“The chances of a bank going out of business are extremely slim, but it's always a good idea to spread around major sums so every penny is backed by insurance.”
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“Nobody has wrestled everybody in the business like I have, especially not Bret Hart.”
“I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.”
“Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.”
“Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.”
“Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.”
“You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance.”
“The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.”
“Business practices and how we treat the planet are also in desperate need of re-humanization.”
“What today's business reality makes clear is that brands cannot survive in a society that is failing economically, socially, ethically, and morally.”
“As a speaker, business leader or marketer of any type, the onus is now on each of us to become equally capable of communicating very personally with a seemingly endless number of people connected by social technologies.”
“In the coming years, if not sooner, social media will become a powerful tool that consumers will aggressively use to influence business attitudes and force companies into greater social responsibility - and, I suggest, move us towards a more sustainable practice of capitalism.”
“Perhaps the most effective way to describe the approach a brand must take is to think of themselves as social cartographers. By that I mean that brands must simultaneously inspire, engage and maintain a series of conversations taking place within certain cultural landscape specific to their business goal.”
“The social business marketplace is effectively forcing brands to engage with consumers on the basis of something that is meaningful to them. More often than not, this takes the form of some core value that finds expression in a non-profit cause.”
“Integrate purpose into your for-profit business model through a long term commitment to a cause that is aligned with your core values and those of your community.”
“In today's social business marketplace Facebook is one of the best places for nonprofits to be discovered and connect with a larger audience on the basis of shared values. So to get started, a non-profit should launch a Facebook page and invite your existing real world community to connect your cause and their networks.”
“In the social business marketplace, brands that hope to build loyal and growing communities do so most effectively when they demonstrate their core values and allow a community to build and engage around it.”
“God will forgive me that's his business.”
“The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.”
“As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business.”
“If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.”
“Where are the jobs going to come from?Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now.”
“We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.”
“There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in business, but are essential to governing, like keeping a kid in school or helping someone get and hold a job. The value of those skills can't easily be measured against a bottom line.”