“My company is now in it's third year of trading with CBS accountants. I have found them 100% professional and their expertise in complex tax matters is worth its weight in gold. As a result, I have recommended them to many colleagues who are also very happy with the service provided.” YearsMatterFoundResultsCompanyTaxesGoldThirdsWeightComplexesWorth ItColleaguesVery HappyTradingExpertiseAccountants Author:Christopher Wray
“I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.” PeopleWantWritingDifferentStoriesRememberResultsCompanyLeaderChaptersGreat LeaderGood Leader Author:Carlos Ghosn
“I come back to the same thing: We've got the greatest pipeline in the company's history in the next 12 months, and we've had the most amazing financial results possible over the last five years, and we're predicting being back at double-digit revenue growth in fiscal year '06.” YearsLastsNextGrowthResultsCompanyEconomyFiveMonthsFinancialFive YearsRevenueMost AmazingPredictingPipelineLast Five YearsFinancial Results Author:Steve Ballmer
“Whether or not [the company] maximizes resources, that's the job of the leader. How do I get greater results using less resources? That requires an enormous psychology when the economy is changing, the technology is changing, and the competition is worldwide.” JobsResultsCompanyLeaderTechnologyEconomyPsychologyGreaterResourcesCompetitionEnormous Author:Tony Robbins
“Marketing automation is the technology that propels your business into a new era of relationship based marketing with quantifiable results. When powerful technology meets effective implementation and internal process management, your company will soon find itself on a journey that leads to new heights of business success.” ProcessResultsPowerfulCompanyTechnologyJourneyManagementMarketingErasHeightInternalsBusiness SuccessImplementationNew EraAutomation Author:Jon Miller
“I don't think our fiduciary duty is to put shareholders first. I say the opposite. What we firmly believe is that if we focus our company on improving the lives of the world's citizens and come up with genuine sustainable solutions, we are more in synch with consumers and society and ultimately this will result in good shareholder returns.” IfsThinkingWorldFirstsBelieveResultsCompanyFocusDutyReturnCitizensSolutionsOppositesCome UpGenuineConsumersImprovingShareholdersFiduciary Author:Paul Polman
“In an ironic twist, I now see Good to Great not as a sequel to Built to Last, but more of a prequel. Good to Great is about how to turn a good organization into one that produces sustained great results. Built to Last is about how you take a company with great results and turn it into an enduring great company of iconic stature.” LastsTurnsResultsCompanyProduceBuiltOrganizationEndureIronicTwistsIconicStatureSequelsGreat CompanyGood To GreatGreat ResultsGood Organization Author:James C. Collins
“A young financial writer once brought ridicule upon himself by stating that a certain company had nothing to commend it except excellent earnings. Well, there are companies whose earnings are excellent but whose stocks I would never recommend. In selecting investments, I attach prime importance to the men behind them. I'd rather buy brains and character than earnings. Earnings can be good one year and poor the next. But if you put your money into securities run by men combining conspicuous brains and unimpeachable character, the likelihood is that the financial results will prove satisfactory.” IfsMenYearsWellsCharacterRunningYoungCertainNextWealthPoorResultsBehindsBrainCompanySecurityHe ManProveImportanceInvestmentFinancialBe GoodExcellentPrimeEarningRidiculeLikelihoodCombiningFinancial Results Author:B. C. Forbes
“Vacations for wage earners have proved both popular with workers and profitable for employers. Unfortunately, the majority of large employers have not yet followed the example set by a number of progressive corporations. I don't know of a single company that has abandoned vacations for wage earners after having tried the experiment. But I do know many that are delighted with the fruits they have gathered. Under some of the plans vacations with pay must be earned by good behavior, punctuality, etc.... The best results have come where the treatment has been regarded as most liberal.” KnowsHas BeensResultsNumbersPayCompanyPlansExampleBehaviorMajorityFruitWorkersExperimentsCorporationsEtcTreatmentProgressiveAbandonedVacationEmployersProfitableDelightedPunctualityGood Behavior Author:B. C. Forbes
“The true investor... will do better if he forgets about the stock market and pays attention to his dividend returns and to the operation results of his companies.” IfsForgetResultsPayAttentionCompanyReturnInvestingPay AttentionOperationsInvestorsDividends Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel
“As a result of overdiversification, their (active managers) returns get watered down. Diversification covers up ignorance. Active managers haven't done enough research into any of their companies. If managers have 200 positions, do you think they know what's going on at any one of those companies at this moment?” IfsThinkingKnowsDoneEnoughMomentsResultsCompanyHavensPositionIgnoranceReturnResearchInvestingActiveManagersCover UpsDiversification Author:Bill Ackman
“It's no longer terribly sexy to own shares in certain companies; it used to be that being a shareholder in a corporation would connect you with it. The result is that people really want to invest in valuable things, and contemporary art has become a very stable material value with great growth potential.” PeopleWantArtUsedCertainValuesGrowthResultsCompanyShareMaterialsValuableSexyContemporaryUsed To BeCorporationsStableShareholdersContemporary ArtValuable Things Author:Thomas Koerfer
“We have built a company with a business mix and operating system that will allow us to deliver record results in any foreseeable economic climate, ... We have just completed a very successful management transition and I've never been more confident about the company's future.” InspirationalResultsCompanySuccessfulRecordsEconomicBuiltManagementClimateTransitionOperating SystemsEconomic Climate Author:Jack Welch
“We welcome private investment, but any company or national firm will be a partner of a venture where the result will go mainly to the Bolivian people. Of course, any investor is entitled to recover their investment and take profits. But be assured that these new functions with our partners will also be reinvested in our country for the benefit of the Bolivian people.” PeopleCountryCoursesResultsCompanyBenefitsFunctionInvestmentProfitPartnersWelcomeOur CountryFirmInvestorsEntitledVentureAssured Author:Evo Morales
“Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important part of a companys existence, if the company is any good. But a result is not a cause. We have to go deeper and find the real reason for our being.” PeopleIfsThinkingImportantRealReasonCausesResultsExistenceCompanyAssumingDeeperMaking Money Author:David Packard
“In nations that have become too complex, taxes and regulation cause at least a doubling of the amount employers must spend on labor. Many experts call this 'progress,' but the natural result is that many companies respond by sending their operations and jobs to less costly nations.” JobsNationsCausesNaturalResultsCompanyProgressAmountTaxesLaborComplexesOperationsExpertsRegulationEmployers Author:Oliver DeMille