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“Personal relationships are always the key to good business. You can buy networking you can't buy friendships.”
“The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'”
“As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business.”
“Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.”
“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.”
“The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketp...”
“People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.”
“I believe that the Laws of Karma do not apply to show business, where good things happen to bad people on a fairly regular basis.”
“Since I was 9 years old, I've been in the entertainment business, and everyone is always telling me what - and what not - to do... you just get a tough skin and have to not care about what people t...”
“Good design is good business.”
“Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.”
“I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and...”
“Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of the mouths of other people.”
“Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.”
“We need to revise our economic thinking to give full value to our natural resources. This revised economics will stabilize both the theory and the practice of free-market capitalism. It will provid...”
“Even if the chef has a good business head, his focus should be behind kitchen doors. A business partner should take care of everything in front of the kitchen doors.”
“Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'.”
“Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.”
“I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good ...”
“A company is only as good as the people it keeps.”
