Business Quotes

While strides are being made in the social-media space, the newspaper and news business should continue to embrace social media.

You can't run a company simply by the numbers. So if you're going to bet on someone, you bet on someone you want to be in business with for a long time.

The desire to work with Burrows-Charles was really to change NBC's identity, to say, "We want to be in the sophisticated-adult-comedy business."

My family couldn't be more supportive. They're worried and they're always in my business, and my mother does send me grad-school applications every now and again.

For the whole of Western Europe, I know the business community quite good.

In a perfect world, I don't think it [one's sexual orientation] is anyone else's business, but I do think there is value in standing up and being counted.

I've learnt to realise my brother is my own best friend. He'd always stick his nose in even though I turned around and said "It's none of your business", I know he only wanted to look out for me.

People talk about the businesses of the future needing to be more agile and more responsive if they are to be successful. But this requires a deep change in the way organisations work.

Privacy isn't dead, although it is fashionable for digerati to say so.

At the tail end of the great global boom, their old richer consumers are behaving more like new poorer ones, also increasingly concerned about cost, quality, and safety.

You could also say that a precious brand often has rituals associated with it. They reinforce the specialness of the brand. And of course the brand owner can help ensure those rituals are created.

You remove heavy metals out of the ground and you turn that into tables, and houses and bridges and dreams for people in the developing world. I love doing that.

Advertising has always been the Peck's Bad Boy of American business urging us to buy things we probably don't need and often can't afford.

Negative things, and they were all deliberate and I'm not going to say who they were but I know who they were and it was in the business, and that's not a good sign.

In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.

If you have a great business, if you're great at your craft people should be coming in there. It shouldn't be this secret.

Andrew Saul is John Hall in a business suit. He's wrong on the war, on national security, immigration, abortion. He's Sue Kelly all over again.

Strategy doesn't change when hard times arrive. Consumers' willingness to try, and to stay loyal, remains, the goal. Winners know this; their brand focus and strategy remains consistent.

Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.

If you do not believe that listening to the best people in the business telling you what they know will help you succeed, then you have allowed your ego and arrogance to get the best of you.

Anybody who really knows about the TV business knows that it would be impossible to just march in one day and say to your colleagues and bosses, 'Oh yes, I'm hosting my own show.'

You have to pretend you're 100 percent sure. You have to take action; you can't hesitate or hedge your bets. Anything less will condemn your efforts to failure.

I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really

Let it be your business every day, in the secrecy of the inner chamber, to meet the holy God. You will be repaid for the trouble it may cost you. The reward will be sure and rich.

I never understand how the lipstick business goes on because lipstick lasts forever.

Business Art is the step that comes after Art.

I was never one to seek out the spotlight. I am kind of a private person, so I don't miss that part of show business at all.

Rejection is a big part of show business. It can be tough on anyone who doesn't have fairly good self-esteem. Especially kids, as they try to discover who they are.

Our bilateral relations are very good, they’re very close. In the areas of business, of the economy, the United States of America last year were our most important trading partner.

It's just such a freeing thing to set these great challenges for yourself, to travel, to learn more about the world, to just go out there and get crazy and get free and get strong.

I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.

Doing an album is like having a business card; to show people what you do. The most important thing to me is the stage. I do albums because I love the stage.

I know some of those 'Glee' people, and they can really sing! I wish we could hear them live, because I know some of them and they can really sing like nobody's business.

Communication is the key for any global business.

Never be seduced into believing it isn't the role of business to tackle the big issues, because it absolutely is.

One of the most intriguing things in management and in business is the role of storytelling - people need the anecdotes to do the work that they do.

Any business or enterprise that shaves away loneliness is going to last forever. And like it or not but we've got a lonely society.

The most exciting thing happening in business is the rise of vigilante consumers.

If you pretend that business is beyond morality, that's the kind of morality you get.

If trade undermines life, narrows it or impoverishes it, then it can destroy the world. If it enhances life, then it can better the world.

If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed.

My argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That's where it should be.

Why should how I act in my workplace be any different from how I interact with my family at home? It's making sure the company runs on feminine principles where the major ethic is care.

A husband is a man who wishes he had as much fun when he goes on business trips as his wife thinks he does.

When I graduated from college I thought I was over with show business and was pursuing other things.

There were a lot of signs being thrown at me. A lot of angels I was meeting, inspiring me to get back into show business.

Show business got really tainted for me.

When we share our personal data with business, its use should be transparent and secure.

These are my words; this is their world, a world in which we can wear our gender on our sleeves, unabashedly, as we go about the business of thinking out loud.

When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the people who went to rock concerts. It didn't go beyond that aspiration at that point.