Top 100 Social Business Quotes
#1. What we need is to think strategically about development, analyzing a country's potential role in its region and the world in search of opportunities for growth. Platforms like the Global Social Business Summit can facilitate the process on bringing about change.
Muhammad Yunus
#2. 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.
Simon Mainwaring
#3. Social business lies in the spectrum of possibility between the traditional, profit-maximizing business, which directs little to no profit to doing good, and the traditional charity, which relies mostly on donations to sustain itself.
Leila Janah
#4. 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
#5. A charity dollar has only one life; a Social Business dollar can be invested over and over again.
Muhammad Yunus
#6. What we are trying to do is to create a social business in Bangladesh, a joint venture to create restaurants for common people. Good, healthy food at affordable prices so that people don't have to opt for food that is unhealthy and unhygienic.
Muhammad Yunus
#7. Engaging in social business is beneficial to a company because it leverages on business competencies to address social issues, involves one-time investment with sustainable results, and produces other positive effects such as employee motivation and improved organizational culture.
Muhammad Yunus
#8. I am proposing to create another kind of business, based on "selflessness" that is in all of us. I am calling it social business.
Muhammad Yunus
#9. I'm encouraging young people to become social business entrepreneurs and contribute to the world, rather than just making money. Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun.
Muhammad Yunus
#10. The only currency isn't money. For me, it's about how can you build a good business that's also a social business.
Elliott Bisnow
#11. 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.
Simon Mainwaring
#12. While creating a social brand is a necessary endeavor, building a social business is an investment.
Brian Solis
#13. Today's businesses can't just use social media; they have to become social businesses, inside and out and from top to bottom. Ultimately, that is the goal of this book: to harness the power of being a social business to become the most highly recommended organization in your industry/category/niche.
Paul M. Rand
#15. A few primary keys to becoming a leader in business include having a clear intent or purpose, a truly inspiring vision, a grand message to share, a genuine social calling and a targeted niche to serve.
John Frederick Demartini
#16. Social networks are like grease - in some cases, gasoline - for our personal business networking machines. If you aren't plugged in, you will be out-done by better-connected, hyper-networked colleagues and competitors.
Danah Boyd
#17. Conservatively, I am saying that social networking has made being in a band more fun, but not necessarily changed how the business works.
Chris Cain
#18. Being effective at social media, whether for business or personal use, means capturing people who have short attention spans. They're only a click away from a picture of a funny cat, so you have to make your thing more compelling than that cat. And that can be a high bar.
Alexis Ohanian
#20. Leaders in the realm of religious activity are to be judged by their praying habits and not by their money or social position. Those who must be placed in the forefront of the Church's business must be, first of all, men who know how to pray.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#21. Interest in business ethics courses has surged, and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making business serve long-term social values.
Peter Singer
#22. You are free; you are free to go to your temples. You are free to go to your mosques or to any other places of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion, caste or creed - that has nothing to do with the business of the state.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
#23. Having disrupted business practices, social interactions and political campaigns, 2011 will be seen as the year that the rise of the Internet first disrupted foreign relations.
Douglas Alexander
#24. I'm all for Spencer. He's sincere, idealistic, and a good preacher. I just don't believe that social action is the main business of the Church."
"Then what is?"
"Salvation.
Catherine Marshall
#25. We believe that business can be a tool for social good.
Pierre Omidyar
#26. I have a problem with the term social entrepreneurship because people say only business helps to make the world a better place.
Sabriye Tenberken
#27. You need to change your mind from sell sell sell to help help help and if you can do that as a business you will win in social media
Mark Schaefer
#28. Spiders are anti-social, keep pests under control, and mostly mind their own business, but they somehow summon fear in humans who are far more dangerous, deceitful and have hurt more people. Of the two I'm more suspicious about the latter.
Donna Lynn Hope
#29. I'm not a real social person - I'm shy - and a lot of the business is just social.
Kim Basinger
#30. We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.
Jon Bon Jovi
#31. If you think about photo sharing sites, the mobile photo sharing and social, there's no competitive advantage, there's no obvious business model, so I never play with anything like that. I avoid it like the plague.
Aaron Patzer
#32. As I visualize it, the business of the future will be a scientific, social and economic unit. It will be vigorously creative in pure science where its contributions will compare with those of the universities.
Edwin Land
#33. I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
Irvine Welsh
#34. My view of the charity world is that compared with business, there is too much talk, way too many meetings and expert panels and blue-ribbon commissions, and not enough action. Or as an Australian friend of mine once opined: "Sometimes you just have to have a go and get on with it, mate!".
