Business Quotes

The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business man, or artist, or scientist.

All business is personal...Make your friends before you need them.

I spent thirty-three years in the Marines, most of my time being a hlgh class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.

We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.

The earth was created by the assistance of the sun, and it should be left as it was. The country was made without lines of demarcation, and it is no man's business to divide it.

Any damn fool can put on a deal, but it takes genius, faith and perseverance to create a brand.

The most successful people in life have the best information

The trouble with you and me my friend, is the trouble with this nation, too many blessings, too little Appreciation.

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.

Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut.

How others judge me is none of my business.

My passionate belief is that business can be fun, it can be conducted with love and a powerful force for good.

There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.

You learn in this business.. If you want a friend, get a dog.

Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game.

....the ancient ritual of the earth; ploughing and planting, reaping and threshing. The fundamental business remains unaltered; it is only the methods and tools that science is changing.

A corrupt society is terrible for humanity and great for business.

You know, you don't have to have money to be a successful businessperson. You don't need a college degree. You just need a lot of common sense backed up by a willingness to work hard.

I cannot imagine my life without horses. They have been my teachers, my friends, my business partners and my entertainment.

The airline business is the biggest team sport in the world. When you're all consumed with fighting among yourselves, your opponents can run over you every day.

Greatness is won, not awarded.

We are not in the coffee business serving people, we are in the people business serving coffee.

I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind and spirit.

Perhaps the most important marketing step any business can take is to discover a way to be different.

A natural response to a natural phenomenon -that is the secret of success in business and management. You will always win if you rely on common sense.

If you are to be an effective nation builder, make it your business, to understand what is really happening in the economy, both nationally and globally.

I want young people to know there is no age limit to when they can start their own business or when they can become a boss.

Buy companies with strong histories of profitability and with a dominant business franchise.

Quality is the best business plan.

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world

Don't spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity.

It ought to be the business of every day to prepare for our last day.

Success and profitability are outcomes of focusing on customers and employees, not objectives.

It sounds extraordinary, but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.

The stock market is a giant distraction to the business of investing.

I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.

The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men.

I ain't no gangster. I'm a grown man trying to run a business.

No matter what business you are in, and no matter how small or mundane, the activities, there must be continuous investment in it.

In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.

Startups don’t fail because they lack a product; they fail because they lack customers and a profitable business model.

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything.

If the spirit of business adventure is dulled, this country will cease to hold the foremost position in the world.

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair... or go into business. You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

A brand strategy can enable, sometimes crucially, the potential of an innovation to be realised. There are times when you literally need to brand it or lose it.