Quotes on Business

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.

The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact.

The Whole Business of Man is The Arts, & All Things Common.

"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.

Revolutionary products don't fail because they are shipped too early. They fail because they aren't revised fast enough.

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.

We've got an engaging, edgy, vibrant, fun product, ... It may or may not work, but we're going to give it our best shot.

Our model is to develop each business separately with its own shareholder and management - this way we can concentrate on the job in hand, rather than be part of some enormous and faceless conglomerate.

To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which you have even if you have nothing else.

You who seek an end of love, love yields to business: be busy, and you will be safe.

O! that a man might know The end of this day's business, ere it come; But it sufficeth that the day will end, And then the end is known.

Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.

Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties.

You do not choose the life you will experience ahead of time. You may select the persons, places and events - the conditions and circumstances, the challenges, the opportunities and options - with which to create experiences. What you create with these is your business.

The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

You can't fool all the people, not even most of the time. And people, once unfooled, talk about the experience.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

If we achieve our sustainability targets and no one else follows, we will have failed.