Business Quotes

We may be very busy, we may be very 'efficient', but we will also be truly 'effective' only when we begin with the end in mind.

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?' .

Pixar is seen by a lot of folks as an overnight success, but if you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.

We did not enter the search business. Google entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won't let them.

Always do business as if the person you're doing business with is trying to screw you, because he probably is. And if he's not, you can be pleasantly surprised.

If other countries don't impose a cost on carbon, then we will be at a disadvantage...we would look at considering perhaps duties that would offset that cost.

It is the business of a general to be quiet and thus ensure secrecy; upright and just, and thus maintain order.

It is the business of a general to be serene and inscrutable, impartial and self-controlled.

The business of a general is to kick away the ladder behind soldiers when they have climbed up a height.

There are unlimited opportunities for display advertising. In fact, we're in the process of massive change in the display industry - how it's bought, how it's sold, and how it's targeted.

Positioned on my dresser, that white-as-snow rose is a personal message to me. It speaks of unfinished business. It whispers, I can find you. I can reach you. Perhaps I am watching you now.

Business is business, no child's play.

You of the West are practical in business, practical in great inventions, but we of the East are practical in religion. You make commerce your business; we make religion our business.

Girls that aren't cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man.

There's not much difference between a fantasist and a visionary. We all have dreams and without dreams in business, I don't believe you can be successful. The trick is to turn them into reality.

There are three reasons to be in business. To make money, to have fun – and to make money.

I work in show business - there's nothing that shocks me anymore!

Put First Things First! These four words cover an entire philosophy which can be applied with profit by every business leader, by every executive and by every employee.

Part of it has to do with this business of being approached in public. I have a distinctive look - it's partly the glasses I wear - and people seem to remember me once they've seen me.

The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.

Train everyone lavishly. You can't overspend on training.

The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it's not fun, you're wasting your life.

Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox.

One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business.

On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe.

Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.

For small business men and women, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.

Trust and reputation are not discretionary. They are as necessary in business as the people in whom they reside.

If we are going to carry on growing, and we will, because no country is going to forfeit its right to economic growth, we have to find a way of doing it sustainably.

Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.

Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid.

Slater's a big star and he's been in the business a long time. He's always in a good mood and easygoing but he takes his character very seriously.

Colleges [have] forfeited the responsibilities of in loco parentis and have gone into the pimping and brothel business.

Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is his business to find it and collect it and communicate it to the rest of us.

Money doesn't excite me - my ideas excite me.

I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral.

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

If you want your business to survive for 100 years, you've got to make it through every single day for 100 years. It's not enough to do it 99.9% of the time.

Basically, the single-most important decision in evaluating a business is pricing power.

The critical investment factor is determining the intrinsic value of a business and paying a fair or bargain price.

The ideal business is one that earns very high returns on capital and that keeps using lots of capital at those high returns. That becomes a compounding machine.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.

You should invest in a business that even a fool can run, because someday a fool will.

But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.

It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to discover a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing.

There's a simple solution to our traffic problems. We'll have business build the roads, and government build the cars.

Advertising doesn't create a product advantage. It can only convey it.

You cannot sell a man who isn't listening; word of mouth is the best medium of all; and dullness won't sell your product, but neither will irrelevant brilliance.

Research can trap you into the past.