Words matter. These are the best Business Leaders Quotes from famous people such as Steph McGovern, Aaron Levie, Frances Beinecke, Jack Welch, Preston Manning, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Business leaders regularly complain that young people don’t leave school with the right skills. Encouraging young people to be entrepreneurs makes the connection between school and the world of work, teaching them about practical thinking, team-work, communication and financial literacy.
Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He’ll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.
Business leaders, social justice groups, farmers and ranchers, doctors and nurses and people from all walks of life are concerned about the climate threat.
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
When political and business leaders tell the public – any public – ‘We don’t trust you to make the right decision’ – they prejudice that electorate against the very proposals they want it to accept and undermine public confidence in themselves.
We’re going to march on Washington with a host of Republicans, Democrats, business leaders, legislators.
I think that business leaders today have to be more rounded than they used to be, they have to be completely multi-functional and fast-moving.
The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
By appeasing the anti-racism lobby and affirming its culture of grievance, public institutions and business leaders are not making Britain a fairer place. In fact they are harming the very people they aspire to help.
I have met with hundreds of young fashion designers, hundreds of fashion startups, hundreds of CEOs and business leaders. All I do is get to ask questions of professionals in the industry. I learn from every conversation. It is the best education I could have.
We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.
Successful business leaders who have helped build institutions of lasting value – all are committed to talent and a culture of excellence. This is usually accomplished by the identification, retention, and development of great people.
I think more and more business leaders are becoming aware of the impact of the government in their success.
To investors, the media is largely undependable as a source of policy information they have been wrong far too often. And business leaders and industrialists are obliged to make welcoming statements, whatever their real sentiment.
While a fundamental responsibility of business leaders is to create value for shareholders, I think businesses also exist to deliver value to society.
As business leaders, we should not choose between profit or good; rather, we must choose to profit from good. And that requires connecting what we do with a purpose beyond profit – a reason to exist that meets our shared sense of ‘doing good.’
When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: ‘Make money. Go make money. That’s the first act of corporate citizenship. If you do that, you’ll have to hire someone else, and you’ll have enough profit to help one of those non-profits we’re so proud of.’
By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw.
A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play.
Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves – who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.
What I tell business leaders is you’re in the space industry – you just don’t know it yet. Every industry will be impacted by space. The internet would not exist without space-based communication.
The American people don’t believe politicians. They don’t believe business leaders or Hollywood celebrities or athletes or other supposed role models. And they certainly don’t believe the news media.
The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.
Business leaders should show what our political leaders seem to lack – that is, a common-sense view of the times.
There’ll be creative business leaders but actually, when it comes down to it, they can’t do anything unless they’re part of a collective. Unless they’ve got that wealth creator, that engineer and that work person, that skilled person at the bench to fulfil that idea… they’re nothing.
When I get economic development calls from business leaders who are considering relocating or expanding in Arkansas, the abilities of our workforce are always a critical part of the conversation.
One reason the United States is one of three countries in the world that do not have any form of paid maternity leave is that many American business leaders, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, oppose any family-friendly policies. They scare people into thinking maternity leave will be a job killer.
America is a country of entrepreneurship and great business leaders.
President Trump has had business leaders at the table. He’s listening; he’s engaging and making decisions that will help us grow the economy and, ultimately, U.S. manufacturing jobs.
Most people – including business leaders – want a healthy future for their children.
When the initial effort of political and business leaders to influence public opinion on an issue is to threaten rather than to engage and persuade, they further arouse public opposition rather than win support.
If you wait for customers to tell you that you need to do something, you’re too late. Good business leaders should be half a step ahead of what customers want, i.e. they don’t actually quite know they want it. That’s what innovation’s about. With Plan A, we didn’t wait for the consumers to tell us.
We can’t wait for Washington. Business leaders are going to have to galvanize their own constituencies and do everything they can to demonstrate confidence in the economy, and I think that can be contagious.
