business

The Tanakh teaches that, __he diligent will rule, while the lazy will be put to forced labor_. Most Jews work for themselves and hire employees instead of being employees.

There has to be a way to redirect employee's driving ambition and to channel it more productively. There is. Create heroes in every role. Make every role, performed at excellence, a respected profession.

if you fight with all your might,_ there is a chance of life; where as death is certain if you cling to your corner

When you work under the cloud of anxiety, the best strategy is to play it safe, because if (when!) it fails, you__l be blameless.

We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country -- its mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices, its marshes and swamps.

The big print giveth and the fine print taketh away.

When we build on our strengths and daily successes _ instead of focusing on failures _ we simply learn more.

Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, __f my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?

Football is not merely a small business, it's also a bad one. Anyone who spends any time inside football soon discovers that just as oil is part of the oil business, stupidity is part of the football business.

The true start-up of a business is what happens before you start-up.

Strategy is about shaping the future.

Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.

Without question, the balance of power on the planet today lies in the hands of business. Corporations rival governments in wealth, influence, and power. Indeed, business all too often pulls the strings of government. Competing institutions-religion, the press, even the military-play subordinate roles in much of the world today. If a values-driven approach to business can begin to redirect this vast power toward more constructive ends than the simple accumulation of wealth, the human race and Planet Earth will have a fighting chance.

Most board meetings amount to little more than intellectual masturbation. They are ideas that cause thrills, chills, and satisfaction, but there is no impregnation. Nothing is ever born of them. It__ intellectual masturbation.

No matter what your reason for wanting to start your own business, developing the foundation is the same. Laying a solid foundation for you business will provide you with a road map to follow as you build your business. As you work through the Start a Business Step-by-Step Workbook you will define the company__ mission, decide what business entity is right for your business, name your business, determine the pricing for your products or services, formulate your financial projections, define your competitors, survey consumers regarding your products or services, determine the marketing methods right for your business and more.

Never lose time in sending the scapegoat to the slaughterhouse.

The principle on which to manage an army is to set up one standard of courage which all must reach.

But pecuniary interest is clearly not in your nature. How quaint. I have written about people who don't care for money, but I never expected to meet one. Therefor I conclude that the difficulty concerns integrity. People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appauling obsession with personal integrity." - Vida Winter