“Business in a certain sort of men is a mark of understanding, and they are honored for it. Their souls seek repose in agitation, as children do by being rocked in a cradle. They may pronounce themselves as serviceable to their friends as troublesome to themselves. No one distributes his money to others, but every one therein distributes his time and his life. There is nothing of which we are so prodigal as of those two things, of which to be thrifty would be both commendable and useful.” MenMayChildrenTwoSoulWould BeCertainUnderstandingBusinessMarkTwo ThingsHonoredCradleReposeTroublesomeAgitationProdigalsCommendableThrifty Author:Michel de Montaigne
“Remarks such as 'great Australian', 'larger than life' are sometimes used where they are not appropriate. But in the case of Kerry Packer both of those descriptions are entirely appropriate. He was a great Australian, he was a larger than life character and in so many ways he left his mark on the Australian community over a very long career in business, particularly in the media and also that other great passion of his, Australian sport” WayLongSometimesCharacterUsedPassionLeftSportsCommunityBusinessCareersCasesMediaMarkAppropriateDescriptionAustraliaRemarksAustralianLarger Than LifeGreat PassionLong CareersPackers Author:John Howard
“The mark of a successful organization isn't whether or not it has problems, its whether it has the same problems it had last year.” YearsProblemLastsSuccessBusinessSuccessfulOrganizationMarkLast YearSuccessful Organizations Author:John Foster Dulles
“Some individuals have developed such strong internal standards that they no longer need the opinion of others to judge whether they have performed a task well or not. The ability to give objective feedback to oneself is in fact the mark of the expert.” NeedsGivingWellsFactsIndividualStrongAbilityBusinessOpinionJudgingStandardsTasksMarkOneselfObjectivesExpertsInternalsFeedback Book:Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning Source: Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning