Business Quotes - Page 38

• 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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• Happiness does not require an expanding economy

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Doe, Management, Economics

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• We have an economy that tells us it is cheaper to destroy earth in real time rather than renew, restore, and sustain it. You can print money to bail out a bank but you can't print life to bail out a planet.

  Paul Hawken

  Real, Bail, Earth

  "You are Brilliant, and the Earth is Hiring". Paul Hawken's commencement speech at the University of Portland in Oregon, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2014.

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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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• Investors want to know how exposed a business is to climate change. The physical risks to Tesco are clear, but could be far-reaching. Freak weather in the past few months has disrupted our supply lines in Hungary, Bangladesh and Korea. Any responsible board of directors should be planning ahead, thinking through these risks, and presenting them in a clear, transparent way

  Terry Leahy

  Past, Thinking, Korea

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• Today, the UK must be the pioneer of a new model of economic change, that integrates social and environmental consideration. This is not just a question of values and moral duty. It is about our economy's capacity to sustain itself

  David Miliband

  Environmental, Pioneers, Today

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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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• For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility.

  Richard Branson

  Mean, Responsibility, Successful

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Almost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and dandy if we lived on an infinite planet, but there's this small, niggling, inconvenient fact that the planet is, in fact, finite, and that, unlike economic theory, it is governed by physical and biological reality

  George Monbiot

  Reality, Ideas, Growth

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• Environmental policies are not just about good publicity; they are about responding to the moral imperative to address both climate change and resource depletion...A company culture that is based on measuring everything in purely financial terms will be crippled by a high turnover of staff, customers and suppliers

  Toby Robins

  Environmental, Climate, Culture

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• Commercial organisations that operate responsibly have benefitted by increased revenues of 682% compared to 166% for those that don't

  John P. Kotter

  Management, Economics, Revenue

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• I never wanted to be a businessman, I just wanted to change the world

  Richard Branson

  World, Management, Economics

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• Business as usual is dead. Green growth is the answer to both our climate and economic problems

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Growth, Climate, Usual

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• We believe responsible business can be profitable business

  Stuart Rose

  Believe, Management, Economics

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• Hard work will always bring opportunities

  Karren Brady

  Hard Work, Opportunity, Management

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• The amount of time people waste dwelling on failures rather than putting that energy into another project, always amazes me

  Richard Branson

  Dwelling, People, Energy

  Sir Richard Branson (2012). “Like A Virgin: Secrets They Won’t Teach You at Business School”, p.26, Random House

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• We do not believe that you can be 'half responsible' or pick and choose the convenient areas to be responsible in

  Arun Sarin

  Believe, Half, Management

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• Companies that understand their links with the communities they operate in, and their impact on the environment, are most likely to prosper in the long-term

  Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham

  Impact, Long, Community

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• Designers are inherently optimistic people who try to make the world a better place

  William McDonough

  Optimistic, People, Trying

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• My business is hurting people.

  Sugar Ray Robinson

  Funny, Hurt, People

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• All of us have read the stories about young people in Hollywood and all the challenges they have to confront there, and I think that artistically, I really didn't understand the commercial side of the film business, so I went back to a purely artistic setting.

  Marisa Tomei

  Thinking, People, Challenges

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