Business Quotes

There's a lot of fear-mongering about "losing control" of your brand online, when, in fact, you've got control over as much as you always have: how you present your business and how you act.

Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success.

The erogenous zone is always shifting, and it is the business of fashion to pursue it, without ever catching it up.

I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.

I still believe that the mission of Business 2.0 is very strong, very fundamental, and we're really at the beginning of where they're going to take us.

The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting.

Taxes cause the most bad business decisions.

Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless.

Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.

Rather than having small smart tricks to get by, focus on holding on and persevering.

Don't even trust that you are able to unify what everyone is thinking; it is impossible

The most unreliable thing in this world is human relationships.

A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.

After a hit show is over, you soon realize this is a very tough business ... brutally tough. But I'm a better actor and I have more gravitas than I had at 24 with bleached-blonde hair.

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.

I am very intense. I can't help it. That's the way I am. You can't be in this business without being intense. The pressure and tension get to you; it can't help but show on you.

The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.

A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.

Resource efficiency - it's about only taking what we need

War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad it wasn't them.

You can't run a government solely on a business basis...Government should be human. It should have a heart.

I started with shoes, and with hard work and discipline, the business prospered. I moved to the department store business and again, things went well.

Integrity is crucial for business success - once you can fake that, you've got it made.

When bankers get into business they usually destroy it.

Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.

For me, my business is my business and my house is my house. I don't want the public in my house.

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

There's a place in the world for any business that takes care of its customers-after the sale.

Ninety-nine percent of all surprises in business are negative.

Jury - A group of 12 people, who, having lied to the judge about their health, hearing, and business engagements, have failed to fool him.

If you need to bring in a business partner, make sure your partner brings along some money.

Read a lot when you're on vacation, but nothing that has to do with your business.

I don't play golf or all those things people normally do for business. I do parties. That's where I bring people in, showcase ideas and, in the end, do deals.

Arguably, in business books, I don't think there's much that has never been said before.

The mark of a good conversationalist is not that you can talk a lot. The mark is that you can get others to talk a lot. Thus, good schmoozer's are good listeners, not good talkers.

How fast you are moving is more important than where you are.

Slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects.

I don't think art is a goal orientated business. I don't do things for the challenges, I only do them because I love them, I'm not really a goal orientated, achiever type of person.

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many.

Our company was mortgaged to the hilt, and that did restrain us, and it's why we had to take in partners.

What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.

War is a bloody, killing business. You've got to spill their blood, or they will spill yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts.

Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise.

Never tell me the odds!

Some got rabies, some got fleas, some got incurable diseases from this cockamamie business.

Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.