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Business Quotes

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People are know by the company they keep. Companies are known by the people they keep.

Organizational learning occurs when systematic feedback processes are combined with personal behavioral feedback.

Organizations that remain vital show their new employees that they are needed. At the same time, they never forget the value of their long-service employees. And they always give both a second chance.

One’s future will depend on their ability to learn faster and respond to change quicker than their competitors.

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.

– Thomas J. Watson

No one, not even you, gives one hundred-percent perfect performance every time. The business world belongs to the quick and the bold…not the perfect. It’s the struggle towards perfection that counts.

– Richard S. Sloma

No businessperson is, literally, more than six-tenths of a second (measured by the speed of light) away from any other businessperson. When I need a partner, I can just as easily look in Bangalore, India, as next door in my Silicon Valley neighborhood.

Let’s just get the facts. We’ll distort them later.

– An IBM executive

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

– H.W. Beecher

Just like a good customer, it’s more effective to retain key employees than to replace them.

It’s relatively simple. If we’re not getting more, better, faster than they are getting more, better, faster then we’re getting less, no better or more worse.

It’s not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It’s the customer who pays the wages.

It’s all about Continuous Continuous Improvement.

It is not the employer who pays wages – he only handles the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it.

– Upton Sinclair

It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. It doesn’t matter how many times you get it almost right. All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.

In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we’ll make them obsolete or somebody else will.

In life, change is inevitable. In business, change is vital.

– Warren G. Bennis

Imagine a company that puts its shareholders first – only to discover that it has alienated its customers!

– Fast magazine, Memo to CEOs

If you’re working in a company that is NOT enthusiastic, energetic, creative, clever, curious, and just plain fun, you’ve got troubles, serious troubles.

If your company has a “clean-desk” policy, the company is nuts and you’re nuts to stay there.

If you want to be incrementally better: Be COMPETITIVE If you want to be exponentially better: Be COOPERATIVE

If you have a job without aggravations, you don’t have a job.

– Malcolm Forbes

If you don’t serve an external customer, you serve someone who does.

If you don’t know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues’ initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.

– Malcolm Forbes

If WE don’t take care of the customer … somebody else will.

I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start to communicate it to the organization. But it is not the goal itself that is important.

– Jan Carlzon

I don’t meet competition. I crush it.

– Charles Revson

How long can we go mean and lean before we become gaunt and dead.

Getting fired is nature’s way of telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

– Hal Lancaster

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