It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost, and at any risk to the rest of the community.
I know that the podcast is typically something I can do forever, because it's mine; it's just me and my producer and business partner, so it's our business.
There was a camera club at Columbia, where I was taking a painting course. And when I went down, somebody showed me how to use the stuff. That's all. I haven't done anything else since then, It was as simple as that. I fell into the business.
An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.
If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
I realized early on, maybe better than some of my competitors did, that a textile business can run only if you have scale. I decided to horizontally and vertically integrate, adding everything from spinning, dyeing, weaving, and stitching to processing and packing.
If you want to succeed, you've got to be okay to just lose control.
We are imperfect beings in a very imperfect world, and the one thing we can count on is that things will go wrong, and that each and every one of us will have problems.
Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.
As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.
My business is the analytical framework.
The record business. It’s exactly what it is-Record-Busin ess. You have to take care of both, or they won’t take care of you.
Real benefits come when managers begin to understand the profound difference between 'cost cutting' and 'eliminating the causes of costs'
Two business women can 'make a home' together without either one being over-burdened or over-bored. It is because they both know how and both feel responsible. But it is a rare man who can marry one of them and continue the home-making partnership.
The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings.
Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.
I mean, there's always somebody in somebody's administration who jumps out early, sells a book, and goes after the guy who hired him,. . . I don't know if that's good. It may be good business; it's not good politics.
Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.
What's her name?" "None of your business. " "That can't possibly be her name.
The only person who can put you out of business, in the early days, is yourself.