Quotes about bus
business war oil
We need an honest bottom line. Today that bottom line is vastly subsidized. If anyone of us were paying the full cost of oil our bottom lines would be very different. If you internalize the cost of oil, look at the cost of the war in the Middle East or the cost of global warming for future generations, if you internalize those external costs and what you pay, that bottom line would look very different, what ever business you are in. Ray Anderson
business culture looks
The status quo is a product of our culture or our culture is a product of the status quo - I'm sure which is the effect and which is the product - there is probably a feedback loop there that is mutually reinforcing. But we have a culture that says "Hey, look around. This place called Earth was created for you and you can do anything you want with it."
business smart simple
We really began to think in different ways about our business in terms of climbing this mountain and it became very clear very quickly this was the smart thing to do. Not only did we start to generate answers for those customers, they embraced us for what we were trying to do. The goodwill in the market place has just been stunning. The rest of the business case is pretty simple. I cost it down not up.
business years names
During the last five years, those four advantages-costs, products, people, goodwill-have been the salvation of Interface during a recession that saw our primary marketplace shrink by 38% from peak to trough-38%! As a heavily leveraged company with over $400 million in debt, we might not have made it without the sustainability initiative and, especially, the support of our customers. This revised definition of success-this new paradigm-has a name: "Doing well by doing good". It is a better way to bigger profits.
business different needs
If we somehow put a value on species extinction and factor that into our costs that bottom line would look very different. IF we put any resource depletion into costs our bottom line would change. So what we have is a dishonest market that does not take into account all the costs when it establishes its prices. We need an honest marketplace before we can let the market work for sustainability rather than against it as it works today.
business people purpose
I always make the business case for sustainability. It's so compelling. Our costs are down, not up. Our products are the best they have ever been. Our people are motivated by a shared higher purpose - esprit de corps to die for. And the goodwill in the marketplace - it's just been astonishing.
business thinking organization
...there is no more strategic issue for a company, or any organization, than its ultimate purpose. For those who think business exists to make a profit, I suggest they think again. Business makes a profit to exist. Surely it must exist for some higher, nobler purpose than that.
business skills ideas
Only business can build a low-carbon economy. Business is all about seeing ideas and growing them. Businesses have the resources, the people, the technical skills to make things happen - and they have the channels to market Tom DeLay
business opportunity climate
Progressive companies regard climate change as an opportunity rather than a threat
business cutting opportunity
Cutting carbon in the supply chain is the next critical stage in the business contribution to reduce carbon emissions to tackle climate change and, represents a significant commercial opportunity
business community backbone
Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities. Tom Allen
business ladders brad
In this business, you're either Brad Pitt right away, or you're already going down the ladder. Skeet Ulrich
business snacks glasses
Nowadays I find chocolate and/or chocolate-based snacks to be great motivators. Everyone loves chocolate. If someone has a lot of work to do, put a piece of fudge in a glass container (so they can see it) and let them know that if they accomplish their tasks, they can eat the fudge. You'll definitely get a reaction! Michael Scott
business passion careers
In the four decades of philanthropy that have paralleled my business career, I've found that the same principles apply whether you're providing access to capital to grow a business, creating a new paradigm for medical research, or pioneering innovative approaches to education: Empower the most talented people in each field and encourage them to pursue their passions. Michael Milken
business balance growing
In financing growing companies, we always looked for human value that didn't appear on the balance sheet.
business management economics
Commercial organisations that operate responsibly have benefitted by increased revenues of 682% compared to 166% for those that don't John P. Kotter
business management economics
Leadership produces change. That is its primary function
business advertising nigeria-independence
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. Norman Douglas
business two people
If you don't hire at least one or two people that are smarter than you are, then you're a terrible manager and I don't need you. Nolan Bushnell
business hard-work starting-up
A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.
business causes cause-and-effect
Take away the cause, and the effect ceases. Miguel de Cervantes
business successful world
The most successful scientists in the history of the world are those who posed the right questions Neil deGrasse Tyson
busy
If I'm not busy I start twiddling my thumbs. John Newman
business vision firsts
Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision. John Naisbitt
business hands information
The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many.
business ideas succeed
Many persons have an idea that one cannot be in business and lead an upright life, whereas the truth is that no one succeeds in business to any great extent, who misleads or misrepresents. John Wanamaker
business marketing half
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.
business men cynic
The cynic says, "One man can't do anything". I say, "Only one man can do anything." John W. Gardner
business work-out people
Usually God favours the people who try to do good. So, when you find that the crowd is desperately trying to sell, help them and buy. When you find that the crowd is overenthusiastically trying to buy, help them and sell. It usually works out. John Templeton
business lying important
Fella in business got to lie an' cheat, but he calls it somepin else. That's what's important. You go steal that tire an' you're a thief, but he tried to steal your four dollars for a busted tire. They call that sound business. John Steinbeck
business men clothes
Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they deflect him.
business work real
The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real. Marge Piercy
business pride thinking
I like to pride myself on thinking pretty long term, but not that long term. Mark Zuckerberg