Business Quotes

As more women lean in to their careers, more men need to lean in to their families. We need to encourage men to be more ambitious in their homes.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

Your personal growth, how you show up, and the ways you lead ultimately determine the success of your business and your life.

~ David J. Greer

Have the courage to walk away from a fantastic deal, if the person on the other side is disprepectful or trying to pull a smart one on you.' Temptation should never rule a deal, the value should, fairplay should and acceptance on either side that the deal is being made for the value being created for both!

~ Abha Maryada Banerjee

Wal-Mart's business in the United States is stagnating, growing only because the company continues to relentlessly open new stores. But if Wal-Mart takes environmental responsibility seriously, if its stores become models for energy conservation and for doing minimal environmental harm (they are known for the opposite right now), that will be pioneering, and it might also be attractive to some Americans who have avoided Wal-Mart. If those stores are filled with products made by factory workers who are treated in a civilized fashion, products that do not damage the environment in the course of being made, products made in sustainable ways with minimal packaging,that will represent a pivot point, not just for Wal-Mart, or for retailing, but for capitalism. Nothing could do more to jump-start Wal-Mart's business than for Wal-Mart to find its soul.And of course, Wal-Mart's scale means that if it starts to take the design of its buildings and the impact of its products seriously, all its competitors will have no choice but to do the same. The virtuous Wal-Mart effect would ripple widely. It would ripple around the world.

~ Charles Fishman

Wal-Mart can't seem to grasp an essential fact: in 2006, the company has exactly the reputation it has earned. No, we don't give the company adequate credit for low prices. But the broken covenant Sam Walton had with how to treat store employees, the relentless pressure that hollows out companies and dilutes the quality of their products, the bullying of suppliers and communities, the corrosive secrecy, the way Wal-Mart has changed our own perception of price and quality, of value and durability--none of these is imaginary, or trivial, or easily changed with a fresh set of bullet points, an impassioned speech, and a website heavy with Wal-Mart facts.If Wal-Mart does in fact double the gas mileage of its truck fleet, and thereby double the gas mileage of every long-haul truck in America, that will be huge. It will change gas consumption in the United States in a single stroke. But it hasn't happened yet. And even if it does, it will not make Wal-Mart a good company or a good corporate partner or a good corporate citizen.

~ Charles Fishman

Don’t confuse “strict confidentiality” with “keeping employees in the dark.” Private is useful. Secretive is deceptive.

~ Stacy Feiner

Don’t buy into the campaign that people don’t like change. We are built for it.

~ Stacy Feiner

For all the folks whose job it was to be ready for [Hurricane] Katrina, but who weren't, from the Oval Office, right down the chain of command to the New Orleans police department, Wal-Mart was a vivid reproach.

~ Charles Fishman

Never underestimate the staying power of a bad idea.

~ Rc Longworth

Every time you see the Wal-Mart smiley face, whistling and knocking down the prices, somewhere there's a factory worker being kicked in the stomach. - Sherrie Ford

~ Charles Fishman

Wal-mart has done such a superb job of austerity, from start to finish, that austerity is all that's left.

~ Charles Fishman

The small stuff matters. The company that became the largest and most powerful in history isn't a military contractor or a car company. It isn't the result of savvy lobbyists in Washington, or the happenstance of controlling the supply of petroleum, or some kind of cabal that is beyond the understanding of ordinary people. The largest and most powerful company in history is built by each of us handing over three single dollar bills over and over again.

~ Charles Fishman

We want clean air, clean water, good living conditions, the best health care in the world. Yet we aren't willing to pay for anything manufactured under those restrictions.

~ Charles Fishman

How many companies can say that the amount of customers who use their services second most often, and spend the second most amount of money with them, are “very negative”?

~ Charles Fishman

Wal-Mart benefits from the impression that globalization is some kind of unmanageable economic weather system out of the control of everyone, affecting all players with indifference, benefiting those who happened to be properly prepared.

~ Charles Fishman

Wal-Mart is so large, its reach so great, that it has created an ecosystem in which its suppliers and competitors, and their suppliers and competitors, and their customers, all operate. Wal-Mart sets the metabolism, it sets the rules, of that ecosystem. Wal-Mart has inexorably changed our expectations as shoppers—and the Wal-Mart effect also extends to consumers who never shop at Wal-Mart. Likewise, Wal-Mart has reshaped the companies that supply it—and it has also reset the pace and the competitive landscape even for companies that try to do business outside the Wal-Mart ecosystem.

~ Charles Fishman

Sometimes cheap is inexpensive. Sometimes it's cheap.

~ Charles Fishman

Don’t live like a CEO when you’re still a sandwich artist.

~ Sophia Amoruso

Never mind your intentions. Communication is about what others hear with your words.

~ Dianna Booher

The focus of gap analysis should be getting to the other side. If you bend-over to analyze a gap too long, you'll probably fall into it.

~ Ryan Lilly

Good communication may not make a risky deal safe, but poor communication may sell benefits of a good deal.

~ Dianna Booher

Developing and having a positive outlook is never a coincidence; it’s a choice. You can choose to look horrible or admirable; that is no business of another person. The mind is the distillery, where all choices are brewed.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Integrity is not just a smart and moral way to navigate your personal life. It’s also part of your professional branding, and it will inevitably affect your business success.

~ Joe M. Turner

Entrepreneurs pay the price of a road less traveled, while everyone else takes the freeway and perpetually misses their own exit.

~ Ryan Lilly

Look for the failures in your successes and the successes in your failures.

~ Bob Sutton

Networking is an investment in your business. It takes time and when done correctly can yield great results for years to come.

~ Diane Helbig

Pool is a game of thinking, strategy and accuracy - just like in business.

~ Shay Mizrahi

If you run a business, you know that every moment 365*24*7 people want to F*** with your business.

~ Pushkar Saraf

In any case where someone is hurt within himself because of a mere jealousy over your success expedition, that is none of your business.You don’t bring yourself low in order to please those who envy you.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Profit isn’t and shouldn’t be the mission of business. The mission of business is to help people. To help your customers, your co-workers, your employees, and your partners. Success is not a number — it’s not X dollars or Y customers — it’s a measurement of VALUE.

~ Fran Tarkenton

When success is your only option, positivity has to be your only choice.

~ Germany Kent

Business is boss, politics is servant.

~ Amit Kalantri

Diplomacy is the art of getting what you want without offending anyone too badly.

~ Christopher Nutall

If the reason of your sleeplessness is competition, then you will make a successful businessman.

~ Amit Kalantri

A firm's income statement may be, likened to a bikini-what it reveals is interesting but what it conceals is vital.

~ Burton G. Malkiel

There's nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.

~ Jason Fried

Purpose of Life: Understand Who You AreBelieve In Yourself.

~ Ian Jackson

Success is a journey. The best form of transport is Happiness.

~ Roy Smoothe

There is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system...

~ Milton Friedman

Forget six degrees of separation today it's six degrees of CONNECTION.

~ Morag Barrett