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business creativity want
Most organisations say they want creativity, but really they do not. Jeffrey Pfeffer
business taken cutting
Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut. Jean Giraudoux
business persistence clear-goals
Success is the result of clear goal, unshakable confidence, proper planning, enthusiastic ACTION and consistent persistence. James Caan
business opportunity company
A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities. James C. Collins
business passion keys
It may seem odd to talk about something as soft and fuzzy as "passion" as an integral part of a strategic framework. But throughout the good-to-great companies, passion became a key part of the Hedgehog Concept.
business responsibility numbers
Genius of AND. Embrace both extremes on a number of dimensions at the same time. Instead of choosing a OR B, figure out how to have A AND B-purpose AND profit, continuity AND change, freedom AND responsibility, etc.
business mistake people
The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.
business growth good-to-great
Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
business believe greatness
...the question, Why try for greatness? would seem almost tautological. If you're doing something you care that much about, and you believe in its purpose deeply enough, then it is impossible to imagine not trying to make it great. It's just a given.
business real greatness
Indeed, the real question is not, "Why greatness?" but "What work makes you feel compelled to try to create greatness?" if you have to ask the question, "Why should we try to make it great? Isn't success enough?" then you're probably int he wrong line of work.
business decision growth
"Growth!" is not a Hedgehog Concept. Rather, if you have the right Hedgehog Concept and make decisions relentlessly consistent with it, you will create such momentum that your main problem will not be how to grow, but how not to grow too fast.
business discipline purpose
The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
business giving film
You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything. James Cameron
business passion skills
Don't worry; skills are cheap, passion is priceless. If you're passionate about your content and you know it and do it better than anyone else, even with few formal business skills you have the potential to create a million-dollar business. Gary Vaynerchuk
business discovery different
Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
business writing thinking
Please think about your legacy, because you're writing it every day.
business gun people
I hope we will come together as a nation and do whatever it takes to keep guns away from people who have no business with them. Hillary Clinton
business blessing civilization
Freedom of enterprise was from the beginning not altogether a blessing. As the liberty to work or to starve, it spelled toil, insecurity, and fear for the vast majority of the population. If the individual were no longer compelled to prove himself on the market, as a free economic subject, the disappearance of this freedom would be one of the greatest achievements of civilization. Herbert Marcuse
business statistics facts
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. Evan Esar
business lying believe
Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
business rain sacrifice
I did not say anything. I was always embarresed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stock yards at Chicago if nothin was done with the meat except to buy it. Ernest Hemingway
business writing thinking
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
business thinking should
I mentioned that I was thinking of getting out of the business after Call Me Madam. I thought maybe I should become a homebody. Ethel Merman
business undertaker show-business
There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business. Ethel Waters
business men want
Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business. Erykah Badu
business two different
Music and the music business are two different things.
business feelings energy
The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.
business inspiration imagination
For people who live in the imagination, there is no lack of subjects. To seek for the exact moment at which inspiration comes is false. Imagination floods us with suggestions all the time, from all directions. Federico Fellini
business fuel world
Energy is significantly underpriced in many parts of the world, leading to wasteful consumption, price volatility and fuel smuggling. It's also undermining the competitiveness of renewables. Fatih Birol
business healthy suffering
Energy markets can be thought of as suffering from appendicitis due to fossil fuel subsidies. They need to be removed for a healthy energy economy.
business oil revolution
One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well. Fareed Zakaria
business men two
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. Ezra Pound
business fire human-nature
Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature. Francis Ford Coppola