Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret. – Ralph Nader
The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation. – Pierre Trudeau
Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business – which at least does us all some good. – Stephen Fry
Business practices and how we treat the planet are also in desperate need of re-humanization. – Simon Mainwaring
As a speaker, business leader or marketer of any type, the onus is now on each of us to become equally capable of communicating very personally with a seemingly endless number of people connected by social technologies. – Simon Mainwaring
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
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
Integrate purpose into your for-profit business model through a long term commitment to a cause that is aligned with your core values and those of your community. – Simon Mainwaring
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
Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money. – Michael Porter
The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business. – Margaret Mitchell
If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires. – Barbara Corcoran
The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred. – Henry Louis Gates
Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends. – Janice Dickinson
The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability. – A. N. Wilson
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. – David Ogilvy
Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business – the gambler always loses over the long term. – Marilyn vos Savant
Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking. – Bill Vaughan
Romney is right that the Obama vision is too centered on government. But his is too centered on the promotion of business and wealth creation at the expense of everything else. – John Podhoretz
A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition. – James Cash Penney
