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“if companies are in business solely to make money, no consumer can fully trust what they do or say.”

Ifs Business Company Profit Making Money Consumers

“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.”

Ifs Knows Men Children Made Humanity Work Decision Rooms Business Terrible Office Tragedy Denial Nurturing Inhuman More To Life Work Place

Author:Dora Russell

“Detachment doesn't mean I'm trying less hard. It just means that fears and emotions that used to torment and paralyze me no longer have the same power over me. Getting to this point hasn't always been easy; it took me years to really learn to silence my mind. But as you move through your career and your life, you will have to learn that if you're not what you do, then what you do has no business keeping you entertained at night.”

Ifs Life Trying Years Mind Mean Hard Moving Used Night Fear Easy Business Emotion Silence Careers Power Learning Torment Detachment

Author:Kelly Cutrone

“Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.”

Ifs Artist Business Taken Fellows Favour Undercut

Author:Elizabeth Aston

“If we don't embrace a low carbon economy this decade, it won't just harm the planet, but also the U.S. economy.”

Ifs Business Economy Planets Lows Embrace Climate Harm Decades Carbon

Author:John Doerr

“The record-breaking extreme weather events causing chaos across the globe should be a wake-up call. The transition to a low-carbon economy will be much more painful if we wait until there is a climate crisis before recognising that more than half of the world's fossil fuel reserves will have to remain in the ground.”

“We are quite convinced that if he were alive today, as an astute businessman looking out to the future, he would be moving out of fossil fuels and investing in clean, renewable energy.”

Ifs Would Be Today Moving Energy Business Alive Clean Climate Investing Convinced Fuel Businessman Fossils Fossil Fuel Live For Today Renewable Energy Moving Out Astute

Author:Stephen Heintz

“I admire people who are very successful. But if that success has been achieved through too much ruthlessness, then I may admire that person, but I can't respect him.”

People Ifs Inspirational May Persons Has Beens I Can Business Successful Too Much Admire Ruthlessness

Author:Ratan Tata

“... if the production of any commodity necessitates the sacrifice of human life, society should do without that commodity, but itcan not do without that life.”

Ifs Should Humans Business Sacrifice Labor Productions Human Life Commodity

Book:Anarchism and Other Essays

Source: Anarchism and Other Essays

“If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work.”

Ifs Art Business Art Is Asking Evening Enjoyment Devoted Businessman

Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“Be methodical if you would succeed in business, or in anything. Have a work for every moment, and mind the moment's work. Whatever your calling, master all its bearings and details, its principles, instruments and applications. Method is essential if you would get through your work easily and with economy of time.”

Ifs Mind Moments Business Principles Economy Masters Calling Succeed Essentials Method Instruments Details Application Methodical

Author:William Matthews

“If you hear my idea but don't believe it, that's not your fault; it's mine. If you see my new product but don't buy it, that's my failure, not yours. If you attend my presentation and you're bored, that's my fault too.”

Ifs Believe Ideas Wisdom Motivational Business Mines Products Blame Faults Don't Believe Bored Presentation New Products

Book:Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

Source: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

“... business training in early life should not be regarded solely as insurance against destitution in the case of an emergency. For from business experience women can gain, too, knowledge of the world and of human beings, which should be of immeasurable value to their marriage careers. Self-discipline, co-operation, adaptability, efficiency, economic management,--if she learns these in her business life she is liable for many less heartbreaks and disappointments in her married life.”

“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.”

Ifs Faces Waiting Business Failure Manage Ruins Staring Nerves Jars Siege Waiting And Hoping

Author:Sue Sanders

“There is no gaming table in the world where loaded dice are tolerated, no athletic field where men must not start fair. Yet Mr. Rockefeller has systematically played with loaded dice, and it is doubtful if there has ever been a time since 1872 when he has run a race with a competitor and started fair.”

Ifs Men World Running Business Race Fields Fairs Tables Competitors Athletic Loaded Doubtful Dice Gaming

Author:Ida Tarbell

“[On dishonest business methods:] ... frequently the defender of the practice falls back on the Christian doctrine of charity, and points out that we are erring mortals and must allow for each other's weaknesses! - an excuse which, if carried to its legitimate conclusion, would leave our business men weeping on one another's shoulders over human frailty, while they picked one another's pockets.”

“Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic power, this story never would have been written. Were it alone in these methods, public scorn would long ago have made short work of the Standard Oil Company. But it is simply the most conspicuous type of what can be done by these practices. The methods it employs with such acumen, persistency, and secrecy are employed by all sorts of business men, from corner grocers up to bankers. If exposed, they are excused on the ground that this is business.”

Source: The History of the Standard Oil Company

“If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard.”

“If you're going to invest a valuable asset (like time), go ahead and make it productive. Use a postit or two, or some index cards or a highlighter. Not to write down stuff so you can forget it later, but to create marching orders. It's simple: if three weeks go by and you haven't taken action on what you've written down, you wasted your time.”

Ifs Writing Two Use Action Order Three Stuff Simple Forget Business Taken Written Week Havens Valuable Cards Productive Assets Forget It

Author:Seth Godin

“Now, I don't mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. What we do know is, if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original. If you're not prepared to be wrong. And by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity. They have become frightened of being wrong. And we run our companies like this, by the way, we stigmatize mistakes. And we're now running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make.”

Ifs Knows Way Mean Running Kids Lost Business Mistake Company Creative Worst Adults Capacity Originals Prepared Come Up Frightened Worst Things Be Creative Education System Being Wrong

Author:Ken Robinson

“Well, it's taken time to get this going, but he was right. If you give people a chance to associate themselves with a cause they care about, while buying a great product, they will. That was how the RED Campaign was born, here in Davos.”

People Ifs Giving Wells Care Causes Born Chance Business Taken Products Red Campaigns Buying Associates Davos

Author:Bill Gates

“Growth isn't central at all, because I'm trying to run this company as if it's going to be here a hundred years from now. And if you take where we are today and add 15% growth, like public companies need to have for their stock to stay up in value, I'd be a multi-trillion-dollar company in 40 years. Which is impossible, of course.”

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Author:Yvon Chouinard

“So all of these companies that are going for the big growth, if it continues for any length of time, will outlast their resources and outlast their customers and go belly-up. And that's why these huge companies have massive layoffs all the time.”

Ifs Bigs Growth Business Company Huge Resources Customers Length Massive Belly Layoff

Author:Yvon Chouinard

“We've teamed up with some Japanese companies to, basically by 2010, make all our clothing out of recycled and recyclable fibers. And we're going to accept ownership of our products from birth to birth. So if you buy a jacket from us, or a shirt ,or a pair of pants, when you're done with it, you can give it back to us and we'll make more shirts and pants out of it.”

Ifs Giving Done Business Company Accepting Products Birth Shirts Pairs Clothings Pants Ownership Jackets Fiber Recycled

Author:Yvon Chouinard

“In the early 1970s, Milton Friedman argued that corporations should not be socially responsible because they had no mandate to be; they existed to make money, not to be charitable institutions. But in the economy of the 21st century, corporations cannot be socially responsible, if social responsibility is understood to mean sacrificing profits for the sake of some perceived social good. That's because competition has become so much more intense.”

“As to the meaning of "corporate social responsibility," Friedman and I would agree: If a certain action improves the corporation's bottom line, there's no point in labeling it "socially responsible." It's just good business.”

Ifs Action Certain Social Lines Business Responsibility Responsible Agree Bottom Corporate Corporations Social Responsibility Bottom Line No Point Good Business Labeling Corporate Social Responsibility

Author:Robert Reich

“Yes, I am optimistic about the environment. If you assume business is exerting the most negative influence on the environment and also has the possibility to impact it positively, there are a bunch of forces that are impacting business that are fundamentally different from the situation 3 or 4 years ago.”

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Author:Jeffrey Hollender

“If there's a big problem and you've got the right people with you, usually the answer emerges and you do what's the obvious thing to do. I don't think of myself as some great manager or great leader. I've been very lucky to be in the positions that I've been in. I meet a lot of people and I've grown a lot of companies, and I meet a lot of CEOs at big enterprises. I'm always so surprised at how much they seem to know. It doesn't always seem to be correlated to how well they actually do.”

“I'm amazed by the potential of more companies employing integrated philanthropic initiatives at earlier stages in their life cycle. What if this were done on an even more massive scale? Consider what would happen if a top-tier venture-capital firm required the companies in which it invested to place 1% of their equity into a foundation serving the communities in which they do business.”

