Quotes of: Misery-loves-company Keyword

To paraphrase Einstein, insanity is expecting employees to do one thing while rewarding them for doing something else.

Hooked on Customers: The Five Habits of Legendary Customer-Centric Companies

Realize that employees and the customers both have to be engaged, at the same time, to move your business forward for sustainable success.

Hooked on Customers: The Five Habits of Legendary Customer-Centric Companies

Customers are speaking to you implicitly via their behavior, captured in the footprints they leave behind in your systems.

Hooked on Customers: The Five Habits of Legendary Customer-Centric Companies

Integrity is the source of new solutions and innovations; courage is a means of halting progress down a wrong road.

The Hidden Leader: Discover and Develop Greatness Within Your Company

Integrity, by its definition, means adhering consistently to a strong, reliable code of ethics, whatever that code is.

The Hidden Leader: Discover and Develop Greatness Within Your Company

I was going to dine at the television company’s expense with one of the most beautiful women in show business and some television producer with an inferiority complex. In my experience, there’s always a price.

Black Art

Fear is a prison in which we place ourselves. You need only to press against the bars to realize that the door is always unlocked, and you are always free to leave.

The Black Swan Company

Antonio- "Just in time, Pete. Five more minutes of reading this and she'd have been in a coma." Peter- "Are we such bad company that you'd rather hide out in here reading that old thing?

Bitten

Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be hea...

Tom Peters

One of my top tips for aspiring entrepreneurs: Tell everyone you know about your idea. This runs contrary to the instinct that most people have, because they're afraid someone is going to 'steal my ideal.' Ideas alone are worth very little; it's in t...

Aaron Patzer

I don't much enjoy travelling, but I have always longed to take a slow train to Russia. I'd like to go alone - like writers do - with only a pencil and piece of paper as company. I'd take my sketchbook and note down all the wonderful details of other...

Jane Birkin

As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of b...

Karen Thompson Walker

I come back to the same thing: We've got the greatest pipeline in the company's history in the next 12 months, and we've had the most amazing financial results possible over the last five years, and we're predicting being back at double-digit revenue...

Steve Ballmer

When state funding for Irvine public schools began to diminish some time ago, my Irvine Company colleagues helped me to provide private funding support for continuation of basic science, art and music programs that had been eliminated by lack of stat...

Donald Bren

If you have good songs and a real desire to make music, the next thing to do, instead of approach record companies, is to get yourself a really good manager because then it allows you to focus on your profession of being a musician. Then they can foc...

James Blunt

The company owner doesn't need to win. The best idea does.

The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization

The companies that refused to make hard choices, or refused to admit that anything much was happening, fared badly. If they survive, it is only because their respective governments will not let them go under.

Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles

What is important is what can be explored throughout Christmas, in the company of your Soul.

The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!

One of Job's great strengths was knowing how to focus. " Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do, " he said. " That's true for companies, and it's true for products.

Steve Jobs

Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.

Never Let Me Go

A rose dreams of enjoying the company of bees, but none appears. The sun asks: “Aren’t you tired of waiting?” “Yes,” answers the rose, “but if I close my petals, I will wither and die.

Manuscript Found in Accra