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In GE every day, there's an informal, unspoken personnel review in the lunchroom, the hallways, and in every business meeting. That intense people focus testing everyone in a myriad of environments de...
— Jack Welch · Business
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
— John D. Rockefeller · Business
Barra said she serves at the pleasure of the Board of the Directors, but went on to describe the current situation of General Motors as “such an exciting time.” She remarked that the next few years wi...
— Mary Barra · Business
At the same time, the world still isn’t very welcoming or respectful toward full-time at-home dads.
— Sheryl Sandberg · Business
I think South Africa is a great country.
— Elon Musk · Business
Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.
— Andrew Carnegie · Business
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— Mark Zuckerberg · Business
Reigniting the revolution means I want us to notice all of this and find ways to encourage more women to step up and more companies to recognize what women bring to the table.
— Sheryl Sandberg · Business
If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.
— Richard Branson · Business
The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit — a reputation, character.
— John D. Rockefeller · Business
First of all, I need clarity, and then I need consistency
— Mary Barra · Business
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
— Warren Buffett · Business
I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. ... It costs a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It's addictive. And there's fantastic brand loyalty.
— Warren Buffett · Business
Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds and when they grow up they will change the world.
— Jack Ma · Business
Our message is making sure they understand what the auto industry is [and] how it operates, so we can be competitive and not be put at a disadvantage to our foreign competitors
— Mary Barra · Business
To be popular is easy; to be right when right is unpopular, is noble... I repudiate with scorn the immoral doctrine, 'Our country, right or wrong'.
— Andrew Carnegie · Business
You can converge a toaster and refrigerator, but these things are probably not going to be pleasing to the user.
— Tim Cook · Business
It is hard to think that a $2 billion company with 4,300-plus people couldn't compete with six people in blue jeans.
— Steve Jobs · Business
We have a lot of work to do. We have 90% of PC [market] share and 14% of total device share. We get that,
— Satya Nadella · Business
I wanted to change the rules of engagement, asking for more from fewer. I was insisting that we had to have only the best people...If you wanted excellence, at a minimum, the ambience had to reflect ...
— Jack Welch · Business
[T]he ‘total state’ of fascism is not a political alignment within the existing political and social setup, but that it is a revolution which, like all revolutions, works from without.
— Peter Drucker · Business
Thus is the problem of Rich and Poor to be solved. The laws of accumulation will be left free; the laws of distribution free. Individualism will continue, but the millionaire will be but a trustee of ...
— Andrew Carnegie · Business
But to do for the world more than the world does for you--that is Success.
— Henry Ford · Business
We call our daughters—but not our sons—bossy. We overestimate our sons’ crawling abilities and underestimate our daughters’.
— Sheryl Sandberg · Business
You cannot deliver value unless you anchor the company's values. Values make an unsinkable ship." Code of conduct goes beyond legal compliance and every employee needs to be well versed with it.
— Indra Nooyi · Business
Tuition costs are outrageous. Fortunately, they gave me a scholarship…so I only had to cover living expenses, books, etc., by working.
— Elon Musk · Business
Issues about violating people’s privacy don't seem to be surmountable, I’m not willing to risk insulting anyone.
— Mark Zuckerberg · Business
Such, in my opinion, is the true Gospel concerning Wealth, obedience to which is destined some day to solve the problem of the Rich and the Poor, and to bring "Peace on earth, among men Good Will.
— Andrew Carnegie · Business
If you have a really good idea, stick to it, but be flexible on how you get there. Be stubborn on your vision but flexible on the details... People who are right a lot change their mind... They have t...
— Jeff Bezos · Business
My reaction is that free speech not only lives, it rocks!
— Oprah Winfrey · Business