Quotes About Business

Growth in this business is driven by exposure to emerging markets, and we'd plan to keep expanding that. One of the neat things about this company is that it's very diversified already in terms of geography, with a significant presence in Latin America, China and the Middle East. In many of those regions there is an increasing use of pharmaceutical and dietary products, so we see a long-term secular uplift from that.

The core competency of this business is really around engineering quality and manufacturing-related services. It's selling to the companies selling to the healthcare market, kind of as a B2B play.

Treating employees like owners and business partners—that's how you can create value and make this more than just a feel-good story.

All important business is always done in men's rooms and smoking rooms," Gorbachev joked.

Reagan inherited a prime interest rate of 20.5 percent, making it hard to start a new business or buy a new home or car. The top marginal income tax rate stood at 70 percent.

Moreover, data science (and business in general) is not so worried about statistical significance, but more concerned with optimizing overall effort and results.

Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections.

Really it was like trying to solve a crime in the Stock Exchange, the way the mildest mention of sex interrupted business.

More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject.

Companies have three responsibilities: 1) make a profit, 2) satisfy employees, and 3) be socially responsible.

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank. Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship...the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.

A business exists to create a customer

Entrepreneurs innovate. Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. It is the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations.... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them "operators" or "programmers."

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

Nothing drew me to the film business. I was propelled by the fear and anxiety of Vietnam. I had been drafted into the Marines. My brother was already serving in Vietnam. I bought, if you will, a stay of execution - both literally and figuratively - and went on to graduate school of business from the law school that I was attending.

Tales of perfection fail dramatically because they never ring true. But when a leader uses authentic drama to reveal the hidden truth about a problem his business is facing, he guides the audience to feel as if they are uncovering the truth themselves. Compelling drama convinced listeners that the teller had heart.

La misma regla es aplicable a las historias que una persona cuenta en directo ante un público empresarial.

Por lo tanto, en cualquier negocio, como en el del espectáculo, si uno no consigue transportar emocionalmente a sus oyentes, los perderá.