Quotes About Business Functions

#1. My laptop helps me carry on my business functions and stay in touch with my executives when I'm abroad.

Lucio Tan

#2. Organize around business functions, not people. Build systems within each business function. Let systems run the business and people run the systems. People come and go but the systems remain constant.

Michael Gerber

#3. My thing is, I don't get in nobody's business or nothing like that or try to bash anybody for what they do. I've got cousins who are gay. To me, there's just no difference. We always chill and have family functions the way we always have. It's not a problem.

Warren G

#4. Business only has two functions - innovation and marketing.

Milan Kundera

#5. Writing has always had that tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience.

Paul Auster

#6. In a very real sense, there are only two roles in organisations: customers and suppliers. Everybody functions simultaneously in both roles, whether inside or outside the organisation the essence of good business, therefore, is the quality of the relationship between customer and supplier.

Stephen Covey

#7. A leader has to know how the system functions - not just the system of government but the whole social and economic system, including business, the unions, and the universities.

Jean Chretien

#8. The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#9. If you despise your people,
you will disregard them.
If you hate your people,
you will harm them.
If you esteem your people,
you will serve them.
If you love your people,
you will even die for them.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#10. The business model should be such that the employees needed possess the lowest possible level of skill necessary to fulfill the functions for which each is intended.

Seth Godin

#11. To lose someone you love is the very worst thing in the world. It creates an invisible hole that you feel you are falling down and will never end. People you love make the world real and solid and when they suddenly go away forever, nothing feels solid any more.

Matt Haig

#12. The core of the consulting business is going in and essentially making yourself indispensible by eating the brain of the organization, meaning that the consultants go in and assume key functions in the organization.

Matthew Stewart

#13. It is time to recognize conventional MBA programs for what they are - or else to close them down. They are specialized training in the functions of business, not general educating in the practice of management.

Henry Mintzberg

#14. Live to fight on other days.

Janet Morris

#15. The enterprise can fulfill its human and social functions only if it prospers as a business.

Peter Drucker

#16. The notion of anarchy ... means that once industrial functions have taken over from political functions, then business transactions and exchange alone produce the social order.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

#17. Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

Peter F. Drucker

#18. There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

Erma Bombeck

#19. To Randy and the others, the business plan functions as Torah, master calendar,
motivational text, philosophical treatise. It is a dynamic, living document.

Neal Stephenson

#20. Even an organization that doesn't do much work internationally will benefit from a culturally intelligent strategy to innovation. Working across different generations, business units, regions, and functions are all factors that can also influence the innovation process.

David Livermore

#21. Marketing and advertising are incredibly exciting and creative functions. They are central to the creation of brands and to the creation of sustainable competitive advantage for companies

Jim Speros

#22. A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.

Alfred North Whitehead

#23. Unless you can begin with an interesting problem, it is unlikely you will end up with an interesting solution.

Bob Gill

#24. It is important always to have really original talent. There are lots of good designers that make attractive clothes and make women look beautiful. But at the same time, one doesn't want to lose the idea that there is someone out there who can change the way you look at fashion.

Anna Wintour

#25. Every writer knows that when you're imitating somebody - you know, you're sounding like Faulkner - you're doing pretty good, but your life in Hoboken isn't Faulkneresque.

George Saunders

#26. 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

#27. There are many people who will stay in negative situation because it is familiar, rather than go where there is promise of something good, because that would be something unfamiliar

Stormie O'martian

#28. Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business has two and only two functions: Marketing and Innovation. Marketing and Innovation produce results. All the rest are costs.

Peter Drucker