John Wood
#35. Good entrepreneurs can manage, but no one but an entrepreneur can entrepreneur, let alone help build and lead the world's community of leading social entrepreneurs and their top business entrepreneur allies.
Bill Drayton
#36. My family, although it keeps its hair, turns gray early - a business asset but a social handicap.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
#37. Before you can pick a social-media strategy, you have to think of your customer and what the value proposition is for them. Social media is a way to engage customers, not to give your business a 'shout out.'
Carol Roth
#38. What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#39. The Internet creates as well as destroys. Social networks, search advertising, and cloud computing are multibillion dollar industries that didn't exist 10 years ago. They are products of the same force that has rendered the Postal Service's core business obsolete.
John Sununu
#40. For your business to stand out and succeed, you have to put a primary focus on the social media space, go in big (halfway will not do), and do it better than most, right from the start.
Brian E. Boyd Sr.
#41. Economic dynamism can be combined with environmental and social responsibility. High financial returns can go hand in hand with respect for human rights, and the preservation of the planet's natural resources
David Miliband
#42. In his combination of earnestness, social conscience, and willingness to scrap, he was a perfect hero for 1943, as America went about the rumbling, laborious business of backing itself into a horrible war.
Michael Chabon
#43. Social media isn't something that you "do", instead you have to "be" social.
Peter Thomson
#44. It's about "Moments," not Milestones.
Ted Rubin
#45. Genuine art and business are the ultimate partnership toward catalyzing social evolution and well-being.
Vanna Bonta
#46. Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.
Carly Fiorina
#48. As to the meaning of "corporate social responsibility," Friedman and I would agree: If a certain action improves the corporation's bottom line, there's no point in labeling it "socially responsible." It's just good business.
Robert Reich
#49. The ROI of social media is that your business will still exist in 5 years.
Erik Qualman
#50. Business leaders, social justice groups, farmers and ranchers, doctors and nurses and people from all walks of life are concerned about the climate threat.
Frances Beinecke
#51. As I see it, most major philanthropists have been bullied into giving. They feel social pressure to give. It has become a cost of doing business.
Steven Levitt
#52. EVERY MOMENT IN business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won't make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won't create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren't learning from them.
Peter Thiel
#53. The business of Hollywood, if you don't have other things going on, it will eat you up and spit you out ... If you take what those people and that social structure think of you - if you let it govern your life - you might as well just kill yourself.
Morgan Fairchild
#54. Social embedded business processes that solve concrete needs are key to enterprise social collaboration.
Marc Benioff
#55. Natural capitalism is not about making sudden changes, uprooting institutions, or fomenting upheaval for a new social order. Natural capitalism is about making small, critical choices that can tip economic and social factors in positive ways.
Paul Hawken
#56. Businesses should be focused on business, and social responsibility should be government responsibility.
Terry Gou
#57. Little girls think it's necessary to put all their business on MySpace and Facebook, and I think it's a shame ... I'm all about mystery.
Stevie Nicks
#58. Social media is your opportunity to reach a massive number of people with transparency, honesty, and integrity.
Brian E. Boyd Sr.
#59. If economics were only about profit maximization, it would be just another name for business administration. It is a social discipline, and society has other means of cost accounting besides market prices.
Dani Rodrik
#60. Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige, and power. But the ordinary business of capitalism is much more egalitarian: It's about finding meaning and enjoyment in work and production.
Alex Tabarrok
#61. Liberals say they are for civil liberties and personal freedom, but they continue to advocate government regulation of business, redistribution of wealth, and various forms of social engineering to manipulate human relationships and attitudes.
Richard Ebeling
#62. For a number of people, church attendance seems to be primarily a social affair, the act of meeting other people outside of the pressures of work. For others it is pure business/politics. I get it. It's important to have access to a community like the one a church provides.
Gudjon Bergmann
#63. When it comes to anything that's social, whether it's your family, your school, your community, your business or your country, winning is a team sport.
William J. Clinton
#64. Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will.
Leo Tolstoy
#65. There is a fundamental shift that social media necessitates in business today - the need to transition from 'Me First' to 'We First' thinking.
Simon Mainwaring
#66. Posting dramatic charts or funny pictures is good and giving people smart reasons to believe what they already think is great.
Derek Thompson
#67. Look at your business and the activities that you undertake. Then, start to think about not just your economic concerns, but about social and environmental impacts that businesses have.
Jerry Greenfield
#68. being likeable isn't just about social media or business - it's about living life, to its fullest.
