Business Quotes

The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, ro...

As far as this business of solitary confinement goes, the most important thing for survival is commu...

It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. Whenyou pay too much, you lose a litt...

And now they were weary and frightened because they had gone against a system they did not understan...

Beside them, little pot-bellied men in light suits and panama hats; clean, pink men with puzzled, wo...

Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clot...

In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the M...

Put it this way, George,” he suggested, when he had savoured the night air for a moment. “You travel...

Nowadays… deals are transactional rather than personal. Instead of placing your faith in a person, y...

At Current, television is all we do - that's our business. We don't have amusement parks I have to w...

I am co-writing a screenplay now and I'm working on the rights to another story I want to do. So I p...

We must advertise to U.S. business that we are there, that our attitude has changed, and that we car...

Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.

When you're eight years old nothing is your business.

I got married in Florence, Italy. My husband and I were in love but totally broke, so we eloped and ...

Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when ...

Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor.

In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cu...

When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every de...

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they...

The name given to that one dramatic moment in an epidemic when everything can change all at once is ...

Contagiousness is an unexpected property of all kinds of things.

All I had done was to improve on their strategy, and it was the beginning of a very important lesson...

Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say t...

Learning how to interact with customers is something that anyone starting any business must master. ...

I basically see two reasons for a going public: Glencore gets access to more money. It is a way of f...

I think the private sector for the most part, the vast majority of employers in America, they wake u...

There has to be a way to redirect employee's driving ambition and to channel it more productively. T...

In business as well as in everything else, you're in business to spread love.  Your agency should sp...

It's not about money or connections. It's the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do - and the business sid...

I liked Trump's honesty because it was different and had a chance to change the business of politics...

If you can't admit a failure, you're not an entrepreneur. You are not a good business person. There'...

Owning a popular sports team is very different than any other type of business. They don't throw par...

My father ran London Films. He made films like 'The Red Shoes,' 'The Third Man.' And he had had a lo...

During the gold rush its a good time to be in the pick and shovel business

In my movies, I'm not trying to erase any old image of myself, really. And also I'm not trying to im...

I've always wanted to be in the health and wellness business. I try to encourage people to live a he...

Everywhere I go, I always look for creative entrepreneurs, whether it's artisans and craftsmen, smal...

I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.

As somebody who makes his living in the movie business and wants to contribute to it, I think that t...

I do my best stuff midmorning and superlate at night, from 1 to 5 in the morning. Some people don't ...

I like to read first thing in the morning. I'm addicted to the Kindle. I read a lot of business book...

There are stories — legends, really — of the “steady job.” Old-timers gather graduates around the fl...

Last month we had to sit through a presentation on eliminating redundancy, and it was a bunch of Pow...

She’s such a bitch,” Tina says, which I find a little contradictory, but overall quite true. “She’s ...

Bureaucracy develops the more perfectly, the more it is 'dehumanized', the more completely it succee...

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of a mistake

Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, ...

The U.S. stock market was now a class system, rooted in speed, of haves and have-nots. The haves pai...

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

I have heard Silvius, an excellent physician of Paris, say that lest the digestive faculties of the ...

The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy.

Committee: A group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.

There is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can...

Social responsibility is a fundamentally subversive doctrine" in a free society, and have said that ...

In business, people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Maybe you're too used to...

As a little boy, I wanted to be a policeman. And then as I got older, and I saw my dad in the car bu...

Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and...

By simply capitalizing on core strengths and knowledge, companies and entrepreneurs can engage in an...

Good economic theory must give the people the chance to use their talents to build their own lives. ...

Engaging in social business is beneficial to a company because it leverages on business competencies...

Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They...

If you can not do great things, Do small things in a great way.

You become what you think about

Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished ...

I don't think business news is just for old white men with money.

... From want of foresight men make changes which relishing well at first do not betray their hidden...

... I believe that he will prosper most whose mode of acting best adapts itself to the character of ...

Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today’s New Democrats a...

I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother...

I've always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonderful ...

In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive ...

I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.

If it was my business, I wouldn't talk about it. It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Onl...

The decision must be made between Judaism and Christianity, between business and culture, between ma...

I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business to...

Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiv...

No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can u...

Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior', for by living up to it there is no such word as fail.

The bottom line is down where it belongs - at the bottom.

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up 'cause they're looking f...

I'm totally against straight marriage - even though I'm married. I don't think heterosexual marriage...

We need a president who realizes that there's no government business in show business.

One of the things about football is, it's a relationship business.

Most of the masses still believe in magic, you know. Spells. Potions. It's a big business, I am told...

I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the ...

The moment I entered the bright, buzzing lobby of Men’s House I was overcome by a sense of alienatio...

To defend our country we need to gather intelligence on the enemy, but when the intelligence lies to...

The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members...

Quite rapidly Etta became acquainted with the realities of poverty in one of its loneliest forms -- ...

In the twentieth century the women who wanted to be on their own were some of the best, the honest o...

An important priority for me is a business must get their own house in order. Be or become an agent ...

We have teams of people working on electric cars. So you never know - you may find Virgin competing ...

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

My early business ventures included growing Christmas trees and breeding birds.

Good brands reflect the histories of the time and the group of people that made them. They can not b...

I can honestly say that I have never gone into any business purely to make money. If that is the sol...