In seeking to serve social needs because it makes good business sense to do so, a corporation is doing what it knows how to do best.
We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them. Mankind are governed more by their feeling than by reason. Events which excite those feelings will produce wonderful effects.
Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
The top two ways to destroy success are greed and impatience
I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea. Never as then, amid suicides, hysteria, and groups of fainting people, have I felt the sensation of real death, death without hope, death that is nothing but rottenness, for the spectacle was terrifying but devoid of greatness. . . I felt something like a divine urge to bombard that whole canyon of shadow, where ambulances collected suicides whose hands were full of rings.
The idea that a baby doesn't amount to anything! Why, one baby is just a house and a front yard full by itself. One baby can, furnish more business than you and your whole Interior Department can attend to. He is enterprising, irrepressible, brimful of lawless activities.
Most organisations say they want creativity, but really they do not.
Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.
There is no excellence anywhere without labor. We would think a man foolish indeed who would say, "I am willing that my business should prosper, or that my farm should yield plentifully, but I'll not stir a peg. " But he is no more foolish than the man who says, "I am willing that God should bless me abundantly, but I shall not do anything toward that end myself. " We must consistently rely upon the help of the Lord, but we will not make any progress or meet with any success unless we put forth an earnest effort.
We didn't actually overspend our budget. The health Commission allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.
What business has an old bachelor like that to marry?' said Sir James. 'He has one foot in the grave. ' 'He means to draw it out again, I suppose.
Everything you need to know about success is inside of you, because I believe it is inside of all of us. That is, all human beings have potential for infinite success.
When I saw the first video iPod, I thought this could have the same impact VHShome video had on the movie business.
If you are working or you are running a business you have to set aside time and money to invest in your continued formal education and skills acquisition.
This music business can suck all the love out of you, all the compassion for people - you can start to think you're better than them. But I want to continue to let people know that I'm no better and no worse, I'm just like you.
We've shown the world that New York can never be defeated, because of its dynamic and diverse population and because it embodies the spirit of enterprise and the love of liberty. And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you.
Just like every kid who comes into show business on some level, I used to put shows on in my basement. I even started with doing tricks and having a ventriloquist dummy.
I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporatebusiness.
I have learned that trying to guess what the boss or the client wants is the most debilitating of all influences in the creation of good advertising.