Business Quotes

Wrigley is a great business, but that doesn't solve the problem. Buying great businesses at advantageous prices is very tough.

We may expect answers to prayer, and should not be easy without them any more than we should be if we had written a letter to a friend upon important business, and had received no reply.

He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.

Due to a big bust in Cuba, my father's business suffered badly, so I was free to choose my own career. I became a professional dancer, and I went on the road and started making real money.

When I do something, I do it all the way. I've been in show business so many years. I've achieved a lot of things.

Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.

Instead of talking at each other about the non-business-related contact, talk to each other about your concerns about marriage. Listen a lot, too.

Customers can't always tell you what they want, but they can always tell you what's wrong.

But the meaning of life is not . . . explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered by a bank account.

The chief business of the American people is business.

It matters not to me what I do, or what I suffer, so long as I abide loveingly united to God's will - that is my whole business.

Our only business is to love and delight ourselves in God.

Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.

Most successful businesses in the country were started on a kitchen table. As long as people have needs unmet or problems unsolved, there are business opportunities.

Anything that is measured and watched, improves.

Selling - at its core - is not a business transaction. It is first and foremost the forging of a human connection.

'10' was amazing! I had no career before '10' and then all of a sudden I was able to do pretty much whatever I was able to do in the business.

If you bet on a horse, that's gambling. If you bet you can make three spades, that's entertainment. If you bet cotton will go up three points, that's business. See the difference?

By taking a business-like approach, the student-athletes and their parents will be in control of the outcome and that's how it should be.

We're at the point now where the challenge isn't how to communicate effectively with e-mail; it's ensuring that you spend your time on the e-mail that matters most.

The longer you wait, the harder it is to provide outstanding customer service.

Business fits me best. The only reason I went into modeling originally was to help out my family, because I knew that money gave you freedom.

Business is hard, really hard, but it's worth it.

It's against type in the sense of my background, but it's with type in the sense that I am a loner who's new to this business and sceptical about a lot of it.

The sillier the market's behavior, the greater the opportunity for the business like investor.

Creating value is an inherently cooperative process, capturing value is inherently competitive.

Don't get cocky just because you've had a good run. You can lose your business as fast as you've earned it.

Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.

Make sure you pick good people to build your business with, as they'll determine 80 percent of your success.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

In their hearts women think that it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it.

I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.

You need more than an idea to run a business

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

As a chef I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist, I’m in the pleasure business.

We should be evolving into a new age of business with a worldview that maintains one simple proposition - that all of nature: humans, animals, earth, are interconnected and interdependent.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art

With all due respect to Microsoft and Intel, there is no substitute for being in the right place at the right time.

FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.

There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area, all of them formed by MIT faculty and all had gone public.

I have been very fortunate to be successful in business, and I believe that it is right that people who have this type of wealth should give something back into society.

You know, the fashion business is this legendary repository of young girls on their way to getting husbands. I really wanted to work.

I think sometimes there are negative connotations for those who have a business mind as well as a creative side.

If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.

A model should be as simple as it can be but no simpler

I know [my label], in any case: a double face, a charming Janus, and underneath, the house motto: "Be wary". On my business cards:"Jean-Baptiste Clamence, actor".

I have been blessed with working with the best in the business.

I've always felt that I'm in a spontaneous business and if you script something, if you plan something, it will sound that way.

The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.

The first law of economics is that when the price goes up, consumption comes down. This is a divine law.