Business Quotes

Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future.

Personal relationships are always the key to good business. You can buy networking; you can't buy friendships.

Advertising in the final analysis should be news. If it is not news it is worthless.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.

I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant.

More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject.

Awareness is bad for the meat business. Conscience is bad for the meat business. Sensitivity to life is bad for the meat business. DENIAL, however, the meat business finds indispensable.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget.

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals.

Competition makes you better, always, always makes you better, even if the competitor wins.

Don't worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.

Any time a customer comes into contact with any aspect of a business, however remote, is an opportunity to form an impression.

Business is not about money. It's about making dreams come true for others and for yourself.

To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art.

A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

During difficult economic times, consumers gravitate toward the brands they know, the brands they love and trust.

You have to be ready for hard work and frugal spending to get the idea off the ground.

When I hear someone’s in the civil rights business, I oil up my AR-25.

If you can't get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you're in the wrong business.

Ignore the stock market, ignore the economy, and buy a business you understand.

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

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Your customers are the customers of other brands who occasionally buy you.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.

Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity.

Fishing's relaxing, man. Most relaxing thing in my life. It's therapy for me. I don't think about business... sports. All I think about is catching the next fish.

Don't try to be original; just try to be good.

When I'm old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say 'wow, that was an adventure,' not 'wow, I sure felt safe.'

When you confront a problem you begin to solve it.

Being trustworthy requires: Doing the right thing. And doing things right.

Let people do what they need to do to make them happy. Mind your own business, and do what you need to do to make you happy.

Character is one factor that will guide all our actions and decisions. We invested in uncompromising integrity that helped us take difficult stands in some of the most difficult business situations.

When you find an idea that you just can't stop thinking about, that's probably a good one to pursue.

From the very depth of my being, I challenge the right of any man or any group of men, in business or in government, to tell a fellow human being that he or she is expendable.

You've got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you.

If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.

The 3Ss of Winning in business are speed, simplicity, and self-confidence.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.

If you don't have daily objectives, you qualify as a dreamer.

All art is a kind of exploring. To discover and reveal is the way every artist sets about his business.

Love is not a business. It's not a transaction. It's not an exchange or something you get for doing something it's not a trade. It's a gift!

The best way to make money is not to have money as your primary goal. I've seen great people come into the business world primarily motivated to make money. Almost without exception they failed.

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

Be Shameless. Experiment. This is the only way to identify your true passion.

Listen to your customers, not your competitors.