Business Quotes

Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don't, somebody else will.

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

There are so many great things about this business. Almost everybody is on the same team. It is all for one-friendly competitiveness. No one is out to hurt anyone.

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Storytelling is by far the most underrated skill in business.

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.

I see marketing not only as a vital skill for small business success, but more importantly, as a vehicle to create art and connect deeply with and serve others to make the world a better place.

The education of the intellect is a great business; but an unconsecd intellect is the saddest sight on which the sun looks down.

The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won't be here in ten years.

There is nothing that's off limits. If people think something is off limits, I make it my business to go make a joke about it; that's my job.

Activate your fans, don’t just collect them like baseball cards.

A sense of thrift is essential to success in business. The businessman must discipline himself to practice economy whenever possible, in his personal life as well as his business affairs.

A leader has to know how the system functions - not just the system of government but the whole social and economic system, including business, the unions, and the universities.

All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck - who keeps right on going - is the man who is there when the good luck comes - and is ready to receive it.

Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

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

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

The most important word in the world of money is cash flow. The second most important word is leverage.

If, at the close of business each evening, I myself can understand what I've written, I feel the day hasn't been totally wasted.

The theory of the determination of wages in a free market is simply a special case of the general theory of value. Wages are the price of labour.

Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.

A lot of people think big business in America is a bad thing. I think it's a really good thing. Most people in business are ethical, hard-working, good people. And it's a meritocracy.

In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.

Intrinsic value can be defined simply: It is the discounted value of the cash that can be taken out of a business during its remaining life.

Designers are inherently optimistic people who try to make the world a better place

Show me a person who never made a mistake, and I will show you a person who never did anything.

Just a reminder, what other people think of you is none of your business.

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

There is no point in going into a business unless you can make a radical difference in other people’s lives.

The single and most dangerous word to be spoken in business is no. The second most dangerous word is yes. It is possible to avoid saying either.

That you will feel the validation of your external beauty but also get to the deeper business of being beautiful inside. There is no shade in that beauty.

If you do not feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like of which I do not know.

Forget about 40 years in show business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie is enough.

Ask ourselves: How can we serve, nurture and sustain the planet and its people in our business ventures?

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.

Business runs hot and cold so the more you're in charge of your own destiny, the better off you are.

Creating a strong business and building a better world are not conflicting goals - they are both essential ingredients for long-term success

Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.

In business, when you fail at something, when something doesn't work, you say okay, we've learned that that's not a path to go down.

I know you're smart. But everyone here is smart. Smart isn't enough. The kind of people I want on my research team are those who will help everyone feel happy to be here.

Let every man mind his own business.

Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.

If the community is happy, then they support your business and if your business is doing well, then you can give back even more to the community.

Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.