Business Quotes
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.
You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.
Business leaders take things far too seriously, and forget that most of the time people spend in their lives is at work, and it should be fun.
The City is, in terms of its basic functioning, a far-off country of which we know little.
Acting is a tough business, and you need to be in good shape mentally and physically.
You can create a business, choose a name, but unless people know about it you're not going to sell any products.
When I started Virgin from a basement flat in West London, I did not set out to build a business empire. I set out to create something I enjoyed that would pay the bills.
There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to work together to educate the United States about marketing overseas.
Ideally, since 80 percent of your life is spent working, you should start your business around something that is a passion of yours
I'm not in the advertising business, but I think it would be very nice if people went to see the film Hamlet, because it was made with love and integrity
The quickest way to become a millionaire in the airline business is to start out as a billionaire.
My definition of success? The more you are actively and practically engaged, the more successful you will feel.
I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.
I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot.
There's not a business or a master plan as far as I'm concerned. I take it week by week, and I don't think you ever expect to be able to do the next thing.
Slovakias joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business.
I knew nothing about farce until I read Puce a l'Oreille, and had no idea what a deadly serious business it is.
I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
There is a well known saying among designers in the educational games business: 'If you want to take all of the fun out of it, get a bunch of educators involved.
The only thing I ever learned was that some people are lucky and other people aren't and not even a graduate of the Harvard Business School can say why.
It is a solid business principle that people who enjoy what they do are better at what they do.
Customers want brands that are narrow in scope and distinguishable by a single word, the shorter the better.
If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it is not the eye, it is the mind which the painter of genius desires to address.
All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.
As great as it is, 'Vogue' won't change a designer's business. But if an unknown brand is worn by a certain person in a tabloid, it will be the biggest designer within a week.
The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.
It's always the music first for me. But if the music isn't selling, there isn't gonna be no business. So you gotta make sure music is always the first priority.
We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business. And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.
Just as one year in a dog's life is equivalent to seven years in a human life, one year in the high-technology business is like seven years in any other industry.
Business owners have made a strong case to me that they need guest workers. But none has suggested that these workers should be placed on a path to citizenship.
We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.