Business Quotes

There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it happen.

You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams.

There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs.

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?

The outcome is not up to you. The outlook is.

Ingredients to success: know what you do well, know what to do well, and know someone who's swell.

Trust is a good business practice.

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

In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time.

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

At the heart of excessive individualism is a broken heart

In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging.

In looking at waste as an entirely modern, man-made idea, I stopped viewing garbage as garbage and instead slowly started to see it as a commodity.

A #GIRLBOSS knows when to throw punches and when to roll with them.

Your Twitter Profile is your business card.

Twitter is not just for Journalists. You don’t have to be a writer to Tweet.[Social Media]

Conflict is just another chance for agreement.

Focus your business on what you do best. Let everyone else worry about the rest.

The simple truth is that technology is still a poor substitute for human interaction.

Customers are speaking to you implicitly via their behavior, captured in the footprints they leave behind in your systems.

Competition exists to choose who gets the prize when the prize can’t be shared.

Those who do not study their businesses do not stay in business.

If you want to sustain excellence over a long time, you'd better come up with a system that works well. Anyone can sprint for a little while, but you can't sprint for forty years.

Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.

We have little choice but to move beyond quality and seek remarkable, connected, and new. Remarkable, as you've already figured out, demands initiative.

Strategy is about shaping the future.

No business can be made easier to do than excuses are to make.

advertising produces familiarity which produces sales

In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899)

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

I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.

All my jobs have been with food in one way or another since 1948. My parents were in the hotel business, and I just loved the warm hearted people who worked so hard with such good humor.

I'm a mad lover of sport. You cannot say a bad word to me about sports. So I know business is involved and I know it can be cynical, and, of course, I watch it, but for me it's pure.

Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas.

I love the urban comedies, because they keep you famous, keep you having fun, and keep you in love with the business. Those are my roots. I'll always love doing those.

In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.

It was something of a personal challenge for me to come up with a business suitable for the Internet world and the Internet age.

I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.

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

I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.

As somebody who makes his living in the movie business and wants to contribute to it, I think that the best chance I have of doing that is just consistently working with great directors.

If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff.

There are certain skills that business people have that are - that are, in fact, helpful in - when it comes to being in political leadership.

In politics, as in business, leadership is crucial.

President Roosevelt's leadership put the world on notice that the United States of America - with the freest, most dynamic economy the world had ever seen - was open for business.

I need to travel, of course, with my laptop, so I can do my business on the road.

In any business, the more you learn, the more sympathetic you can be to other people's positions.

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

McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.

My strengths as a businessman lie in the design and sale of women's shoes, and I have never been comfortable with complicated or technical legal or business documents.