Business Quotes - Page 35

• A generation ago, the image was that you had to trample everyone else down to succeed; but I don't believe that makes good business sense.

  Richard Branson

  Believe, Generations, Succeed

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• Leadership produces change. That is its primary function

  John P. Kotter

  Management, Economics, Produce

  John P. Kotter (2008). “Force For Change: How Leadership Differs from Management”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• What you manage in business is people

  Harold Geneen

  People, Management, Economics

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• People work in the system. Management creates the system

  W. Edwards Deming

  Work, People, Management

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• In difficult circumstances, teams either separate or come closer together, it's as simple as that

  Ron Dennis

  Team, Simple, Together

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• The enemy of stability can be complacency

  Ross Brawn

  Enemy, Complacency, Management

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• Nothing beats standing in the middle of the action, with all the data I need at my fingertips

  Betty Liu

  Data, Needs, Action

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• It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away

  Harold Geneen

  Management, Economics, Standing Out

  "Managing". Book by Harold Geneen, Chapter Six (Leadership), p. 89,

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• If there is no worker involvement, there is no quality system

  Lloyd Dobyns

  Leadership, Quality, Management

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• Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons

  Pope John Paul II

  Education, Men, Community

  Pope John Paul II (1981). “Human Work”

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• Inspirational leadership connects to a highly motivated workforce which, in turn, means inspirational results

  Nigel Crouch

  Mean, Management, Economics

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• "The ultimate recession": a recession caused not by failed regulation and bankers' greed, but by very high oil prices, food and water shortages, disappearing forests, accelerating climate change, forced migration and mass civil disruption...The long and the short of it, unfortunately, is this: more politicians still believe that economic recovery depends on continuing to live beyond our means (financially and ecologically) than on learning to live within our means. And that's why the ultimate "Perfect Storm" recession still looms on the horizon

  Jonathon Porritt

  Believe, Recovery, Mean

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• The New Capitalism (arising from the global economic downturn)...those running our biggest commercial businesses will have to be more visible. They'll have to manifest a genuine understanding not only of the anxieties of their employees but of all taxpayers. Those chief executives who succeed will be those who imbue in their businesses very simple, commonsense standards of decency

  Robert Peston

  Running, Simple, Anxiety

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• Sustainability is about profit...it is the opportunity of the century

  Ben Clarke

  Opportunity, Management, Sustainability

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• Economic dynamism can be combined with environmental and social responsibility. High financial returns can go hand in hand with respect for human rights, and the preservation of the planet's natural resources

  David Miliband

  Responsibility, Rights, Hands

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• We have a basic notion that unless we find a solution for environmental problems, we will not achieve sustainable growth in the coming years

  Hiroyuki Watanabe

  Years, Growth, Environmental

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• Companies not interested in sustainable development issues will not survive long

  Malcolm Brinded

  Issues, Long, Development

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• 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 biggest enemy of management is indifference. It's when people don't give a damn

  Carlos Ghosn

  People, Giving, Enemy

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• The person who writes the bank's commercials is not the person who makes the loans.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Management, Loan

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• 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.

  Tony Blair

  Country, Growth, Growing

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• All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Responsibility, Men, Fulfilling

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