Business Quotes

Every tomorrow has two handles. You can take hold of the handle of anxiety or the handle of enthusiasm. Upon your choice so will be the day.

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.

Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!

The business of business is business.

My batting average has been good, so people ask how much luck is involved. I tell them when I work 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, I get lucky.

Financial hydrogen bombs built on personal computers by 26-year-olds with MBAs.

Surveillance is the business model of the Internet.

A successful business is created before there is a business.

We are all one. Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

I'm not even worried about settling down. I think it's way too early. I'm 25 and I'm in show business. I mean, if things go well, my wife hasn't even been born yet.

When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

If the English want a king, it is their business. If the Russians want communism, it is their business. If the Americans want our form of government, it is our business.

As an investor, what we're not looking for is 'oh this is a cool app,' it's 'is this something that can become a big business?' You need to find those that can become real businesses.

All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.

Your company should act as a springboard for ambitious employees, not a set of shackles.

A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity.

You can't do a good business with a bad person. Find the right people to work with and you can't go wrong.

Character is the tree, reputation is the shadow.

Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and more in the modern world, large business rests on rectitude and honor as well as on good judgment.

It's a rare business that doesn't have a way worse future than it has a past.

Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.

The manufacture of wax candles was another important branch of business in the nunnery.

Understanding how to be a good investor makes you a better business manager and vice versa.

Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

Loyal customers, they don't just come back, they don't simply recommend you, they insist that their friends do business with you.

A handful of people who probably never even ran a small business actually think they can reinvent the health care system.

The need for innovation – the lifeblood of business – is widely recognized, and imagination and play are key ingredients for making it happen.

There are moments in business and in life when you have to say, "Failure is not an option."

I think it's always difficult to reconcile the needs of art and business.

From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward.

There are many vampires in the world today - you only have to think of the film business.

Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business.

One's better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one's own. In fact it's a terrible business and the task is a hard one.

Content is the currency of the social web and sharing that content is the catalyst to new relationships and business benefits.

The thing that will make the biggest difference to your business, your bank account, your health and your relationships in the next 12 months is your philosophy

There's no such thing as business ethics; there's just ethics. And ethics makes no concessions for the real or imagined necessities of making a profit.

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

Be daring. Be first. Be different.

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.

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

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

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,.

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.

Starting a business is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. In mid air, the entrepreneur begins building a parachute and hopes it opens before hitting the ground.

You cannot be successful without failure.

Every child should be placed on a doorstep to sell something. It's the best possible training for life.

I'd like to have a business card saying: Bruce Norris kicked your arse.