Quotes About Business

For example, it might be the case that 80 percent of a business's profits come from just 20 percent of its clients, 80 percent of a nation's wealth is held by its richest 20 percent of citizens, or 80 percent of computer software crashes come from just 20 percent of the identified bugs.

To summarize, big trends in business today actively decrease people's ability to perform deep work, even though the benefits promised by these trends (e.g., increased serendipity, faster responses to requests, and more exposure) are arguably dwarfed by the benefits that flow from a commitment to deep work (e.g., the ability to learn hard things fast and produce at an elite level).

Neither Wozniak nor Jobs left their regular jobs: This was strictly a low-risk venture meant for their free time.

In addition to executives, we can also include, for example, certain types of salesmen and lobbyists, for whom constant connection is their most valued currency.

The Principle of Least Resistance: In a business setting, without clear feedback on the impact of various behaviors to the bottom line, we will tend toward behaviors that are easiest in the moment.

In a business setting, without clear feedback on the impact of various behaviors to the bottom line, we will tend toward behaviors that are easiest in the moment.

What's the impact of our current e-mail habits on the bottom line?

And as Jason Fried discovered, if you not only eliminate shallow work, but also replace this recovered time with more of the deep alternative, not only will the business continue to function; it can become more successful.

After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.

Advertising is the life of trade.

Civilization and profits go hand in hand

The Business of Our Firm is Business" -Donald W. Hudspeth from: "The Business of America is Business" -Calvin Coolidge

I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.

People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.

No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.

Show me the money!

Like a giant Ponzi scheme, profits depended on an unending source of associates entering at the bottom of the pyramid, funneling cash up the chain,

In this troublesome world we are never quite satisfied. When you were here, I thought you hindered me some in attending to business; but now, having nothing but business—no variety—it has grown exceedingly tasteless to me...I hate to stay in this old room by myself. —Abraham Lincoln

This is the way in which we transact the public business of the Nation," a New York newspaper had recently complained. "No man has the slightest chance of securing the smallest place because of his fitness for it.… If your streets are so unclean to-day as to threaten a pestilence, it is because those in charge were appointed through political influence, with no regard to their capacity to work.

The whole business of medical journals is corrupt because owners are making money from restricting access to important research, most of it funded by public money.

A process is a construct for organizing value-adding work to achieve a business-value milestone.

The business that my role generates is not always something that you can connect with my talks directly. ... if I go and build the brand by getting my name and the company name out there, it may generate business in a year or two. - Ivar Grimstad

This must be the 'corner and threaten' routine Kat had warned me about. 'I don't know who you think you are or what you think you're doing,' she snapped, 'but I will bury you if you hurt one of my friends." Yep. It was. 'I think my name is Ali Bell, and I think I'm standing here, minding my own business. You should try it.

If you can't out-experiment and beat your competitors in time to market and agility, you are sunk. Features are always a gamble. If you're lucky, ten percent will get the desired benefits. So the faster you can get those features to market and test them, the better off you'll be. Incidentally, you also pay back the business faster for the use of capital, which means the business starts making money faster, too.