Quotes About Business Systems

#1. If you're not working to get your business or investing operation to operate without you, you're thinking too small. Think team and systems.

Robert Kiyosaki

#2. The main business of humanity is to do a good job of being human beings," said Paul, "not to serve as appendages to machines, institutions, and systems.

Kurt Vonnegut

#3. Startups are rapidly changing systems. If you use an annual review cycle, you aren't getting feedback at the same pace that you need to adapt and change the business.

Fred Wilson

#4. Leave off looking to men to find out what you are not - seek within yourselves to find out what you are.

Mina Loy

#5. Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business.

John Moody

#6. Marry your offline and online systems. So when you meet someone in person, make sure to connect with them online, too!

Lisa A. Mininni

#7. From the systems point of view, it is evident that one of the main obstacles to organizational change is the - largely unconscious - embrace by business leaders of the mechanistic approach to management.

Fritjof Capra

#8. A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

Stephen Covey

#9. Goodrich is a perfect addition to our Hamilton Sundstrand business. And with a strong portfolio of complementary products, Goodrich also brought great leadership balance, great opportunities to provide more integrated systems.

Louis R. Chenevert

#10. All the great agricultural systems which have survived have made it their business never to deplete the earth of its fertility without at the same time beginning the process of restoration.

Albert Howard

#11. 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

#12. When you're good at something, you should continue to do it. Too many players have stopped at a relatively young age ...

Jan Timman

#13. Because maybe I don't want to leave the planet invisible. Maybe I need at least one person to remember something about me.

Carol Rifka Brunt

#14. The teams that worked on the innovative distribution of 'The Interview' are just a few of the many that put in long hours over our studio holiday to ensure business continuity, rebuild our systems, and protect our company.

Michael Lynton

#15. Generating a system architecture is not a deterministic process. It requires careful consideration of business requirements, technology choices, existing infrastructure and systems, and actual physical resources, such as budget and manpower.

Andrew Holdsworth

#16. Systems thinking is a state of mind. Once you have this state of mind, you realize how each part of your business flows into the other.

Lisa A. Mininni

#17. It is not what you get out of life that counts. It's what you give and what is given from the heart.

Sargent Shriver

#18. Change is a journey and the journey is always about change. And if there is no change, why bother with the journey? And the best journeys require lots of space of one sort or another. So for great journeys - just open space.

Harrison Owen

#19. Our concept of eco-effectiveness means working on the right things - on the right products and services and systems - instead of making the wrong things less bad. Once you are doing the right things, then doing them "right," with the help of efficiency among other tools, makes perfect sense.

William McDonough

#20. In simple terms, we are aligning our business today with the way we believe future systems are going to be designed, acquired and maintained.

Phil Condit

#21. I don't think it's a lack of will. I think it's an issue of what people view as constitutional rights under the Fourth Amendment, number one, and what customers and business partners expect around the world from secure computing systems. And it's a difference of view.

Rod Beckstrom

#22. Champions are pioneers, and pioneers get shot at. The companies that get the most from champions, therefore, are those that have rich support network so their pioneers will flourish. This point is so important it's hard to overstress. No support systems, no champions. No champions, no innovations.

Tom Peters

#23. Payment systems are critically important for overall market stability. On a typical business day, U.S. payment and settlement systems settle transactions valued at over $13 trillion.

Henry Paulson

#24. I went to a general store, but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific.

Steven Wright

#25. I'd like to have kids at some point. I think I'll have a family someday.

Anderson Cooper

#26. With increasing fervor since the 1980s, sustainability has been the watchword of scientists, environmental activists, and indeed all those concerned about the complex, fragile systems on the sphere we inhabit. It has shaped debates about business, design, and our lifestyles.

Jamais Cascio

#27. His achievements read like the graffiti on the walls of a hangman's changing room.

Jonathan Larson

#28. Systems run the business and people run the systems.

Michael Gerber

#29. I'm passionate about creating new systems that are more holistic to humankind. What do I mean by that? I mean, create new systems of business so that people with ethics both exploit their goods and their gifts while not exploiting the earth, exploiting one another.

Billy Corgan

#30. Like a lot of kids, you kind of think baseball's boring - that's the perception.

Tony Gwynn

#31. We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements.

Tony Scott

#32. Oh and P.S.? I am in dire need of more coffee. Industrial strength."
"But we're going to sleep soon," I say.
"I know." Laila shudders. "Addiction is a bitch.

Susane Colasanti

#33. Systems give you freedom. Put one business system in place this week and watch what happens.

Lisa A. Mininni

#34. Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.

Fred Wilson

#35. I've always believed that humans are good at heart. But there's always the exception.

Amy Carlson

#36. Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.

Kevin Mitnick

#37. When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an English accent. Talk about being an outsider. And that's become the theme of a lot of the stuff I write about.

Aasif Mandvi

#38. Plant today what you want to harvest tomorrow.

Lisa A. Mininni

#39. Services isolated on business logic can share data sources with other systems.

Paul Dix

#40. Rather than looking at business as a series of simple, linear activities, the systems view recognizes that it is a function of numerous processes interacting interdependently with one another resulting in both planned and unplanned consequences.

John P. Forman

#41. I think we're all crazy. That doesn't mean that I'm leaving here today without you. My love, you're coming home.

Aleatha Romig

#42. There's the new America for you. Bring them in by the millions. Bring in 10 million more from Africa. Bring them in with AIDS. Show how multicultural you are. They can't reason, but bring them in with a machete in their head. Go ahead. Bring them in with machetes in their mind.

Michael Savage

#43. 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

#44. There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.

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