Social media presents an opportunity for business people to connect and know each other prior to a phone call or email taking place.
Your customers are judging every aspect of every transaction and rating everything, from friendliness of people to ease of doing business to quality of product to service after the sale.
When you are led by values, it doesn't cost your business, it helps your business.
Now, when we face a problem like global warming, and you understand that the biggest impacts on global warming come from business and industry, I think business needs to take a leading role.
So much business is based on the belief that we should do whatever we can within legal limits to make as much money as we can. Ben & Jerry's was based on values, and we try to operate a business that not just sells ice cream but partners with all our...
It's good to stand for something, to believe in something and base your business on values.
The reality is that most companies are not about any values at all - they are about making money. It is extremely rare for a business to stand for anything because most businesses don't want to alienate potential customers, and if you believe in anyt...
Businesses can lead with their values and make money, too. You don't have to simply be purely profit-driven. You can integrate social and environmental concerns into a business, be a caring business, be a generous business and still do very well fina...
Look at your business and the activities that you undertake. Then, start to think about not just your economic concerns, but about social and environmental impacts that businesses have.
I'm not in the business of harassing anybody.
I don't think about becoming a head coach. I really don't. I'm not oblivious of people who mention it. When you are in any business, people expect to aspire to the top. I guess everyone is supposed to aspire to being the man at the top of the heap. B...
Sun Cellular is the biggest investment in my business career.
Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
The career stuff is for business people.
The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
I buy when other people are selling.
If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.
