Businessweek Quotes & Sayings

I think that before you take on nation building in your mind's eye as to how it should be, you'd better have a clear understanding if this is doable and will work. — Anthony Zinni

The Washington Post speaking out against state legislation that he believed would let businesses deny services to gay, lesbian and transgender people. [Tim] Cook himself came out as gay in the pages of Bloomberg Businessweek. — Laura Sydell

Don't hurt someone who cares about you like that. You're not the only person in the world who's ever been hurt. Don't be cruel. Don't go breaking someone else's heart in the hope that you'll feel better. Becaues you won't. — Alison McGhee

Goals help you overcome short-term problems. — Hannah More

Usually with life, you start wherever you are, and you flail around for a while
— Anne Lamott

Shareholder value is an outcome - not a strategy" [BusinessWeek 2009]. — Jurgen Appelo

Cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. And cooking draws upon your every talent
science, mathematics, energy, history, experience
and the more experience you have, the less likely are your experiments to end in drivel and disaster. The more you know, the more you can create. — Julia Child

It's my opinion that a manager must have the right to manage and that clubs should not impose upon any manager any player that he does not want. I have been left with no choice other than to leave. — Kevin Keegan

I grew up in Southern Oregon. My father was a sawmill worker and a logger, and his job put food on the table. — Jeff Merkley

Words are for those with promises to keep. — W. H. Auden

Business judgment is best developed through professional experience. The next best alternative is to be reading business articles. We recommend Bloomberg Businessweek and Economic Times/Business Standard, if time permits. — Sankalp Kelshikar

Remember, Pia," he whispers. "Perfect is as perfect does. — Jessica Khoury

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. [BusinessWeek, May 25 1998] — Steve Jobs

The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God. — John Piper

Believe me, I love commerce as much as the rest of the readers of 'Businessweek.' But in art, you have to be true to yourself and your musical vision. People have known me well for a long time, so if I was chasing a trend and doing something that wasn't authentic to who I am, they would know it in just a few seconds. — Lionel Richie

A little fight in you. I like that. — Heath Ledger

Here is a quick and generally reliable rule to follow. If people have always said it, it is probably true; it is the distilled wisdom of the ages. If people have not always said it, but everybody is saying it now, it is probably a lie; it is the concentrated madness of the moment. People — Anthony M. Esolen

After being loomed over and pressed menacingly against a wall, George had, while looking into those bloodshot eyes, truly feared for his life. — C.J. Hill