The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their people.

If it was my business, I wouldn’t talk about it. It is very vulgar to talk about one’s business. Only people like stockbroker’s do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.

Conflict is just another chance for agreement.

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Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

Providing employment is the best form of social service, as it serves you, others, your country, your world – the entire society.

You begins with ‘Y’-so ask, observe, and listen.

A small profit it better than a big loss

A wise man once said that a person is known by the company he keeps, but could then also add that the character of the company is known by the people it keeps for the longest days, especially at the strategic decision making level.

We garner new business because of our location at Hometown. There, the traffic comes to us because of the location. That won’t happen downtown.

Individual mortgages are a lucrative business. When floating mortgage rates hover around 5 percent, the bank’s cost is only 1.1 percent on average.

Most startups actually start down and only go up if they catch the winds of market demand.

Entrepreneurs pay the price of a road less traveled, while everyone else takes the freeway and perpetually misses their own exit.

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You have the power to choose the words you write, so choose the right ones. And yes, this applies to the workplace too. Make a difference!

no new franchise business surprises him.

If you run a business, you know that every moment 365*24*7 people want to F*** with your business.

You’d hate to think that one person could do this. But I think the popularity of business shows, and all the media attention that [trading activity] gets, I guess [comments by market strategists] becomes a little bit of a catalyst.

Those activities which are not based numbers, Which are based on humans(Customers and Employees) is known as business. Numbers will ultimately increase if humans are happy who are involved.

He is an industrialist and his first priority is his business interest, so it matters very little if he had resigned.

When nations grow old the Arts grow coldAnd commerce settles on every tree

If you keep looking at your business wishes as delusional dreams you will end up running just another one of them. If you get inspired by your business wishes then plan to find a way and people to make it happen, you will end up mastering a second to none organization.

There is power born of humility . . . Humility, in business and in life, is a powerful asset and does not denote lowliness, unimportance, or self-deprecation.

To escape fear, you have to go through it, not around.

I loved getting my M. B. A., and I really enjoyed being an accountant and financial analyst before I quit my day job twenty-five years ago to write full time. I just liked writing more…plus, I knew even then that as a full-time writer, I’d get plenty of chances to do business-type stuff, while as...

For the most part, the best opportunities now lie where your competitors have yet to establish themselves, not where they’re already entrenched. Microsoft is struggling to adapt to that new reality.

They are a very prominent name in the bromeliad business, and they were long before coming to the U.S.

We found that the use of the property was not what was described in the business license application when we went out there. It was being used as a halfway house for registered sex offenders. The county code does not allow halfway houses within that residential zoning category.

I feel it is an extremely crucial period for Singaporeans to stand together during this economic slowdown so we can pull through it together. This is a better move compared to pointing fingers at somebody or even feeling depressed about it.

We had our backs to the wall when we didn’t take care of business on Tuesday (loss to Morgan City). It was Senior Day and we scored when we had opportunity and they left a few runners on.

While friends are there to motivate us and keep us pleased. Our enemies are there to annoy us, which makes us work harder to beat them.

Stories of absurd events in life get my creative juices flowing and have so far given birth to some of my best ideas.

There really is power in numbers. In today’s society one has to understand the true power of word of mouth. It’s true that the new tastemakers are us.

You’ve got to think of the value of the iron ore business.

Allocate your resources wisely for all men have been endowed with abilities that are more than sufficient to accomplish even the greatest of their dreams.

The sweet taste if the cheap deal is often spoiled by the bitter taste of poor service

This proves it is not just the Mervyn King show. In any academic or business environment you are always going to have at least two views; that’s what makes markets.

Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business

It goes back 2 or 3 years when we began to see quite a large growth in our event business including meetings, conferences and banquets. Our whole business grew quite dramatically over the past couple of years and we felt we were running out of space.

People can find the personal ups and down of business as gripping as fictional drama.

But it is unfortunate this was not done and has created a lot of congestion and business disrupted.

Despite difficult conditions in the global markets our highly flexible business model has ensured yet another profitable quarter underpinned by the considerable strength of our balance sheet,

Rita is one big question mark that’s been removed and it’s safer to buy stocks now. Companies that do business in the U.S. are naturally going to be more relieved.

No company has a culture, every company is a culture

You can’t be an advocate for business and an advocate for land-use.

What happens in the drug business, what happens in the supermarket business, what’s happening in the department store business and is happening in the telephone business is that the big are getting bigger.

If you do still have to work for a boss at a job you don’t like, as almost everyone does at some point, don’t moan about it. Have a positive out —look on life and just get on with it. Work hard and earn your pay. Enjoy the people you come into contact with through...