Business Decisions Quotes

• Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Success, Confidence

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• Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

  Peter Drucker

  Motivational, Leadership, Business

  Peter Drucker, Alan Kantrow, Rick Wartzman, Julia Kirby (2016). “Get the Right Things Done: The Drucker Collection (6 Items)”, p.33, Harvard Business Review Press

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• Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.

  Peter Drucker

  Senior, Business, Mistake

  Peter Drucker, Harvard Business Review (2016). “The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking”, p.9, Harvard Business Review Press

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• Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

  James C. Collins

  Inspirational, Success, Business

  "Turn on, tune in - or drown in a sea of mediocrity" by Simon Caulkin, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2006.

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• If we want people on the front lines of companies to be responsible for making good business decisions, they must have the same information that managers use to make good business decisions.

  Ken Blanchard

  People, Decision, Use

  Ken Blanchard, John P. Carlos, Alan Randolph (1999). “The 3 Keys to Empowerment: Release the Power Within People for Astonishing Results”, p.47, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Profit is not the explanation, cause, or rationale of business behavior and business decisions, but the test of their validity.

  Peter Drucker

  Decision, Tests, Causes

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.89, Routledge

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• What's the most critical factor in any business decision you'll ever have to make? Basically, it boils down to this question: If this all crashes, will it bring the whole house tumbling down like a pack of cards? One business matra remains embedded in my brain - protect the downside.

  Richard Branson

  Tumbling Down, House, Decision

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• Just really, really believe in what you're trying to do. Don't let people alter that. Let people advise you and lead you down paths to make smart business decisions. But trust your instinct and trust that overwhelming drive that made you put all your dreams and everything on the line.

  Luke Bryan

  Dream, Business, Smart

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• The hurricane complicates things in that what would have been purely a business decision becomes a decision of the heart.

  Henry Cisneros

  Heart, Decision, Hurricanes

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• I haven't had a worst business decision, because I believe all things work together for good.

  Tyler Perry

  Believe, Decision, Working Together

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. February 14, 2012.

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• My best business decision is always to have been unembarrassed about negotiating a decent deal. Not being coy or shy about money is second nature to me.

  Anne Robinson

  Decision, Shy, Best Business

  "Anne Robinson: 'I was paid £300 a week for Points of View, now I'm worth £30m'". Interview with Roz Lewis, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 20, 2015.

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• Corporate Social Responsibility is a hard-edged business decision. Not because it is a nice thing to do or because people are forcing us to do it because it is good for our business

  Niall FitzGerald

  Nice, Responsibility, People

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• I made the best business decision at 14 when I decided to get into acting. The worst was owning 2 homes at the same time.

  Tamala Jones

  Home, Decision, Acting

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. December 11, 2012.

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• Business is not a spiritual matter, and my business decisions are not based on spiritual considerations. When I founded the Essence of Life, a project aimed at teaching tolerance and respectful dialogue, the person appointed to head it was Irit Atzmon, a former colonel in the army. Can anything be more down-to-earth than that?

  Shari Arison

  Spiritual, Teaching, Army

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• More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Lunch, Mba

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• I'll never forget my worst business decision. I bought a Nissan Pathfinder with my first signing bonus. I didn't even have a place to live, but I bought a car. Not a smart move but, believe me, I learned from that mistake.

  Terry Crews

  Mistake, Smart, Believe

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. August 29, 2012.

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• I'm horrible with money. I make bad business decisions every hour of the day.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Decision, Hours, Horrible

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Taxes cause the most bad business decisions.

  James Cook

  Decision, Causes, Taxes

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• I've also built my own business, and obviously it's a brand that I've built and it's wholly owned by me and something that certainly my experience observing him and working with him and for him has informed how I make business decisions around my brand. But it's my company.

  Ivanka Trump

  Decision, Company, Brands

  "Ivanka Trump describes her life as the daughter of a potential US president, running the Trump empire, and building her own brand". Interview With Rachel Gillett, uk.businessinsider.com. March 17, 2016.

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• Leaving my first agent was both my best business decision and my worst business decision. It depends on how I want to look at my career because of opportunities that may have come had I stayed with him and because of the opportunities that did come because I had to fight harder for roles.

  Carmen Ejogo

  Fighting, Opportunity, Careers

  Carmen Ejogo ‘Sparkle’ Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. August 14, 2012.

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• My best business decision was going into business for myself and owning the box my pretty face was on instead of just being the pretty face on the box. And my worst was letting other people run my business.

  Kam Williams

  Running, People, Decision

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Kurt Cobain was Nirvana. He named the band, hired its members, played guitar, wrote the songs, fronted the band onstage and in interviews, and took responsibility for the band's business decisions.

  Courtney Love

  Song, Responsibility, Guitar

  "An open letter from the Cobain family", www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2001.

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• Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together.

  Jewel

  Careers, Two, Long

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• When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Business, Decision, Made

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