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To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.
— Richard Branson
The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.
— Antonin Scalia
Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do.
— Richard Nelson Bolles
As an entrepreneur, I've come across countless articles and quotes proudly telling me that I should accept failure, smile, and keep my head up. In other words, I've been told to stay positive. The thing is, when you're forced to shut down a business and let really awesome people you care about go, staying positive is the last thing on your mind.
— John Rampton
City life is stressful. Everybody is running around like crazy, stuck in traffic jams trying to make meetings, trying to make ends meet, trying to meet deadlines, trying to get kids to and from activities. There aren't enough hours in the day for all this business.
— Rebecca Pidgeon
My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.
— Johnny Carson
Many people dream about being an entrepreneur, starting their own business, working for themselves, and living the good life. Very few, however, will actually take the plunge and put everything they've got into being their own boss.
— Fabrizio Moreira
Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.
— Elon Musk
In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.
— Lincoln Steffens
An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.
— Dee Hock
Joy is the serious business of Heaven.
— C. S. Lewis
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
— John D. Rockefeller
Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
— Winston Churchill
The biggest hurdle is rejection. Any business you start, be ready for it. The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is the successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don't want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your face, go to door number 11 enthusiastically, with a smile on your face.
— John Paul DeJoria
Our favorite holding period is forever.
— Warren Buffett
The same products, services or technologies can fail or succeed depending on the business model you choose. Exploring the possibilities is critical to finding a successful business model. Settling on first ideas risks the possibility of missing potential that can only be discovered by prototyping and testing different alternatives.
— Alexander Osterwalder
In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.
— Bill Gates
Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.
— Warren Buffett
The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.
— Brian Tracy
It's important to think good, speak good, and do good. If we want to see positive change in the world, then we need to connect to goodness. I try in everything I do, both in business and philanthropy, to make a positive change and do that by doing good.
— Shari Arison
I served in all commissioned ranks from a second Lieutenant to a Major General. And during that time, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street, and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.
— Smedley Butler
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.
— Thurgood Marshall
Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.
— Ross Perot
Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It's a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can't get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
— Noam Chomsky
I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling.
— Nicholas II of Russia
The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress.
— James Cash Penney
Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.
— Patrick Lencioni
Four or five frigates will do the business without any military force.
— Lord North
There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.
— Jeff Bezos
What helps people, helps business.
— Leo Burnett
Learn computer science. It's extraordinarily helpful. I like recommending learning economics as well so they think in terms of business, they have rational frameworks for looking at the world, but yeah, computer science is an amazing way to get into, even if you want to be CEO, having a tech background is helpful.
— Fabrice Grinda
The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy and the stock market. If you want to know where the stock market is headed, forget about consumer spending and retail sales figures. Look to business spending, price inflation, interest rates, and productivity gains.
— Mark Skousen
In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.
— Victor Kiam
I don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don't want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There's so much mystery. There's so much awe.
— Jane Goodall
If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
— B. C. Forbes
Good website practice and optimizing for conversion usually makes for good search engine optimization. These work together to ensure you drive quality traffic and can persuade that traffic to help you meet your business goals.
— Marc Ostrofsky
The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
— Peter Drucker
When cattle ranchers clear rain forests to raise beef to sell to fast-food chains that make hamburgers to sell to Americans, who have the highest rate of heart disease in the world (and spend the most money per GNP on health care), we can say easily that business is no longer developing the world. We have become its predator.
— Paul Hawken
We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
— Samuel Adams
Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
— Walt Disney
Networking is all about connecting with people. But then again, isn't that what life is about? The more time you can find to get out of the office and build true friendships, the farther your startup will go. Entrepreneurs need to remember to spend as much time working on their business as they do in their business.
— Jay Samit
The best way to look at any business is from the standpoint of the clients.
— Jamie Dimon
I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out.
— Nas
I worry that business leaders are more interested in material gain than they are in having the patience to build up a strong organization, and a strong organization starts with caring for their people.
— John Wooden
Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.
— Dave Barry
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
— Peter Drucker
Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
— Warren Bennis
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
— Ray Bradbury
Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it's starting a new business, whether it's leaving home, whether it's getting married, or whether it's flying in space.
— Chris Hadfield
In the real estate business you learn more about people, and you learn more about community issues, you learn more about life, you learn more about the impact of government, probably than any other profession that I know of.
