Business Quotes
Greenhouse gas emissions and global warming are among humanity's most pressing concerns. Societal expectations on climate change are real, and our industry is expected to take a leadership role.
We know that pumping oil out of the ground does not create many jobs. It does not foster an entrepreneurial spirit, nor does it sharpen critical faculties.
And have the courage to accept that you're not perfect; nothing is, and no one is - and that's OK.
We should never be allowed to forget that it is the customer who, in the end, determines how many people are employed and what sort of wages companies can afford.
It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
We have never seen a career like George Strait's in this business, and I venture to say we never will again. He has handled things amazingly well.
We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!
I remember that Jack Lemmon, who is one of my favorite actors of all time, says that the day he stops being nervous is the day he should leave the business.
Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in a spirit of self-sacrifice.
There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.
The record company really pissed me off when they told me to lose weight. I couldn't be bothered with looking a certain way. So I left the business. I don't regret it.
Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
Everything in your business can be outsourced... if you're not emotionally attached to doing it all.
If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work.
One trouble is that when Government gets into a business it tends to make it uneconomic for anyone else.
Only one fellow in ten thousand understands the currency question, and we meet him every day.
For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility.
Improvisation in the jazz sense - like the business sense - is not formless. It is built on a skill set. Jazz, for example, involves selecting a tune.
With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized
When we start a new venture, we base it on hard research and analysis. Typically, we review the industry and put ourselves in our customer's shoes to see what we could do better.
I think it's important we continue to find new ways for start-up businesses to get access to funding, mentorship and business advice.
Don't hesitate to seek external help or advice where need be. Sometimes, it takes an external, emotionally unattached individual to detect your business flaws and render unbiased advice.
Explore this next great frontier where the boundaries between work and higher purpose are merging into one, where doing good really is good for business.
Business people have a a good view of what's happening internally in countries, and they can be a positive force.
Yes, I have loved, Ms. Lane, and although it's none of your business, I have lost. Many things.
Grand business plans are all very well, but nothing beats dipping your toe in the water.
I guess my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did, was the biggest record that I'll ever have.
Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.
A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.
I can give you my personal opinion: love the music, hate the business. It's a screwball business, and there are a lot of players who will straight-up lie to you.
Space travel will be like every other business. There will be competitors. . . . Thirty months from now, I'm confident we'll be flying people into space.
If you don't succeed at first, there's no need for the F word (Failure). Pick yourself up and try, try again.
The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
God is not saving the world; it is done. Our business is to get men and women to realize it.
The quality of business communications has become poorer in recent years as people avoid phone calls and face-to-face meetings, I can only assume, in some misguided quest for efficiency.
LEARN FROM FAILURE. If you are an entrepreneur and your first venture wasn't a success, welcome to the club.
You can never go too far wrong by thinking like a customer who’s new to the business.
My name was originally John Collins, but I just didn't think it had the flair I needed. I found out the poet laureate of Poland was named Krasinski and so it seemed like a shoe-in for show business.
