Business Quotes

Life and business are rather simple after all-to make a success of either, you've got to hang on to the knack of putting yourself into the other person's place.

Dont count the things you do, do the things that count.

Success doesn't make you and failure doesn't break you.

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

Nothing in fine print is ever good news.

Call it the Tiger Mom effect: In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option.

My dad is very successful in his business. He's always been big in having hobbies and having little ways to get away. He always made time for hunting and fishing. He always encouraged me to do it.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

British business is disappointed that the MPC felt unable to act more boldly to counter the worsening economic circumstances and the sharp slowdown in the pace of economic activity,.

When you're building a business, you're either all in, or you're not.

If you're not in love with what you do, business will be really tough. You can do good one day, and bad the next. You can have a great year, and a bad year that wipes away all of your success.

Don't let the bastards get you down.

The geniuses who conduct the motion-picture business killed glamour when they decided that what the public wanted was not dream stuff, from which movies used to be made, but realism.

Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.

In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non- world.

Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money.

Confidence allows you to progress in something you're attempting to accomplish, whether it's playing basketball or baseball or whether it's trying to succeed in business.

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

I decided to come back and teach goodness in this business. To teach love, because music is the universal language. We are God's bouquet, and through music we become one.

The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is bad for you, but you love every minute with her, anyway.

My mom nor my father never pushed me into the music business. I always did it because I wanted to.

I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera.

Most venture capitalists won't read a business plan unless the entrepreneur is introduced to them by a contact.

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

A small business person has Uncle Sam as a partner, a partner who puts up no money, does no work, and wants 30 or 40 percent

I have learned that trying to guess what the boss or the client wants is the most debilitating of all influences in the creation of good advertising.

A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is. And lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you'll go out of business.

When people are placed in positions slightly above what they expect, they are apt to excel.

We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.

I think any opportunity you have to be green, whether it's in business or in everyday life, you should take it.

We are always saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough... we're only paid for breakthroughs.

The boom is called good business, prosperity, and upswing. Its unavoidable aftermath, the readjustment of conditions to the real data of the market, is called crisis, slump, bad business, depression.

The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.

Each [of my wives] was jealous and resentful of my preoccupation with business. Yet none showed any visible aversion to sharing in the proceeds.

Be daring. Be first. Be different.

The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.

Now, in my opinion, a woman has no business with Power-Power admits no equal, and dismisses friendship for flattery. Besides, it keeps the men at a distance, and that is not always what we wish.

This world is not a place merely to live in, nor a place in which to do certain kinds of business; it is a great workshop in which to make godly men.

I like the music. I love it & live it in fact. But for me the business part of music just plain stinks.

Immigration is everyone’s business: it is one of the most important national issues. The idea that it is too dangerous to be debated is a mockery of democracy. It is too important not to debate.

The success of an intervention depends on the interior condition of the intervenor.

Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.

Radio was supposed to die in 1945, when TV came along. It turns out that radio grew and grew, and it's a bigger business today than it has ever been.

As much as you need a strong personality to build a business from scratch, you also must understand the art of delegation.

A leader should have higher endurance and ability to accept and embrace failure.

A real businessman or entrepreneur has no enemies. Once he understand this, the sky's the limit.

Never ever do business with the government. Be in love with them, never marry them.