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.

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

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.

Objectives are only words written on paper without passion and desire

I learned to take the first job that you have in the business that you want to get into. It doesn’t matter what that job is, you get your foot in the door.

Smartass Disciple: Master, you keep preaching the truth. They don’t listen.Master of Stupidity: Oh that’s not bad. That attitude keeps us in the business.

the key to human development is building on who you already are

We talked about coming into the game wanting to be all business and we came out and took care of business. Those first couple of innings was probably the best we’ve played offensively all year.

We designed Google to be the kind of place where the kind of people we wanted to work here would work for free.- Urs Hölzle

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

The minute you stop caring about your business, is the same minute your business stops caring about you.

It’s obviously going to hurt Firestone financially. They’re giving up business that will be tough to make up elsewhere. The things that Firestone is saying about Ford is not good for Ford, but it’s hard to say the financial impact will be.

You take care of your business and don’t look over your shoulder. We need to play the first possession at Tulane like it’s our last. Then we need to play the second the same way. We have some great senior leaders and they should help us maintain our focus.

I don’t think we had any business being in OT, anyway. You don’t have to score if you get two or three stops. As has been the case, we had trouble. Five point lead, buck-forty to go; that’s a game we won last year.

This is a very cyclical business. If an acquirer takes on debt to do this, there is high risk in that. They could be taking on a lot of debt and restructuring costs just at the wrong time.

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Never let your fear of the unknown and things being too difficult make your choices for you in life. One of the saddest lessons in life is finding out that your fear made the situation worse than what it was and a braver person stole the dream you gave up on.

Life is not about receiving. It is about giving, knowing that someone might learn, understand or grow that little bit from the experience

We didn’t have enough business for that line, so we shut it down at the end of 2002.

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He’s very much involved in the philosophy states should be able to determine states’ business. And in the same vein, territories should be able to determine the tax benefits that bolster business and the economy.

To paraphrase Einstein, insanity is expecting employees to do one thing while rewarding them for doing something else.

We will have more investment and business growth, which leads to lower prices, because more people will be coming to the marketplace with similar products.

Life is not about receiving. It’s about giving, knowing that someone might learn, understand or grow that little bit from the experience.

With new initiatives under way in every area of the business, the revitalization of MSLO is firmly underway, … Third-quarter earnings were modestly ahead of expectation, largely on the strength of our core publishing business.

Don’t buy into the campaign that people don’t like change. We are built for it.

It’s a classic example (his appointment) of someone learning the business and then deciding that he wanted to go into administration and gets the proper education and came back.

Today, brands are not the preserve of marketing department. Brands are too important to be left to the marketing department – or any other ‘department,’ come to that. Organizational ghettoes do not create vibrant world-changing brands.

We’ll draw upon the business relationships of our board as we grow the bank, but we also feel the model we have will be attractive beyond that to potential clients.

The DVD sell-through market is big business. The studios are not going to jeopardize the Wal-Mart channel.

He or she who gets hired is not necessarily the one who can do that job best; but, the one who knows the most about how to get hired.

The Internet Services strategy supports our core business objective to maintain margins and group EBITDA [earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortization],

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Like everybody says, if you’re going to be in business you have to grow. I fought that, but now I get it, … I am more than happy to see it grow.

It’s clear the consumer has progressively turned more cautious and conservative. Given that, and given that business capital spending has yet to come back, how long can this recovery keep on going? These numbers certainly make that a legitimate question.

We go about our business seriously, but we like to have a good time, too.

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Companies should look for solutions to support multiple regulations and multiple business units. Sustainable compliance, that is, a level of effort that is sufficient but not excessive, will only be achieved by consolidating compliance efforts through a programmatic rather than project oriented approach.

Your manager wants to believe that you enjoy your job, or at least you won’t spit in her coffee when she looks away. At the office, attitude counts for a lot.

Happiness is a good business these days, more you talk crap about happiness the large number of crowd you will gather.

We will be contacting all business entities involved in this incident.

Our business runs completely on computers and technology. But even in my own personal life, I can’t imagine not having one?I can’t imagine what company could stay in business without computers in this day and age.

True fixed-mobile convergence changes the underlying principles of an operator’s business – enabling them to extend their reach, expand their profitability and enhance their customers’ experience.

It’s nice that the White Sox lost, but we have to come back and take care of business.

Reveal you soul only to God. Don’t judge other by their acts, good or bad; still learn from what you see.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

The bottom line is down where it belongs – at the bottom.