Business Quotes

With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper.

Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform.

Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

Google has the business resources, global scale and platform reach to accelerate Nest growth across hardware, software and services for the home globally.

Don't be cocky. Don't be flashy. There's always someone better than you.

As far as business moguls, I'm always a fan of how Jay Z moves. He was just always very strategic ever since he came into the game.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth.

A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there.

To be successful in show business, all you need are 50 good breaks.

Happy salesmen not only multiply their volume of business and their income, they also multiply themselves.

One of the tricks of this business is, keep your losses down.

Remember that a share of stock represents a part of a business and is not just a piece of paper.

This is a business. Like any other business.

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

There's not many businesses where someone can come in and offer to cut the price in half and somebody doesn't think about shifting. But that's the nature of the ratings business.

Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

We set no volume goals in our insurance business generally-and certainly not in reinsurance-as virtually any volume can be achieved if profitability standards are ignored.

You get that love from the people. It lets me know that all the madness I go through, all the stuff that the business has to offer with all its madness; it makes it worthwhile.

Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.

For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.

No man is great if he thinks he is.

People that pay for things never complain. It's the guy you give something to that you can't please.

Politics are about preserving relationships at the end of the day, and it has nothing to do with the greater good for humanity. It's just all about business.

Experience and enthusiasm are two fine business attributes seldom found in one individual.

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

I have friends who go [Tokyo] frequently on business, and it sounds interesting. I've heard that they have for the first time serious drug problems.

To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.

I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die.

Man was designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.

Each close you use should be an educational process by which you are able to raise the value in the prospect's mind.

When a company or an individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner.

For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

If you honestly know how you help people, then you should become passionate about sharing it, spread the good news, give everyone a chance to share in the solutions that you can provide.

The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.

All Disruption starts with introspection.

If you're not called crazy when you launch something new, it means you're not thinking BIG enough.

Anything a customer can do for themselves is where service stops and relevance begins.

Just as we leave the effects of our work behind in results, we leave the effects of our interactions with people in their hearts, minds, and souls.

Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

Business is other people's money.

I love design in general, the creativity. Whether it is golf courses, my apparel line, ads we do or our business with AriZona, design is fun.

People can get information - on entertainment, politics, finance - much easier than before. That will change the way people do business, the way people live.

No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.

Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.

That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.