Business Quotes

I've always wanted to be in the health and wellness business. I try to encourage people to live a healthy lifestyle.

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

Look at your business and the activities that you undertake. Then, start to think about not just your economic concerns, but about social and environmental impacts that businesses have.

There is real danger of a disconnect between what's on your business card and who you are deep inside, and it's not a disconnect that the world is ready to be patient with.

The market economy as such does not respect political frontiers. Its field is the world.

Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism.

Remember,the press is a business: Newspapers and magazines are in business to make money - sometimes at the expense of accuracy, fairness and even the truth.

A cynic might conclude that the real purpose of the $500 million-a-year implant business is the implantation of fat in the bellies and rumps of underemployed plastic surgeons.

Profit in business comes from repeat customers

Never play a thing the same way twice.

The whole business starts with ideas, and we're convinced that ideas come out of an environment of supportive conflict, which is synonymous with appropriate friction.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

It is not size that counts in business. Some companies with $500,000 capital net more profits than other companies with $5,000,000. Size is a handicap unless efficiency goes with it.

A banker is a person who is willing to make you a loan if you present sufficient evidence to show you don't need it.

Human nature has a tendency to admire complexity but reward simplicity.

A basically dishonest man can survive longer in the church or the classroom than he can in the grain exchange or the furniture business.

I see filmmaking as a business and pity anyone who regards it as an art form.

The customer is always right.

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses.

Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.

After being on the road so much I want to spend more time with my family, who I hear are wonderful people.

A stock is not just a ticker symbol or an electronic blip; it is an ownership interest in an actual business, with an underlying value that does not depend on its share price.

Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast.

If I have something I want to do, I make a business of doing it.

I have a hard time believing athletes are overpriced. If an owner is losing money, give it up. It's a business. I have trouble figuring out why owners would stay in if they're losing money.

I'm not the businessman. I don't deal with the business at all. Not anymore. Occasionally, every four years or five years, they tell me I've run out of money, I have to go and make some more.

True cultural connection is the Holy Grail for brands if they want to create an enduring emotional relationship with people.

Don't do business with anyone who has a history of suing people.

Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.

Don't worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test... Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap - but it was a revolutionary piece of crap.

I have always been a business person.

You say: "I'm a blue sky thinker." Investor thinks: "You have no business model, and you don't know how to ship."

What's this business of being a writer. It's just putting one word after another.

Know the business, learn the business, own something.

I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these calculations [of Pi], having no other business at the time

When you're eight years old, nothing is any of your business.

Rest assured, for every piece of business the most businesslike thing is to choose the right moment.

I waited far too long, being optimistic rather than realistic. I also failed to do my homework

I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.

I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done.

There is no business like show business. There is also no business like certified public accounting, but that doesn't rhyme as well.

In Hollywood they say there's no business like show business. In the hood they say there's no business like ho' business.

Microsoft has had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly improving those products and we've really redefined the IT industry to be something that's about a tool for individuals.

When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

Show business is made up of disappointments, and it's through life's disappointments that you grow.

Bringing together the right information with the right people will dramatically improve a company's ability to develop and act on strategic business opportunities.

It's hard to have a relationship in this business...it's gonna take a very special woman...or a bunch of average ones.

Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise.