The secret of getting ahead is getting started
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.
The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk.
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
The time to go into a new business is when it’s badly run by others.
For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.
Time for a new business model for the 21st century. For starters, retire that outdated and creepy clown. You can be a true leader by stop exploiting children. I guarantee the millennials market you’re after will reward you for it. I know the public health world will applaud you, starting with myself.
Organizations need to undergo fundamental changes, both in order to adapt to the new business environment and to become ecologically sustainable.
The Internet produces new business models and also reinvents traditional business models.
I want to experience Dallas. It's a new city where I see new business opportunities.
Samsung's future hinges on new businesses, new products and new technologies. We should make our corporate culture more open, flexible and innovative.
I do think that people have an obligation to give back but that doesn't necessarily mean that you give back just the traditional way. Maybe there's new ways to give back and make a contribution. I'm looking forward to some mix of philanthropy - maybe through a somewhat different prism - as well as helping entrepreneurs build some significant new businesses.
Asset-heavy businesses generally earn low rates of return - rates that often barely provide enough capital to fund the inflationary needs of the existing business, with nothing left over for real growth, for distribution to owners, or for acquisition of new businesses
We don't actually plan to launch new businesses over the next few years, but we are planning to take the ones we have into new territories.
A great trick that I learned having worked as a screenwriter for many years, the way screenwriters work, is they break the project down into three-act structure: Act 1, Act 2, Act 3. I think that is a great way to break down any project, whether it's a new business or anything at all.
I've always been business-minded. I worked in corporate America before becoming an actress and knew that acting wasn't the end but a means to an end. It gave me the platform and the exposure I needed to do my philanthropic work. It also gave me the financial security to focus on my other businesses, start new businesses, and even help other people start businesses.
When you are starting a new business you don't want to go after giant markets. You want to go after small markets and take over those markets quickly.
We are focusing Philip Morris organization much more on the new business. We will have very few new traditional product introductions, and as markets switch to IQOS we would remove resources from the old business completely.Next year IQOS becomes profitable, so even the financing from these traditional businesses isn't necessary anymore, because it becomes fully self-sustaining.
If you look at who starts new businesses, people that are innovative and risk takers. When you look at immigrants, you really have to be an innovator and a risk taker to leave everything you know in the old country and go to a new country. People that come here in America come here to work.
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