— Johnny Isakson
Interior design is a business of trust.
— Venus Williams
There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.
— David Letterman
I think the path is different for everybody. Go after the doors that are open to you. That has always been my motto getting into the music business. Do the things that seem to be good opportunities and work hard at it. Try to make good decisions and be nice. Hopefully all of that will pay off at some point.
— Chris Stapleton
I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
— Zig Ziglar
A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee.
— Arnold H. Glasow
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
— W. Edwards Deming
In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry.
— Ivanka Trump
As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business.
— Peter Shilton
The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
— Aaron Burr
In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement.
— Ben Bernanke
Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.
— Michael Dell
I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others.
— Kate Moss
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.
— Igor Sikorsky
Having haters is just a part of the business, and the more haters you have, the more people like you - that's how I view it, because I try to see the positive in things.
— Nick Jonas
Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.
— Robert Kiyosaki
If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.
— Ray Kroc
Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.
— Mitt Romney
The evolving social and digital media platforms and highly innovative and relevant payment capabilities are causing seismic changes in consumer behavior and creating equally disruptive opportunities for business.
— Howard Schultz
Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.
— Lee Iacocca
If Planned Parenthood wants to be involved in providing counseling services and HIV testing, they ought not be in the business of providing abortions.
— Mike Pence
There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.
— Colonel Sanders
I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.
— Elon Musk
When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn't set out to build a business empire... For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that's going to make a real difference to other people's lives.
— Richard Branson
When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.
— Steve Jobs
Thank God, I have the opportunity to do what I love, which is my family and work on a business and try and make it the best that it can be.
— Rob Kardashian
It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.
— Michael Eisner
We're in the business of selling pleasure. We don't sell handbags or haute couture. We sell dreams.
— Alain Wertheimer
The biggest challenge for everybody to realize out there is that we're in a very complicated business world and that were all under one umbrella and it's very challenging for everybody to figure out where the priorities lie and where the loyalties lie.
— Scott Bakula
My vision is to build an e-commerce ecosystem that allows consumers and businesses to do all aspects of business online.
— Jack Ma
I'm in a stage where I feel like I need to retrain my mind, because since the beginning of my career, I've been such a fighter and a little hustler and someone who just tried to stay afloat in this business.
— Ali Larter
There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.
— Alexander McQueen
It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
— Will Rogers
If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.
— Stephen Covey
Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.
— Ron Jaworski
Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.
— Bill Gates
My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.
— Steve Jobs
People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'
— Sinclair Lewis
Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology.
— Donald Johanson
The business of business is relationships the business of life is human connection.
— Robin S. Sharma
I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.
— Galileo Galilei
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
— Hunter S. Thompson
If being a werewolf is really a curse, you've got to treat it honorably. If werewolves are going to carry on, there has to be an incredibly powerful force. There is the business of the craving, the hunger for the kill. It has to be deeply pleasurable and more than an appetite for meat. There has to be a sensual dimension to it.
— Glen Duncan
There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?
— Andrea Jung
You're either making money or you're not. If you're not making money get out of the business.
— Meredith Whitney
To thrive, all businesses must focus on the art of self-disruption. Rather than wait for the competition to steal your business, every founder and employee needs to be willing to cannibalize their existing revenue streams in order to create new ones. All disruption starts with introspection.
— Jay Samit
Punctuality is the soul of business.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.
— Catherine the Great
I realized early on, maybe better than some of my competitors did, that a textile business can run only if you have scale. I decided to horizontally and vertically integrate, adding everything from spinning, dyeing, weaving, and stitching to processing and packing.
— Mian Muhammad Mansha
Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.
— Gary Ryan Blair
Indomitable perseverance in a business, properly understood, always ensures ultimate success.
— Cyrus McCormick
No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
— Andrew Carnegie
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
— Kin Hubbard
Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.
— Mary Kay Ash
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
— Winston Churchill
In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.
— Lee Iacocca
When you run a part of the relay and pass on the baton, there is no sense of unfinished business in your mind. There is just the sense of having done your part to the best of your ability. That is it. The hope is to pass on the baton to somebody who will run faster and run a better marathon.
