Business Quotes

A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.

Never forget your manners. They go a long way in both your business and personal life. If you look and act like you are making an effort, it will be appreciated.

In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty, your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.

The best decision I ever made, period, was to get into the music business.

Business is just about enabling human beings, nothing more, nothing less. Businesses need to recognize this fundamental fact.

Elvis Presley is all there is. There just ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with Elvis. He wrote the book. He is everything to do and not to do in the music business.

A great opportunity is often hard to be explained clearly; things that can be explained clearly are often not the best opportunities.

This is a very tough business, politics. It's easy to get resentful or full of bitterness ... (but) I think hatred hurts the hater more than the hated. So I'm looking back on my time positively.

Don't let nobody take care of your business better than you.

If you don't invest in risk management, it doesn't matter what business you're in, it's a risky business.

In both the art and the business worlds, the difference between the amateurs and the professionals is simple: The professionals know they're winging it. The amateurs pretend they're not.

Make it your business to draw out the best in others by being an exemplar yourself.

If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

It is so difficult to mix with artists! You must choose business men to talk to, because artists only talk of money.

The desire of any war photographer is to be put out of business.

I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism.

Managers will work for a salary. Entrepreneurs create new businesses. Many people have capital, but instead of making money for business they build houses for rent. It's easy money to collect rental.

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.

A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.

Anything that has to do with money, I want to be in that business.

If you want a solid future, you need to create it. You can take charge of your future only when you take control of your income source. You need your own business.

I'm gonna make sure everybody get their justice. This the year for business, this the year for my book, this the year for the movie and this the year for getting even. I'm on my way.

Do something. Either lead, follow or get out of the way.

I find that when I am involved in the business of life, when I'm working with people, particularly with children, I feel better. A kind of strength and energy comes with that.

Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Investing in the market without knowing what stage it is in is like selling life insurance to 20 year olds and 80 year olds at the same premium.

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.

The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'Well done'.

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

I think the people who've been the most overconfident in our business in the last decade have been the people that called themselves risk managers.

Truly brilliant marketing happens when you take something most people think of as a weakness and reposition it so people think of it as a strength.

Advertising says to people, 'Here's what we've got. Here's what it will do for you. Here's how to get it.'

I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.

The trade-unionist has the same limitation imposed upon him as the capitalist. He cannot advance his interests at the expense of society.

Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.

Businesses get better only when the people in the business get better.

Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

I don't advise any one to take it [painting] up as a business proposition, unless they really have talent... But I will say that I have did remarkable for one of my years, and experience.

It's always easier to apologize for something you've already done than to get approval for it in advance.

A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him.

What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies.

You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.

It's a dangerous business, going out your door.

To be successful and grow your business and revenues, you must match the way you market your products with the way your prospects learn about and shop for your products.

Your choice of people to associate with, both personally and business-wise, is one of the most important choices you make. If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.

There is no secret to a long marriage - it's hard work...It's serious business, and certainly not for cowards.

Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper.

Forget about yourncompetitors, just focus on your customers.