Business Quotes

If only I could be hidden in a corner, so as not to be tempted to worry about things that are not really my business.

I hate the business part of music. Music is just like the streets. There's loyal and disloyal people, people saying one thing and then don't do it.

We are currently not planning on conquering the world.

Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

In life, change is inevitable. In business, change is vital.

To be a successful businessman, you must have remarkable talents; and if you have such talents, why waste them on business?

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.

Done is better than perfect.

My mentor said, 'Let's go do it', not 'You go do it'. How powerful when someone says, 'Let's!'

God helps them that help themselves.

My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future.

Emotion. Passion. Ideas. Simplicity. These are the big things that big business needs from its creative agencies. No one else is going to provide these essential elements for business.

Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.

All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.

The greatest opportunities today are to go into business for yourself as an entrepreneur.

From the very beginning I used sound business practices in everything I did. White businessman uses them to make money he's a genius. Black businessman uses them he's a crook. That's the way it is.

A good leader is not necessarily the most popular person in their business, but the best ones are liked because they are respected for their clarity and vision.

There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

You've got to love this business. You have to be able to take rejection.

It's not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

I am in the poison gas business. Advertising should make you choke, make your eyes water, make you feel sick.

To succeed in the business of the future we have to become the very people we are trying to reach

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.

It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

Do more and understand that all wealth came from poor people either as the entrepreneurs or the consumers who buy the product that keeps the entrepreneurs in business.

A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money.

Too little confidence, and you're unable to act; too much confidence, and you're unable to hear.

Baseball is just a game, as simple as a ball and bat, yet as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.

Another friend hired me to open doors for him in the moving and relocation business. I did that for 10 years, am still doing it. And I do some work for the Cubs, in community relations.

The business of schools is to design, create, and invent high-quality, intellectually demanding schoolwork that students find engaging.

The first thing to decide before you walk into any negotiation is what to do if the other fellow says 'no'.

The sad fact is that international politics has always been a ruthless and dangerous business, and it is likely to remain that way.

If you're not trying to do something better, then you're not focused on the customer and you'll miss the possibility of making your business great.

The biggest lesson I learned in the bar business is to focus on revenues. Dollars, not dimes.

I've talked in front of ... like... a lot of big business people about stuff I didn't even know.

I've always been worried about people who are willing to work for nothing. Sometimes that's all you get from them, nothing.

Thanks be to God, since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting.

I like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There's vision, patience, and execution.

Good design successfully manages the tensions between user needs, technology feasibility, and business viability.

Never put business before family.

Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press