Business Quotes

You'll never know how close you are to victory if you give up.

We should be in the business of living, not making a living.

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.

But economic recovery must be earned. And it will be earned by entrepreneurs and it will be earned by small businesses.

There's not a chance we'll reach our full potential until we stop blaming each other and start practicing personal accountability.

Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it

We need a variety of input and influence and voices. You cannot get all the answers to life and business from one person or from one source.

Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.

A poor logo doesn't mean a business will fail, and a good logo doesn't mean it will succeed - it just helps. Ultimately a good logo is something that people recognize instantly and relate to.

The whole business of marshaling ones energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.

It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.

I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

But being is making; not only large things, a family, a book, a business; but the shape we give this afternoon, a conversation between friends, a meal.

I am sick of four walls and a ceiling I have need of the sky, I have business with the grass.

You cannot choose your battlefield, The Gods do that for you; But you can plant a standard Where a standard never flew.

The old paradigm was pay to play. Now you get back what you authentically put in. You've got to be willing to play to play.

A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything.

Mind your own business and don't eat junk food. Treat everyone the way you want to be treated, work hard and love what you do.

The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.

My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him.

The single most important thing you can do in business is to be yourself.

Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.

There are similarities between business and sport, in the pressures involved and in the fitness aspect too.

There's no luck in business. There's only drive, determination, and more drive.

As it is for a person, so it is for a company: having a sense of purpose is invigorating and motivating.

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

A sustainable business is resource efficient, respects the environment and is a good neighbour

Networking is marketing. Marketing yourself, marketing your uniqueness, marketing what you stand for.

Before I got in this business I was in the chicken business.

Everything can be improved.

The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.

Data are becoming the new raw material of business.

Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.

I'm an artist. There are a lot of people in the business who aren't. It's like they've got a shoe repair shop.

It is our business not to supply reality but to invent allusions to the conceivable which cannot be presented.

The future of retail is the integration of Internet and digital services with the retail network.

This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.

Business, like life, is about how you make people feel. It's that simple, and it's that hard.

It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens, how confusions that seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is heard.

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

Organisations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity.

Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.

Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the up market.

The difficulty with businessmen entering politics, after they've had a successful business career, is that they want to start at the top.

Television: The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.

Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.