Business Quotes

It's good to stand for something, to believe in something and base your business on values.

If you start a chocolate company, you can't compete with Cadbury in the first ten years because they are a big company.

I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.

A successful business is either loved or needed.

So as I thought about it, the most important "tool" you can have today in business is insatiable curiosity. The minute you lose it, you're dead.

Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it after you catch it is a business.

Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk, tomorrow's senior partner.

Investment students need only two well-taught courses - How to Value a Business and How to Think About Market Prices

Autonomy, adventure, imagination: entrepreneurshi p comprehends all this and more for us. The characteristic art form of our age may be the business plan.

My business is the analytical framework.

Women were the slave class that maintained the species in order to free the other half for the business of the world.

The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.

All genius is simple. It involves close observation and a momentous act of self trust.

There is no point in retaining a brand equity if it has no traction with consumers, or has no likelihood of doing so.

If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.

The more business a man has to do, the more he is able to accomplish, for he learns to economize his time.

Tomorrow when you come to work, if it doesn't make the customer happy, move the business forward, and save us money - don't do it.

Ten million new millionaires will be created by 2016, and you can become one of them - especiall y if you are in direct selling, technology or home-based business.

A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.

Unless you are a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy.

If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.

Provocative and challenging The Social License makes a compelling case for why companies must look to increase their positive social impact as an integral part of their core business strategies.

Test Cricket is not a light-hearted business, especially that between England and Australia.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting.

While communism is the control of business by government, fascism is the control of government by business.

I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody.

Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing.

Clear content, simple navigation and answers to customer questions have the biggest impact on business value. Advanced technology matters much less.

To succeed in business, put the interest of the customer ahead of your own.

The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.

If I fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the devil gets the victory through the day. I have so much business I cannot get on without spending three hours daily in prayer.

If you make a sale, you can make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune.

It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits.

Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business

For me the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality (whatever that is) on film...if, later, the reality means something to someone else, so much the better.

Respect, recognition, and reward flow out of performance.

Great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

Sometimes when you follow your dream; it opens the door for others to be able to follow theirs.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

There is a spiritual aspect to our lives - when we give, we receive-when a business does something good for somebody, that somebody feels good about them!

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

The chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.

Grammar is what gives sense to language .... sentences make words yield up their meaning. Sentences actively create sense in language. And the business of the study of sentences is grammar.

Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer.

A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.

Financial struggle is often the direct result of people working all their lives for someone else.

If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?