Quotes About Business

Value innovation, not technology innovation, is what opens up commercially compelling new markets.

The traditional units of strategic analysis—company and industry—have little explanatory power when it comes to analyzing how and why blue oceans are created. (..) The most appropriate unit of analysis for explaining the creation of blue oceans is the strategic move—the set of managerial actions and decisions involved in making a major market creating business offering.

Digital technologies are setting down the new grooves of how people live, how we do business, how we do everything--and they're doing it according to the expectations of foolish utopian scenarios. We want free online experiences so badly that we are happy to not be paid for information that comes from us now or ever. That sensibility also implies that the more dominant information becomes in our economy, the less most of us will be worth.

Let the corporations do as they please -- pillage the environment, falsify their advertising, rig the securities markets -- and it is none of the federal government's business to interfere with the will of heaven.

The state of perpetual emptiness is, of course, very good for business.

Wishing can be dangerous business. And dreaming only makes reality harder to accept.

He didn't give a shit what Sin did, who she "mated" with, or what she did with her assassin business. But this Lycus fucker was blackmailing her, and that just pissed him off. The sudden image of her naked, beneath a well-muscled body did'nt bother him at all. At. All.

KNOW YOUR PEOPLE AND KNOW YOUR BUSINESS. In Execution we stress the need for domain knowledge, the kind of granular understanding of how the business makes money that goes beyond profit and loss statements.

The general environment is the same for every player. What differentiates the successful ones are their insights, perceptions, and abilities to detect patterns of change and relate them to their landscape, industries, competition, and business.

To understand execution, you have to keep three key points in mind: Execution is a discipline, and integral to strategy. Execution is the major job of the business leader. Execution must be a core element of an organization's culture.

An employee is told that the customer is always right and, in fact, the customer is usually a moron and as asshole

Hm... Harbor's finished, so's the public market, business is booming.... My palace couldn't be posher, hot and cold running wine, live muzak.... So what's to buy next? I want something - really - useless.... I know! I'll get a PHILOSOPHER!!' Hiring someone just to sit around thinking - now there was an idea! 'What should I think about?' 'Anything - you - like!' It must have been hard at first.

For real estate agents, being able to market themselves as well as they can market houses is a key step to building a successful business. Promoting yourself successfully involves building lasting personal and professional relationships, marketing your best attributes and following some time-honored techniques for finding and retaining clients.

All My Children taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera! It is a good way to start in the business, get success without getting a big head and learn your craft.

Politics is a people business. I like people.

Planning a wedding can be murder. Planning weddings for a living is nothing short of suicide.

Look, this isn't personal, all right? It's business." "Business? It's called treason, motherfucker. It's called murdering innocent people." Suddenly

La estrategia del océano azul.

Effectiveness refers to successfully producing the expected or desired result; it's the degree to which you achieve your objectives, solve problems, and realize profits. In business, effectiveness is summed up by "doing the right things." Efficiency is the accomplishment of a job with the minimum expenditure of time, effort, and cost—the shortest distance between a goal and a checkmark. In business, efficiency is summed up by "doing things right.

One of the many things Peter Drucker taught us was that only two things actually generate profit: marketing and innovation. Everything else is an expense.

In my previous book, Grindhopping, I told young entrepreneurs to ask three questions: What do I love so much I'd do it for free? How can I get someone to pay me to do that? If there's no obvious job title in an organization doing what I love (and often there isn't), what's a low-cost way I could start a business doing that, and get the cash register ringing quickly?

I think any opportunity you have to be green, whether it's in business or in everyday life, you should take it.

and offered to lobby on behalf of the expedition in exchange for 20 percent of the profits.

We send Cristóbal Colón with three caravels through the Ocean Sea to the Indies on some business that concerns the service of God and the expansion of the Catholic faith and our benefit and utility.