Business Decisions Quotes

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level. ~ Peter Drucker

I recently assured Public Sector Banks they will have total autonomy in taking business decisions. ~ Narendra Modi

The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones. ~ Bill Forsyth

Taxes cause the most bad business decisions. ~ James Cook

Just really, really believe in what you're trying to do. Don't let people alter that. Let people advise you and lead you down paths to make smart business decisions. But trust your instinct and trust that overwhelming drive that made you put all your dreams and everything on the line. ~ Luke Bryan

engineers agree to adapt the product to the business's constantly changing requirements but are not responsible for the quality of those business decisions. ~ Eric Ries

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 that business? Because bribery encourages people to make decisions based on the wrong criteria, which means in the business world that it distorts the efficient allocation of resources. ~ James Surowiecki

This is how life works. Deciding whom to love is not an alien form of decision-making, a romantic interlude in the midst of normal life. Instead, decisions about whom to love are more intense versions of the sorts of decisions we make throughout the course of our existence, from what kind of gelato to order to what career to pursue. Living is an inherently emotional business. ~ David Brooks

avoid the common business pitfall of making business decisions based on the company's skill set rather than on the customers' needs and desires. ~ Jeofrey Bean

Investment in the eradication of hunger today is a good business decision. If we fail to make this investment, it is doubtful that we can sustain healthy economic growth. Without this investment, our nation may disintegrate into a country sharply divided between those who have enough to eat and those who do not. ~ Alan Hassenfeld

I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business. ~ Donald Trump

One word: power.
The more politicians can control your access to your own wealth and earnings, the more powerful they are. The more politicians can affect businesses and important business decisions with tax policy, the more powerful they are. The more they can adversely affect the financial picture of one segment of our economy for the benefit of another, the more powerful they are. The more politicians can pander to the petty fears and jealousies of people by punishing high achievers for their efforts, the more powerful they are. ~ Neal Boortz

Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together. ~ Jewel

We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress. ~ David Frum

When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry. ~ Don Bluth

When I first got into business, I made a lot of bad decisions. ~ Daymond John

Business is not a spiritual matter, and my business decisions are not based on spiritual considerations. When I founded the Essence of Life, a project aimed at teaching tolerance and respectful dialogue, the person appointed to head it was Irit Atzmon, a former colonel in the army. Can anything be more down-to-earth than that? ~ Shari Arison

When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them. ~ Herbert V. Prochnow

It's an open secret: Even now, in the 21st century, Korean executives often consult spiritual advisers before making major business decisions - decisions that can affect their employees around the world. ~ Kim Young-ha

I've also built my own business, and obviously it's a brand that I've built and it's wholly owned by me and something that certainly my experience observing him and working with him and for him has informed how I make business decisions around my brand. But it's my company. ~ Ivanka Trump

Landlords in New York are generally the scum of the earth. They're beneficiaries of the worst kind of nepotism, eating off the good business decisions of their parents. They have no compassion because they've never had to work for shit to know how it feels to need a fucking break. (256-257) ~ Eddie Huang

strategic dementia is a loss of the ability to make rational business decisions because you are not sure of your strategy. ~ Christopher Surdak

As people come to understand the environmental damages being caused by carbon and industry pollutants, there is a call for "full-cost accounting." This is an effort to include the adverse environmental costs of manufacturing and other production in the price of producing those items--from the cost of cleanup to the health impacts of carbon pollution. Currently, companies' profit-and-loss statements don't account for these and other costs, which are paid for by us all, and disproportionately by the poor and vulnerable. By failing to pay for the real cost of production, by misrepresenting or ignoring the vast consequences of some of their work, certain businesses and corporations have pursued paths that are at odds with the interests of society. A greater movement toward full-cost accounting is critical if we are going to align business decisions with what is in the best interests of future generations... ~ Cory Booker

There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions. ~ Michael Bloomberg

I haven't had a worst business decision, because I believe all things work together for good. ~ Tyler Perry

