Book of Business Quotations

Book of Business Quotations

Book of Business Quotations

Book of Business Quotations

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Overview

A collection of witty and entertaining business quotations brought together by the experts at The Economist

An inspirational, informative, and insightful compendium of business wisdom, Book of Business Quotations brings together a remarkable collection of business quotations. Going well beyond just the most common, widely-known remarks from major industry figures, the book unearths little known comments from forgotten experts, novelists, and other non-traditional sources, placing them alongside the words of business luminaries to craft a truly comprehensive volume.

Compiled partly from talking to businessmen, journalists, writers, and professors about quotations they have found particularly perceptive, and partly by trawling the reference sources, business publications, and The Economist itself, the book is structured alphabetically by subject, with approximately 50 sections.

  • Brings together words of wit and wisdom about business from a diverse range of sources, including CEOs, novelists, business gurus, and politicians
  • Includes remarks on all manner of current business topics, from global markets to e-commerce, from business history to consultants
  • Quotations grouped by subject for easy access
A helpful tool for anyone working in the world of business, Book of Business Quotations puts pearls of wisdom from a range of sources right at your fingertips.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781118185346
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 07/31/2012
Series: Economist Series , #114
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 5.20(w) x 7.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Bill Ridgers is a business writer and business education editor at The Economist.

Table of Contents

About this book  xii

Introduction  xiii

A Accountants and accountancy 1

Advertising 3

Advice  6

Agriculture business 9

The airline industry 9

Ambition 10

America 12

Appraisals 14

The arts 15

B Banks and bankers  18

Bills 20

The board  21

The boss  22

Branding  23

Bureaucracy 24

Business education  26

Business entertaining  27

Business travel  28

C Capitalism 29

The car industry 32

Change  33

Civility 36

Joking aside: five quotes from comedians  37

Committees  38

Communication  38

Communism and socialism  39

Competition  40

Complacency 43

Conferences  43

Conflict and the arms industry  44

Consultants and consulting  45

Consumerism  46

Corporations  49

Costs 50

Creativity  51

Credit  54

Crime  55

Culture  55

Customers and customer service  56

Cynicism  60

D Data, information and statistics  61

Debt  63

Decision-making  64

Delegation  66

Design 66

Development  67

Discipline  68

Dishonesty  68

Diversity 69

Downturns and economic turmoil 70

The drugs industry 70

E Economics 72

In brief: five epigrams 74

Education 76

Egotism 76

Emerging markets 77

Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurialism 77

The environment  80

Envy and jealousy 81

Ethics 82

Europe 85

Experience 86

Expertise 87

F Failure 89

Showing character: five quotes from film and TV 91

Family business 92

The film industry 93

Financial crises 93

Following the herd 94

Foot-in-mouth and blunt honesty 95

Friendship 96

Fulfillment 97

Fun 97

G Gambling  99

Globalisation  99

Greed  101

Growth 102

H Happiness  104

Hard work  105

Hiring 108

Honesty  109

Hubris  111

I Innovation  112

Insurance  118

The internet  118

Intuition  119

Investing  120

K Knowledge  124

Knowledge workers  125

L Labour  127

Novel thoughts: five quotes from literature 130

Lawyers and the law 131

Laziness  133

Leadership 135

Luck 138

M Management speak and jargon  140

Management thinking  142

Managers and management 142

Words ffrom the wise: five quotes from management gurus 143

Manufacturing 147

Market research  147

Marketing 148

Markets 151

The media 152

Meetings 154

Mergers, demergers and acquisitions 155

Money 156

Motivation / 159

The music industry 160

N Negotiation and  dealmaking 162

O Obsession 163

Obstacles 163

Office life 164

The oil and gas industry 166

The oldest profession 168

Operations 169

Optimism  170

P Performance 171

Philanthropy 171

Philosophy 172

Planning  172

Poverty 173

Power 174

Predictions 175

Price 175

Procrastination 176

Products / 177

The despatch box: five quotes from politicians 178

Progress 179

Promotion 180

Purpose 181

R Regulation  182

Remuneration  183

Reputation 185

Responsibility 186

Retirement 186

Risk 187

S The sack 189

Science 190

Secretaries 190

Self-employment 191

Self-interest 191

Selling 192

Show business 193

Small and medium-sized businesses 194

Sport 194

Start-ups 195

Strategy 196

Success  200

Supply chains 204

T Talent  205

Taxes  207

Teamwork  208

Technology 210

The tobacco industry 214

Training  214

U Unemployment 215

Unions and industrial relations 216

V Value  219

W Wealth  221

Women in business  225

Work-life balance 227

Acknowledgements 229

Index 230

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