“My batting average has been good, so people ask how much luck is involved. I tell them when I work 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, I get lucky.” PeopleHas BeensAsksHoursBusinessWeekInvolvedLuckyLuckAverageFinanceBatting Author:Armand Hammer
“Peter Drucker has pointed out that it is a manager's job to "do things right." It is an executive's job to make sure "the right things" get done. Even the most rigorous eco-efficient business paradigm does not challenge basic practices and methods: a shoe, building, factory, car, or shampoo can remain fundamentally ill-designed even as the materials and processes involved in its manufacture become more "efficient."” DoeDoneJobsProcessChallengesBusinessPracticeCarBuildingMaterialsInvolvedMethodShoesIllManagersRight ThingExecutivesFactoriesPeterEfficientParadigmEcoShampoo Book:Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things Source: Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
“Everything about it worked, and I don't mean just the movie, but in our experience, we realized there's also a component of luck involved in this business. We had absolutely the most competent people in the studio working on the release and ad campaign.” PeopleMeanBusinessInvolvedLuckStudiosCampaignsReleaseAdsComponentsCompetent Author:David Zucker
“The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.” PeopleBigsSimpleBusinessInvolvedOppositionBig Business Author:Walter Lippmann
“What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.” MenLoveSelfGivenSocialInterestFriendshipBusinessFriendsSelf LoveInvolvedProfitMutualSteadyArrangementsProposeAdjustmentInterchange Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld