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  • World peace is not something that can be realized simply by politicians signing treaties, or by business leaders creating economic cooperation. True and lasting peace will be realized only by forging bonds of trust between people at the deepest level, in the depths of their very lives.

  • Business leaders must not cling to old ways of doing business, or allow inertia or complacency to prevent them from making the decisions that they will eventually be forced to make.

  • Every great business leader I've ever met, in addition to being very smart, very driven, they have this, 'Why not me? Screw it, I deserve it, let's go.' And if you don't have that, you can't achieve greatness.

  • There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

    "2010 BPM and Workflow Handbook" by Layna Fischer, Future Strategies Inc., (p. 178), 2010.
  • When political and business leaders tell the public - any public - 'We don't trust you to make the right decision' - they prejudice that electorate against the very proposals they want it to accept and undermine public confidence in themselves.

  • Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all.

    "Putting ethics before profits" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2009.
  • Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that.

    "How Pepsi’s Indra Nooyi Learned To Be A CEO". Interview with Gary Burnison, www.fastcompany.com. April 29, 2011.
  • Business leaders, labor unions, governors, mayors, congressmen and presidents have all complained about a lack of funding for years, but aside from a one-time cash infusion from the stimulus program, nothing much has changed. There is still no consensus on how to solve the problem or where to get the massive amounts of money needed to fix it, just another example of political paralysis in Washington.

    Source: www.cbsnews.com
  • If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

    "Speed, Simplicity, Self-Confidence". Interview with Noel Tichy and Ram Charan, hbr.org. September/October 1989.
  • Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

    John F. Kennedy's Speech at the Coliseum, Raleigh, North Carolina, September 17, 1960.
  • A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

    "Mansfield News Journal" Newspaper, August 3, 1965.
  • To take full advantage of the potential in e-business, leaders must lead differently, and people must work together differently. Let's call this new way of working e-culture-the human side of the global information era, the heart and soul of the new economy.

    Heart   People   Leader  
  • Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

    "Smarter Branding Without Breaking the Bank: Five Proven Marketing Strategies You Can Use Right Now to Build Your Business at Little Or No Cost". Book by Brenda Bence (p. 91), November 7, 2011.
  • Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

    Attributed in "The 101 Greatest Business Principles of All Time" by Leslie Pockell, November 23, 2004.
  • A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

    "Mina Bekheet - Cofounder of Oxford Biotech". Enterprising Oxford interview, www.eship.ox.ac.uk.
  • When you go into your customary barber shop, you will wait for the man who gives you a little better shave, a little trimmer hair-cut. Business leaders are looking for the same things in their offices that you look for in the barber shop.

    Cutting   Men   Hair  
    Charles M. Schwab (2005). “Succeeding With What You Have”, p.15, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Economic growth and environmental preservation are two sides of the same coin. There's no better illustration of that point than the California Clean Tech Open, which challenges California entrepreneurs to bring new, clean technologies to market. I encourage business leaders, policy makers, and environmental advocates to support this innovative, exciting competition.

  • The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

  • I think that business leaders today have to be more rounded than they used to be, they have to be completely multi-functional and fast-moving.

    "Sir Stuart Rose on the changing role of business leaders" by Stuart Rose, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2012.
  • Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

    Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.86, Hachette UK
  • Business leaders cannot be bystanders.

    "The Top Influencers Alive: 10 Breakout Influencers of 2011" by Connie Dieken, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 26, 2011.
  • Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.

    Mark Cuban (2011). “How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It”, p.81, Diversion Books
  • A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play.

    Zero   Thinking   Games  
  • It doesn't matter if you are a musician, a business leader, a president or a student. We all have a responsibility to give back.

    Source: www.americasquarterly.org
  • The world can no longer be left to mere diplomats, politicians, and business leaders. They have done the best they could, no doubt. But this is an age for spiritual heroes- a time for men and women to be heroic in their faith and in spiritual character and power. The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low.

  • Ensure that you do things differently from everyone else

  • Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.

  • I see the God complex around me all the time in my fellow economists. I see it in our business leaders. I see it in the politicians we vote for - people who, in the face of an incredibly complicated world, are nevertheless absolutely convinced that they understand the way that the world works.

    "Trial, error and the God complex". TED conference, www.ted.com. July 2011.
  • If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.

    "Online Extra: Jeff Bezos on Word-of-Mouth Power". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. August 2, 2004.
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