Business Quotes

A company is known by the people it keeps.

Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Thanks for the American dream, to vulgarize and falsify until the bare lies shine through. Thanks for a country where nobody's allowed to mind their own business.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business.

If those who give are conscious of their own generosity and those who receive feel indebted, they are no longer family but rather strangers doing business.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

You can run a business any way you like, but you'll run it better if you build it around your strengths.

The choices you make from this day forward will lead you, step by step, to the future you deserve.

Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do - and the business side.

When success is your only option, positivity has to be your only choice.

When you're following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for you, even if they mostly slam at first.

Great results, can be achieved with small forces.

In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.

Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.

Never give up. Just follow your dreams because this business can be so hard sometimes. It doesn't happen overnight where you get an audition or even a callback and get the role. It takes time.

A writer's occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.

The future of business is social.

The big thing for me is, I never think about myself as a female in business. I'm a person in business.

The early years were more about learning than about acting. I had to carry on my father's work, which was a big challenge.

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.

Honest businessmen should be protected from the unscrupulous consumer.

There's a beauty of show business. It's the only business you can have a career in when you're dead.

In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.

If we are not trusted, we have no business.

To lead people, walk behind them.

Business is all about focus. But with focus comes myopia and to conquer that, I come in to shake things up. To be invited as a keynote speaker is to have a license to interfere and interrupt.

The things Elvis has done during his career and the things he has contributed and created are really something very important to the music business.

Nothing is easier than saying words. Nothing is harder than living them day after day.

By building respect and inspiring love business can move the world.

I sat down with my long time business partner and Rap-A-Lot CEO James Prince to review the music that we had and quickly came up with an outstanding track list.

Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't.

We’re in the business of luxury and there’s nothing more luxurious than being good to people, being respectful of them.

Keep an idea log where you write everything down, even the bad ideas.

For me photography is not an intellectual process. It is a visual one.... Whether we like it or not, we are involved in a sensual business.

I know of nothing more valuable, when it comes to the all-important virtue of authenticity, than simply being who you are.

Over the very long term, history shows that the chances of any business surviving in a manner agreeable to a company's owners are slim at best.

If you run a business, put on top your employees, then your consumers, and then your shareholders.

Be careful that the love of gain draw us not into any business which may weaken our love of our Heavenly Father, or bring unnecessary trouble to any of His creatures.

If you focus on near-term growth above all else, you miss the most important question you should be asking: will this business still be around a decade from now?

The time has come when advertising has in some hands reached the status of a science.

Business and human endeavors are systems...we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system. And wonder why our deepest problems never get solved.

In business, competition is never as healthy as total domination.

There is practically no area of business where the difference between rhetoric and actuality is greater than in the handling of people.

If you can raise a family, then you can build a business.

Treat your customers like they own you. Because they do.

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

Social Media are tools, Real Time is a mindset.

The trouble with not being into social networking is that people think you're anti-social when you're only anti-networking.

Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear view mirror.