“An office party is not, as is sometimes supposed, the Managing Director's chance to kiss the tea-girl. It is the tea-girl's chance to kiss the Managing Director (however bizarre an ambition this may seem to anyone who has seen the Managing Director face on).” MaySometimesSeemsFacesGirlChancePartyBusinessDirectorsKissingOfficeAmbitionTeaBizarre Author:Katharine Whitehorn
“What we are trying to do is to create a new business paradigm, simply showing that business can have a human face and a social conscience.” TryingHumansFacesSocialBusinessConscienceParadigmHuman FacesNew Business Book:Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop Source: Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop
“With ruin staring you in the face, there is nothing worse to live through than a siege of waiting and hoping. If you manage to live through it, nothing can ever jar your nerves after that.” IfsFacesWaitingBusinessFailureManageRuinsStaringNervesJarsSiegeWaiting And Hoping Author:Sue Sanders
“Let's face it: Most companies in most industries have a kind of tunnel vision. They chase the same opportunities that everyone else is chasing, they miss the same opportunities that everyone else is missing. It's the companies that see a different game that win big. The most important question for innovators today is: What do you see that the competition doesn't see?” KindImportantDifferentBigsTodayFacesOpportunityGamesWinningBusinessCompanyVisionMissingIndustryCompetitionChasingTunnelsInnovatorsImportant QuestionsTunnel VisionMissing It Author:Bill Taylor
“I was 21 and had spent the last few years in Stanford University Engineering School at California. Many people advised me to take up a nice, cushy job rather than face the challenges of running a hydrogenated oil business. Looking back, I am glad I decided to take charge instead. Essentially leadership begins from within. It is a small voice that tells you where to go when you feel lost. If you believe in that voice, you believe in yourself.” PeopleIfsInspirationalFeelsYearsBelieveRunningSchoolJobsLastsFacesLostVoiceChallengesBusinessNiceDecidedUniversityOilGladCaliforniaBelieve In YourselfEngineeringLooking BackBelieve In YouIf You BelieveStanfordSmall VoiceStanford UniversityOil Business Author:Azim Premji
“Commercialism is the blemish on the fair face of American life. Fighting against the terrible conditions of the explorer and pioneer, our forefathers had little time to think of beauty. Hearts and heads became as hardened to the more gracious things of life as did their bodies against physical hardship. Little by little, as nature yielded before the dynamite of their wills, life began to express itself in the same hard terms, and the great commerce of a New World bent everything to its indomitable will.” ThinkingWorldHeartLittlesHardBodyFacesFightingTermBusinessConditionsTerribleFairsHardshipNew WorldCommerceBentGraciousPioneersLittle TimeExplorersTime To ThinkAmerican LifeForefathersHardenedDynamiteHead And HeartCommercialismIndomitableIndomitable Will Author:Alice Foote MacDougall
“Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom.” MenInspirationalShouldFacesChallengesUnitedBusinessBiggerClimateClimate ChangePrioritiesKingdomsTreatedUnited Kingdom Author:Prince Charles
“I don't want to be just a voice on the phone. I have to get to know these guys face-to-face and develop a sincere relationship. That way, if we run into problems in a deal, it doesn't get adversarial. We trust each other and have the confidence we can work things out.” IfsKnowsWayWantInspirationalProblemRunningFacesGuyVoiceChallengesDealsBusinessConfidencePhonesSincereFace To Face Author:Wayne Huizenga
“Barack, like any leader, is human. And, you know, our challenges in this country isn't finding the next person who's gonna deliver us from our own evil. Because our challenges are us. The challenges that this country faces is how are we as individuals in this society gonna change? What are we gonna do differently?” KnowsInspirationalHumansPersonsCountryFacesEvilNextIndividualChallengesLeadershipBusinessLeaderFindingsBarackThis Society Author:Michelle Obama
“For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy.” PeopleGivingFacesChoicesChanceBusinessCapitalismFaultsBusyFavorsBitterPrivilegedDeckMotivational BusinessHardworkingPositive Business Author:Bill O'Reilly
“A campaign, like a brand, is not just a number of bits put together - a claim here, a pack shot there, a reason why somewhere else. If we try to produce it by the atomistic approach, we will end up with a sort of Identikit brand. It will be a perfect description of the structure of the brand, as the Identikit can describe the contours of the face. But it won't be the same thing. The brand will never come to life.” IfsTryingEndsReasonTogetherFacesBitsPerfectNumbersBusinessProduceApproachShotsClaimsStructureCampaignsBrandsReason WhyDescriptionPacksSomewhere Else Author:Stephen King
“Rapid innovation is the cure for the ills we face, but because innovation is difficult and susceptible to failure, we might need to rethink the way we approach innovation and how we drive it through our companies.” WayNeedsMightFacesDifficultBusinessCompanyApproachInnovationCuresRapidsSusceptible Author:Richard Owen