Business Quotes

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

Holding back technology to reserve business models is like allowing blacksmiths to veto the internal combustion engine in order to protect their horseshoes.

I wish someone would give me one shred of neutral evidence that financial innovation has led to economic growth — one shred of evidence.

Nothing works better than just improving your product.

When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.

To be an artist you have to be as much a businessman to succeed, you have to spend an equal amount of time doing business as you spend doing your craft.

Often, the more money you make the more money you spend; that's why more money doesn't make you rich - assets make you rich.

If you're not working to get your business or investing operation to operate without you, you're thinking too small. Think team and systems.

Due to budget cutbacks, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.

When it comes to innovation, business has much to learn from design. The philosophy in design shops is, 'try it, prototype it, and improve it'.

What other people think of me is not my business. What I do is what I do. How people see me doesn’t change what I decide to do.

One cannot live on potatoes alone. It is said that one wants bread with potatoes. And when there's no bread, a Jew takes his stick, and goes through the village in search of business.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind

It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.

The road to someday leads to a town of nowhere.

When there is blood on the street, I am buying.

I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.

The nature of business is swindling.

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

Then there's that 'You're only as old as you feel' business, which is true to a point, but you can't be Shirley Temple on the Good Ship Lollipop forever. Sooner or later, dammit, you're old.

Patience and foresight are the two most important qualities in business

A true business opportunity is the that an entrepreneur invents to grow him or herself. Not to work in, but to work on.

If you are going to try to go to war, or to prepare for war, in a capitalist country, you have got to let business make money out of the process or business won't work.

In my opinion, Marxism is a great creed of human liberation. It is the creed which says that when all other empires fade and vanish, our business is to enlarge the empire of the human mind.

Happy the man who, removed from all cares of business, after the manner of his forefathers cultivates with his own team his paternal acres, freed from all thought of usury.

Don't be threatened by people smarter than you.

The higher you go in a company, the less oxygen there is, so supporting intelligent life becomes difficult.

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, a symbol rather than reason by which men are moved.

Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.

Believe in yourself.. in all you can do.. and for you, the deals will start to work in your favor. You need to be open to such deals, and they will come, I assure you.

Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme.

There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing. To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.

The only way one should buy stocks is if you understand the underlying business. You stay within the circle of competence. You buy businesses you understand.

Please think about your legacy, because you're writing it every day.

I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.

Your business and results are a reflection of you. Your business and results will grow in direct proportion to your own growth.

Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base

We need to make sure we have the best people we can in our operations, and that is a constant challenge. There is always room to improve.

International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood.

There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.

No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed.

With the young man starting in business, let him understand the value of money by earning it.

Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business.

Touring is really a pretty lonely business.

We watch our competitors, learn from them, see the things that they were doing for customers and copy those things as much as we can.

The media, the galleries, the collectors - it's all very chaotic actually. The artworld doesn't have this defined corporate structure that people imagine.

Loyalty is earned with friendliness, responsiveness, ease of doing business, fair value, and the good feeling customers get when they call you, visit you, or interact with you.

A country that goes out of its way to imprison the innocent has no business preaching democracy to the world.

The record business. It’s exactly what it is-Record-Busin ess. You have to take care of both, or they won’t take care of you.