Business Quotes

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.

Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.

To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality

Reversion to the mean is the iron rule of the financial markets.

Even a correct decision is wrong when it was taken too late.

I believe that if we had would keep our dirty, bloody, dollar-crooked fingers out of the business of these nations so full of depressed, exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of their own.

The idea that growth equals profitability is a misconception. If you can't afford the financial or qualitative side of growth, it can just as easily put you out of business.

I have noticed that everyone who has ever tried to tell me that markets are efficient is poor.

Everyone experiences tough times, it is a measure of your determination and dedication how you deal with them and how you can come through them.

I'm quitting the business today. I'm going to open up an appliance store, I've always really been into toasters. I'm giving it all up.

Networking is the No. 1 unwritten rule of success in business.

Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools - but they must be kept to a minimum.

I'm not in the business of being "friendly."

The only reason to do business is to make money; that's the only reason for doing business.

Strategies are great, business models are great, but the reality is your music has to mean something to people.

In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.

If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends.

God didn't have time to make a nobody, only a somebody.I believe that each of us has God-given talents within us waiting to be brought to fruition.

All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel ... and that's what I've been doing all my life.

We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.

A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.

Success is not a straight line, it's much more of a dance and being open to possibilities.

We're not responsible for the bustling and hustling that may go on here. Lots of people bustle, and some hustle. But that's their business, and a very old one.

Business leaders love the humanities because they know that to innovate you need more than rote knowledge. You need a trained imagination.

I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand.

We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.

I ran my own business when I was 19, buying condos and renovating apartment buildings.

You should be certain that angels are protecting you when you go to sleep. Yea, that they are protecting you also in all your business, whether you enter or leave your home.

The ability to sell is the number one skill in business. If you cannot sell, don't bother thinking about becoming a business owner.

What do you think about me is not my business the important thing is what I think about myself.

Business people don't need to understand designers better. They need to be designers.

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth.

Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.

I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.

War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. ... To move swiftly, strike vigorously, and secure all the fruits of victory is the secret of successful war.

TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.

You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.

Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.

Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

If people like you they'll listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you.

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.

The E Myth. Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.

Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.

Every time we launch a feature, people yell at us.

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

...somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it.

I shall make it my chief business to see that the [royal] executive power has its place in the constitution.