Quotes about bus
business believe america
Innovation, I believe, is the only way that America will regain the initiative in a global dynamic economy. John Sculley
business kids successful
As a kid, chess was the first thing I studied in a structured way that helped me gain the discipline to study medicine and become successful doctor. Mark Spitz
business ideas entrepreneur
Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea. Mark Pincus
business car buying
It sounds to me like selling a car with faulty brakes, and then buying an insurance policy on those cars. Phil Angelides
business law forever
If you have too many problems, maybe you should get out of business. There is no law that says a company must last forever. Peter Drucker
business company customers
The true business of every company is to make and keep customers. Peter Drucker
business power information
Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands. Peter Drucker
business keys challenges
The great challenge to management today is to make productive the tremendous new resource, the knowledge worker. This, rather than the productivity of the manual worker, is the key to economic growth and economic performance in today's society. Peter Drucker
business organization doe
Every organization has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does. Peter Drucker
business real responsibility
The real development I've seen of people in organizations, especially in big ones, comes from their being volunteers in a nonprofit organization - where you have responsibility, you see results, and you quickly learn what your values are. There is no better way to understand your strengths and discover where you belong than to volunteer in a nonprofit. That is probably the great opportunity for the social sector - and especially in its relationship to business. Peter Drucker
business thinking temptation
The most critical case in a corporation, especially a big one, is when everything goes well, when you have accomplished your objectives. When the temptation is to work twice as hard instead of saying, "We have accomplished our objectives, we have to think again." Peter Drucker
business events economic
If a business is to be considered a continuous process, instead of a series of disjointed stop-and-go events, then the economic universe in which a business operates-and all the major events within it-must have rhyme, rhythm, or reason. Peter Drucker
business philosophy reading
..there is need for a person to be generally educated. Otherwise you shrivel up much too soon. Whether this means reading the bible (I read the New Testament every few years) or reading the great 19th century novelists (the greatest and shrewdest judge of people and of society who ever lived), or classical philosophy (which I cannot read-it puts me to sleep immediately), or history (which is secondary). What matters is that the knowledge worker, by the time he or she reaches middle age, has developed and nourished a human being rather than a tax accountant or a hydraulic engineer. Peter Drucker
business loss guiding-principles
(Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation of profit, it is the avoidance of loss Peter Drucker
business worry next
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. Peter Drucker
business mean corporations
The corporation is the "master", the employee is the "servant". Because the corporation owns the means of production without which the employee could not make a living, the employee needs the corporation more than vice versa. Peter Drucker
business mistake wrong-answers
The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question. Peter Drucker
business ideas people
As to the idea that advertising motivates people, remember the Edsel. Peter Drucker
business data doe
The fewer data needed, the better the information. And an overload of information, that is, anything much beyond what is truly needed, leads to information blackout. It does not enrich, but impoverishes. Peter Drucker
business communication technology
The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications. Peter Drucker
business views marketing
Marketing is not a function, it is the whole business seen from the customer's point of view. Peter Drucker
business frustration important
Business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important cause of business frustration and failure. Peter Drucker
business real thinking
I think that the best companies are companies that have a real purpose. Marjorie Scardino
business skins should
When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to heal, so that you can skin them again. Nikita Khrushchev
business punishment want
I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
business finance reason
Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
business gestures finance
Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
business want derivatives
We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options ... I am an options trader, and I don't understand options. How do you want a regulator to understand them? Nassim Nicholas Taleb
business creativity imagination
Organisations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity. N. R. Narayana Murthy
business differences mind
Progress is often equal to the difference between mind and mindset. N. R. Narayana Murthy
business thinking competition
Even in the face of massive competition, don't think about the competition. Just think about the customer. Mike McCue
business communication silence
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. Mignon McLaughlin
business procrastination forever
Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all Mignon McLaughlin