Best business & decision Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Without doubt machines will be able to determine the means and avenues to goals, but men will continue to set the goals themselves. For what machine can ever apply the considerations of compassion and justice which, as man's enlightenment spreads ... will enter ever more into the decisions that affect his future ... in the universe?”

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Author:Lewis Strauss

“When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.”

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Book:You Can If You Think You Can

Source: You Can If You Think You Can

“People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.”

Source: Mary Kay, You Can Have it All: Lifetime Wisdom from America's Foremost Woman Entrepreneur

“Intuition is a combination of insight and imagination that was once attributed to spiritual communication. Mathematicians call it 'fuzzy logic,' drawing conclusions from vague or subjective input. The mind becomes aware without the direct intervention of reasoning. Once you can imagine something you can begin the process of creating it. Executives use intuition to make many product, investment, and hiring decisions, even if they deny it. Success in business may depend on an accurate gut.”

Source: Thinking In The Future Tense

“while the executive should give every possible value to the information of the specialist, no executive should abdicate thinking on any subject because of the expert. The expert's information or opinion should not be allowed automatically to become a decision. On the other hand, full recognition should be given to the part the expert plays in decision making.”

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Book:Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett

Source: Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett

“I run my company according to feminine principles, principles of caring, making intuitive decisions, not getting hung up on hierarchy or all those dreadfully boring business-school management ideas; having a sense of work as being part of your life, not separate from it; putting your labor where your love is; being responsible to the world in how you use your profits; recognizing the bottom line should stay at the bottom.”

“What a denial of our humanity that at the centers of power, where decisions are made, there is no room for nurturing, for love, and children. There is more to life than the 'inhuman' work place. It is terrible that many men do not know that: it is a tragedy if women follow them.”

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Author:Dora Russell

“The more big business talks about something, the less of it there is. For example, it 'values' jobs just at the moment when they disappear; it revels in 'autonomy' when in fact you have to fill out forms in triplicate for the slightest trifle and ask the advice of six people to make insignificant decisions; it harps on 'ethics' while believing in absolutely nothing.”

Source: Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay

“Entrepreneurs don't really make mistakes, though. We just make decisions that seem right at the time, but which sometimes turn out to have been the wrong path to take. For example, we allowed a buyer to place a huge opening order and later had to take some product back. We didn't have our sell-through programs in place, so in hindsight, it would have been wiser to sell in less product at the outset. The scary thing is you are always making decisions without knowing the future.”

“Never before has information been so important, to governments and businesses alike. And please don't imagine that some of you gathered here today may be less concerned than others. Globalization means that the "butterfly effect" is everywhere at work. The mistakes of a stockbroker in Singapore or the collapse of the Baht in Bangkok, the decisions of a Finnish industrial concern, or what the Governor of Minas Gerais in Brazil decides to do about his State's debt, have had consequences for the world as a whole.”

“Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.”

Source: Further Up the Organization

“It’s better to make a decision, even the wrong one, than to be in limbo.”

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Author:Seth

“We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.”

“Management is nothing more than motivating other people.”

Source: Iacocca: An Autobiography

“A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.”

“Don't take forever to make a decision, but don't make it too fast.”

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Author:Micah Baldwin

“What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.”

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Book:Elia Kazan: Interviews

Source: Elia Kazan: Interviews

“In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.”

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Author:Clare Boothe Luce

“Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.”

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Author:Scott Adams

“One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.”

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Author:A. C. Benson

“A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.”

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Author:Robert Reich

“Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.”

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.”

“When you can't solve the problem, manage it.”

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Book:Robert H Schuller: The Inspirational Writings : Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do/Tough Minded Faith for Tender Hearted People

Source: Robert H Schuller: The Inspirational Writings : Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do/Tough Minded Faith for Tender Hearted People

“Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me.”

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Author:Justin Bieber

“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”

“Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.”

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Author:Margaret Thatcher

“I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.”

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Book:The World According to Trump: An Unauthorized Portrait in His Own Words

Source: The World According to Trump: An Unauthorized Portrait in His Own Words

“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”

Source: Epigrams and Aphorisms

“It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.”

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Author:Oprah Winfrey

“No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.”

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Author:George S. Patton

“The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams.”

“Just really, really believe in what you're trying to do. Don't let people alter that. Let people advise you and lead you down paths to make smart business decisions. But trust your instinct and trust that overwhelming drive that made you put all your dreams and everything on the line.”

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Author:Luke Bryan

“I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.”

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Author:Warren Buffett

“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”

“Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.”

“Every decision you make is a mistake.”

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Author:Edward Dahlberg

“Organisations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity.”

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Author:N. R. Narayana Murthy

“No great marketing decisions have ever been made on qualitative data”

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Author:John Sculley

“The need to engage businesses and decision makers with customers can only increase in importance, and as it does, the market research industry must recognise that engagement is a facet of what we do.”

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Author:Alex Johnston

“Earnings can be pliable as putty when a charlatan heads the company reporting them.”

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Author:Warren Buffett

“What is it that you like doing? If you don't like it, get out of it, because you'll be lousy at it. You don't have to stay with a job for the rest of your life, because if you don't like it you'll never be successful in it.”

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Author:Lee Iacocca

“Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.”

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Author:George Canning

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