Best 5548 quotes in «business quotes» category

Customers want brands that are narrow in scope and distinguishable by a single word, the shorter the better.

Customers must trust an organisation and its people.

Customers don't expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong.

Customers should be number 1, Employees number 2, and then only your Shareholders come at number 3.

Cutting carbon in the supply chain is the next critical stage in the business contribution to reduce carbon emissions to tackle climate change and, represents a significant commercial opportunity.

Dad is my best mate and I can tell Mum absolutely anything. I really appreciate Mum and Dad. Why are we so close? Young parents, I think. The rock business keeps their minds young.

DAY, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. This period is divided into two parts, the day proper and the night, or day improper - the former devoted to sins of business, the latter consecrated to the other sort.

Data is great, but strategy is better

Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face, especially if you are in business. Yes, and that is also true if you are a housewife, architect or engineer.

Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here.

Decisions are a way of defining ourselves. There comes a time in life when there is nothing else to do but go your own way. Where you are headed there are no trails, no paths, just your own instincts.

Decide, before you start, that you're going to change three things about what you do all day at work. Then, as you're reading, find the three things and do it. The goal of the reading, then, isn't to persuade you to change, it's to help you choose what to change.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do.

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

Democrats lead in all the polls by at least ten points, except one.. Fox News. That is with a margin of error of plus or minus the facts.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Design isn't just about making things beautiful; it's also about making things work beautifully.

Desire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success.

Despite the immense challenges that we have faced and continue to face, we refuse to indulge in negativity or pessimism. We are an organization that believes in empowering people to be their best.

Developing a prototype early is the number one goal for our designers, or anyone else who has an idea, for that matter. We don't trust it until we can see it and feel it.

Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you're just a middleman.

Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most personal desires - if they omit the irrational from their view of the possible and destruction from their view of the practical?

Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most personal desires if they omit the irrational from their view of the possible and destruction from their view of the practical? There is no conflict, and no call for sacrifice, and no man is a threat to the aims of another if men understand that reality is an absolute not to be faked, that lies do not work, that the unearned cannot be had, that the undeserved cannot be given, that the destruction of a value which is, will not bring value to that which isn't.

Discipline allows you to trade effectively. You can take your ego out of it. You can go wrong 60, 70% of the time and still make a lot of money. If you ignore the discipline of managing risk, you have to be right 80% of the time or more, and I don't know anyone who's that good.

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular gift in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to dispatch than method.

...[D]ivision of labor, in my mind, is one of the dangers of work-based technology. Modern IT infrastructure allows us to break projects into very small, discrete parts and assign each person to do only one of the many parts. In so doing, companies run the risk of taking away employees' sense of the big picture, purpose, and sense of completion.

Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale.

Doing the things we do now and doing them better, cheaper and faster will take us far. But it will not take us far enough. We're going to have to do new things in new ways.

Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Do not address your readers as though they were gathered together in a stadium. When people read your copy, they are alone. Pretend you are writing to each of them a letter on behalf of your client.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Do not hold grain waiting for higher prices when people are hungry.

Do not think a man has done his full duty when he has performed the work assigned him. A man will never rise if he does only this. Promotion comes from exceptional work.

Don't become a slave to technology - manage your phone, don't let it manage you.

Don't become a slave to non-crucial matters.

Don't be shy about believing in your ideas - even if folks around you think you're crazy.

Don't be addicted to money. Work to learn. don't work for money. Work for knowledge.

Don't be cocky. Don't be flashy. There's always someone better than you.

Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

Dont count the things you do, do the things that count.

Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

Don't be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don't let the bastards get you down.

Don't cheat yourself out of music. Music is one thing. The music business is another thing. Save enough of yourself to keep living anyway. Save enough joy in your heart to enjoy it. Let your reward be in the doing of it.

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.

Don't even trust that you are able to unify what everyone is thinking; it is impossible