Business Quotes

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

Sun Cellular is the biggest investment in my business career.

One thing is certain in business: you will make mistakes. When you are pushing the boundaries, mistakes are inevitable-how you react is important.

It is a woman's business to be interested in the environment. It's an extended form of housekeeping.

Politics is democracy's way of handling public business. We won't get the type of country in the kind of world we want unless people take part in the public's business.

A vision is something you see and others don't. Some people would say that's a pocket definition of lunacy. But it also defines entrepreneurial spirit.

Auntie Anne's is a modern-day business miracle that never should have happened.

If Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles.

The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise - and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.

This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.

If you understand the independent worker, the self-employed professional, the freelancer, the e-lancer, the temp, you understand how work and business in the U.S. operate today.

Managers think of themselves as captains of a ship on a stormy sea. Risk for them is danger, but they are fighting it, very controlled.

Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.

I take my personal upkeep real seriously; my sense of organization and attention to detail; my memory; my business - I love the business.

You just never know with contract situations and the whole business side of it. I'm here now and I'm happy to be here now. The future will take care of itself.

The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.

The greatest change in corporate culture - and the way business is being conducted - may be the accelerated growth of relationships based... on partnership.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Most governments lie to each other. That's the way business gets done.

With over 1 billion users and counting worldwide, the Internet has quickly become a critical place for individuals, business communities and governments to share and distribute information.

The Internet has changed the way we communicate with each other, the way we learn about the world and the way we conduct business.

You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own.

Everything you need to know about success is inside of you, because I believe it is inside of all of us. That is, all human beings have potential for infinite success.

Despair is your friend in show business. I don't believe you can act if happiness is your lot. It's the ups that keep you living and the downs that mete out talent.

I prefer the word "engagement." Instead of empowerment, it's enabling women to engage in business.

I not only knew I wanted to go into retailing, I also knew I wanted to go into business for myself.

The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization.

I'm not in business to make money for the other guy. I'm in business to make money for myself.

It's not about how to get started; it's about how to get noticed.

Good PR educates people; that's all it is. You can't con people in this business. The products speak for themselves.

Hurting people is my business.

It goes without saying that your friends are usually the first to discuss your personal business behind your back.

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

The only sacred cow is an organisation should be its basic philosophy of doing business.

The fact is that if you don't have an effective, efficient plan for selling, any business you get is accidental.

The winners stun us not by their cleverness, but by the fact that every tiny aspect of the business is just a touch better than the norm.

You have to have a mentality. This is a business. This ain't hanging out having a good time

I'm meeting a lot of musicians and people in the music business, and am constantly trying to figure out what I want to do with music. We'll see. I want to do everything.

We define journalism in America as the business and practice of presenting the news of the day in the interest of economic privilege.

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing.

Regardless of how well a studio is run, it's only as good as the product it produces.

First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.

Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas.

The emphasis should be on why we do a job.

Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.

Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind, the aggregate nature of man more continuously, and more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.

Get out of show business. Its the best advice I ever got, because Im so stubborn that if someone would tell me that, I would stay in it to the bitter end.

They say the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. The chains you put around yourself now have enormous consequences as you go through life.

I'd rather have a $10 million business making 15 per cent than a $100 million business making 5 per cent.