Top 100 Business Problems Quotes
#2. The dumb-manager theory of business problems just didn't hold water for me. There had to be a deeper reason why smart people would make decisions that lead to failure.
Clayton M Christensen
#3. There's a friend at the end of your pen which you can use to help you solve personal or business problems, get to know all the different parts of yourself, explore your creativity, heal your relationships, develop your intuition
Kathleen Adams
#4. IT and business must be partners, must be able to speak the same language, finish each other's sentences, to solve the well-defined business problems.
Pearl Zhu
#5. No organization works if the toilets don't work, but I don't believe that finding solutions to business problems is my job.
James G. March
#6. Meet regularly with your business team and brainstorm. Intricate business problems are mostly resolved at brainstorming sessions.
Richard Branson
#7. We don't have business problems we have people problems. When we take care of our people problems, most of our business problems are automatically resolved
Shiv Khera
#8. The thorniest business problems will surface at the board meetings, and the different, sharp opinions help to better explore the poles of the arguments to make better decisions.
Scott Weiss
#9. I am always glad to think that my education was, for the most part, informal, and had not the slightest reference to a future business career. It left me free and untrammeled to approach my business problems without the limiting influence of specific training.
Alice Foote MacDougall
#11. The successful investor is usually an individual who is inherently interested in business problems.
Philip Arthur Fisher
#12. Most business problems can be solved if you can teach yourself to look beyond the dollar sign.
Harvey MacKay
#13. I've fixed hard problems of all kinds, civil rights and business problems. It's the stuff I like to do, and I'm good at it, as a matter of fact ... and I never left my conscience at the door.
Deval Patrick
#14. In business, you try to solve problems.
Bob Corker
#15. In our age, the problems that needs to be solved are growing in number and business of life is overpowering
Sunday Adelaja
#16. Learn to sell. In business you're always selling: to your prospects, investors and employees. To be the best salesperson put yourself in the shoes of the person to whom you're selling. Don't sell your product. Solve their problems.
Mark Cuban
#17. Nevertheless, the ultimate business of philosophy is to preserve the force of the most elemental words in which Dasein expresses itself, and to keep the common understanding from levelling them off to that unintelligibility which functions in turn as a source of pseudo-problems.
Martin Heidegger
#18. Most successful businesses in the country were started on a kitchen table. As long as people have needs unmet or problems unsolved, there are business opportunities.
Brian Tracy
#19. Well a lot of females complain about getting into the business, like men producers always wanna get (in bed) with them before, but it wasn't like that for me, I was good from start so I had no problems when it came to recording.
Lady Saw
#20. Let's be honest. There's not a business anywhere that is without problems. Business is complicated and imperfect. Every business everywhere is staffed with imperfect human beings and exists by providing a product or service to other imperfect human beings.
Bob Parsons
#21. Business is all about solving people's problems - at a profit.
Paul Marsden
#22. It's clear that other problems such as [ ... ] the domination of business over government, science, thought, and society, are much bigger than non-free software.
Richard Stallman
#23. I think business leaders all over the world should not just think of how we can make lots of money, which is fine, but to take some of the problems in the world and get out there and tackle them using business. I think that if businesses do that we can get on top of these problems.
Richard Branson
#24. We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.
Edward De Bono
#25. Ego problems are endemic in every walk of life, but in the movie business egomaniacs are megalomaniacs.
Lynda Obst
#26. Never forget: Businesses are run by people; businesses are made up of people. So at the root of whatever problems you have in your business, you'll find people.
Gordon Bethune
#27. Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.
James C. Collins
#28. What is innovation if not our ticket to every business interest in the world? It's the ticket to solving the world's problems - the energy problems, the pollution problems, the global warming problems. If it isn't for science and engineering, how will we compete in the new world?
David Pogue
#29. On a personal level, I send out about 20 thank-you notes a day to staffers, on all levels. And every six weeks I have lunch with a group of a dozen or so employees, to get their perspective on the business, to address problems and to get feedback.
Douglas Conant
#30. Many entrepreneurs do not realize that many of the problems their businesses face today began yesterday, long before there was a business.
Robert Kiyosaki
#31. There really is no shortcut just because you have a name, or you have some kind of access or some way you can solve all the problems. And I think one of the things I learned with FUBU, you have to understand that there's really only two ways of operating a business: more sales, or lower overhead.
Daymond John
#32. Alcohol and drug addiction are problems, and we should use outside agencies that know the business. They do business all over the country. Why don't we contract them to do it? See, we should be in certain businesses.
Richard M. Daley
#33. Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord.
J.I. Packer
#34. I think, social business is the most logical thing to do. If we had done that, we could reduce all the problems we have.
Muhammad Yunus
#35. Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.
Stephen Covey
#36. So you keep raising these taxes, and all of a sudden the business community says, 'Why are we here? We can go someplace else and use their phones.' That's one of the problems that directly affects the business community.
