business

Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.

Whether in an advantageous position or a disadvantageous one, the opposite state should be always present to your mind.

Your uniqueness is your greatest strength, not how well you emulate others.

Companies aren__ families. They__e battlefields in a civil war.

That__ the problem with any __imple truth___t always takes a gaggle of complete idiots or a team of all-knowing geniuses to miss it.

The bottom line is down where it belongs - at the bottom.

My phone isn't "smart" because of its features. I make it smart by maximizing the phone's feature-set toward better personal efficiency.

You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked.

PALATABLE CRITICISM: In a performance review, don't offer more than three criticisms. That's all an employee can digest.

One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.

I say, 'Get me some poets as managers.' Poets are our original systems thinkers. They contemplate the world in which we live and feel obligated to interpret, and give expression to it in a way that makes the reader understand how that world runs. Poets, those unheralded systems thinkers, are our true digital thinkers. It is from their midst that I believe we will draw tomorrow's new business leaders."--Sidney Harman, CEO Multimillionaire of a stereo components company

I think it's best to keep the controversy on the pages and not in our relationships.

There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.

Appraisal _ the best resources will get the worst result

Brockhurst, the champion of individualism, was soon launched on his favorite topic."The great fault of the American nation, which is the fault of republics, is the reduction of everything to the average. Our universities are simply the expression of the forces that are operating outside. We are business colleges purely and simply, because we as a nation have only one ideal__he business ideal.""That's a big statement," said Regan."It's true. Twenty years ago we had the ideal of the lawyer, of the doctor, of the statesman, of the gentleman, of the man of letters, of the soldier. Now the lawyer is simply a supernumerary enlisting under any banner for pay; the doctor is overshadowed by the specialist with his business development of the possibilities of the rich; we have politicians, and politics are deemed impossible for a gentleman; the gentleman cultured, simple, hospitable, and kind, is of the dying generation; the soldier is simply on parade.""Wow!" said Ricketts, jingling his chips. "They're off.""Everything has conformed to business, everything has been made to pay. Art is now a respectable career__o whom? To the business man. Why? Because a profession that is paid $3,000 to $5,000 a portrait is no longer an art, but a blamed good business. The man who cooks up his novel according to the weakness of his public sells a hundred thousand copies. Dime novel? No; published by our most conservative publishers__ne of our leading citizens. He has found out that scribbling is a new field of business. He has convinced the business man. He has made it pay.

Look at each failure as a deposit made into the account that will help you write the check for your next significant success.

A true business opportunity is the on that an entrepreneur invents to grow him or herself. Not to work in, but to work on.

So long as victory can be attained,_ stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness.