Business Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Data are becoming the new raw material of business.

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.

Everything can be improved.

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

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

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

Those who have safe and secure jobs pay more taxes than those who own the business that provides the jobs

A small profit is better than a big loss.

Education is the only business still debating the usefulness of technology.

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

You become what you think about

All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.

To be an ethical leader is indeed to be different. This kind of leader acknowledges the complexity of running a responsible business, yet tries to do it anyway.

Like an ant, I will find my way round any obstacle. Like a child, I will persevere with pinpoint focus.

the harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

To prosper soundly in business, you must satisfy not only your customers, but you must lay yourself out to satisfy also the men who make your product and the men who sell it.

Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

Never underestimate your own ignorance.

You can never say all the tricks have been done. Someone always shows you something you didn't know. Every year you think, 'Gee, I didn't think you could do that'.

Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.

The most important adage and the only adage is, the customer comes first, whatever the business, the customer comes first.

To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not alone good manners, but equally good business.

I used to think that elder love, if it even existed, was confined to rocking chairs or golf carts, that it had to be a dull business because of the physical limitations of age.

Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business plan.

After working for 14 years on Wall Street and growing up in a family with strong roots in small business, I know how important the entrepreneurial spirit is to attaining the American dream.

Don't think you are unstoppable or foolproof. Don't think that the only way your business will work is through perfection. Don't aim for perfection. Aim for success.

It's not competition and greed that makes the world go around, it's cooperating and caring

Be passionate about the culture and the business, and remain positive, because it inspires others.

When business starts using its voice for the benefit of the country as a whole, not just in its narrow self interest, it can really be the force that can make the changes that need to be made.

No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.

They represent tomorrow's cigarette business. . . As this 14-24 age group matures, they will account for a key share of the total cigarette volume -- for at least the next 25 years.

In America, small business is a big deal.

No matter how much work a man can do, no matter how engaging his personality may be, he will not advance far in business if he cannot work through others.

We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our society, of our people and our ecological systems.

I'm a committed Christian. I worship in my own way. That's my business. That's not the business of the pharisees who are going to preach to me about what I do and then do something else.

The next horizon will be deep integration of the physical and interactive worlds. The future of online is offline.

You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business.

You know the expression, "It's not personal; it's business." We sneer at such rot. All business is personal, all the time.