— N. R. Narayana Murthy
Discipline is not consistency, and the reason why I say that is - like, for an example, making prayer five times a day, that establishes routine and consistency. That I can do. And having certain fundamental consistencies in business, can do. But time management, outside of that, that's where that's a challenge.
— Ali Shaheed Muhammad
Put a love note in his shaving kit before he leaves on a business trip.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for perfection is God's business.
— Michael J. Fox
I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit.
— Jacqueline Cochran
I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.
— Jimmy Dean
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.
— Isak Dinesen
Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business.
— Sammy Sosa
'Handsome' means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business.
— Richard Chamberlain
I missed so many opportunities along the way to do what I wanted to do because I didn't have the confidence to tell myself, much less anybody else, 'Yes, this is the business I wanted to be a part of, and not feeling that I had the talent... and letting it go all the way through Notre Dame and then through two years of Navy service.
— Regis Philbin
And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare.
— Mitt Romney
For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.
— Tony Abbott
The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.
— Elon Musk
No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.
— Jim Valvano
When you are led by values, it doesn't cost your business, it helps your business.
— Jerry Greenfield
Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.
— Steve Jobs
I was afraid people wouldn't take me seriously, or would stop respecting me, if I talked about how bad I was feeling. The only people I talked openly about it with was my business partner, Dave Jilk, and my girlfriend - now wife - Amy Batchelor. They were amazingly supportive, but even then, I was deeply ashamed about my weaknesses.
— Brad Feld
If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.
— Jeff Bezos
I wear two hats. The one is business and increasing my shareholders' value the other is social responsibility.
— Guler Sabanci
In the commercial real estate business, brokers spearhead major accounts. But they wouldn't have customers without the people who oversee construction.
— Roger Staubach
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
— Benjamin Jowett
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
— Henry Ford
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
— Evan Esar
Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.
— David Ogilvy
If you have to forecast, forecast often.
— Edgar Fiedler
The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
— Jack Anderson
I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.
— Debbi Fields
We all have a life story and a message that can inspire others to live a better life or run a better business. Why not use that story and message to serve others and grow a real business doing it?
— Brendon Burchard
The basic principle which I believe has contributed more than any other to the building of our business as it is today, is the ownership of our company by the people employed in it.
— James E. Casey
Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.
— Clara Barton
I tell my employees that we're in the service business, and it's incidental that we fly airplanes.
— Herb Kelleher
No idea for a new growth business ever comes fully shaped. When it emerges, it's half-baked, and it then goes through a process of becoming fully shaped.
— Clayton M. Christensen
It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
— Harold S. Geneen
I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.
— Bill Rancic
Because my business life is so busy, my home is really my sanctuary. That is where I reflect and spend quality time with my girls.
— Rachel Roy
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
— Andy Warhol
I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.
— Tupac Shakur
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
— Benjamin Disraeli
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
— Andrew Carnegie
In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
— Jack Welch
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
— Khalil Gibran
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
— Napoleon Hill
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
— Thomas Jefferson
Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
— Walt Disney
Judges should be in the business of declaring what the law is using the traditional tools of interpretation, rather than pronouncing the law as they might wish it to be in light of their own political views.
— Neil Gorsuch
If you want to be more productive, then start at the start: get there on time. Whether it is a meeting, a flight, an appointment or a date, it's important to ensure you are there when you say you will be there. This may feel like an old-fashioned tip to give, but it has served me well for five decades in business.
— Richard Branson
I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.
— John Wooden
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
— Abraham Lincoln
We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.
— Ray Kroc
I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.
— Harvey S. Firestone
As I've progressed in my career, I've come to appreciate - and really value - the other attributes that define a company's success beyond the P&L: great leadership, long-term financial strength, ethical business practices, evolving business strategies, sound governance, powerful brands, values-based decision-making.
— Ursula Burns
Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football.
— Roger Staubach
I view real estate as the most intriguing opportunity that I've seen in my business lifetime.
— Richard Rainwater
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
— O. Henry
Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.
— Ralph Steadman
A disruptive innovation is a technologically simple innovation in the form of a product, service, or business model that takes root in a tier of the market that is unattractive to the established leaders in an industry.
— Clayton M. Christensen
If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
— Warren Buffett
To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.
— Thomas J. Watson
If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and you'll have a good life.
— Adam Carolla
Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.
