You may not like the way I deliver the truth – you may take umbrage with the way I handle most of my conflicts – but that’s the way I do business.
The biggest sources of opportunity are collaboration and partnership. And today, with digital communication, there is more of that everywhere. We need to expose ourselves to that as a matter of doing business.
There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.
The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.
A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
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.
For my part, I am not a great believer in bad luck on the cricket field, in business – in fact, in any walk of life.
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.
While academic abilities remain integral, it is the work ethics that form the soul of the business.
Behind every small business, there’s a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores – these didn’t come out of nowhere.
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you’re going to be a success, whether you’re in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology.
Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every ‘world’ I’ve been in, most people I’ve meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.
The concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has long been used as an effective lens through which to examine the actions business can take toward ensuring mutual long-term well-being and sustainability.
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people’s business.
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
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.
Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families.
We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives.
In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.
I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.
Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I’m going to complete every pass.
The business of biomedical research is mostly about failure. Few projects we commission will ultimately result in success. But every study we do contributes to the body of knowledge that brings science and society closer to a solution.
