“We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce. As a consequence business success is sanctified, and, practically, any methods which achieve it are justified by a larger and larger class.” PeopleArtWealthBusinessClassUnited StatesAchieveProduceConsequenceMethodCraftsBusiness SuccessJustifiedBoastCultivation Book:The History of the Standard Oil Company Source: The History of the Standard Oil Company
“... overconfidence in one's own ability is the root of much evil. Vanity, egoism, is the deadliest of all characteristics. This vanity, combined with extreme ignorance of conditions the knowledge of which is the very A B C of business and of life, produces more shipwrecks and heartaches than any other part of our mental make-up.” EvilAbilityBusinessConditionsProduceIgnoranceRootsExtremesVanityHeartacheCharacteristicsEgoismShipwreckOverconfidence Author:Alice Foote MacDougall
“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” InspirationalMotivationalSuccessLeadershipInspiringBusinessLeaderLearningSuccessfulProduceFunctionManagementEntrepreneurProductionsEntrepreneurshipFollowersSuccessful PeopleLeadership DevelopmentGreat LeaderMotivational BusinessPolitical LeadersWorld LeaderBusiness LeadershipTrue LeaderBeing A LeaderInspiring LeaderEffective LeadershipGreat LeadershipLeadership By Famous LeadersBest LeaderLeadership And ManagementTrue LeadershipMotivational LeadershipLeadership SkillsDefinition Of LeadershipGood LeadershipLeadership By Great LeadersBest BusinessGreatest LeadershipFuture LeadersLeaders MotivationalFunny LeadershipGreat PerformanceLeadership RolesTop ManagementBusiness PersonInnovation And LeadershipPolitical LeadershipSuccess Of OthersTeam LeadershipAmerican LeadershipStrategic LeadershipStrategic ManagementStrong LeadersInspiring OthersMoral LeadershipLeaders Of Tomorrow Author:Ralph Nader
“Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.” SeemsBusinessProduceBudgetsBalancedRequirementsIngenuityAccountingBalanced Budget Author:Thomas Sowell
“An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.” PeopleThinkingNeedsGivingArtIdeasReasonWould BeArtistBusinessProduceGood IdeasFine ArtsBeing An ArtistFamous ArtistArt And ArtistsGood ArtistFine ArtistsArtists Minds Author:Andy Warhol
“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
“I think editors are excellent marketers. They know their audience and produce copy to appeal to them - they just don't call it marketing.” ThinkingKnowsBusinessAudienceMediaProduceMarketingAppealsExcellentCopiesEditorsMarketers Author:David Robinson
“The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.” InspirationalMotivationalResultsBusinessProduceWinnerIngredientsChef Author:Edward de Bono