Business Quotes

What people in business think they know about the customer and market is likely to be more wrong than right...the customer rarely buys what the business thinks it sells him.

Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past.

The film business has so many twists and turns that its a miracle any film gets made.

Having a phone call from Steven Spielberg was just a fantastic rite of passage. I loved it, and he was very focused, very likable, strictly business, and really sharp.

What is central to business is the joy of creating.

Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing.

My father is also gifted at business, which is a blessing and a curse, because if you have the kind of mind that he does where you can do anything very well, that in its own way is sort of limiting.

However hard we try to bring in the new; it comes into being only in the midst of clumsy deals.

What is good for society is also good for business.

It sounds to me like selling a car with faulty brakes, and then buying an insurance policy on those cars.

If you started a business when Christ was born and lost $1 million a day, it would still take another 700 years before you lost $1 trillion.

The top two ways to destroy success are greed and impatience

It's better to ask the right questions than accept the status quo

I mean, sports are big, big, big business.

Burton, though an infidel, made it his business to investigate thoroughly every religion. Know a man's faith , and you knew at least half the man. Know his wife, and you knew the other half.

Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more louts than both put together to cheer and follow.

I feel relief about the Oscars. You know, you're not in this business for prizes but, okay, I missed one.

Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person.

To be in the right is often an expensive business.

Say what you will, making a marriage work is a woman's business.

We believe that business can be a tool for social good.

In the same way that you're driven in your business to keep innovating - Facebook is a wonderful example of constant innovation - think about doing that in philanthropy.

We ought to be looking at business as a force for good.

My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.

There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it. [Non enim potest quaestus consistere, si eum sumptus superat.]

If you light upon an impertinent talker, that sticks to you like a bur, to the disappointment of your important occasions, deal freely with him, break off the discourse, and pursue your business.

Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons

My surroundings have always been conducive to achieving what you want and believing in self 100 per cent; not being afraid to stand up and voice your opinion.

If you're a freelance writer and aren't used to being ignored, neglected, and generally given short shrift, you must not have been in the business very long.

Let us settle down to the serious business of getting drunk.

People in the record business would say, Well, Pras, you know, you haven't been out in a while, maybe you should get today's hottest producer or rapper to do something.

Advertising, as a single entity capable of creating vast changes in our social structure, simply does not exist. Its impact is too diffuse, too omnidirectional.

The plain truth is that the only consistent theme in advertising is the absence of any consistent theme.

In Korea, it's a tradition to inherit your father's business. Unfortunately, I'm the only son in the entire family, so they were forcing too much.

Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

He without benefit of scruples - His fun and money soon quadruples.

The U.S. should take notes: Government overspending and a campaign of alienating investors and small business isn't really the best way to boost the economy or overcome massive unemployment.

In business a reputation for keeping absolutely to the letter and spirit of an agreement, even when it is unfavorable, is the most precious of assets, although it is not entered in the balance sheet.

My protest against digital has been me saying, "What's going to happen to film?" The result is that Kodak is out of business. That's a national tragedy. We've got to keep making film.

There's show and there's business. Business is a whole other beat.

The work of your life is to discover your purpose and get on with the business of living it out.

My business skills have come from being guided by my inner self - my intuition.

Your business will only get as big as the shadow of your character.

The first business asset you should invest in is yourself.

Leaders dig into their business to learn painful realities rather than peaceful illusion.

I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business.

There's a lot of sympathy, but some people in America don't care. They think Syria is a very faraway place and that it's none of their business.

One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.

I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.

Many of us suffer from temptations from which we have no business to suffer.