Quotes about business
business humility perspective
Dee Hock Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
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Dee Hock To put it another way, I believe that purpose and principle, clearly understood and articulated, and commonly shared, are the genetic code of any healthy organization. To the degree that you hold purpose and principles in common among you, you can dispense with command and control. People will know how to behave in accordance with them, and they'll do it in thousands of unimaginable, creative ways. The organization will become a vital, living set of beliefs.
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Dee Hock The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.
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I had Dell for four and a half years, and its sales are still phenomenal, but their operating margins started to contract, so I sold it in early 1999. There's nothing wrong with Dell! It's a fine company. It's just the business risk they took.
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Michael Schenker If you are a musician and you don't show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people will rip you off. They will sweet talk you into anything.
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Michael Strahan This acting's serious! And I really respect those actors. It's a tough business to be able to be something you're not and be natural and convince people on camera.
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Gayle Tzemach Lemmon The one thing you learn from looking at places like Afghanistan is that the power of business to do good is enormous.
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The one thing we know for sure is when competition for something increases, the percentage of the market any one business has will decline.
business personal purchase
Mark Williams The personal purchase is emotional; the business purchase practical.
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The perception could be that that relationship would influence the outcome of this transaction. It's one thing to lobby, where you represent a client, but you're not involved in the decision-making process. It's another thing when you ... can impact someone you have a business relationship with.
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Sam Altman The point of an accelerator is to teach you about companies and business, not about technology.
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B. F. Skinner The point is for the governor-elect to, first of all, have an opportunity to talk directly with commuters and business men and women about his vision for tackling the state's transportation challenges.
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The poet's business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving.
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We are proud to welcome this landmark hotel -- fully restored and offering the latest in amenities and services -- into the Hilton brand. The Hilton Fort Worth continues our legacy of offering hotels of significance culturally or within the community that are designed to help our guests experience all of the enriching leisure or business experiences that travel can offer.
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We are proud to become part of the City of Burbank's business community and provide a long awaited high quality extended stay hotel. Marriott Residence Inn is the leader and innovator of the extended stay category.
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We are preparing for tremendous growth. Our business has never been better.
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We are pleased with the improvements in our business during the fourth quarter, including a return to positive increases in pharmacy same store sales despite a milder cough, cold and flu season than last year.
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We are pleased with the earnings growth of our retail business and look forward to an even better year in 2002,
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We are pleased with our solid financial performance in the first quarter and especially pleased with the growing business momentum we are seeing. Demand by carriers for our data and optical networks solutions has accelerated.
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David Fischer We are pleased to have Dave join our board. His views and experience as a business leader are exactly what we need to forge long-term relationships in the business community.
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Gary Marshall We usually present classes like this in our training room downtown, so the chance to get out into the neighborhood and connect directly with the community is really exciting. It's important to provide the option of business ownership to everybody.
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We are aggressively moving into other business segments that surround the purchase of a PC, thereby delivering the greatest value to customers, shareholders and industry partners,
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There are courses you can take to learn the mechanics of the business, like the Radcliffe course, but I don't think they teach you how to edit.
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There are concerns that the revival in euro zone business confidence has been driven by the external sector, which could be undermined if the euro keeps on rising.
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There are some businesses that have weeds and grass growing in front of the lots, cars with flat tires and cars parked on the sidewalks. We want to encourage the owners of the property to take care of that and clean up in front of their places.
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We're in the business of providing transit services, not taking away transportation services.
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We're in the business of investing in renewable energy projects, including wood-fired generating plants. Berlin, at this point, is one strong interest.
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We're in constant change, but the plan is to invest and grow the business -- he sees a lot of potential.
business serious
Donald Rumsfeld We're in a war. We've got serious business to be doing,
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We?re in a good region with a lot of vitality and small business growth.
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Ali LeRoi We started looking for someone in L.A., and what we found was that we were encountering the usual suspects. They're Hollywood kids who have been in the business for a few years. We were looking for someone who was a little raw and a little edgier. And we got a tape from New York with this kid on it. The thing that sold us was his face. He has an incredibly expressive face, and it's older than his years. When you sit and you look at him, it already feels like he's carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders. He looks like his eyes are a little sad, but he's really bright. At this particular point, there's no Hollywood in him.
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We started back then and then worked on getting the support of the city council. The most important fact was that the businesses in downtown supported us. Out of the 24 businesses in downtown, 22 supported us.