Business Quotes

Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.

I'm not in business to make money.

If we have a food supply that we can't trust, that has enormous implications for the way we view government, for the way we trust business, and for our international trade relations.

At heart, Pearson is in the intellectual property business, be it through publishing books or the Financial Times.

I think that the best companies are companies that have a real purpose.

One thing we can all control is effort. Put in the time to become an expert in whatever you’re doing. It will give you an advantage because most people don’t do this.

Don't get caught up in how many hours you work. Judge success based on having goals and measuring your results. Hard work, and lots of it, is certainly needed, but focus on what you get done.

In business, one of the challenges is making sure that your product is the easiest to experience and complete a sale.

The sport of business is the ultimate competition. It's 7 × 24 × 365 × forever.

If you're looking where everybody else is looking, you're looking in the wrong spot.

Ideas are easy. I've never met a single person who didn't think they had a world class idea. The hard part is making it a business.

Business is the ultimate sport. In business, as in sport, the one thing you can control is effort.

But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose.

Know your stuff. Have an angle. Know how to grow business, how to develop products, have patents and an undeveloped market that could be huge.

Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don't find one, it's you.

Higher education is a business that doesn’t know it’s going out of business.

Only morons start a business on a loan?

Sometimes you buy the horse, sometimes you invest in the jockey. It really comes down to the actual business and the upside.

You never quite know in business if what you are doing is the right or the wrong thing. Unfortunately, by the time you know the answer, someone has beaten you to it and you are out of business.

There is no sport as competitive as business. It's 24 by 7 by 365 by forever.

If you have managers reporting to managers in a startup, you will fail. Once you get beyond startup, if you have managers reporting to managers, you will create politics.

I've learned the number one job of a pro manager is not to win championships but to keep their job.

Go out there and get rich. Get so obnoxiously rich that when that tax bill comes, your first thought will be to choke on how big a check you have to write.

Business is the marketplace of ideas.

You've got to be very cognizant of the correlation between social media links and business because they don't always correlate as highly as people would like.

I'm a big believer that you always reiterate, you always learn, you always realize your business is evolving.

In business, to be a success, you only have to be right once.

The one thing in life you can control is your effort. Are there any shortcuts in the beauty business? No. That was the first lesson I learned. You can't just rocket to the top.

The one requirement for success in our business lives is effort. Either you make the commitment to get results or you don't.

There is very little knowledge that can't be obtained through effort. With knowledge you can determine the state of any business or opportunity and find a course to gain an advantage.

Brains are far more important than money or connections. Everyone and anyone can create a business out of their bedroom.

But the music business is no more about truth on the outside of the Christian ghetto than it is on the inside.

Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.

The more years you put behind you, hopefully making music that surpasses what you did before, you're playing bigger places and it kind of weirdly becomes a business.

In the business world, the idea of positive thinking is absolutely entrenched.

I get the sense many people are unsure about their digital media allocation. Even those who believe they are progressive in their thinking wonder if they have got it right.

Innovation without insight is failure.

As a kid, chess was the first thing I studied in a structured way that helped me gain the discipline to study medicine and become successful doctor.

Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business.

My axiom is, to succeed in business: avoid my example.

The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

Virtual business out sources all the work and in sources all the profits.

I like to pride myself on thinking pretty long term, but not that long term.

Every aspect of your life, whether it's a task or relationship, personal or professional, will be based on love and joy. And when you get right down to it, nothing else really matters.

There are times in show business when you work so much you think you will pop your cork, and then suddenly you can't find any work.

The cost of energy is directly related to the cost of hiring workers and running a business.

I was a very good cook, and I knew I could build a business.

I really do have rules for running and managing a business that have never been formalized before.

I like knowing about everything, and I think that really helps me in my business.

There's something insane about this business - about the cycle of making albums and going on tour to promote them.