" companies looks like it would have underperformed the S&P 500.

So in the tradition of Poland Spring, Evian, and other hydro-geniuses, we've decided to bottle something that was freely available and charge you money for it.

Is it a good idea to pass along a family business to the next generation? (Sure, if your goal is to kill off the business—for the data show it's generally better to bring in an outside manager.

Product people are business people, first and foremost. They work across functions and serve to integrate or synchronize the work of others so that products and portfolios can be planned, developed, launched, and managed.

Because each day is different, I thrive on creating something out of nothing, and I love running a business. I also flourish when I know what's going on across the company and who's doing what with whom and why. I love learning from customers, and I marvel at the knowledge and experience of people who contribute to the creation of great products.

Business acumen is the term used to describe a person's understanding of various dimensions of a business that are "in play" as situations arise. This "business common sense" is built up over time, just like practitioners such as surgeons, musicians, or pilots get better with practice.

The coffeehouse model of creativity helps explain one of those strange paradoxes of twenty-first-century business innovation. Even as much of the high-tech culture has embraced decentralized, liquid networks in their approach to innovation, the company that is consistently ranked as the most innovative in the world—Apple—remains defiantly top-down and almost comically secretive in its development of new products.

If you come up with an interesting new contraption, you don't need to persuade a government commission of its value. You just need to get someone to buy it.

Buckminster Fuller said don't try to change human behavior. It's s a waste of time. Evolution doesn't mess around; the patterns are too deep. Fuller said go after the tools. Better tools lead to better people. Arctic doesn't develop products. We may cultivate them, occasionally, in our own particular way, but our business is change. Significant change.

what is genuine emotion and what is business strategy. The modern condition.

As CNN recently reported: "A decade of research in the business world proves happiness raises nearly every business and educational outcome: raising sales by 37 percent, productivity by 31 percent, and accuracy on tasks by 19 percent, as well as a myriad of health and quality-of-life improvements.

happiness raises nearly every business and educational outcome: raising sales by 37 percent, productivity by 31 percent, and accuracy on tasks by 19 percent

Big-box health clubs oversell memberships by 400 percent

a free market puts a premium on empathy.

nonstate conflicts kill far fewer people than conflicts that involve a government, perhaps a quarter as many. Again, this is not surprising, since goverments almost by definition are in the violence business.

marketroid n. Member of a company's marketing department.

Though many intellectuals, following in the footsteps of Saints Augustine and Jerome, hold businesspeople in contempt for their selfishness and greed, in fact a free market puts a premium on empathy.