To reboot your association for success, you must shift your beliefs to realize how vitally important key investments in technology can be as an ongoing and personalized communication tool with your members.

Entrepreneurs adopt the ways of the adept and adapt to a changing environment. Actually, entrepreneurs are more enterpreneurs, because they are forever entering into new territory.

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings.

Have the best course for all your actions.

A responsible woman is one who sees opportunities of service and responds to them quickly. In her dwells the ability to see and respond to opportunities.

Life is not enjoyed by being busy over everything in general, but being passionate about one thing in particular. Always focus on that one thing; dream it and live it!

Business is as old as life. There is no living being that does not have a business.

If there is a long strike, they’re both out of business. Delphi and GM, whether they like it or not, they’re in bed together. They need each other to survive.

Disney has a business model predicated on the widest possible exposure of its media properties to drive attendance at its theme parks and purchases of home video and licensed products. Without broad, consistent local distribution...

Billions of dollars worth of research knowledge lie dormant at American universities waiting for the right disruptor to come along and create a business.

You will have more regrets for the things you didn’t try than the ones you tried and didn’t succeed at.

You listen like an amateur and fool yourself into believing it is enough when it is not.

What is the true cost of a purchasing decision that goes wrong?

The only time you have is the where and when of right now. There will always be good times, bad times, hard times, and complete disasters. However, there is no other option but to be...

If you put in the effort and focus towards a goal, you will get there quicker than most.

You can’t know what you don’t know

We have not noticed how fast the rest has risen. Most of the industrialized world–and a good part of the nonindustrialized world as well–has better cell phone service than the United States. Broadband is faster...

An entrepreneur in debt is an entrepreneur in business.

These are micro-entrepreneurs. . . . With the economy slowing down, when regular jobs shrink, people turn to starting their own business. I’m not trying to rain on anyone’s parade, but you can’t accept these...

You gotta run more than your mouth to escape the treadmill of mediocrity. A true hustler jogs during the day, and sleepwalks at night.

The retail business in general is strong, and Federated is doing well, considering it has stores in major cities such as New York and San Francisco, where the affluent shopper is driving a lot of...

If you want to talk turkey, you’ll have to wait until Thanksgiving.

It’s sad to see a restaurant go out of business because the owner died, after being cannibalized by hungry customers.

A very focused Chinese government, with firm, long-term social and economic goals, and an increasingly assertive international voice, is feeling more pressure from the Chinese dreamers, and is putting more pressure on foreign business interests....

These are people who want to be close to the governor and they’re buying access. Their business interests are tied up with his political agenda. And when he spends a lot of time raising money...

The more you engage and connect, the more engagement and connections you will have.

I think everybody in this business was probably looking at next year the cap possibly coming down or staying the same. Now all of our thought processes looking forward is definitely going to be different.

John Rizzo is a classic D.O. lawyer. He understands the culture, the intelligence business. He admires the case officers. And they trust him to work out tough issues in the gray with them. He is...

Leaders lead while others live life.

When it comes down to being the sponsor of a team, it has become a lot more business-oriented than people think. Their legs are like machine guns going up and down.

Enron’s wholesale business continues to generate outstanding results. Transaction and volume growth are translating into increased profitability.

It’s not just about fun and games. I understand this is a business.

Lucent knows that in the longer term, it’s going to continue to win business and it can offer customers almost any major service, … This is a way for it to broaden its product line....

For the past five months, the company has been working on the profitability of the phone business rather than just sheer market share. We think Motorola can achieve those double-digit operating margins.

I did not push Paul or Leo to come into the business. I let everything happen as it would, but I was very pleased and very proud that they did decide to come into the...

In my opinion we need to stop these kind of air performances… People should do their military business and should train, not take part in these air shows,

Sometimes I worry about this country.

The demonstrations were something we don’t want to see. This matter will not affect business. If you ask them now if they think Shanghai is safe, they’d say it’s safe.

Our business with Ford is not tied to ongoing production.

The greatest beneficiary is the US plane manufacturing business.

Entrepreneur, if your going to start up, make sure you start up with excellence in mind.

These initiatives are tangible examples of our plans for future growth across all lines of Caterpillar’s business in China,

In the theater business, we’re risking so much all the time we felt if we could bring somebody in who had a regional following and eliminate some of the risk, it would be the perfect...

We were a perfect commodity business from 1980-2000. It didn’t matter if you were feeding cattle or in the cow-calf business; the average producer didn’t make any money.

If government were as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy.

Once caught in Superfund liability, it becomes much more difficult for a small business to attract capital, make investments and, therefore, grow and create jobs.

When deliberating, think in campaigns and not battles; in wars and notcampaigns; in ultimate conquest and not wars.

The idea of finding value in what people are willing to pay to get rid of it one of the fundamental backbones of ecocapitalism, as I think of it now.

A COnNeCtworker is a networker who is always taking into account the needs of others. Approaching people with a service attitude to bring them value and build a relationship. Then when that person is looking...

Building positive customer experiences will help create passionate customers who will spread your message on their behalf – almost like an evangelist.