Source: The Business of Changing the World: Twenty Great Leaders on Strategic Corporate Philanthropy

“If you believe that every life has equal value, it’s revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not. We said to ourselves: “This can’t be true. But if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving.””

Ifs Giving Believe Said Values Business Equal Deserve Priorities Being True Saving If You Believe

Author:Bill Gates

“If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world. This task is open-ended. It can never be finished. But a conscious effort to answer this challenge will change the world.”

Ifs World Way Needs Found Challenges Answers Poor Effort Business Politician Approach Conscious Tasks Vote Profit Finished Changing The World

Author:Bill Gates

“"Why is the creative entrepreneur the riskiest type to be?" I asked. "Because being creative means you are often a pioneer. It is easy to copy a successful and proven product. It is also less risky. If you learn to innovate, create, or invent your way to success, you are an entrepreneur creating new value rather than an entrepreneur who wins by copying."”

Ifs Way Mean Values Winning Easy Business Creative Successful Products Type Creating Entrepreneur Copies Proven Be Creative Pioneers Copying Way To Success

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“Business, life itself, is damned hard work if you wanna be good at it. Actually, that's precisely wrong. Business ceases to be work when you're chasing a dream that has engorged you. ("Work should be more fun than fun" - Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn't there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.”

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Book:The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times

Source: The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times

“The new female is competent in all that she chooses. She chooses whatever her heart tells her. She can create a business, lead a country, drive a truck, hammer nails, deliver mail, or raise a family. She is at home in every social and physical environment. She can be a housewife, if she chooses. She can be anything else, too. She is intuitive and heart centered. She is all that a female has been, and more.”

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Author:Gary Zukav

“What a dead thing is a clock, with its ponderous embowelments of lead and brass, its pert or solemn dullness of communication, compared with the simple altar-like structure and silent heart-language of the old sundials! It stood as the garden god of Christian gardens. Why is it almost everywhere vanished? If its business-use be superseded by more elaborate inventions, its moral uses, its beauty, might have pleaded for its continuance.”

Source: A complete Elia: The essays of Elia, together with The last essays of Elia

“Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most personal desires - if they omit the irrational from their view of the possible and destruction from their view of the practical?”

Ifs Men Desire Interest Views Business Conflict Destruction Trade Practicals Irrational Conflict Of Interest Personal Desire

Book:Ayn Rand Novel Collection

Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection

“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.”

“If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.”

Ifs Wells Play Happens Kids Games Fun Business Excellence Gamer Watson Mind Playing

Author:Thomas Watson, Jr.

“If joining IBM was commitment, not employment, and the company engaged in something more than business, it had a right to demand of its men unconditional loyalty, Watson believed.”

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Author:Thomas Watson

“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 would be wonderful if ideas could be the new rock 'n roll”

Ifs Ideas Would Be Business Wonderful Rocks Economics Management Rock N Roll

Author:Brian Cox

“If sophisticated calculations are needed to justify an action, don't do it.”

Ifs Action Business Needed Justify Sophisticated Calculations

Author:Robert Heller

“If you are attempting the impossible, you will fail.”

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Author:Robert Heller

“If you are doing something wrong, you will do it badly.”

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Author:Robert Heller

“If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.”

Ifs Ability Levels Business Creating Chickens

Author:Ross Perot

“We need an honest bottom line. Today that bottom line is vastly subsidized. If anyone of us were paying the full cost of oil our bottom lines would be very different. If you internalize the cost of oil, look at the cost of the war in the Middle East or the cost of global warming for future generations, if you internalize those external costs and what you pay, that bottom line would look very different, what ever business you are in.”

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Author:Ray Anderson

“If we somehow put a value on species extinction and factor that into our costs that bottom line would look very different. IF we put any resource depletion into costs our bottom line would change. So what we have is a dishonest market that does not take into account all the costs when it establishes its prices. We need an honest marketplace before we can let the market work for sustainability rather than against it as it works today.”

“If someone says you're not strategic, try to figure out what that means and then tell him or her to go to hell.”

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Author:Richard Moran

“A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.”

“Competition is. In every business, no matter how small or how large, someone is just around the corner forever trying to steal your ideas and build his success out of your imagination, struggling after that which you have toiled endless years to secure, striving to outdo you in each and every way. If such a competitor would work as hard to originate as he does to copy, he would much more quickly gain success.”

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