Richard M. Daley
#37. I'm very involved in my business and with my family and my friends. I don't play the social world very much, and not to promote my product. I do it for the philanthropic problems because there I feel that I'm making a difference, and that I'm helping. So I do it in a soulful way.
Donna Karan
#38. One of the problems with hedge funds is that they are changing so rapidly. If you have the balance sheet that closed business last night, by 11 A.M. this morning, that won't tell you very much about what they're doing.
Alan Greenspan
#39. That's one of the problems with making music your business, it becomes a business. You're no longer just this kid who is a fan and going to see every show. I've been in a bar every night for the last 15 years. Going to see bands for me is work.
Mojo Nixon
#40. The image of success is important, but even more important is the ability to focus on solutions instead of on problems. That way, you'll never be thinking like a loser, and you probably won't look like one either.
Donald Trump
#41. People are not interested in your product or your business; they are interested in solving their own problems.
James Dillehay
#42. Most business processes are about making choices from a set of existing alternatives. Clearly, if all your competition is doing the same, then differentiation is tough. In order to innovate, we have to have new alternatives and new solutions to problems, and that is what design can do.
Tim Brown
#43. Business is a string of seemingly impossible problems looking for solutions. Each problem you solve creates a new barrier to entry for your next competitor.
Jon Oringer
#44. One of the biggest problems out there that I hear from my friends in the business community is that there's no lending, that it's tough to get a loan today.
Alexi Giannoulias
#45. I listen. I meet with everybody, I don't care what their political persuasion is - whether it be a labor union or small-business folks or individuals who have problems. But I meet with everybody and listen.
Tom Latham
#46. Today it is difficult to find leaders who are independent of the forces that have brought us our problems: The Congress, the bureaucracy, the lobbyists, big business, and big labor.
Ronald Reagan
#47. Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing.
Peter Singer
#48. The best way for business to move out of the Hall of Shame is to demonstrate a commitment to social causes. This also makes business sense. A focus on solving social problems has motivational benefits in lean economic times.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
#49. Money is always the least of the problems. It is finding the right business or growing the right business. You can't do that without the right people.
Christoffel Wiese
#50. The people who built Silicon Valley were engineers. They learned business, they learned a lot of different things, but they had a real belief that humans, if they worked hard with other creative, smart people, could solve most of humankind's problems. I believe that very much.
Steve Jobs
#51. If you have too many problems, maybe you should get out of business. There is no law that says a company must last forever.
Peter Drucker
#52. To be successful in business and life, spot the possibilities while others look for problems.
Robin Sharma
#53. What America is thirsting for now is a battalion of strong, down-to-earth 'doers' - managers, frontline activists, business and social entrepreneurs engaged in tackling America's manifold problems of unemployment, education, and competitive slouch.
Tina Brown
#54. Making money ethically is to be paid whilst solving someone else's problems.
Nina Montgomery
#55. That's what's great about show business. It's escapism. You pay your five bucks to get in and sit there and you're in another world. Forget about the problems in the world. It's wonderful.
Michael Jackson
#56. We wanted to enjoy what we were doing and we had business things we had to straighten out and personnel problems and it sort of took a little time to do it.
Debbie Harry
#57. Ideas ... [are] like babies - everything about their environment [says] they shouldn't exist. But they do. You can't dwell on problems too early, or they will swamp the virtues and you will decide not to do the project.
(Attributed to Mike Jones)
Steven Levy
#58. We have a basic notion that unless we find a solution for environmental problems, we will not achieve sustainable growth in the coming years
Hiroyuki Watanabe
#59. Business and human endeavors are systems ... we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system. And wonder why our deepest problems never get solved.
Peter M. Senge
#60. Now our biggest environmental problems come from our own actions, our own choices, rather than pollution produced by big business.
Jesse Ventura
#61. We started Ashoka here in India with a simple idea: that you needed social entrepreneurs to deal with problems that don't fit the business paradigm.
Bill Drayton
#62. Happiness at work is not about eliminating all the bad stuff from your job. It's about being happy at work even though some of these bad things are present. It's about building your skills and your energy to fix the problems, and to create more and more positive experiences at work.
Alexander Kjerulf
#63. Writing is a long and lonesome business; back of the problems in thought and composition hover always the awful questions: Is this the page that shows the empty shell? Is it here and now that they find me out?
John Kenneth Galbraith
#64. No scientist is admired for failing in the attempt to solve problems that lie beyond his competence ... Good scientists study the most important problems they think they can solve. It is, after all, their professional business to solve problems, not merely to grapple with them.
Peter Medawar
#65. A business owner is the boss, but it's a job, a place that is stable and profitable. An entrepreneur is an artist of sorts, throwing his/herself into impossible situations and seeking out problems that require heart and guts to solve. Both are fine, but choose.
Seth Godin
#66. You know, Drake, I seem to recall this impertinent young pup who once told me that problems shared are problems solved. (Jake)
And I seem to recall a surly pirate telling me to mind my own business or I'd find myself gutted. (Morgan)
Kinley MacGregor
#67. If they [companies] believe they are in business to serve people, to help solve problems, to use and employ the ingenuity of their workers to improve the lives of people around them by learning from the nature that gives us life, we have a chance.
