Business Quotes
Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.
I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.
30% of all people will never believe you. Do not allow your colleagues and employees to work for you. Instead, let them work for a common goal.
Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.
That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.
Record companies would rather you stay dumb, not even think of it as a business, so they can either rip you off or get you out of the way in five years to make way for the new groups.
Sometimes I wonder what my grandfather would think of what I do, he spent his whole life in the kebab business, was buried with all his equipment, probably turning in his grave.
Basically he never went to work and didn't have a job. Of course I thought he did. I thought he was on the phone doing business deals instead of borrowing money from people.
As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer.
If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologise than it is to get permission.
A business model that hasn't been tried before is always interesting, even if it's likely to fail.
I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound and knowing the music business the way I do - all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I've had to learn a little bit about it. It's not rocket science: You get ratings, that's good.
The airline business is it is mostly run by a bunch of spineless nincompoops who actually don't want to stand up to the environmentalists and call them the lying wankers that they are.
In financing growing companies, we always looked for human value that didn't appear on the balance sheet.
Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can't tell you whether someone will fit into a company's culture.
You can't look at the intrinsic value of gold as you can a business. Gold doesn't give you cash flow, and, at the end of the day, cash flow is what is important. Gold doesn't give you dividends.
Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company.
The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.
Pessimism doesn't grow your business or even maintain the status quo. The pessimists on your staff make the job harder for everyone around them. They make difficulties out of opportunities.
No business, no movement, no activity on the part of man or a group of men can become any greater than the thinking minds and consciousness of the people who are back of the movement.
Regrets are something you can't really have as an actor, because ultimately you'll end up destroying yourself there's a lot of disappointment in this business.
Business must be run at a profit, else it will die. But when anyone tries to run a business solely for profit, then also the business must die, for it no longer has a reason for existence.
If your business is to grow and prosper, as a leader, you need to focus on people development.
One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act.
In difficult circumstances, teams either separate or come closer together, it's as simple as that
The Martha Stewart trial makes clear how far women have risen in the business world. America can be proud of our equal-opportunity prosecution and conviction.
I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did.
In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life.
The government should not be in the business of funneling money for social services through any faith-based organization
In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.
The next time you get nervous about others opinions, look them mentally in the eye and say, "What you think of me is none of my business."
And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you're consistent, you're vulnerable to attack. Yes, it's a paradox. Now deal with it!
I'm a religious man. I am Jewish but I believe in all religions. I believe in God and see him as an old man with a big white beard and pray to him every day for a few minutes.
In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running; if you stand still, they will swallow you.
Learning to be an effective leader is no different than learning to be an effective person. And that's the hard part