No one on earth is allowed to question my business decisions, ~ Assem Allam

Kurt Cobain was Nirvana. He named the band, hired its members, played guitar, wrote the songs, fronted the band onstage and in interviews, and took responsibility for the band's business decisions. ~ Courtney Love

However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions. ~ Gerard Arpey

I beat Larry Holmes and George Foreman. I whupped Mike Tyson twice. I had my ear chewed off and spat on the ground in front of me. I've seen everything it is possible to see in boxing. I know this business better than anyone. So I live and die by my own decisions. ~ Evander Holyfield

If we want people on the front lines of companies to be responsible for making good business decisions, they must have the same information that managers use to make good business decisions. ~ Ken Blanchard

More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject. ~ Peter Drucker

We make programming decisions on a day-to-day basis. We sell advertising on a day-to-day basis. This is the way networks operate. This is the way all television stations operate. This is the way most businesses operate when you have a number of affiliates or a number of franchises. It's the way the business operates. ~ Mark E. Hyman

Profit is not the explanation, cause, or rationale of business behavior and business decisions, but the test of their validity. ~ Peter Drucker

If you're constantly making business decisions on behalf of your investors first, ultimately you're going to wear down your other stakeholders. It's going to be potentially hurtful for your employees and your customers and the community you do business with. ~ Danny Meyer

I've got to let the people who are in the business run the business. I can help them think through their decisions about products, about partners, about hiring. But in the end, the decisions are theirs, and so is the responsibility. ~ Ram Shriram

Generally speaking, experience counts for something. So you'd expect entrepreneurs who've been through the ups and downs of a tech startup to have an advantage over the newcomers. Or at least have an equal chance at success. But in fact the opposite may be true. A number of venture capitalists I've spoken with have said that too many "old guard" entrepreneurs are not being bold enough in their business decisions, and it's hurting their startups. ~ Michael Arrington

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them. ~ Samuel Smiles

My definition of success? The more you are actively and practically engaged, the more successful you will feel. ~ Richard Branson

You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself. ~ Gene Mauch

It borders on irresponsibility when people get on television and start talking that way when they should know better. They should do their homework, and they should report in a responsible manner. Unfortunately, it's a very competitive business, the business we're in, and there is a perception that by hyping up this threat, you draw people's attention. ~ Miles O'Brien

No nation was ever ruined by trade. ~ Benjamin Franklin

The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor. ~ James Howell

Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks. ~ William S. Burroughs

I'd be resentful if shareholders who don't know the business tried to tell me what to do. ~ S. Truett Cathy

When I was younger, I did my first audition at 'Eurovision.' I was about 17. After my first audition, I blacked out; I was just like, 'I can't do this.' I'm not knocking it or anything - it's been around for years. I'm just very, very happy I made that decision myself. I think that's one of the best decisions I've ever made. ~ Rita Ora

If you say, 'I'm going to cut this song because I know the teenagers are going to love it,' well, then you're going to alienate everybody else. When I cut my record, I'm just going to cut the things that I like, and whoever likes it, likes it. That's too much work to try to figure out the demographic. That's too much like a business. ~ Jason Aldean

The story of Reginald Watts was a luckless one dealing in every manner of failure and catastrophe, though he spoke of this without bitterness or regret, and in fact seemed to find humor in his numberless missteps: 'I've failed at straight business, I've failed at criminal enterprise, I've failed at love, I've failed at friendship. You name it, I've failed at it. Go ahead and name something. Anything at all. ~ Patrick DeWitt

Everyone does a style book, and I wanted to write a business book for people that didn't think they would like a business book. ~ Sophia Amoruso

SEO is an investment just like a tree that needs effort, patience and time to grow before you can see the result. ~ Dr. Chris Dayagdag

The quickest way to become a millionaire in the airline business is to start out as a billionaire. ~ Richard Branson

