962 private quotes tagged business

“Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.” — Madeleine Albright

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“As a speaker, business leader or marketer of any type, the onus is now on each of us to become equally capable of communicating very personally with a seemingly endless number of people connected by social technologies.” — Simon Mainwaring

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“No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.” — Mikhail Baryshnikov

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“The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.” — Margaret Mitchell

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“So little done, so much to do.” — Cecil Rhodes

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“God will forgive me that's his business.” — Heinrich Heine

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“In today's social business marketplace Facebook is one of the best places for nonprofits to be discovered and connect with a larger audience on the basis of shared values. So to get started, a non-profit should launch a Facebook page and invite your existing real world community to connect your cause and their networks.” — Simon Mainwaring

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“And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.” — Shaquille O'Neal

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“There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media.” — Rush Limbaugh

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“Integrate purpose into your for-profit business model through a long term commitment to a cause that is aligned with your core values and those of your community.” — Simon Mainwaring

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“It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.” — Romain Rolland

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“Perhaps the most effective way to describe the approach a brand must take is to think of themselves as social cartographers. By that I mean that brands must simultaneously inspire, engage and maintain a series of conversations taking place within certain cultural landscape specific to their business goal.” — Simon Mainwaring

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“Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do.” — Richard Nelson Bolles

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“There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!” — Coco Chanel

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“In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.” — Barbara Corcoran

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“We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.” — Lucy Maud Montgomery

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“If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.” — Thomas Sowell

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“Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.” — Tom Robbins

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“The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like there's this one set of rules to follow to be a pop star and I think, 'Well, you say I'm a pop star, so maybe that's not true.'” — Kelly Clarkson

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“There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in business, but are essential to governing, like keeping a kid in school or helping someone get and hold a job. The value of those skills can't easily be measured against a bottom line.” — Dee Dee Myers

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“Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.” — William Congreve

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“The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.” — Benjamin Jowett

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“The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.” — Aristotle Onassis

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“Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends.” — Janice Dickinson

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“You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone.” — Dolly Parton

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