Business Quotes

Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.

Ifyou believe in something, work nights and weekends, it won't feel like work.

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

The opportunities that everyone cannot see are the real opportunities.

Hard work will always bring opportunities

There is, of course, a world of difference between cricket and the movie business ... I suppose doing a love scene with Racquel Welch roughly corresponds to scoring a century be fore lunch.

The biggest enemy of management is indifference. It's when people don't give a damn

Any business is the same in the beginning because nobody knows where it's going to ride.

A culture of discipline is not a principle of business, it is a principle of greatness.

In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: consumer spending, business investment and exports and trade.

The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything

It is, after all, only common sense to realize that, but for the fact that economic life is a process of incessant internal change, the business cycle, as we know it, would not exist.

One of the things young people always ask me about is what is the secret to success. The secret is there is no secret. It's the basics. Blocking and tackling.

Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.

Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you, no humility, no compassion.

Our premise is there are going to be a lot of winners. It's not winner take all. Other people do not have to lose for us to win.

We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines ... Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.

Organizational health is the single greatest competitive advantage in any business.

Coffee is cheap, drinks are an audition, lunch is an interview, but dinner means business; the business of romance.

In our business, just getting to 40 means something...that's why I think sometimes you have to just live in the moment. You have to enjoy life to its fullest.

Baking is my business, and it will always come first.

There is an increasing gap between academic research and business application. Sometimes the incentives for success in the academic world are not consistent with what it takes to run a company.

Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation.

We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.

Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business.

The soul of rock 'n' roll is mistakes, and making mistakes work for you. The people who shy away from mistakes and play it safe have no business playing rock 'n' roll.

I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't die, it just moved to Nashville.

Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people

Consumers today are less responsive to traditional media. They are embracing new technologies that empower them with more control over how and when they are marketed to.

To be a successful business owner and investor, you have to be emotionally neutral to winning and losing. Winning and losing are just part of the game.

Don't be addicted to money. Work to learn. don't work for money. Work for knowledge.

A LOT OF PEOPLE DO NOT INVEST IN BUSINESS.. THEY INVEST IN BUSY-NESS (They Purchase A Job)

In business or in football, it takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to produce spectacular results.

If you're not making some notable mistakes along the way, you're certainly not taking enough business and career chances.

You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.

One of the key things in the tech business in particular is that you need to be able to push boundaries.

The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human life history has ever seen. Man's life is not a business.

I think the biggest thing that people fear when it comes to art becoming a business is those authentic, pure aspirations of art being compromised.

Compassion is to share the pain without sharing the suffering.

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

The politicians say 'we' can't afford a tax cut. Maybe we can't afford the politicians.

The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament.

My business is hurting people.

We all have to decide how we are going to fail, by not going far enough or by going too far.

For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

This morning did you wake up to an alarm clock or an opportunity clock?

Desire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success.

People are not like a business. You can’t buy and sell them like so much property. You can’t lock them up in a vault and expect them to appreciate it.

All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance.

Make your customers comfortable and they will give you their lives.