Business Quotes - Page 34

• Good counselors lack no clients.

  William Shakespeare

  Clients, Counselor

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Measure for Measure! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelli”, p.64, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The linear 'Take - Make - Dispose' system, which depletes natural resources and generates waste, is deeply flawed and can be productively replaced by a restorative model in which waste does not exist as such but is only food for the next cycle

  Ellen MacArthur

  Doe, Restoration, Waste

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• 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.

  Tom DeLay

  Cutting, Opportunity, Carbon Emissions

  "Firms offered help shrinking carbon footprints" by Hilary Osborne, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2006.

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• Turning every business into an environmental industry will involve applying new principles...first, we need to make more with less...second, we need to design out waste...third, we must begin to decarbonise our energy supply

  David Miliband

  Design, Environmental, Energy

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• Cost-effective, attractive to business partners, environmentally friendly, easy access to a wide range of guidance and support - it makes good business sense to implement and maintain a robust and effective environmental management system

  Elliot Morley

  Support, Environmental, Friendly

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• In the UK what we've found is that even businesses which prided themselves already on their efficient management find that a really beady-eyed scrutiny of their resource management, with an eye to environmental best-practice and long term sustainability, produce fresh efficiency and fresh savings that actually shock those in the company

  Margaret Beckett

  Eye, Best Practices, Long

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• A sustainable business is resource efficient, respects the environment and is a good neighbour

  Phil Harding

  Management, Environment, Economics

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• A sound man is good at salvage, at seeing nothing is lost

  Laozi

  Men, Sound, Economics

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• Business is the force of change. Business is essential to solving the climate crisis, because this is what business is best at: innovating, changing, addressing risks, searching for opportunities. There is no more vital task

  Richard Branson

  Opportunity, Risk, Climate

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• Quickest way to build trust: Keep promises you make, don't over-promise. Over-deliver, don't under-deliver. If you say you'll do something, make sure you do but if things then run late or go wrong, tell your client at the earliest opportunity

  Phil Harding

  Running, Opportunity, Promise

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• Having colleagues nearby, whether at the beach or in a crypt, means the ideas are always flowing

  Richard Branson

  Beach, Mean, Ideas

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• Strong leaders understand that action cures indecision

  Toyotomi Hideyoshi

  Strong, Leader, Action

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• Data is great, but strategy is better

  Steven Sinofsky

  Data, Management, Strategy

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• ...how engaged are your employees right now? You may consider such a question impossible to answer, but the truth is, you need to know this if you want a more profitable, ethical organization, as everyone must share the same values to make the changes genuine

  Jim Craig

  Organization, Needs, Answers

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• Be generous with the credit for your achievements. The more other people feel that they are gaining from your success, the more they will continue to help and others will want to join in

  Octavius Black

  People, Achievement, Credit

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• Thirty years ago, about 80% of a company's assets resided in its plant and equipment, with 20% in the knowledge of its people. Today, the reverse is true. The knowledge of our staff is our principal asset

  Susan Rice

  Happy, Years, People

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• It's better to ask the right questions than accept the status quo

  Phil Harding

  Management, Economics, Accepting

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• Business and the environment: Wasting resources costs the earth - and lowers your competitive edge

  Phil Harding

  Cost, Earth, Management

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• It's the behaviour of your company and its people that form your reputation, and your reputation is your brand

  Dave Allen

  People, Behaviour, Reputation

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• We spend most of our lives working. So why do so few people have a good time doing it?

  Richard Branson

  People, Good Times, Management

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• A passion for continual learning, a refined, discerning ear for the moral and ethical consequences of their actions, and an understanding of the purposes of work and human organisations

  Warren G. Bennis

  Passion, Understanding, Purpose

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• The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action

  Chester Barnard

  Art, Use, Nine

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• What you manage in business is people

  Harold Geneen

  People, Management, Economics

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• It's a great discipline to have to report to somebody, even if you're the sole owner

  Tim O'Reilly

  Discipline, Management, Economics

  "TIP OF THE DAY: Get People to Hold You Accountable". www.businessinsider.com. August 2, 2010.

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• (Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation of profit, it is the avoidance of loss

  Peter Drucker

  Loss, Guiding Principles, Waste

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