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

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

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

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

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 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 are really serious about preventing another crisis like the 2008 meltdown we should simply ban complex financial instruments, unless they can be unambiguously shown to benefit society in the long run. This is what we do all the time with other products-drugs, cars, electrical products and many others.

If we agree that the bottom line of life is happiness, not success, then it makes perfect sense to say that it is the journey that counts, not reaching the destination.

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

If we are going to carry on growing, and we will, because no country is going to forfeit its right to economic growth, we have to find a way of doing it sustainably.

If we [are to] reach a situation of true peace, real peace, peace for generations, we will have to make painful concessions. Not in exchange for promises, but rather in exchange for peace.

If we are to have a stabilized market demand, selling pressure should be maintained . . . perhaps increased . . .at the first sign of a decline in business. I know of no single way business managers can do more to stabilize market demand than through greater stabilization of sales and advertising expenditures.

If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world. This task is open-ended. It can never be finished. But a conscious effort to answer this challenge will change the world.

If we change the way the electricity sector operates, we can bring down our levels of carbon pollution, and continue the crucial task of tackling climate change. Putting a price on carbon would do this.

If we don't embrace a low carbon economy this decade, it won't just harm the planet, but also the U.S. economy.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

...if we expended all our energies solely on taking care of our own needs we would stop growing. In that respect what we call "soul" can be viewed as the surplus energy that can be invested into change and transformation. As such, it is the cutting edge of evolution.

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

If we die, do not mourn for us. This is a risky business we're in, and we accept those risks. The space program is too valuable to this country to be halted for too long if a disaster should ever happen.

If we try and fail, we have temporary disappointments. But if we do not try at all, we have permanent regrets.

If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting.

If we want to produce people who share the values of a democratic culture, they must be taught those values and not be left to acquire them by chance.

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

If women really earned fifty-nine cents to the dollar for the same work as men, what business could compete effectively by hiring men at any level?

If we somehow put a value on species extinction and factor that into our costs that bottom line would look very different. IF we put any resource depletion into costs our bottom line would change. So what we have is a dishonest market that does not take into account all the costs when it establishes its prices. We need an honest marketplace before we can let the market work for sustainability rather than against it as it works today.

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals.

If you are a complete perfectionist, then the truth is that this ice skating business will drive you a little crazy!

If you are attempting the impossible, you will fail.

If you are looking for a kindly, well-to-do older gentleman who is no longer interested in sex, take out an ad in The Wall Street Journal.