Business Quotes

When others are having hard times and poor business, you will find your greatest opportunities.

Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.

I'm convinced that theatre is a horrible business. Make this the headline. You have to be on the spot every night as an actor. You are damn lonesome standing out there.

I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents' garage and try to create a business.

By the end of his career, he [Steve Jobs] has proven that he can do the impossible, and he has gathered probably the most loyal team of eight players of any business in America.

I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.

I just want to create, and socializing is part of the experience. It might sound crazy, but I don't see myself in the jewelry business. It's an experience.

We have an education and business culture that tends to reward quick factual answers over imaginative inquiry. Questioning isn’t encouraged - it is barely tolerated.

Two rules: 1. Preserve the principal 2. When in doubt, see Rule #1.

Our goal is to find an outstanding business at a sensible price, not a mediocre business at a bargain price.

An investor will succeed by coupling good business judgment with an ability to insulate his thoughts and behavior from the super-contagious emotions that swirl about the marketplace.

I learned to go into business only with people whom I like, trust, and admire.

An investor should ordinarily hold a small piece of an outstanding business with the same tenacity that an owner would exhibit if he owned all of that business.

There is no perfect mathematical formula for pricing a business.

What's nice about investing is you don't have to swing at every pitch.

In a commodity business, it's very hard to be smarter than your dumbest competitor.

We do not have, nor have had, and never will have an opinion about where the stock market, interest rates, or business activity will be a year from now.

Don't invest in pieces of papers (stocks), invest in great businesses underlying them

Does the business have a consistent operating history?

The single most important decision in evaluating a business is pricing power.

In the insurance business, there is no statute of limitation on stupidity.

I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out.

When a management with reputation for brilliance gets hooked up with a business with a reputation for bad economics, it's the reputation of the business that remains intact.

In a difficult business, no sooner is one problem solved than another surfaces - never is there just one cockroach in the kitchen.

SUPPOSE that an investor you admire and trust comes to you with an investment idea. This is a good one, he says enthusiastically. I'm in it, and I think you should be, too.

When Berkshire buys common stock, we approach the transaction as if we were buying into a private business.

I always say that in investing you want to buy stock in a company that has a business that's so good that an idiot can run it, because sooner or later one will. We have a country like that.

If we start deciding, based on guesses or emotions, whether we will or won't participate in a business where we should have some long run edge, we're in trouble.

If women really earned fifty-nine cents to the dollar for the same work as men, what business could compete effectively by hiring men at any level?

I would suggest that just as women who make it in the world of business need male business mentors, perhaps men who make it in the world of emotions will need female emotional mentors.

A passion for continual learning, a refined, discerning ear for the moral and ethical consequences of their actions, and an understanding of the purposes of work and human organisations

Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon on all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and the exchange a region of enchantment.

A woman is more considerate in affairs of love than a man; because love is more the study and business of her life.

In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.

Say to Yourself when Someone Else is Criticizing U, 'What U Think of Me is None of My Business'

When your in the movie business you have a start date and a stop date.

We have to make sustainable living convenient, sustainable business profitable & sustainable change fashionable

I've been around Hollywood and filmmaking long enough to know that it's a tricky dangerous business when you go on camera, you got to watch yourself.

Everyone faces challenges from the fierce competition as well as the manipulative crooks that are rampant throughout the music business.

I don't know what is in store for the movie business any better than anybody else does, but it does seem like my kind of movies are a little trickier than it used to be - or maybe a lot trickier.

My business in life is to eat, drink, sleep, and die. Everything else is superfluity and I will have none of it.

Reality is in the business of killing off fiction.

When I first started doing sketch comedy, I promised myself that if I were ever to have any success in this business, I wouldn't hold back. Why get there and play it safe?

By the time I was ready for college, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I think I secretly wanted a show business career, but I was suppressing it.

You still have that competitive thing where you want to try to make hits. That won't go away, unless the mayor of show business says my time's up.

Investment is not only volatile, it is the key motor of the economy's prosperity because it has a snowball effect.

I predict that many teams will go out of business and the size of the leagues will be greatly reduced.

It will take America fifteen years of steady taking care of our own business and letting everybody else's alone, to get us back to where everybody speaks to us again.

You have a wonderful organization. I understand you have ten thousand here. And if you count the ones in the various federal prisons, it brings your total membership up to around thirty thousand.

You could be the World's greatest orator and if you don't say anything while orating, they are going to walk out on you after a while.