Dave Kerpen
#69. Your brand is a combination of a customer's experiences with your business at every touchpoint. Each memory, thought, impression, website visit, story, sales letter, social media post, event, phone call, and transaction contribute to
your company's brand reputation.
Elaine Fogel
#70. Social media takes time and careful, strategic thought. It doesn't happen by accident.
Brian E. Boyd Sr.
#71. I am someone who's very positive about business, as a social Democrat. I do like the safety net of the welfare system and people setting things and creating business, and that's what I try to do with my own work: export it around the world from the U.K.
Eddie Izzard
#72. This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.
Muhammad Yunus
#73. Franz's domineering father expected his son to take up a profitable business career that would ensure social advancement for the family, as well as a successful marriage promising the same.
Franz Kafka
#74. I bet if I spent less time with the television and more time pursuing activities that enhance my life and expand my knowledge, I won't freeze up in business or social situations.
Jen Lancaster
#75. I wear two hats. The one is business and increasing my shareholders' value; the other is social responsibility.
Guler Sabanci
#76. Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so long in human society - how a few people could live in luxury while billions dwelt in misery, deprivation and despair.
Muhammad Yunus
#77. Projects become complex because we try to solve it alone. Use your working relationships to help you problem solve. Your solution may be as easy as asking your online community for help and direction.
Lisa A. Mininni
#78. By simply capitalizing on core strengths and knowledge, companies and entrepreneurs can engage in an emerging business model that will enable them to create - and demonstrate - real, sustainable social impact in society.
Muhammad Yunus
#79. And, in the past, it has been all too easy for legislators to load costs onto business in order to meet broader social goals. And costs for business means costs for consumers.
John Hutton
#80. A swarm of new business tools coming to phones and desktops near you promise to boost efficiency and streamline collaboration by borrowing social features from the likes of Facebook and Twitter.
Ryan Holmes
#81. When it comes to branding and the ever-changing social media phenomenon, you're not a mushroom. In other words, you shouldn't be kept in the dark and fed a pile of...well, you get the idea.
David Brier
#82. Critical questions from inside and outside the organization should essentially center on: How will this decision promote or prevent the strategic intent, and the corporate mission and values? What impact will this decision have on individual development (business value/social contribution)? Where do
Julia Sloan
#83. The way you react to challenging situations will say a lot about you. Actually, it will make or break your business.
Cendrine Marrouat
#84. Today, the UK must be the pioneer of a new model of economic change, that integrates social and environmental consideration. This is not just a question of values and moral duty. It is about our economy's capacity to sustain itself
David Miliband
#85. Instead of finishing the sentence she slid a business card across the counter. It listed her contact information for every social media site I'd heard of, and several that were still in beta. Except for Google Plus. Even Internet-addicted fairies have standards.
Alex Shvartsman
#86. 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
#87. The government should not be in the business of funneling money for social services through any faith-based organization
Susan Jacoby
#88. A majority of Americans support Social Security and Medicare, a progressive tax system and a government that regulates business in the public interest, but most share deep skepticism about the government's ability to do all this well.
Adam Davidson
#89. I have a dad-ager. My dad is really good at the business end of things. But it's really a family affair. My mother handles all my social media stuff - Facebook, Twitter, e-mails, that kind of thing.
Jencarlos Canela
#90. Life is actually a series of tests. It's a social test, a happiness test, a business success test. You'd like to get A's in all of them.
Donald Trump
#91. The reasons why executives are scared of social selling are well documented. That being said, there are some hugely successful global business leaders using social selling tactics incredibly well - some of which even admit they could not operate without it!
Bruce Rasmussen
#92. If you aren't building a social enterprise, I don't know what your business model will be in 5 years
Angela Ahrendts
#94. My business is anything that comes between men and the Spirit of God.
Richard Llewellyn
#95. When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#96. Every single social and global issue of our day is a business opportunity in disguise
Peter Drucker
#97. Overnight the digital age had changed the course of history for our company. Everything that we thought was in our control no longer was. But within a year we had invested in social media and digital experts. Now Starbucks is the number one brand on Facebook.
Howard Schultz
#98. 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.
Simon Mainwaring
#99. Today, as in the Gilded Age, we live in a world where a morality of personal responsibility rubs shoulders with a culture of greed and of flagrant social irresponsibility. Now as then, business has shed its collective responsibility for employees - just as government has for its citizens.
Charles Derber
#100. Let your first business be to perform your duties at home. But, inasmuch as you are wise stewards, you will find time for social duties ... By seeking to perform every duty you will find that your capacity will increase, and you will be astonished at what you can accomplish.
Eliza R. Snow
