Best business & mean Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Profit has to be a means to other ends rather than an end in itself.”

“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?”

Men Mean Able Universe Goal Justice Decision Business Compassion Doubt Enlightenment Machines Determine Spread Consideration Avenues

Author:Lewis Strauss

“Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.”

Mean Persons Business Groups Willing Authority Judgment Appeals Proven Competence

Author:Walt Disney

“I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.”

“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

“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

“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.”

“Our concept of eco-effectiveness means working on the right things - on the right products and services and systems - instead of making the wrong things less bad. Once you are doing the right things, then doing them "right," with the help of efficiency among other tools, makes perfect sense.”

Mean Helping Perfect Business Products Concepts Tools Right Thing Efficiency Effectiveness Wrong Things Doing The Right Thing Eco

Book:Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

Source: Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

“"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

“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.”

“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.”

People Mean Business Involved Luck Studios Campaigns Release Ads Components Competent

Author:David Zucker

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

Ifs Trying Mean Business Hell Figures Management Strategic Go To Hell

Author:Richard Moran

“The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient.”

Mean Process Business Company Technology Apples Efficient Best Job Real Jobs

Author:Steve Jobs

“Don't worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test... Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap - but it was a revolutionary piece of crap.”

Firsts Mean Made Money Business Creativity Worry Pieces Tests Innovation Ships Revolutionary Crap Bad Ass Macs

Author:Guy Kawasaki

“If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.”

“Employees who believe that management is concerned about them as a whole person - not just an employee - are more productive, more satisfied, more fulfilled. Satisfied employees mean satisfied customers, which leads to profitability.”

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

Way Mind Mean Decision Business Clear Backgrounds Making Decisions

Author:A. C. Benson

“Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.”

Ifs Life Mean Strong Change Business Company Strength Confusion Willingness Confusing Change Management Willingness To Change Chaos And Confusion

Author:Jack Welch

“Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth.”

Thinking Mean Truth Fighting Business Innovation Currents Seeds Gas Bags Execution Inquiry Puncture

Author:Virginia Woolf

“I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.”

“Just because something is typed-whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book-this does not mean that it is true.”

Writing Mean Doe Book Truth Business Newspapers Cards Journalism Typography Business Card

Author:Daniel Handler

“If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.”

Source: Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)

“...treasure what it means to do a day's work. It's our one and only chance to do something productive today, and it's certainly not available to someone merely because he is the high bidder. A day's work is your chance to do art, to create a gift, to do something that matters. As your work gets better and your art becomes more important, competition for your gifts will increase and you'll discover that you can be choosier about whom you give them to.”

Giving Mean Art Important Matter Motivational Today Chance Business Increase Competition Available Treasure Get Better Productive Working It Motivational Business

Author:Seth Godin

“When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.”

Men Mean Bigs Business Sun Shadow Casts Small Man

Author:Lin Yutang

“I'm quite worried about the fiscal imbalances that we've got and what that might mean in terms of financial crisis ahead.”

Inspirational Mean Might Term Challenges Business Crisis Financial Finance Worried Financial Crisis Imbalance

Author:Bill Gates

“The man of business knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is the result, not of chance, but of well-devised means for the attainment of ends.”

Knows Men Inspirational Years Wells Mean Ends Chance Results Business Attention He Man Rewards Patient Affair Attainment

Book:The Empire of Business

Source: The Empire of Business

“The only leverage the manufacturer can apply to the retailer is his relationship with the consumer. And the main element in profit growth is going to have to lie in making his brand more valuable to the retailer, through its being more valuable to the consumer. And that means his brand must be unique, it must have no adequate direct substitutes - because it is in this, after all, that value lies.”

Mean Lying Values Growth Business Elements Unique Direct Profit Valuable Brands Consumers Substitutes Adequate Retailers

Author:Stephen King

“Connectivity doesn't just mean you get a lot more chances to deliver messages about customer service and pricing plans. This isn't one-sided. It enables people to talk back.”

People Mean Chance Business Plans Messages Customers One Sided Pricing

Author:James Murdoch

“Smart recessionary marketing means not waiting for business to return to normal. Instead, you should cash in on this invaluable opportunity your more cautious competitors may be creating for you. If they pull back, your media investment works much harder.”

Ifs Should May Mean Opportunity Waiting Business Media Return Normal Creating Smart Harder Investment Marketing Cash Competitors Cautious Invaluable

Author:Sarah Carter

“If one takes care of the means, the end will take care of itself.”

Ifs Mean Ends Care Business Advice Take Care Statistics

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

“One of the most effective means for transcending ordinary and moving into the realm of extraordinary is saying yes more frequently and eliminating no almost completely. I call it saying yes to life. Say yes to yourself, to your family, your children, your coworkers, and your business.”

Life Mean Children Moving Business Ordinary Our Children Extraordinary Our Family Your Children Realms Eliminating Saying Yes Transcending Coworker

Book:The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-create Your World Your Way: Easyread Large Edition

Source: The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-create Your World Your Way: Easyread Large Edition

“None of this means, however, that a business or stock is an intelligent purchase simply because it is unpopular; a contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What's required is thinking rather than polling. Unfortunately, Bertrand Russell's observation about life in general applies with unusual force in the financial world: "Most men would rather die than think. Many do."”

Thinking Men World Mean Dies Force Business Approach Intelligent Strategy Investing Financial Crowds Foolish Observation Unusual Polling

Author:Warren Buffett

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