Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: business

In terms of diet, my parents had a restaurant business so I don't eat any junk food - they taught me to appreciate good food.

My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn't the end-all. They weren't out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about 'What can we do as a family.'

Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.

For me, the winning strategy in any start-up business is, 'Think big but start small.'

I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.

So little done, so much to do.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

When someone takes their existing business and tries to transform it into something else - they fail. In technology that is often the case. Look at Kodak: it was the dominant imaging company in the world. They did fabulously during the great depression, but then wiped out the shareholders because of technological change.

A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.

In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete.

I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.

My focus has always been very much on what we're doing at Red Bull. We can't control what others do. It's not our business.

In the entertainment business, the biggest gift you could ever get is not an Oscar, it's not a Grammy, it's longevity.

Money is always the least of the problems. It is finding the right business or growing the right business. You can't do that without the right people.

I think the fact that I grew up in show business had a real effect on my personality. If you were born in New York during the golden age of television, and you grew up on Broadway, that marks you.

No one escapes the long arm of the law, they are a business, they are very good at what they do and eventually they will catch up with you.

Acting is a trial-and-error business. Every actor has a few movies on their resume that they're not terribly proud of, but that's how you learn.

When a buyer leaves a negative review, it is a great opportunity to connect and find out why they did and how to make your business better.

I'm in show business... I want to hang out with Janet Jackson, not Jesse Jackson.

I think the path is different for everybody. Go after the doors that are open to you. That has always been my motto getting into the music business. Do the things that seem to be good opportunities and work hard at it. Try to make good decisions and be nice. Hopefully all of that will pay off at some point.

I believe that the Laws of Karma do not apply to show business, where good things happen to bad people on a fairly regular basis.

Despite their good intentions, today's businesses are missing an opportunity to integrate social responsibility and day-to-day business objectives - to do good and make money simultaneously.

Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.

It's not the things you don't know that trip you up. It's the things you think you know, but you don't. You fail to ask a certain question because you believe you know the answer. Separating your information from your assumptions can be very tricky business.

A disruptive innovation is a technologically simple innovation in the form of a product, service, or business model that takes root in a tier of the market that is unattractive to the established leaders in an industry.

The reason why it is so difficult for existing firms to capitalize on disruptive innovations is that their processes and their business model that make them good at the existing business actually make them bad at competing for the disruption.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

I'm in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't have any plans. I don't have a map. If you did in this business, you'd destroy yourself.

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

Indomitable perseverance in a business, properly understood, always ensures ultimate success.

Trying to do business without advertising is like winking at a pretty girl through a pair of green goggles. You may know what you are doing, but no one else does.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.

Everyone I put in business, I must've taught them something. They all have reaped the benefits of it. A lot of them haven't done right by me, but it's all gravy.

Succeeding in business is not just about making money.

Constantine 'Costa' Gratsos had made his fortune as a lifelong associate of shipping icon Aristotle Onassis. He took a liking to me, became my first mentor, and showed me how to swim in the deep, dangerous waters of business.

Jim Newman, the business visionary who created the term 'comfort zone,' showed me how to expand my horizons. Thanks to Jim, after I attended one of his PACE Seminars in 1978; I moved out of my comfort zone at Bear Stearns and became a super successful oilman.

Jerry Ormand was already a legendary Texas oilman when I met him. Yet he took the time to introduce me to the fine points of the oil business and how to survive and prosper amid the chaos of a rough-and-tumble industry.

Payments is a hard business. It's a messy business, with not necessarily the largest of margins.