Simply minding one’s own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.

This is very normal for bankruptcies … (and) has nothing to do with the operation of the business at all, … The industry still has a number of challenges, fuel costs chief among them, but...

Don’t buy value-added. Be the one adding value. Create goodwill.

Business is a basketball game. The more tricks you know, the more points you score.

To be effective as future organizations, we must know our fellow leaders better, deeper.

I’ve got a nice racket going. I make tennis ball swatters. My favorite score is love all. That’s also how I live my life.

Dominate in your domain; You can do it.

It’s such a diversified company that a single business or a single product doesn’t represent a meaningful percentage of the company’s total revenues.

Eschew evil and it`s machinations.

A responsible woman sees and accepts only the best in a given situation.

If a measurement matters at all, it is because it must have some conceivable effect on decisions and behaviour. If we can’t identify a decision that could be affected by a proposed measurement and how...

The world is a marketplace. We all are in business and what we areselling is our unique selves.

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it’s total crap to pretend it’s not.

Business idea: Merge a billiard table with a golf course, and make the pockets as deep as a typical politician’s pants.

Disruptors don’t have to discover something new; they just have to discover a practical use for new discoveries.

A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.

You’ve got to be driven to become successful.

How we feel about those we give our business to is of vital importance.

It has nothing to do with the time being right or wrong. Storms just happen.

Can a farmer plants his seeds and then demand the crops to grow before harvest?

Remember this. We are always looking for problems to solve, and to solve problems we need to be ready for clues. And you will never be in the receiving frame of mind if you –...

Love is like $19.99. If you bring $20 dollars, I’ll bring a penny.

It is impossible to think big without thinking complex.

I have rubbed shoulders with the rich, the powerful, and the armless. It’s how to network when handshakes aren’t an option.

The poet’s business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving.

A farm is a business, and I ran mine into the ground. The next year it grew back.

Personal branding is more important today than ever. Today is today, right? If today is tomorrow, and it soon will be, then personal branding is even more important. If you haven’t started branding yourself, what...

Intentions do not insulate us from the consequences of our actions.

Are we open for business? Are we listening to proposals and possibilities? We are. This is the time of year when you do that. Our guys at the general managers meetings are certainly approaching this...

Professional accountability is a good thing. Without it, excellence is merely a pipe dream and even average performance isn’t a realistic expectation.

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product and profits. Unless you’ve got a good team, you can’t do much with the other two.

AT&T actually exited the cell phone business in its early days and had to buy its way back into wireless later. If it hadn’t been broken apart, you’d never have gotten the creative juices of...

There is a rush for business in southern Sudan now. The conference was a huge success and very soon, there would be a ‘ tsunami’ … the foreign investors who attended the meeting would start...

Retailers, restaurants, real estate, home improvement stores… will all see business decline.

I’m not sure that this problem is all that widespread. In this business, it’s all about following procedures and implementing the correct systems. It’s certainly possible that this could happen again. All I’m saying is...

The airline business in terms of volume is tiny. It’s more important in terms of presence, visibility and a little bit of prestige.

We weren’t concerned with Beaver Falls. They were in the other bracket. We wanted to take care of our business.

Products shouldn’t just work well, they must unfold well.

To be doing business in China, or anywhere else in the world, we have to comply with local law. We don’t know what they want that information for, we’re not told what they look for....

When you’re busy, avoid taking the quickest action. Instead make the extra effort to truly serve the customer.

The system you work in does not tell you who you get to be; you decide who you get to be.

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.

There are seven things that will destroy us:Wealth without work;Pleasure without conscience;Knowledge without character;Religion without sacrifice;Politics without principle;Science without humanity;Business without ethics.

] have actually done better than ever, but far fewer of them do any business at all.

Entrepreneur, become so disciplined that even your distractions become focused.

There’s not a chance we’ll reach our full potential until we stop blaming each other and start practicing personal accountability.

A good businessman must have nose for business the same way a journalist has nose for news. In places where people see a lot of obstacles, I see a lot of opportunities. A good businessman...

With the levy passing I am extremely happy. Now we can get back to the business of doing what’s good for kids and improving the education of kids instead of taking away like we’ve been...

But clearly it is my intention to make Jaguar a profitable business.

I think Middlesex County wants to get into this business. I think it’s illegal it’s empire building.