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Business Quotes by James Surowiecki
- If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.
- In the business world, bad news is usually good news - for somebody else.
- I started in business journalism from the outside, so when I started writing about markets and business, I was struck by the fact that markets…
- If someone really wants my company's business, why shouldn't he be able to do everything he can - including paying me off - to get…
- In a world where companies increasingly know about their business in real time, it makes no sense that public reporting mostly follows the old quarterly…
- In practice, downsizing is too often about cutting your work force while keeping your business the same, and doing so not by investments in productivity-enhancing…
- On the simplest level, telecommuting makes it harder for people to have the kinds of informal interactions that are crucial to the way knowledge moves…
- The fundamental problem with banks is what it's always been: they're in the business of banking, and banking, whether plain vanilla or incredibly sophisticated, is…
- The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the digital-music business; Blockbuster…
- Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and bribery was seen as an unpleasant but necessary part of doing business there.…
- The problem with venality in business is that getting outraged about it makes it easy to miss the systemic problems that venality often disguises.
- Sometimes you have to destroy your business in order to save it.
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- I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service. — Richard Bach
- Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But… — Gerard Arpey
- I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a… — David Arquette
- I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur
- Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind… — Mary Kay Ash
- Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people. — Mary Kay Ash
- Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not… — Mary Kay Ash
- People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is… — Mary Kay Ash