Global Business Quotes

• The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Business, Guarantees That, Healthy

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• If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

  George S. Patton

  Motivational, Business, Military

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• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "The Graduation Speech I'd Give, if Anyone Asked" by Karina Bland, www.azcentral.com. June 03, 2015.

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• Communication is the key for any global business.

  Anita Roddick

  Communication, Keys, Communication Is Key

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• Business can constitute an enormous force for goodness in society. Through its commitments to corporate citizenship and to the principles of the UNGC, the global business community can continue to create and deliver value to society.

  Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

  Commitment, Community, Principles

  Speech at the UN Global Compact Leaders Summit, at the Palais de Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, July 05, 2007.

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• The growth of the company and the license that Starbucks has is to participate in other food and beverage opportunities. We have a global business... and in many parts of the world, tea is much, much bigger than coffee, and we're going to bring tea and bring our capability and our understanding of what we've done for coffee to tea.

  Howard Schultz

  Coffee, Opportunity, Understanding

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• Ask yourself: Am I an investor, or am I a speculator? An investor is a person who owns business and holds it forever and enjoys the returns that U.S. businesses, and to some extent global businesses, have earned since the beginning of time. Speculation is betting on price. Speculation has no place in the portfolio or the kit of the typical investor.

  John C. Bogle

  Forever, Typical, Return

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• President-elect Donald Trump is an unprecedented figure in many respects, in part because there has never been an American president who has such complicated global business interests.

  Rachel Martin

  President, Complicated, Figures

  Source: www.npr.org

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• As Stewart Brand (co-founder of Emeryville's Global Business Network) likes to say, "Information lasts forever. Digital information lasts forever or for five years, whichever comes first." There are examples everywhere. The tapes from the original Viking landers that went to Mars are at (NASA's) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, but there is no machine that can read the tapes.

  Paul Saffo

  Years, Forever, Machines

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• The reasons why executives are scared of social selling are well documented. That being said, there are some hugely successful global business leaders using social selling tactics incredibly well - some of which even admit they could not operate without it!

  Bruce Rasmussen

  Successful, Leader, Insightful

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• The global business climate is likewhatever, dude.

  Michael Ian Black

  Climate

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• The record results for the third quarter once again demonstrate the ability of GE's diverse mix of leading global businesses to deliver top-line growth, increased margins and strong cash generation.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Strong, Growth

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• That’s just silly. Closing a global business in reaction to single-issue national politics is foolish.

  Dick Costolo

  Silly, Issues, Foolish

  dick costolo @dickc, twitter.com. January 17, 2012.

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