Top 1200 Business Decisions Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Human beings are powered by emotion, not by reason. Study after study has proven that if the emotion centers of our brain are damaged in some way, we don't just lose the ability to laugh or cry, we lose the ability to make decisions. Alarm bells for every business right there. The neurologist Donald Calne puts it brilliantly: “The essential difference between emotion and reason is that emotion leads to action while reason leads to conclusions.”

The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.

When you feel like this isn't your business, get out of the business.

On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married.

Civil rights is unfinished business. Make it your business.

There's a beauty of show business. It's the only business you can have a career in when you're dead.

The greatest decisions I've made in my life are by instinct. I remember when I hired Bill I had a lot of people telling me it was a mistake. But he and I had established a rapport in '96 when he coached the secondary. You need a coach that understands economics, that understands the impact of the salary cap and how to make those difficult decisions that allow you to sustain success over the long term. I don't think there's anyone better than Bill at doing that.

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

A well-managed business will have a high return on invested capital. But that's a consequence. It's not a way to manage a business.

My father was a chef but hadn't owned his own business. I didn't like that. In my heart of hearts, I knew I wanted to be in business.

In the face of ambiguity, uncertainty, and conflicting demands, often under great time pressure, leaders must make decisions and take effective actions to assure the survival and success of their organizations. This is how leaders add value to their organizations. They lead them to success by exercising good judgment, by making smart calls when especially difficult and complicated decisions simply must be made, and then ensuring that they are well executed.

Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business.

I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.

The only currency isn't money. For me, it's about how can you build a good business that's also a social business.

Business is usually a team sport. There isn't one great person sitting there directing things. You can't run an effective business like that.

The music business is really a spiritual business whether we know it or not.

Should a small business or a large business be able to pollute the water or the air or the food? No, I hope you don't believe that.

There's only two things that I really care about - apart from family - one is business and the other is women in business.

People don't tune in to watch network executives' decisions. They don't tune in to watch writers' decisions. They tune in to watch people that they like.

We are not in the business of being original. We are in the business of reusing things that work.

I've always wanted to partner with a family business because their stories inspire me. One of my biggest hopes is that the family will invest in me, educating me about their business, and imparting many other valuable lessons. This process of helping an owner transition her business to trusted hands really excites me.

The literary aspect of the film business excites me, but show business in general doesn't take any mental giant.

On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married

I'm pro-business! But business ought to make its own money.

You've got to know business before you go to show business.

We need a president who realizes that there's no government business in show business.

If you talk to anyone involved in business - forget banks and big business - talk to small businesses - do it yourself, don't ask me - they'll tell you it's crippling. Small-business formation is the lowest it has ever been in a recovery, and it's really for two reasons. One is regulations and the second is access to capital for people starting new businesses.

If you don't invest in risk management, it doesn't matter what business you're in, it's a risky business.

The business of feeding people is the most amazing business in the world.

I talk to a lot of women who have difficult times who are suffering. I really want women to be encouraged and to have hope because things can get better. Make good decisions, stop making bad ones, because we have to take responsibility too. But make good decisions and really the future will be a lot better for your kids - and yourself.

What people do in their private lives is their business, and shouldn't be anybody else's business.

Basketball is a business to me. It's entertainment; it's a business, it's very serious.

I want to show that you can be just as amazing as labels and compete as a business and work as a business even though you're an artist.

I don't think I ever dreamt of going into business. No one in my family was in business.

I like to mind my business when it comes to other people's business, especially when it comes to beef.

Actually, I can't take credit for any of my decisions. I noticed one day that all my decisions were making themselves, and always at the right time. I haven't had to make one decision since then. They are always made for me, and they come from the wisdom that is in us all. I trust that wisdom completely. That trust itself was a decision made for me as inquiry cleared my mind. No decision, no fear.

Oddly enough, government policy helped get the fast food outlets into the city. Very well-intentioned small business administration loans to encourage minority business ownership. The easiest business to get into is opening a fast-food franchise in the inner city.

What we are trying to do is to create a new business paradigm, simply showing that business can have a human face and a social conscience.

The music business is the most childish business in the world. Nobody knows what they're selling or why, but they sell it if it works.

We're not in the business of making doorknobs. We're in the business of people. There are things you have to do these days as a coach and as a teacher to deal with the modern athlete.

It's far more difficult being a small-business owner starting a business than it is for me with thousands of people working for us and 400 companies. Building a business from scratch is 24 hours, 7 days a week, divorces, it's difficult to hold your family life together, it's bloody hard work and only one word really matters - and that's surviving.

Surrendering completely to love, be it human or divine, means giving up everything, including our own well-being or our ability to make decisions. It means loving in the deepest sense of the word. The truth is that we don't want to be saved in the way God has chosen; we want to keep absolute control over our every step, to be fully conscious of our decisions, to be capable of choosing the object of our devotion.

The United States of American business pays the second-highest business taxes in the world, 35 percent. Ireland pays 11 percent. Now, if you're a business person, and you can locate any place in the world, then, obviously, if you go to the country where it's 11 percent tax versus 35 percent, you're going to be able to create jobs, increase your business, make more investment, et cetera. I want to cut that business tax. I want to cut it so that businesses will remain in the United States of America and create jobs.

I have a business background. I have always wanted to open my own business.

When it's your own name that is the business, the business never stops.

To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.

Higher education is a business that doesn’t know it’s going out of business.

When public figures think they can open a business even though they've got no business experience, it's a bad idea.

You have to remember that Hollywood is in the business of making movies that they can sell tickets to, they're not in the business of finding great roles for actors.

It's a "keep your fingers crossed" business, the entertainment business.

How something important happens is the business of historians and newspapers, the effect it has is the business of philosophers and writers and especially poets.

Before I went into parliament I used to write business publications, and like many authors wrote under a business name.

Sometimes you have to say no to things that people don't want you to say no to in the interest of self-preservation. I definitely went through some times that I did more than I could handle, and I was trying to make decisions for the best of my career; the irony was that those decisions were a direct cause of my inability to produce, perform, create anything. If you are not emotionally and personally stable and intact and healthy, then the entire foundation of what you do this for - the things that you make - is gone.

Business is business, that is, you must do everything promptly; delay and shuffling won't do.

The state of the economy is not the issue when it comes to growing a business. The relevant questions are always: 'What business are you in? Furthermore, is it adapting to the times?'

This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.

I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life.

The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher.

We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.

Since I left the wrestling business and got in the Jim Cornette business, my blood pressure is down considerably.