Business Quotes

THERE is widespread agreement among economists that abuse of credit constitutes one of the chief unwholesome elements in business booms and is mainly responsible for the ensuing crash and depression.

The story of my billion-dollar business starts like this. I borrowed $1,000 from a friend.

To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which you have even if you have nothing else.

Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

Business and investing are team sports.

You sit here for days saying, this is a strange business. You're the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine.

There's nothing cheap about loyalty.

A business, successful or not, is merely a reflection of the character of its leadership.

It has become dramatically clear that the foundation of corporate integrity is personal integrity.

If I were in this business only for the business, I wouldn't be in this business.

It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life.

When I was 18 I already had a business going.

The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.

Generally, health is just so heavily regulated. It's just a painful business to be in. It's just not necessarily how I want to spend my time.

We don’t do business with companies. We do business with people.

It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think about me.

I don't see how that is any of your business." Stupid, shiny Volvo owner.

The tragedy is that Dell didn't win it - we lost it.

The best mental effort in the game of business is concentrated on the major problem of securing the consumer's dollar before the other fellow gets it.

The point to remember about selling things is that, as well as creating atmosphere and excitement around your products, you've got to know what you're selling.

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

Set your business plan to win; raise the bar or you're not going to be prepared. You need to think that what you're doing will make you $100 million.

Every company has big data in its future and every company will eventually be in the data business.

The future of this business is far beyond the vision of any of us.

There's not a single business model, and there's not a single type of electronic content. There are really a lot of opportunities and a lot of options and we just have to discover all of them.

If you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period!

Business book writing for me is when some set of ideas gets stuck in my mind, I write a book about it. I haven't got a theory and I haven't got a framework.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Absence of defects does not necessarily build business... Something more is required.

My greatest reward is that I have been able to build this wonderful organization.

There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as a daily business the desecration of the country for which it stands.

We've weathered several periods when times weren't so good, and so I don't think we'll cancel our advertising now. In fact, we might even increase it.

Politics is a dirty business, but if you do not do politics, politics will be done to you.

The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

Wealth is good when it brings joy to others.

In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.

I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture, so perhaps I would pursue a degree in that or business.

I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side.

I am aloof by nature. I mind my own business. I'm good with everyone, and I get along fine with people. But work is work, and friendship is friendship. I never mix the two.

Those who are critical of my goals and dreams simply do not understand the higher purpose to which I have been called.

Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor of distribution because in a most Zen-like fashion, the content is controlled by everyone and no one at the same time.

A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.

Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.

Business is all about solving people's problems - at a profit.

Let your customers and prospects recommend you to each other and let you competition wish they were you. That is our mission.

When we build on our strengths and daily successes — instead of focusing on failures — we simply learn more.

Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day.

Fathers have skills that they never use at home. You run a landscaping business and you can't dress and feed a four-year-old? Take it on!