When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, ‘Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?’ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
California’s drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible.
I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.
Although it’s easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket… it’s part-ownership of a business.
Brethren, let us mind our own business – that is, the calling the Lord has called us to – to do everything we can to promote the good of the Cause of Truth, and never ask how big we are, or inquire who we are; but let it be, ‘What can I do to build up the Kingdom of God upon the Earth?’
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God’s business.
If you are in the world of business, that means you are in the business of making money.
The monarchy is foremost a business, and it’s important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless ‘royal’ family. I find it very sad.
As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.
At the Sahara, the seats are banked and most of the audience is looking down at the stage. Everybody in the business knows: Up for singers, down for comics. The people want to idealize a singer. They want to feel superior to a comic. You’re trying to make them laugh. They can’t laugh at someone they’re looking up to.
I did a business in a box called College Pro Painters. They taught you how to paint houses, how to hire and fire, how to sell, how to deal with customers. You got a one-year franchise. It was the hardest year of my life in terms of hard work. I won manager of the year. It was very successful.
To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
Globalization means that business strategy and business ethics cannot be separated from each other.
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
The most dangerous thing for an entrepreneur to do is to actually go into a business that he does not understand fully.
We were re-engineering the entire business and at the same time having accelerated growth. That’s like changing the engine while the plane is in the air.
While digital wallets are paving the way for the future of payments, you still need to assess whether or not they’ll work for your business. If your target audience are less tech-savvy or you’re primarily a cash-only business, it may not be worth investing too much into accepting digital payments.
My mom and dad – they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn’t the end-all. They weren’t out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about ‘What can we do as a family.’
Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer’s avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.
Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer that had already invested time, money and effort to open and promote their business.
If you grow up in show business, you look beyond the looking glass. So, all of the surface facades get broken.
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
It’s a diabolical business. I can’t imagine how hellish it must be to be hounded like Amy Winehouse and people like that. I have a little peripheral place on the outskirts of celebrity, when I go to premieres and that sort of stuff, which is as close as I want to get.
It is the artist’s business to create sunshine when the sun fails.
I don’t have family in this business. I had two parents that loved me, that worked 24-7, and this is what instilled hard work in me. So you hear the stories about my upbringing, my religion.
In the military, they give medals for people who are willing to sacrifice themselves so that others may survive. In business, we give bonuses to people who sacrifice others.
Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.
I don’t really make plans and I just want to be happy and continue with my business and take care of my wife and kids. I want to sit back, relax and enjoy life.
Christmas is over and Business is Business.
We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn’t be in this business.
If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or ‘get rich’ in business by being a conformist.
As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what’s going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business.
I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice.
Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves.
Word of mouth is the best medium of all.
My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business.
Infrastructure is the backbone of economic growth. It improves access to basic services such as clean water and electricity, creates jobs and boosts business.
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.
It doesn’t matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.
I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and – very important – knows how to run a business, knows the numbers.
Constantine ‘Costa’ Gratsos had made his fortune as a lifelong associate of shipping icon Aristotle Onassis. He took a liking to me, became my first mentor, and showed me how to swim in the deep, dangerous waters of business.
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
More than 30 years ago, when I had embarked upon the fight against child labour, it was not even considered an issue worth any discussion. It was accepted as a way of life in India, much like it was in other countries. Today, no country or business or society can throw this issue away.
Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
I was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a network, and I didn’t want to get that involved in the business aspect of it.
I want tension in my business. Tension creates change. Change is necessary to evolve and prosper. I am never satisfied.
From time to time, you have seminal personalities who really change the way the world sees itself – people like Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela. Warren Buffett is that kind of person in the business world.
It’s so easy to make things complicated in business.
Sustainability makes good business sense, and we’re all on the same team at the end of the day. That’s the truth about the human condition.
I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
