Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Ringer

Don't become a slave to non-crucial matters.

Robert Reich

In the early 1970s, Milton Friedman argued that corporations should not be socially responsible because they had no mandate to be; they existed to make money, not to be charitable institutions. But in the economy of the 21st century, corporations cannot be socially responsible, if social responsibility is understood to mean sacrificing profits for the sake of some perceived social good. That's because competition has become so much more intense.

Robert Reich

As to the meaning of "corporate social responsibility," Friedman and I would agree: If a certain action improves the corporation's bottom line, there's no point in labeling it "socially responsible." It's just good business.

Richard Owen

Rapid innovation is the cure for the ills we face, but because innovation is difficult and susceptible to failure, we might need to rethink the way we approach innovation and how we drive it through our companies.

I have observed that almost all those whose labour lies in the field, and who go down to their business in the green meadows, admit the animal world to a share in the faculty of reason. It is the cabinet makers who construct a universe of automatons.

Victor Kiam

You should think of your customers as partners, or better still, family.

Victor Kiam

The closer you get to your ultimate customer, the more you learn about your business.

Victor Kiam

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Victor Hugo

Inspiration and genius -one and the same.

Robert Fritz

It's not what the vision is, it's what the vision does.

Robert Frost

The only way around is through.

Robert Frost

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Robert Bly

The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.

Rita Mae Brown

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

Timothy Geithner

And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing America, that we finance these additional support for the unemployed as well as the support for small business. We think there's a good case for doing it now. We want to do it in an overall fiscally responsible way.

Thomas Sowell

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

Tina Fey

You're not in competition with other women. You're in competition with everyone.

Tim Ferriss

The manifesto of the dealmaker is simple: Reality is negotiable.

Tia Carrere

I slipped at a bus stop; I went one way and my hair went the other. That was the end of my wig.

Samuel Adams

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them. Mankind are governed more by their feeling than by reason. Events which excite those feelings will produce wonderful effects.

Sam Ervin

I've always been worried about people who are willing to work for nothing. Sometimes that's all you get from them, nothing.

Sallie Krawcheck

Networking is the No. 1 unwritten rule of success in business.

Russell Simmons

You just have to pay attention to what people need and what has not been done.

Russell Simmons

"...piling up zeros in your bank account, or cars in your driveway, won't in and of itself make you successful. Rather, true success is based on a constant flow of giving and recieving. In fact, if you look up affluence in the dictionary, you'll see its root is a Latin phrase meaning "to flow with abundance". So in order to be truly affluent, you must always let what you have recieved flow back into the world."

Rosa Parks

My resisting being mistreated on the bus did not begin with that particular arrest…I did a lot of walking in Montgomery.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

The way innovating companies are designed leaves ambiguities, overlaps, decision conflicts or decision vacuums in some parts of the organisation. People rail at this, curse it-and invent innovative ways to overcome it.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

The degree to which the opportunity to use power effectively is granted to or withheld from individuals is one operative difference between those companies which stagnate and those which innovate.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

The importance of discretion increases with closeness to the top of a hierarchical organization.

Ron Perlman

I've been busy and not busy, and busy is better. I've been busy, but I went through a lot of periods where it was lean for a lot of times.

Susan Rice

Thirty years ago, about 80% of a company's assets resided in its plant and equipment, with 20% in the knowledge of its people. Today, the reverse is true. The knowledge of our staff is our principal asset

Susan Cain

One honest relationship can be more productive than fistfuls of business cards.

Stuart Rose

We believe responsible business can be profitable business

Steve Jobs

I was actually a fruitarian at that point in time. I ate only fruit. Now I'm a garbage can like everyone else. And we were about three months late in filing a fictitious business name so I threatened to call the company Apple Computer unless someone suggested a more interesting name by five o'clock that day. Hoping to stimulate creativity. And it stuck. And that's why we're called Apple.