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.

Warren Cox, God knew, was no prize; a commercial person, a sales person, the kind of man who said things like “x numbers of dollars”. At lunch today, laboriously trying to explain some business procedure,...

He jumps into the decision-making process. If you just want to run your business on your own and report results, you won’t like working for Jamie.

Your uniqueness is your greatest strength, not how well you emulate others.

That is why enemies can be great motivators. They serve as fuel for your fire.

Leveraging on debts for investments can be very fruitful, or dangerous. It is a double edged sword

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

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.

Yeast is to flour as action is to ambition. Rising to success requires adding and alternating starters.

What’s happened at Apple is that our business has basically tripled in the last five or six years.

Our country is a place where hope can be born and great companies, organizations and non-profits can spring up from an idea birthed on the back of a coffee-shop napkin.

She took the floor with poise and walked out and took care of business. Our bench has been the answer in conference play. Every single person contributes.

Danger has a bracing effect.

do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat

The threshold will keep about 90 percent of the mainland’s 2,000-plus direct sale companies out of business, and they will have to turn to other business.

But if things start to go wrong — if business spending doesn’t pick up, or state and local governments lay off more people than anticipated, or auto sales fall off, or interest rates go much...

Businesses, like babies and books, need nurturing, time, energy, love, planning and, yes, money to develop, grow and prosper.

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

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.

McAfee’s vision and strategy is synergistic to our business goals. McAfee takes security beyond traditional virus protection. It has provided us with a multi-layered security strategy that includes proactive protection from buffer overflows and other...

1. Stop blaming China We taught them how to do what they are doing2. Take responsibility – purchase consciously, purchase less, don’t go for lowest possible price3. Follow good business ethics, it’s a two way...

The only unreachable dream is the one you don’t reach for.

Entrepreneurs are different beasts. Beasts who don’t give a damn, who kick ass when required, who stand up to a challenge, and who rise time and again with utter disregard to fear or failure. These...

We also never undercut representatives’ prices. A representative will always be able to sell the discounts in our core business, which are not offered at retail. So it’s never more advantageous to buy there.

Make your customers comfortable and they will give you their lives.

Nevertheless a certain class of dishonesty, dishonesty magnificent in its proportions, and climbing into high places, has become at the same time so rampant and so splendid that there seems to be reason for fearing...

You have to look at countries in a broader sense when you are in the international shipping business. We deal with this one way or another every day.

The first few years of SOX implementation left a lack of clarity that paralyzed some financial and business consultants and frustrated many companies. Trusted advisors in the Big Four were not able to respond to...

Remember, you will always fail in business if you don’t try to open your own business.

Professional men run the business started by the courageous men.

Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive, and determination of the people behind it as the product they sell.