Business Quote by John Elkington Download Open image “Any prudent business looks at the reality and how to maximize our investment.” — John Elkington ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Business Investing Investment Looks Prudent Reality
You should invest in a business that even a fool can run, because someday a fool will. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We try to buy businesses with good-to-superb underlying economics run by honest and able people and buy them at sensible prices. That's all I'm… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
When I look at this company, I envision a billion-dollar business, and that's how it's run. — David Steward Copy Share Image
Our investments continue to be few in number and simple in concept: The truly big investment idea can usually be explained in a short… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Your initial instincts about investments and people are usually correct. We do a lot of due diligence in this business and most of the… — Alan Patricof Copy Share Image
People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
I strongly believe the business of a business is to improve the world. — Marc Benioff Copy Share Image
Businesses must invest in products and people in order to create new wealth. — John Hoeven Copy Share Image
We say we are trying to buy into businesses with excellent economics, run by honest and able people at a decent price. We buy… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Before you invest in anything else, exhaust the possibilities of investing in your own business first. — Paul Zane Pilzer Copy Share Image
I think that consumerism is intrinsically a pretty flawed social system. — John Elkington Copy Share Image
I'm worried about greenwashing. I think we should come down on it very, very hard, whether it's with criminal intent or actively deceptive. — John Elkington Copy Share Image
I think people often underestimate the power of consumers. But I equally say that consumers are like shock troops: You can't keep them agitated… — John Elkington Copy Share Image
I think consumerism breeds dissatisfaction, and I think that the advertisers play to that. So I cannot be comfortable with that. On the other… — John Elkington Copy Share Image
So, you could call me optimistic and hopeful and probably just a little bit naïve, but I'm coming from the space that the best… — John Elkington Copy Share Image
I'm part of the consumer culture. I was part of the baby boom generation. I have a car when I shouldn't, a couple of… — John Elkington Copy Share Image
Behavioral change is more important than individual product choices. They both have a role to play. — John Elkington Copy Share Image
The biggest weakness of the green-consumer movement, always, is that we tend to pick the easy-to-do things because that's where we can most readily… — John Elkington Copy Share Image
The path to relative economic, social and ecological sustainability is guaranteed to be littered with failures of every nature and scale. If we recognize… — John Elkington Copy Share Image
I became a vegetarian 55 years ago, and I think it's one of the more important behavioral changes I ever took. The more I… — John Elkington Copy Share Image
What people say often precedes what they think. Some people sometimes say, "I have to hear myself talk before I know what I think."… — John Elkington Copy Share Image
Companies watch what consumers are doing like a hawk. Just as one letter to a politician can signal an insipient problem, for companies, a… — John Elkington Copy Share Image
Companies with cultures that celebrate diverse opinions and encourage the exchange of ideas have an advantage when solving difficult problems. A company that doesn't… — Doug McMillon Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I'm a business first and foremost so whatever my business is, it's separate from my personal. It's like whatever I do business wise, it's… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
Many early-stage entrepreneurs make one simple mistake: Describing this 'big picture' in vague concepts and words. — Sunil Nagaraj Copy Share Image
Nobody has a crystal ball, and part of evolving a business plan is to say, 'I might have said we're going left, but I… — Ryan Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
“[S]ometimes, when you are a food person, the possible irrelevance of what you are doing doesn’t cross your mind until it’s too late. (Once,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
If you have a different mindset, you will have a different outcome: if you make different choices from your peers, your life will then… — Jack Ma Copy Share Image
“Some say the Earth is angry Because he wants no company; I say the Earth is angry Because he lives alone.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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