Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: business

In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement.

John D. Rockefeller said that he found friendships based on business to be far more long lasting and profitable than the reverse. I think there's something to that. A company can end up being very Confucian, where the good of the individual is subjugated to the good of the whole.

In the luxury business, you have to build on heritage.

The person who I admire most in business is Warren Buffett. He is a long-term investor and has brilliant ideas, and he sticks to them.

I deal with creativity all the time. What I have fun with is trying to transform creativity into business reality all over the world. To do this, you have to be connected to innovators and designers but also make their ideas livable and concrete.

In business, I think the most important thing is to position yourself for long-term and not be too impatient, which I am by nature, and I have to control myself.

You have to be just as mistrustful of straightforward rationality in business as you do of a uniquely gut approach.

Steve Jobs once asked me for some advice about retail, but I said, 'I am not sure at all we are in the same business.'

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.

I always wanted to be a zookeeper when I was growing up, and I've wound up a zookeeper! I've been working with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years! I'm the luckiest old broad on two feet because my life is divided absolutely in half - half animals and half show business. You can't ask for better than two things you love the most.

I am interested in a lot of things - not just show business and my passion for animals. I try to keep current in what's going on in the world. I do mental exercises. I don't have any trouble memorizing lines because of the crossword puzzles I do every day to keep my mind a little limber. I don't sit and vegetate.

I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It's that simple.

The idea that you can create a template that will work forever doesn't happen in any business. There's some really, really bright people in this business. You can't do the same thing the same way and be successful for a long period of time.

Just because you're working does not mean you're making money. That's two very different things in show business.

It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes.

Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud.

Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.

The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.

No business in the world has ever made more money with poorer management.

Each country is different. Keep an open mind, and you will able to find where the niche entry level lies - the areas where there are gaps. You have to keep an ear to the ground, and you can find a business opportunity.

I had to give Justin Bieber a lot of shirts - he's a friend of the team, and we got a lot of love for Justin Bieber. I like the apparel business. That's another $100 million per year, easy.

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.

I think I'm basically a liberal Conservative - I believe in low tax, spirit of free enterprise, and in making sure that we as politicians create the framework for business to produce the dosh that we're going to need to pay for the poorest. And the longer I live, the more I think that we all have a duty to each other.

5G goes beyond the regular operator business; it's a business revolution.

I'm just a giddy teenager who would like to break into show business any way I can.

I'm actually very snobbish about directors. I have to say 'no' all the time. 'No' is the most powerful word in our business. You've got to protect yourself.

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

When I first started out in the entertainment business, I made a list of people I thought it would be good to meet. Not people who could give me a job or a deal, but people who could shake me up, teach me something, challenge my ideas about myself and the world.

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

Brethren, let us mind our own business - that is, the calling the Lord has called us to - to do everything we can to promote the good of the Cause of Truth, and never ask how big we are, or inquire who we are; but let it be, 'What can I do to build up the Kingdom of God upon the Earth?'

At the Sahara, the seats are banked and most of the audience is looking down at the stage. Everybody in the business knows: Up for singers, down for comics. The people want to idealize a singer. They want to feel superior to a comic. You're trying to make them laugh. They can't laugh at someone they're looking up to.

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

The business of America is business.

When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.