Business Quotes

Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.

When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.

One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.

The paparazzi have got worse for everyone over the years. It has just become such a big deal. No-one in this business really has much privacy.

Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.

I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business.

I feel that's the richest gift that's ever been given to me: I get to do what I love. And it's a really brutal business, and no matter how successful you are you hear "No" more than "Yes."

In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.

Money-getters are the benefactors of our race. To them ... are we indebted for our institutions of learning, and of art, our academies, colleges and churches.

Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur.

It's like night and day... to do business, in Europe, there is no bull, they are pretty straightforward.

This is not a phone business. This is the smallest video camera, it's the smallest computer, smallest TV.

Suckers have no business with money anyway.

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade.

I’ve always said that a wise businessperson will support the ANC… because supporting the ANC means you’re investing very well in your business

We've been in the Mac software business for more than 20 years. And it's been a great business for us.

It takes one hen to lay an egg, but seven men to sell it.

This is a new phase in history where art, science, business and spirit will join together in the pursuit of true wealth.

Yet our small business owners across the country are unfairly losing potential interest income on a daily basis until the Business Checking Freedom Act becomes law.

The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past.

Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.

The risk of a business being hit by a low probability, high impact event is far higher than most boards realize because the number of potential wild cards is so great.

Acting is a tough business, but if you really want to do it, you should go full force.

It is the business of a virtuous clergyman to censure vice in every appearance of it.

One finds many companions for food and drink, but in a serious business a man's companions are very few.

Think often on God, by day, by night, in your business and even in your diversions. He is always near you and with you; leave him not alone.

There is a good deal of solemn cant about the common interests of capital and labor. As matters stand, their only common interest is that of cutting each others throat.

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

The music business has let me touch a lot of people with my talent.

My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.

I have left all my business and all my husbands; I have taken with me only fair weather and my children, which is as much as I want.

Proper business planning demands that you focus on the self-interest of the customer at all times.

The purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer. All business activities must be focused on this central purpose.

Winding up unfinished business with another person can give you a great burst of positive energy.

Business is no longer a matter of profits alone. Profits must come through public confidence, and public confidence is given to any merchant in proportion to the service which he gives to the public.

We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.

I am very true to the proud tradition of the old school wrestling that I was brought up on. I am very blessed to be able to live out my dreams, and I have a great respect for the business.

War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist

Formula for success: Underpromise and overachieve.

The magazine was being started by a company that had no experience in business magazine publishing. It was a little difficult to get people to sort of buy into it and to join the staff, but we did.

Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumours so little founded on truth

People are not interested in your product or your business; they are interested in solving their own problems.

The music business can be very cold. And it doesn't honor its elders.

A businessman needs three umbrellas - one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train.

No organization works if the toilets don't work, but I don't believe that finding solutions to business problems is my job.

If a business has to be told that it needs more focus, accountability and decisiveness, there is a bigger problem at hand.

I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them.

A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business.

Again, talent is the real import of being in the business.

In my column series 'The Main Thing,' I often talk about how Internet technology can improve the way people communicate - both within a business and between a business and its customers and partners.