No longer will I measure myself against competitors, who don’t even know that a race is being run. From now on, I will measure myself against the man in front of me. I will measure...

My administration is committed to opening doors wide to women and minority-owned business,

Like life, revenge can be a messy business… And both would be much simpler if only our heads could figure out which way our hearts will go. But the heart has its reasons, of which...

As for your salary, how much you make is really up to you.” I love a business model where the employee pays the employer.

The whole consumer electronics industry is seeing a flattening of their business this summer.

The profit was five, split evenly between the two of us, which meant that my fair share was three. (2.5 rounded off is 3.)

I had a dream about you. We were discussing trade routes and power supply logistics when all of the sudden we realized that a dragon could provide both transportation and a fiery energy source. So...

We’re a business. When these things happen, we have to raise costs to keep operating. We have cut back on services and programs the last few years to save money.

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....

I’m less concerned with how hard you can work and how much time and effort you can dedicate to a project when everything is going right.Plenty of people can do that.I’m more concerned with how...

To an extent, we get the big businesses we deserve. No conversation about the role of business in society is complete without considering the role of the public. Ultimately it is the public – as...

Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.

Hedge funds have made massive leveraged credit bets, knowing that their upside is billions in fees and their downside is millions in fees.

Before they started acquiring companies, Oracle’s E-Business suite was number three behind SAP and PeopleSoft, and if you want to be competitive you cannot be satisfied with number three.

As far as I can tell, kids are called bossy when they behave in a dictatorial and domineering fashion. They’re called bossy when they try to order people around and refuse to listen to authority...

One day will not destroy a business. But one day could hurt a business because of trying to pick up lost time.

With a franchise, you have someone who cares as much about the business name and image as you do because they own it.

I’ve been ripped off, conned, lied to and cheated… but I’m still here. Cheaters never prosper. If stealing from you is the only way for them to get ahead – they’re never going to get...

Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that’s what he wants. Mostly it’s women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they deflect him.

Business often does a good job supporting communities: the arts, universities, and scientific enterprises… But that philosophy has rarely reached poor countries. Even businesses that are enlightened in their home bases see Africa, Latin America,...

I wouldn’t totally correlate MBAs with business momentum and strategic thinking. Some engineers have very good business sense, and some corporate leaders don’t even have advanced degrees. Having said that, there is something to be...

This is a great program. It gives even the smallest business a chance to provide this benefit to their employees.

Make sure that they monitor the delivery of their products, take an inventory and at the end of the business day when they’re done, make sure the property is as secure as possible.

When you walk in distinction, even the photocopying machine can’t replicate your unique quality.

For the past 32 years, I’ve done nothing outside the entertainment business. I’ve had some real highs and some real lows, but I love the work so much that I never once thought of quitting.

Strong underlying fundamentals are in place, and we believe this is a business cycle that has staying power.

Learn to say No to customers out of your target, those in your target will learn to say Yes to you.

Communication can’t always follow the top-down model. With the fluidity of information in business today, leaders need to be masterful listeners; they need to be able to receive as well as send.

Well, I’m about to go out of business.

Its easier to start a global business than a local one, make your business one where you can work from anywhere in the world

No company has a culture, every company is a culture

This [gain in proprietors’ income] is small-business job creation, we think, and it’s more useful at this point in the business cycle than it would otherwise be.

Being busy is different from taking action.

Everyone isn’t going to embrace your value, but that doesn’t mean you need to go and change your price.

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,...

The soft spot in our business remains the air activity,

leaders” without followers; old men of sixty or more still caught up in post-Civil War dreams of freedom within segregation; the pathetic ones who possessed noting beyond their dreams of being gentlemen, who held small...

When any educational or medical institution is established, the sole aim is to make a business out of it. There are only a few who are ready to set up such institutions to provide free...

Today we’ve lost an icon and patriarch in the business.

We are very pleased with our first-quarter results. All key elements of the business performed very well, and we were able to exceed our previous expectations.

If humans pursue a business-as-usual course for the first half of this century, I believe the collapse of civilization due to climate change becomes inevitable.

If we wish to wrest an advantage from the enemy, we must not fix our minds on that alone, but allow for the possibility of the enemy also doing some harm to us, and let...

The house you built can cave you in if you didn’t do it right.

As Clear Channel goes, so goes the business.

Revenue increased year-over-year and sequentially. In particular, our international business continues to perform well, growing over 18 percent year-over-year.

There’s nothing we’ve calculated from a business model that has been changed because of the Sony announcement.

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

Ultimately, this decision for us wasn’t so much of a business decision. It was more of a life decision.

Nobody is a loser: Either he is a winner or a learner.

After a couple of tough years, all of us felt getting back into television [would] jump-start the company’s business again.