Business Quotes

Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.

It's very logical: There is proven ROI in doing whatever you can to turn your customers into advocates for your brand or business. The way to create advocates is to offer superior customer service.

Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die

Whatever you love most, be it sports, pleasure, business or God, that is your god!

Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business.

I'm sure there are writers who are great businessmen, but I never met any.

Golf is my profession Show business is just to pay the green fees.

Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.

Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - IS innately disruptive of “business as usual.” That is WHY it is effective.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

People aren't the same. Business is, in my opinion, all about the team that fields the best players. It's not about an idea. An idea goes away. Somebody catches up with it. It's not about a widget.

The movie business is a big gamble.

I left Mexico for artistic survival. If I had stayed, I would have been forced by the government, who control the movie business, to direct TV shows or commercials or infomercials for the government.

Journalism - a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

Everyone is in the business of customer satisfaction.Wh o are your customers and how are they doing?

In this business you break a leg and 150 other people are out of work while production is shut down. It's not like you were an accountant and could still work with your leg in a cast.

The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men and professional men.

There are more fakers in business than in jail.

Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.

I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.

If you want to stay in the business then you've got to be a bit shrewd, haven't you?

I work with wonderful people who support me. And, my beliefs are that the business needs to serve the family rather than the family serve the business.

But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business.

The lack of education and lack of skills don't hurt the unemployed, they hurt America and American business, making us less competitive in the global market.

Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale.

Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you.

Business leaders must find ways to infuse mundane business activities with deeper, soul-stirring ideals, such as honor, truth, love, justice, and beauty.

Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.

If you can't write like New York, you have no business living in New York and making New York the locale of your stories.

In show business the key word is honesty. Once you've learned to fake that, the rest is easy.

When I think about being out of the business, it scares me.

Politics is a highly tribal business.

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

There are some key elements to business being a success, and that's a smart visionary and great management behind the people that are going to build it.

For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.

It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads.

I'd be in the backyard minding my own business. The other kids would call me names, like meatball head or neo-Calvinist. I'd run after them, but lucky for them the chain would snap my neck back.

Business is tough; you need tough guys.

You have to remember that Hollywood is in the business of making movies that they can sell tickets to, they're not in the business of finding great roles for actors.

I am not sure the others are as committed as Rob Hall and Scott Fischer. I think there is more business now, and I know it will be impossible to stop this Everest business.

When you're first thinking through an idea, it's important not to get bogged down in complexity. Thinking simply and clearly is hard to do.

I think the music business will eventually crush me, but I [smiles]... I'm ready.

Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Good regulation should be conducive to business and to customer protection.

I am not embarrassed to be a banker. I am not embarrassed to be in business.

The art of winning in business is in working hard - not taking things too seriously.

There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.

There is no way of making a business successful that can vie with the policy of promoting those who render exceptional service.

One thing about the business and investing world that I connect to very intimately is that there is little room to deny the harsh realities of your mistakes. A bad call can lose you many millions.