Research on the human brain has shown it is predisposed to think in the terms of a story.36 This predisposition is continuously reinforced and strengthened throughout the life of your brain. Imaging studies have shown...

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

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

The best way to kill competition is to partner it

Don’t make up problems you don’t have yet. It’s not a problem until it’s a real problem. Most of the things you worry about never happen anyway.The decisions you make today don’t need to last...

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...

The difference between a good business and a bad business is that good businesses throw up one easy decision after another. The bad businesses throw up painful decisions time after time.

In the business world, there is no gray. Either you are black, or you are white-washed.

Invest in a business any fool can run, because someday a fool will. If it won’t stand a little mismanagement, it’s not much of a business.

Your goal in life is to find out the people who need you the most, to find out the business that needs you the most, to find the project and the art that needs you...

Networking means the act of exchanging information with people who can help you professionally.

Authority is not a power, it is a responsibility.

Competition in business is a blessing, for without it, we wouldn’t be motivated to improve.

The Highest Reward for men and women ‘s devotion and dedication to excellence is not what one gets from it but what one he or she becomes through it.

We now have a good wholesale business in the UK with big industrial customers and power stations. We are aiming to secure 20% of the market by 2015.

Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels...

Let us work towards not only bringing civility back in style, but ultimately making it a lifestyle.

If your story is not inspiring you, it’s time to change it.

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.

The biggest enemy of truth is known as facts in our society.

In business, you don’t get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise

Cliché: “The MBA changed my life.”What it really means: “A fantastic career, a great social life and a healthy bank balance…three of the things I had before I started the program.

A decision is only as strong as the belief standing behind it

A lie near to truth is always difficult to catch.

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...

Happiness at work is not about eliminating all the bad stuff from your job. It’s about being happy at work even though some of these bad things are present. It’s about building your skills and...

You are a manager, nonetheless who you are. There is a business worth keeping and you are the manager of that business. Yes, the business of your life. There is a big asset worth managing;...

The directories business is not going away. But everything telecom related is in a state of flux.

Many in business feel they have to live up to a machismo archetype of the big-swinging-dick business leader

A woman’s two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

You have to give him pretty high marks on how he manages the business. They’ve done pretty good in the marketplace, taking share every year.

A good golfer’s métier is his or her golfing skill.A great golfer’s métier is his or her golfing skill, coupled with the mastery of good sportsmanship, rendering him or her an ambassador for the sport.

As long as we take care of business, we can’t do anything worse than tie.

The leadership of engagement begins by reconnecting to the physicality and the people of a company, not simply its spreadsheet. It all begins in the workplace.

Our goal is to offer local traveling families, friends and business people the highest quality service with the aloha spirit, at the lowest fares available.

People change, and so do their aspirations, and so should brands.

As [William] Valentiner noted in his uncompleted memoirs Remembering Artists, [Diego] Rivera’s [Detroit Industry] murals rooted the Detroit Institute of Arts to the many-faceted jewel of its central court because of the harmonious, fertile relationship...

How you think about your customers influences how you respond to them.

More U.S. companies realize that climate change is an enormous business issue that they need to manage immediately.

Everyone likes to focus on the elaborate parties, hotels and limousines. But we’ve got people making contacts about doing business in the fourth-largest city in the United States. You can’t overlook that.

You can win in business by playing checkers until someone sneaks in one night after you’ve closed for the day and flips the board.

Intel’s business probably couldn’t take a hit to their credibility without ramifications,

Do you know great minds enjoy excellence, average minds love mediocrity and small minds adore comfort zones?

All I can tell you is that the standard answer in this situation is that it isn’t personal, it’s business,

If you’re a business debtor, your situation doesn’t change that much. This is for the average Joe.

The performance of GO.com continues to reflect the nascent stage of both the Internet economy and our Internet business. As with virtually every other Internet company, GO is investing as it builds for the future.

Maciel has made a significant contribution to the Ford Motor Company global business through innovations in product, business and marketing strategies. We wish Maciel well in his new role and thank him for his work...

I’m really looking forward to the 2006 Champ Car season, we had some unfinished business last year when we led more laps than anybody but had a lot of bad luck. I’ve been in a...

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...