Good God. He felt like he'd just finished running the Boston Marathon.
How did she do it? How the hell did she do all that every day, and probably a lot more? But just
the dinner, the squabbles, the mess, the sheer volume of stuff that needed to be remembered, done,
handled with three kids. It was mentally and physically exhausting.
Fun, he admitted, but exhausting.
And she'd have to get up in the morning, get them up, dressed, fed. Then go to work. After
work, she'd replay - basically - what he'd just done. And with all that, she still had to maintain the house
and run a business.
Did women have superpowers?
Regardless, he was sending his mother flowers in the morning. ~ Nora Roberts

A writer in early 1930, boosting the beauty business, started off a magazine article with the sentence: The average American woman has sixteen square feet of skin. ~ Howard Zinn

Don't be in the business of playing it safe. Be in the business of creating possibilities of greatness ~ Robert Iger

Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue. You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character. ~ Ayn Rand

You can only take too much in pursuit of something you don't really want. ~ Joyce Rachelle

This was not before doctors, but in Turkey they hadn't gotten around to claiming the bone business yet; milkmen still were in charge of bones, the logic being that since milk was so good for bones, who would know more about borken bones than a milkman? ~ William Goldman

Clearly this business of treating minds, particularly this big business of treating young minds, has not policed itself, and has no incentive to put a stop to the kinds of fraudulent and unethical practices that are going on. ~ Patricia Schroeder

Difficult days demand decisions of faith. ~ Max Lucado

When you win a Grammy ... you're thinking about you winning. It is amazing. Your peers and folks in the record business are saying, 'This is what we think of you.' And that's why the Grammy will always be, to me, the ultimate in what you get as far as a music trophy, because it is the one. ~ Yolanda Adams

"That fucking cunting fuck of a whore."

"Nikolas!"

Nikolas shrugged. "It's only you who I don't like to hear swear. ~ John Wiltshire

AWAY OF EASING THE BURDEN THAT FREEDOM OF CHOICE IMPOSES IS to make decisions about when to make decisions. These are what Cass Sunstein and Edna Ullmann-Margalit call second-order decisions. One kind of second-order decision is the decision to follow a rule. ~ Barry Schwartz

Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business much better. ~ Jeremy Collier

Procrastinating to embark on your passion is a risky business, because tomorrow may never come! ~ Alex Zar

Novelists go about the strenuous business of marrying and burying their people, or else they send them to sea, or to Africa, or at the least, out of town. Essayists in their stillness ponder love and death. ~ Cynthia Ozick

I'm a big believer that you always reiterate, you always learn, you always realize your business is evolving. ~ Mark Cuban

What you think about yourself is your own business. ~ Ben Tolosa

There were three or four of us, counting me. My working place was established in a corner of the warehouse, where Mr. Quinion could see me, when he chose to stand up on the bottom rail of his stool in the counting-house, and look at me through a window above the desk. Hither, on the first morning of my so auspiciously beginning life on my own account, the oldest of the regular boys was summoned to show me my business. His name was Mick Walker, and he wore a ragged apron and a paper cap. He informed me that his father was a bargeman, and walked, in a black velvet head-dress, in the Lord Mayor's Show. He also informed me that our principal associate would be another boy whom he introduced by the - to me - extraordinary name of Mealy Potatoes. I discovered, however, that this youth had not been christened by that name, but that it had been bestowed upon him in the warehouse, on account of his complexion, which was pale or mealy. Mealy's father was a waterman, who had the additional distinction of being a fireman, and was engaged as such at one of the large theatres; where some young relation of Mealy's - I think his little sister - did Imps in the Pantomimes. ~ Charles Dickens

For one moment, it is more important to take in the spectacular than to worry about the pressing business of staying alive. ~ Doug Dorst

Seal the Deal Tip: When meeting with someone who asks a lot of questions, they're seeking information. Once you meet their need for proof and information, they will say Yes! I want to do business with you. ~ Lisa A. Mininni

My favorite business book of all time is experience. ~ Noah Kagan

If you can serve everyone who visits you, you must be doing well in business. ~ Ahmet Davutoglu