Business Quotes

All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the U...

At O'Reilly, the way we think about our business is that we're not a publisher; we're not a conferen...

And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the dama...

After the monkeys came down from the trees and learned to hurl sharp objects, they had had to move i...

Sir Gerald Moore: I was at dinner last evening, and halfway through the pudding, this four-year-old ...

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeli...

What you wear for work should be comfortable and empowering. If you're working in business, your out...

My most difficult class at Harvard Business School would have to be finance.

My mom was a medical photographer, but on the side, she did a before-and-after glam photography busi...

A businessman is someone who buys at ten and is happy to get out at twelve. The other kind of man bu...

I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business...

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found t...

Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source.

I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommo...

In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve ...

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no indi...

We need a moderately-priced stock market… The market, like the Lord, helps those who help themselves...

There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something th...

If you will look about you (which most people won't do)," says Sergeant Cuff, "you will see that the...

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

When nations grow old the Arts grow coldAnd commerce settles on every tree

If all the businesses in town are run like country businesses, You are going to have a country town

A National Government cannot create good times. It cannot make the rain to fall, the sun to shine, o...

My dad has been a big influence on me, because he's always had his own business. He really taught me...

The way to stop financial "joy-riding" is to arrest the chauffeur not the automobile.

I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to mu...

Some of us are happy with our African hair, thank you very much. I don't want some poor Indian girl'...

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough o...

If people like you they'll listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you.

I don't like business talkers, you know, people who are constantly like, 'Blah blah blah movies.' I ...

One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but...

The interest of [businessmen] is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that ...

In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise...

Business is based on the well-known principle of supply and demand. You want something, the other ma...

I have always believed that a trademark is the life of an enterprise and that it must be protected b...

I have always believed that atrademark is the life of an enterpriseand that it must be protected bol...

There's plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it's a serious business.

The business card does not fully reflect who we are. We are being judged, we feel, in a humiliating ...

The romantic person instinctively sees marriage in terms of emotions, but what a couple actually get...

Most business meetings involve one party elaborately suppressing a wish to shout at the other: 'just...

Yet in reality, the likelihood of reaching the pinnacle of capitalist society today is only marginal...

Partially undermining the manufacturer's ability to assert that its work constituted a meaningful co...

Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a ...

We're interested in the mass-merchandising of anything. If there was a market in mass-produced porta...

I never truly believed that human business was some serious thing.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

There are some times when you make films and you travel places, and the take that people in the busi...

The technical developments of almost every form of wealth [e.g., oil, minerals] are the forebears of...

International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky.

Mma Ramotswe tucked the cheque safely away in her bodice. Modern business methods were all very well...

In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.

Perhaps I will stay in Chicago and operate on human beings instead of on dogs. From a business stand...

Like any other tool for facilitating the completion of a questionable task, rewards offer a "how" an...

The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branc...

Fortunately for me, my mother loved travel. Our first non-beach family trip abroad - to England, Fra...

Nothing in fine print is ever good news.

It's weird to have people so interested in your personal life. It's a part of the business that gros...

Business art is the step that comes after art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finis...

There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that's alwa...

Nevertheless a certain class of dishonesty, dishonesty magnificent in its proportions, and climbing ...

Apparently, sir you Chinese are far ahead of us in every respect, except that you don’t have entrepr...

I don't feel one's personal medical condition is everybody's business. It just isn't something you a...

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

I don't take much stock of detectives in novels - chaps that do things and never let you see how the...

The whole business of reading English Literature in two years, to know it in any reputable sense of ...

The family on my mom's side, their whole business is inventing and pitching stuff. My grandfather is...

Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own c...

Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world's unrealized potential. They ar...

One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United N...

Just as layoffs were making a mockery of the team concept, employees were urged to find camaraderie ...

Making movies has become such a golden ring, and it's all such a big business, that the rewards syst...

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of ...

Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, s...

There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.

The real axis of evil in America is the genius of our marketing and the gullibility of our people.

All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you in...

My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as ...

The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.

The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It...

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this i...

The essence of a successful business is really quite simple. It is your ability to offer a product o...

Think continally about what you want, not about the things you fear.

Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand perce...

Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books ...

To earn more, you must learn more.

Don't get married until you're certain that you're marrying the right girl. How did I know my wife w...

...After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned w...

The Business of Our Firm is Business"-Donald W. Hudspeth from:"The Business of America is Business"-...

The business of America is business.

I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is ...

But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to...

He has the power to render us happy or unhappy, to make our service light or burdensome, a pleasure ...

Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, ...

When someone takes their existing business and tries to transform it into something else - they fail...

It can be hard in this business, especially when you're very young, to figure out who you can and ca...

My dad was the cause of me being in show business. He was not only in poetry but in acting a bit. He...

What's Management up to?" I whispered to Bennett."My guess is a new acronym," he whispered. "Departm...

In my father's last letter he said that the world is run by those willing to take the responsibility...

Every telecomm company is as big a corporate welfare bum as you could ask for. Try to imagine what i...