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If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.

If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.

If I had my life to live over again, I would elect to be a trader of goods rather than a student of science. I think barter is a noble thing.

If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.

If I have my way, I'm going to dissolve the Forest Service. They're in the business of harvesting trees and they're not harvesting trees, so why have them anymore ?

If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard.

If I'm watching my son play soccer, that's what I'm doing. If I'm going to a school concert, that's what I'm doing. I turn the phone off. I actively tune into whatever I'm doing. I walk every evening with one of my sons and for that half an hour, 45 minutes, that's what I'm doing.

I find it very difficult to think of mistakes; not that I don't make any but because I was brought up to look only at the good things in life ... As for what lost the most money, probably Virgin Cola. It is still No 1 in Bangladesh though.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there'd be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan.

If I've learned anything in this business, it's that you have to be fearless.

If I were in this business only for the business, I wouldn't be in this business.

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.

If joining IBM was commitment, not employment, and the company engaged in something more than business, it had a right to demand of its men unconditional loyalty, Watson believed.

If I were running a company today, I would have one priority above all others: to acquire as many of the best people as I could. I'd put off everything else to fill my bus. Because things are going to come back. My flywheel is going to start to turn. And the single biggest constraint on the success of my organization is the ability to get and to hang on to enough of the right people.

If not me- who?, If not now- when?

If other countries don't impose a cost on carbon, then we will be at a disadvantage...we would look at considering perhaps duties that would offset that cost.

If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.

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

I found every single successful person I've ever spoken to had a turning point. The turning point was when they made a clear, specific unequivocal decision that they were going to achieve success. Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50, and most people never make it at all.

If people like you they'll listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you.

If someone asks you for something, provide them with a clear "No" or a delivery date.

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

If sophisticated calculations are needed to justify an action, don't do it.

If the business were a play, Act One is: Woohoo, bright and bushy-tailed. We're going to make something great! Act Two is: We're six months behind on back-end development. We're trying to raise venture capital. We're trying to figure out what furniture we should sell to make payroll.

If sustainability is going to take hold in the corporate sector in a big way - and we need it to - it will be when it produces big profits and faster growth. It won't happen because of an optional executive commitment to an abstract concept. It will happen because sustainability is a great business strategy. And it is

If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?

If the community is happy, then they support your business and if your business is doing well, then you can give back even more to the community.

If the boss is a jerk, get over it. First of all, don't you think there's a good chance that your boss's boss knows what's going on? If so, just keep your head down and do the work. Usually, if you put in maximum effort and produce excellent results, someone in the company is going to take notice. Either you will get promoted or your jerky boss will get the heave-ho. It happens all the time.

If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy.

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.

... if the production of any commodity necessitates the sacrifice of human life, society should do without that commodity, but itcan not do without that life.

If the other guy is getting better, then you'd better be getting better faster than the other guy is getting better... or you're getting worse.

If there are questions that are unanswered by research, they will be answered by a strategy division, a data-mining group or someone else within the organization. We need to be more effective at collaborating with these groups.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

If there is no worker involvement, there is no quality system

If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.

If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.

If there's a big problem and you've got the right people with you, usually the answer emerges and you do what's the obvious thing to do. I don't think of myself as some great manager or great leader. I've been very lucky to be in the positions that I've been in. I meet a lot of people and I've grown a lot of companies, and I meet a lot of CEOs at big enterprises. I'm always so surprised at how much they seem to know. It doesn't always seem to be correlated to how well they actually do.

If there is excitement in their lives, it is contained in the figures on the profit and loss sheet. What an indictment.

If there's something you want to build, but the tech isn't there yet, just find the closest possible way to make it happen.

If the spirit of business adventure is dulled, this country will cease to hold the foremost position in the world.

If they blow it [the world] up, that's not my business. My business is to work.

If trade undermines life, narrows it or impoverishes it, then it can destroy the world. If it enhances life, then it can better the world.

If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.

If tomorrow, women woke up and decided they really liked their bodies, just think how many industries would go out of business.

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

If we achieve our sustainability targets and no one else follows, we will have failed.