Quotes by Business Executives - Page 2

Nothing tells you more about an organization than the way it makes decisions.
Dennis Bakke
Success is that old ABC- ability breaks and courage.
Charles Luckman
I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
Harold Geneen
We are only constrained by the boundaries of our imagination
David Moffett
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of a mistake
Meg Whitman
If you're not happy every morning when you get up leave for work or start to work at home-if you're not enthusiastic about doing that you're not going to be successful.
Donald M. Kendall
I like how Mother Teresa put it: "Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile." If you approach life this way, always looking for ways to build instead of to tear down, you'll be amazed at how much happiness you can give to others and find for yourself
Sean Covey
It's especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than they do.
Sean Covey
Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.
Robert W. Sarnoff
There comes a time when you've got to say "Let's get off our asses and go ..." I have always found that if I move with 75 percent or more of the facts I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.
Lee Iacocca
I started the business with a simple question: How can we make the process of buying a computer better? The answer was: Sell computers directly to the end customer. Eliminate the reseller's markup and pass those savings on to the customer.
Michael Dell
Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?
Sean Covey
This compound should be available from most good drugstores. I got increasingly annoyed with this phrase because in the world I lived in, even ordinary soap was available only intermittently............In an economy that operated by central planning, shortages of just about everything were commonplace." the author dexcribing life in Hungary in the 1950s under Communist Russian rule.
Andrew S. Grove
People want guidance, not rhetoric. They need to know what the plan of action is, and how it will be implemented. They want to be given responsibility to help solve the problem and authority to act on it.
Howard Schultz
Authentic brands don't emerge from marketing cubicles or advertising agencies. They emanate from everything the company does...
Howard Schultz
Early on I realized that I had to hire people smarter and ore qualified than I was in a number of different fields, and I had to let go of a lot of decision-making. I can't tell you how hard that is. But if you've imprinted your values on the people around you, you can dare to trust them to make the right moves.
Howard Schultz
The role of leaders is not to get other people to follow them but to empower others to lead.
Bill George
I wrote Beyond The Label to open up the aperture through which we look at the world. I want us to reconsider what it means to be a woman, a mentor, a wife, a mother.
Maureen Chiquet
This book is for those of you who are tired of trying to squeeze into constrained categories, who long for a life without limits on who you are or who you will become.
Maureen Chiquet
Our confidence needs to come from within, not without. From the quality of our hearts, not the quantity of things we own. After all, he who dies with the most toys...still dies.
Sean Covey
Business success contains the seeds of its destruction.
Andrew S. Grove
In this ever-changing society, the most powerful and enduring brands are built from the heart. They are real and sustainable. Their foundations are stronger because they are built with the strength of the human spirit, not an ad campaign. The companies that are lasting are those that are authentic.
Howard Schultz
Complacency often afflicts precisely those who have been the most successful.
Andrew S. Grove
Leadership is not about your ambition. It is about bringing out the ambitions of your team.
Cheryl A. Bachelder
The most important thing is to be excellent, interesting, authentic, or useful. To be the thing, not the thing that sells the thing. That's fantastic news for creative people, who specialize in the stuff. Thanks to toomuchness, creativity, once exclusively the province of poets, has suddenly become a business imperative.
Andrew Essex
The role of the CEO is to enable people to excel, help them discover their own wisdom, engage themselves entirely in their work, and accept responsibility for making change. (164)
Vineet Nayar
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluable problems.
Lee Iacocca
You can buy a man's time, you can buy a man's physical presence at a certain place, you can even buy a measured number of skilled muscular motions per hour or day. But you cannot buy enthusiasm, you cannot buy initiative, you cannot buy loyalty; you cannot buy the devotion of hearts, minds, and souls. You have to earn these things.
Clarence Francis
Progress results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done.
Russell W. Davenport
If I were to suggest a general rule for happiness I would say "Work a little harder Work a little longer Work!"
Frederick H. Ecker
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
Lee Iacocca
Community is composed of that which we don't attempt to measure, for which we keep no record and ask no recompense. Most are things we cannot measure no matter how hard we try.
Dee Hock
There are moments in our lives when we summon the courage to make choices that go against reason, against common sense and the wise counsel of people we trust.
Howard Schultz
One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.
Paul W. Litchfield
Don't shut love out of your life by saying it's impossible to find time. The quickest way to receive love is to give the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly and the best way to keep love is to give it wings.
Brian Dyson
Priorities need to change at different stages of our life if we want to grow and evolve.
Apurva Purohit
I’ve always felt that a manager has achieved a great deal when he’s able to motivate one other person. When it comes to making the place run, motivation is everything. You might be able to do the work of two people, but you can’t be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.
Lee Iacocca
Success is that old ABC-Ability Breaks and Courage.
Charles Luckman
You have a masterpiece inside you, you know. One unlike any that has ever been created, or ever will be. If you go to your grave without painting your masterpiece, it will not get painted. No one else can paint it. Only you.
Gordon MacKenzie
Bigness comes from doing many small things well. ... Individually they are not very dramatic transactions. Together though they add up.
Edward S. Finkelstein
Today changes must come fast and we must adjust our mental habits so that we can accept comfortably the idea of stopping one thing and beginning another overnight.... We must assume that there is probably a better way to do almost everything. We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all.
Donald M. Nelson
The essence of community, its heart and soul, is the non-monetary exchange of value; things we do and share because we care for others, and for the good of the place.
Dee Hock
If you take risks, you may fail. But if you do not take risks, you will surely fail. The greatest risk of all is to do nothing.
Roberto Goizueta
In an environment where there is a shared vision of excellence, where people can be the best they can be on a daily basis, where they know what is expected of them, understand that reward is linked to performance, and believe they can make a difference because they will be heard, they will make a difference. They will go beyond our expectations and great things will happen.
Frederick Smith
Do it because it's right, not because it's right for your resume.
Howard Behar
The leader must have both – the courage to take the people to a daring destination and the humility to selflessly serve others on the journey.
Cheryl A. Bachelder
The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.
Bob Iger
If you decide to just go with the flow, you'll end up where the flow goes, which is usually downhill, often leading to a big pile of sludge and a life of unhappiness. You'll end up doing what everyone else is doing.
Sean Covey
Dishonesty is like a boomerang. Just when you think all is well, it hits you in the back of your head.
Pavan Choudary
Mass advertising can help build brands, but authenticity is what makes them last. If people believe they share values with a company, they will stay loyal to the brand.
Howard Schultz
If you could understand impermanence deeply, you would develop more equanimity. You would not get too excited about either the ups and downs of life.
Satya Nadella
Making heroes out of celebrity CEOs is at the heart of the crisis in corporate leadership.
Bill George
The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium.
Norbet Platt
A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.
Eric Schmidt
We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.
Sean Covey
This is not his job, I thought, it's his passion.
Howard Schultz
I used to float along in all of this, like a leaf on a coursing stream, but i am heavier now, less easily moved, more resolute and steadfast. I am no longer in pursuit of happiness. As I stand here at my front door, key in hand, I think it is just possible that happiness, at least for now, today, this hour, may be in pursuit of me.
Anne Giardini
Don't differentiate without a difference.
Andrew S. Grove
The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
Lee Iacocca
Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Without integrity, motivation is dangerous; without motivation, capacity is impotent; without capacity, understanding is limited; without understanding, knowledge is meaningless; without knowledge, experience is blind. Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.
Dee Hock