I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there, he can be great and kind-but he must get there first.”
Source: The Winter of our Discontent
“In business, as in life, it all comes down to your passion.”
“In business as in life, sometimes bad things happen to good people, and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But over time, if you play long enough, everybody gets what he deserves - good and bad.”
“In business, as is the case in nature, circularity amplifies profit.”
Source: Business Essentials
“In business be as able as you can, but do not be cunning; cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“In business, cash is seasonal, but in real estate, cash is scheduled.”
“In business courtesy and efficiency have a symbiotic relationship.”
“In business, do not take anything that does not rightfully belong to you. The day you end up taking anything that is not rightfully yours, from that day your business will not prosper.”
Source: Worries
“In business, efficiency is a prerequisite to profit.”
Source: The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic
“In business everyone is out to grab, to fight, to win. Either you are the under or the over dog. It is up to you to be on top.”
“In business for yourself, but not by yourself.”
Source: Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's
“In business for yourself, not by yourself.”
“In business, having a good reputation is imperative. Because trust is a prerequisite of transacting. Whether it has to do with investing, shopping at a store, or getting into a cooperative deal... We go with what we trust and we go with who we trust. We invest in what we trust, we shop where we trust, we partner with who we trust.”
“In business it is most often all about getting your foot in the door and once you do, everything opens up and things start to naturally progress into bigger and more opportunities.”
“In business, it's about terminating a contract and in marriage it's called divorce. Just the same, but different wording.”
“In business, it's important to be able to make informed decisions.”
“In business, it's really important to keep operating costs low. You don't want your business to be a spendthrift business because spendthrift businesses eventually eat through all their earnings.”
“In business, it's very important to protect your businesses income! Because a business with no income is not really a business at all. As long as the business has income - even if margins are slim, you can find a way to cut expenses, improve cash flow and improve it's profitability. Tight cash flow can be better leveraged than no cash flow. But if you make choices that jeopardize or forefeit the income, because you're frustrated with slim margins, then you forfeit that opportunity. Work with those slim margins while you work on widening them.”
“In business it's about people. It's about relationships.”
“In business, its very important to do consistent market research. It's very important to understand your customers and potential customers. The more you understand them, the better you'll be able to add value to their lives, and the more they'll pay for that value.
At Mayflower-Plymouth, we're here to help your business thrive in this way.”
Source: The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic
“In business life, that is, in its material processes, we eagerly accept the new. In social life, in all our social processes, we piously, valiantly, obdurately, maintain the old.”
Source: Human Work
“In business news, chocolate maker nestle is buying Jenny Craig. Well, that says it all you need to know about the war on obesity, doesn't it? It's over! Apparently we surrendered!”
“In business or in football, it takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to produce spectacular results.”
“In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.”
Source: Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life
“In business or in politics, responsibility without authority is any chief executive’s worst nightmare. That was the political nightmare that gripped the Bush administration in the weeks after Katrina. As the National Post’s Colby Cosh put it, ‘‘The 49 percent of Americans who have been complaining for five years about George W. Bush being a dictator are now vexed to the point of utter incoherence because for the last fortnight he has failed to do a sufficiently convincing impression of a dictator.’’93 Small wonder, then, that President Bush promptly sought the authority to head off future political disasters by overriding the decisions of state and local officials and using the military at home.”
Source: The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power
“In business, people get stuck on commodity level selling—transactional. The money is in transformational experiences.”
“In business people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else's situation as you are about your own.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“In business presentations, positive impressions can help make a sale or win over an audience.”
Source: Google Drive & Docs In 30 Minutes
“In business, pride must be swallowed.
If it’s way too much to gulp down, tuck some deep into your pocket!”
Source: The Event Usher’s Handbook
“In business, proactive tax compliance is key to avoiding costly penalties and audits.”
“In business 'professionalism' is not a tactic but a moral value.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“In business, profitability is a non-negotiable.”
“In business, profitability is a non-negotiable. If a business is not profitable, it's worthless.”
“In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non- world.”
“In Business School they taught us about cash flow, not about corporate politics; about return on equity, not about egos and pride. Oh, there were optional courses on 'Organizational Behavior' and 'Managerial Skills,' but these were a little too bloodless to convey what I learned on the job.”
Source: Powerplay: what really happened at Bendix
“In business, scolding is not an insult, but a way of getting things done in an accurate and professional way.”
Source: The Event Usher’s Handbook
“In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.”
“In business, sometimes you just have to let the results speak for themselves.”
“In business, sport, entertainment and beyond an idea is worth next to nothing. The energy, effort, passion, talent, tenacity, strategy, resilience and resourcefulness to see it through and make something of it is worth everything.”
“In business, success is not about doing more—it’s about doing what works, again and again.”
Source: Money's Dirty Little Secrets: How to Break the Rules, Get Filthy Rich, and Laugh All the Way to the Bank
“In business success, you need 3 things, working hard, patience and determination, and most importantly, serve before you sell”
“In business, supply chains risks are not only correlated to the competition or to collaborators or to customers. Supply chain risk is also correlated to all of the companies and industries using the same imputs as your business.”
“In business the 80/20 principle is behind any innovation, any extra value. It is an entrepreneurial principle, a formula for value creation utilized not only by entrepreneurs, but by most managers and organizations.”
Source: The 80/20 Individual: How to Build on the 20% of What You do Best
“In business, there are only 2 rules: if incurring a loss, how to turn profitable; and if running at a profit, how to scale it.”
“In business there's people who have talent and there's people whose talent is to take advantage of people who have talent.”
“In business transactions, your industry is the lock, and your clients are the key.”
“In business, trust is a prerequisite of transacting.”
“In business, trust is crucial. As a society, we recognize that services may vary, as the same person may not provide the service each time, and therefore, there will be qualitative differences with each service. This variation of service and varying expectations without clear communication can lead to acts of incivility.”
“In business, value adding and the compensation received for adding value - it has a ripple effect. And it's a very altruistic ripple effect.”
“In business we cut each others' throats, but now and then we sit around the same table and behave-for the sake of the ladies.”