Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: business

If you are in the world of business, that means you are in the business of making money.

It's my job as a reporter to not be about the business of making friends or enemies but just be in the tireless pursuit of truth.

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.

If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.

I laugh all the time - at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don't laugh onstage because then it's serious business.

What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'

We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.

One capability every business is expected to have is the capability to make money. It requires a certain kind of discipline, a certain kind of mindset.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.

You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.

One of the biggest lessons I've learned is that there has got to be a reason for what you're doing. You actually have to care about what you're doing. The business has to be about something. Whatever the point of it is does not have to be inconsistent with making money, but usually if that's the sole reason, it is not very successful.

Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

I am not an economist... I am not a business technician. I am a revolutionary, and I do what is right for an economic revolutionary.

Dad always said, 'Get a degree and do something on your own before you start movies.' He always kept me grounded, telling me the realities of the business and the struggles even the legends had to go through.

On YouTube, women are not just users; they're creators. They're learning about business and technology, and having a voice.

Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.

Scaling a business at speed can feel like an out of control roller-coaster.

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Time flies so quick. I remember my second year in business when Bullocks Wilshire did a whole window of my white dresses. I was so excited, I went there at night and took pictures.

The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.

One of biggest lies in politics is the lie that Republicans are the party of big business. Big business does great with big government. Big business is very happy to climb in bed with big government. Republicans are and should be the party of small business and of entrepreneurs.

The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.

My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.

If you help a chicken out of an egg, most of the time that bird will die. If you help a moth out of a cocoon, it'll die because they don't go through that struggle and maturation. I can give you a fish for the day and you'll eat a day, but if I teach you to fish, you'll eat for a lifetime. Maybe even start a business.

I am a graduate in business management with specialisation in finance, and I love accounts!

In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.

Our new attitude is how can we put you in front of our customer.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Stack the cards in your favour, and in a casino, you'll get arrested and put in prison, but in business and in life, it's the right thing to do.

Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. That's the equivalent of more than 1,200 police officer posts. These reforms are a watershed moment in policing. They show that we really mean business in busting bureaucracy.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

Punctuality is the soul of business.

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

Before you can become a millionaire, you must learn to think like one. You must learn how to motivate yourself to counter fear with courage. Making critical decisions about your career, business, investments and other resources conjures up fear, fear that is part of the process of becoming a financial success.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.