Business Quotes

I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive.

I'm definitely not getting married. In this business, you're either getting married or they want you to be pregnant. I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

Every organization has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does.

The best way of learning about anything is by doing.

Just because it happened to you, doesn't mean it's interesting.

We built this company from the customer back, not from the company out.

A person who hasn't grieved a significant loss has unfinished business inside and can cause others great grief as a result.

Deregulation has been, above all else, a means of reducing corporate business's accountability to the public.

I don’t think there’s anything positive in the WCW brand at all. It was dead when they brought it. They were going to bury us when they did business.

...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.

When you create a business, you create something that improves the life of your customer, of another person, maybe of ten people, of a thousand people, of a million people. There's no higher calling.

From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people ... it needs no other passport than fun.

Most people never realize that 80% of the work is done before you step in a room. That's why they spend their entire lives grasping for magical tactics instead of changing their entire mindset.

People don't know how hard it is to have your own business

Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so irritating.

A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.

Living up to your commitments is part of business ethics. My word is my bond.

Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.

A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.)

Specifically, I would suggest that the effective organization is garrulous, clumsy, superstitious, hypocritical, monstrous, octopoid, wandering, and grouchy.

The biggest problem I see among people who want to excel in chess – and in business and in life in general – is not trusting their instincts enough.

Nowadays, business is all about productivity - and our folks produce.

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

...a man does not die for business, but for ideals.

Success is the result of clear goal, unshakable confidence, proper planning, enthusiastic ACTION and consistent persistence.

Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.

If Triple H asked you to jump off a bridge, would you? Because I think that's good for business.

Every business is successful exactly to the extent that it does something others cannot.

Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.

The cynic says, "One man can't do anything". I say, "Only one man can do anything."

The ability to lead a happy life is made, not found

In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don't make mistakes.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

But to practice leadership, you need to accept that you are in the business of generating chaos, confusion, and conflict

The world will not end. This is ridiculous. I think it's like 2000. It's a great trick to do business and earn lots of money because stupid people hoard things. This is a stimulator of the economy.

Your brand is the single most important investment you can make in your business

The value of a business is the cash it's going to produce in the future.

Don't think about what the market's going to do; you have absolutely no control over that. Think about what you're going to do if it gets there.

Instead of thinking outside the box, Get rid of the box.

It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.

Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.

Systems run the business and people run the systems.

The starving poet business is no good nowadays.

I like that combination between creativity and the creative process and the organization needed to make a business like this successful worldwide.

When a Japanese manufacturer was asked by his North American counterpart, What is the best language in which to do business?" the man responded: "My customer's language

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.