Paul Hawken
#68. If you really want to get rid of the problems in the NFL, put Obama in charge of it: in a few months it will be so deep in debt it will have to go out of business - no more concussions.
Rush Limbaugh
#69. At first they'd thought the guillotine would be a sweet, clean business, but when you have twenty, perhaps thirty heads to take off in a day, there are problems of scale.
Hilary Mantel
#70. There's a simple solution to our traffic problems. We'll have business build the roads, and government build the cars.
Will Rogers
#71. I have been where you are now. I have felt the fears and resolved them. I have had the doubts and concerns and found the way forward.
Lift up your head, and step ahead ...
Moutasem Algharati
#72. At Starbucks 0 as in any business, in any life - there are so many hectic moments during the day when we are simply trying to do the job, trying to put out the fires, trying to solve any number of small problems, that we often lose sight of what it is we're really here to do.
Howard Schultz
#73. Sometimes I think our problems are made worse by the kind of business we're in. Playing these road shows is a weird experience.
Loretta Lynn
#74. Trust is the great simplifier. If people in business told the truth, 80 to 90 percent of their problems would disappear.
William Schutz
#75. The problem with venality in business is that getting outraged about it makes it easy to miss the systemic problems that venality often disguises.
James Surowiecki
#76. Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.
Bill Gates
#77. I go through the same problems all young people go through. Being in this business, I accept that there are positives and negatives but having a strong family base and a belief in God enables me to weather the storms.
Aaliyah
#78. There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.
Russell Baker
#79. While I am a capitalist at heart and I have no problems with commercialization as such, I believe that while it's okay if education becomes a profitable business, it's not okay if it becomes corrupt.
Chetan Bhagat
#80. To launch a business means successfully solving problems. Solving problems means listening.
Richard Branson
#81. A business person is all about solving problems.
Ehab Atalla
#82. Now, the causes being four, it is the business of the student of nature to know about them all, and if he refers his problems back to all of them, he will assign the "why" in the way proper to his science-the matter, the form, the mover, that for the sake of which.
Aristotle.
#83. We have mountain of debt that isn't going away and all the problems are here to stay, and anybody who tells you that is a good thing ought to get out of the business of helping the government down the road.
Rick Santelli
#84. Business as usual is dead. Green growth is the answer to both our climate and economic problems
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
#85. To think that I know what's best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tension, anxiety, and fear. Do I know what's right for me? That is my only business. Let me work with that before I try to solve problems for you.
Byron Katie
#86. Most business models have focused on self interest instead of user experience. Those are the kinds of problems we solve to solve.
Tim Cook
#87. Sometimes I think if we didn't have these problems the whole world would stop spinning on her axis, we'd all stop spinning on our axises, axes, or whatever you want to call them, and then we'd have to settle into the nasty business of finding a way to be happy.
Daniel Clausen
#88. At the end of the day, businesses should exist to provide profits for their team to share as a result of solving problems for their customers.
Clay Clark
#89. Business is a very beautiful mechanism to solve problems, but we never use it for that purpose. We only use it to make money. It satisfies our selfish interest but not our collective interest.
Muhammad Yunus
#90. We are so sluggish in our mentality that we think the world's problems are not our business, that they have to be resolved by the United Nations or by substituting new leaders for the old.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#91. People don't realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn't change that. Fame doesn't change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it's just a different kind of problems.
Dolly Parton
#92. Our business is not to solve problems beyond our mortal powers, but to see to it that our thoughts are not unworthy of the great theme.
William Macneile Dixon
#93. What you need is one black dress I call Plan B. It doesn't have to be fabulous, it just looks good, covers up the problems and is neutral enough for dinner, business, a date, a funeral. You don't overwear it, you don't overwash it, because the Plan B is - gold.
Salma Hayek
#94. Whenever I think about the budgetary problems, I think about the problems of Errol Flynn ... reconciling net income with gross habits.
Malcolm Rifkind
#95. The dichotomy is delicious. Inside the fantasy genre, I try to present women who need to solve real problems like having no voice in community, or no right to work; no access to capital to start a business. No reinforcement for talent.
Stella Atrium
#96. We are racing toward a world of abundance, and we are going to be increasing the quality of life for everyone on this planet. The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities.
Peter Diamandis
#97. The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.
Zig Ziglar
#98. I got screwed over in some bad business deals, but as long as I focused on those past problems, I couldn't move forward. I had to let all of that go and forgive everyone and everything first.
Steve Pavlina
#99. When you see recurring problems, the methods you've used successfully in the past have to be reevaluated.
Mark Miller
#100. Money, while clearly helpful in solving myriad problems, can often conceal a business's real flaws. It can also risk rigidifying a company's business model at the very moment it should be in 'customer discovery' mode or iterating around market opportunities.
Maelle Gavet
