Business Quotes

There will be two types of businesses in the next 5 years, those that are on the Internet, and those that are out of business

A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success

The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis.

Ronald Reagan came from show business. His idea of how the government should help the homeless was like your agent. "We'll try to get you work. But don't bug us about it."

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry.

I am all for using business - public and private - to expand healthcare coverage.

Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker.

It is the business of little minds to shrink.

And there's doctors and lawyers, And business executives, And they're all made out of ticky tacky And they all look just the same.

My love life is nobody's business... if I give it to 40 million people to read, what do I have left when I go home? I'm protective of my personal life that way.

Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business.

Profit has to be a means to other ends rather than an end in itself.

Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

Berkshireis in the business of making easy predictions If a deal looks too hard, the partners simply shelve it.

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go around.

I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music.

When you are starting a new business you don't want to go after giant markets. You want to go after small markets and take over those markets quickly.

We’re in the Customer Service business—we just happen to provide airline transportation.

I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business.

When you want to move somebody, you have to say to yourself: 'I'm in the emotional transportation business. I gotta move them, emotionally.

The tobacco business is a conspiracy against womanhood and manhood. It owes its origin to that scoundrel Sir Walter Raleigh, who was likewise the founder of American slavery.

There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one's errors. It not only clears up the air of guilt and defensiveness, but often helps solve the problem created by the error

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.

Whether you sell hamburgers or computers, we’re all in the customer service business. Our goal must be to exceed our customers’ expectations every day.

All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.

We've tried to keep as cheap and lean an operation as possible.

What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.

There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent more readers.

Here in Denver, we want to thank Jeremy Jacobs for the way he runs his business. Otherwise, we wouldn't have gotten Ray Bourque and won a Stanley Cup.

I started a business with two guys I played with, Ronnie Lott and Harris Barton: Champion Ventures, it's a fund of funds. We have $400 million or so under management.

If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit down to write it, you are in the wrong business.

Marketing is the distinguishing, unique function of the business.

The customer rarely buys what the business thinks it sells him.

The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new business opportunities and greater efficiencies and coordination.

Believe me when I say that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business. My business.

Without a customer, you don't have a business - all you have is a hobby.

Speculation is a hard and trying business, and a speculator must be on the job all the time or he'll soon have no job to be on.

It's okay to doubt yourself, it's okay to feel down; just never give up.

What a fearfully distracting, perplexing and heart-searching business it is to live.

What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.

Don't go into business with the sole objective of making lot of money. If you put service, quality, and customer satisfaction first-the money will follow.

Today, there are three kinds of people: the haves, the have-nots, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves.

If you can get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool.

I understand small business growth. I was one.

The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist