Business Quotes

I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

I've said many times that I'd be thrilled to sell the airline to the employees and our guys said no, we'll take all the money, anyway.

There's a lot of not caring that goes under the name of minding your own business.

Anything can change in show business, you know how it goes, everything changes from one day to the other.

I don't want to go to a trade war, I want to beat China. I want to go to war with China and make America the most attractive place in the world to do business.

But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever.

One market paradigm that I take exception to is: Buy low and sell high. I believe far more money is made by buying high and selling at even higher prices.

I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.

Engage your emotions at work. Your instincts and emotions are there to help you.

Entrepreneurship is about turning what excites you in life into capital, so that you can do more of it and move forward with it.

If you want swashbuckling action in your life, become an entrepreneur and give it a go.

Succeeding in business is all about making connections

Please be polite. Nothing in life should erode the habit of saying thank you to people or praising them.

I always just wanted to have enough to carry on. I never had ambitions to take over the world or be a global enterprise. But I wanted to have a strong business in order to do the main objective.

[In relation to business:] Invention must be its keynote-a steady progression from one thing to another. As each in turn approaches a saturated market, something new must be produced.

In business for yourself, but not by yourself.

Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question.

When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life was in a real state of flux.

If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe. [Lat., Qui finem quaeris amoris, (Cedit amor rebus) res age; tutus eris.]

When I go into the studio, I'm strictly for business... I don't like any fooling around in the studio.

The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsofts business practices.

I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career.

Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.

You might say that I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business.

I've met every freak in the business.

It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.

Some people have a tendency to get knocked down in this business and sulk and whine, and they just create a rod for their back, really. You have to have broad shoulders and get through it.

Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.

It's for management to enthuse & motivate employees towards excellence in service; the profit incentive doesn't last

Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service.

The single most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that there are no results inside its walls. The result of a business is a satisfied customer.

There is a point of complexity beyond which a business is no longer manageable.

The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes.

Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment.

One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, lets all be friends in Washington philosophy.

Yes, I have a lot of business interests. But I don't work for just anyone, and I choose the companies very carefully.

I understand business and understand the ugly face of baseball, which is the business part of baseball.

The promise of business is to increase the general well-being of humankind through service, a creative invention and ethical philosophy.

Being in business is not about making money. It is a way to become who you are.

Few great men would have got past personnel.

We are always waiting for the perfect brief from the perfect client. It almost never happens [...] Whatever is on your desk right now, that's the one. Make it the best you possibly can.

Business strategy is the battleplan for a better future.

The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.

You can't run a without taking risks.

Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit

I really do love pop. I understand songwriting, I understand the business, and I'm not stuck in any one particular time period.

Acting for me is not a business, it's about trying to make pieces of art that I believe that I feel proud of. And it's the journey of that.

Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.

As you shift and change your own experience, the experience of the whole human race begins to shift and change as well. So this is important work you are doing, this business of changing your life.

My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the next time the system breaks, it breaks much, much bigger.