Business Quotes

It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style.

No one doing big business can avoid some contact with government agencies, regulators, and policy makers.

Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society.

Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do.

I think anyone who isn't investing in Nigeria is missing out. If you look at Nigeria today, literally all of the business class cabins are full of foreigners, because these guys see opportunity.

In show business the saying seems too often true: it isn't enough to succeed; someone else must fail.

Cryptography [without system integrity] is like investing in an armored car to carry money between a customer living in a cardboard box and a person doing business on a park bench.

Donald Trump's America can be friend and ally, or at least an indifferent power that concentrates on itself and minds its own business.

It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.

Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.

Insults are the business of the court.

Buying and selling securities on the Stock Exchange do not start new industries. Big business never starts anything new. It merely absorbs, consolidates and profits at the expense of others.

New customers are the best source of new business

Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes successful in show business.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.

Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait.

Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.

Politics don't exist, actually. It's just a cheap business. Economics is what makes politics.

Raising the minimum wage allows business people to stop thinking about workers simply as costs to be cut and allows you to start thinking about workers as customers to be cultivated.

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world, the mottos of which are: 'To take is more blessed than to give'; 'buy cheap and sell dear'; 'one soiled hand washes the other.

France in August when you can travel through the entire country without encountering a single pesky Frenchman or being bothered with anything that's open for business.

Energy and patience in business are two indispensable elements of success.

An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.

Basketball is a business. Pure and simple. If you want to have fun, go to the YMCA.

Sell to their needs-not from yours.

As a programmer, it is your job to put yourself out of business. What you do today can be automated tomorrow.

We would like to believe that we are not in the business of surviving but in being good, and we do not like to admit to ourselves that we are good in order to survive.

Too many companies want their brands to reflect some idealised, perfected image of themselves. As a consequence, their brands acquire no texture, no character and no public trust.

If you are a complete perfectionist, then the truth is that this ice skating business will drive you a little crazy!

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals. Preferably big ones.

Good economics is good politics.

If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.

America is a business. If you can't afford to do something, no matter how much bellyaching everybody does I'm so sorry, if you can't afford it, you shouldn't do it.

No one on his deathbed ever said, "I wish I had spent more time on my business."

The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did.

Making a television show is not like making Coca-Cola or Bacardi rum. The human element in our business prevents us from finding a successful formula every time.

The choice to worry about why we are doing something more than how we do something is risky business.

There are only two things in a business that make money - innovation and marketing, everything else is cost.

I think that business practices would improve immeasurably if they were guided by "feminine" pinciples, qualities like love, care, and intuition.

The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.

Do not address your readers as though they were gathered together in a stadium. When people read your copy, they are alone. Pretend you are writing to each of them a letter on behalf of your client.

Talent, I believe, is most likely to be found among nonconformists, dissenters, and rebels.

Business is not financial science, it's about trading.. buying and selling. It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it.

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.

Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.

I'm a writer. I could not or would not ever run a business. I don't even have a secretary. And contrary to some of the stereotypes, entrepreneurs are not loners. I am.

Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.

Business neglected is business lost.