— Eli Broad
Almost every economist agrees that the American health care system is unsustainable. Medical care is so expensive that it is busting all of our budgets - government, business, and personal. Eventually, the medical price bubble will pop. What, then, are the alternatives?
— Jim Cooper
Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.
— Abraham Lincoln
Business cycles naturally entail peaks and troughs in employment, and socially responsible businesses should follow successful examples like Coca-Cola, Alcoa, Saudi Aramco, Africa Rainbow Minerals, and Google in working toward mitigating joblessness and enhancing people's abilities to earn a livelihood.
— Klaus Schwab
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.
— David Ogilvy
Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.
— Horatio Nelson
Politics is show business for ugly people.
— Paul Begala
There are men - now in power in this country - who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit.
— John Lindsay
A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.
— James Cash Penney
The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
— Larry King
We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives.
— Robert Reich
This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
— Bill Gates
The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
— T. S. Eliot
If business doesn't thrive, it hurts America. We need improved relations, more collaboration, more thought and more consistency as we go about trying to make sure we have the best country in the world. Not scapegoating and finger-pointing.
— Jamie Dimon
Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we're going to win.
— Kevin O'Leary
I always knew I wanted to run a business someday.
— Michael Dell
One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.
— Richard Branson
We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.
— Jaron Lanier
Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.
— Barry Diller
The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film - whether it's history, psychology, economics, or architecture - so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn't going to help you unless you have something to say.
— George Lucas
When you expand a business as fast as McDonald's did, part of the strength you have is the process and the efficiency.
— Steve Easterbrook
When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
— Cameron Sinclair
People are the core of every business. Businesses are based on relationships, and relationships are based on people. I would go to an average restaurant run by amazing people over an outstanding restaurant run by awful people.
— Marcus Lemonis
There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
— Lee Iacocca
I've always just adored music. It's my first love, really. I admire and respect people in the music business. You really have to work hard and diligently. Sometimes actors can be lazy and get away with it, but you can't do that if you're a musician.
— Blythe Danner
I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office.
— John Boehner
Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.
— Jim Carrey
We are all in the business of sales. Teachers sell students on learning, parents sell their children on making good grades and behaving, and traditional salesmen sell their products.
— Dave Ramsey
Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
— George Washington
The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.
— Bill Gates
I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
— Bette Davis
Employers have recognized for some time that it's smart business to have a diverse workforce - one in which many views are represented and everyone's talents are valued. Well, disability is part of diversity.
— Thomas Perez
When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals.
— Gary Vaynerchuk
In this business, you gotta hustle.
— Tiny Tim
I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.
— Hillary Clinton
I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.
— Elon Musk
It's the job of any business owner to be clear about the company's nonnegotiable core values. They're the riverbanks that help guide us as we refine and improve on performance and excellence. A lack of riverbanks creates estuaries and cloudy waters that are confusing to navigate. I want a crystal-clear, swiftly flowing stream.
— Danny Meyer
A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.
— Jack Welch
I believe that the Laws of Karma do not apply to show business, where good things happen to bad people on a fairly regular basis.
— Chuck Lorre
We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is closed to terrorists and drug pushers and smugglers and others who seek to break the law.
— Paul Cellucci
But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.
— Steve Jobs
I've helped some of my classmates on how to strategize to get to the next level of their businesses. And it's interesting, because here I am sitting there from the entertainment industry and the fashion industry, and I'm giving a billionaire that has a business that's been in his family for 300 years - I'm giving him advice about strategy!
— Tyra Banks
Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.
— Hunter S. Thompson
When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.
— William Wordsworth
If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
— Lord Byron
I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
— Henry Ford
If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.
— Lee Kuan Yew
If you're a single man and you happen to be in this business, you're deemed a player. But I don't see myself as a ladies' man.
— Bradley Cooper
Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver.
— Jonathan Sacks
It's not hard to get your way when it's your way or the highway. People either follow suit or they're not around. I don't really like the sound of that, 'cause that sounds like a temper tantrum. I'm just very black and white when it comes to my business. There's really no gray area.
— Nicki Minaj
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
— Ambrose Bierce
For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
— Charles Baudelaire
Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.
— Colin Powell
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
— Don Marquis
When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
— Harold S. Geneen
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
— Henry Ford
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
— Henry R. Luce
It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.
— Isaac Asimov
The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
— J. Paul Getty
I buy when other people are selling.
— J. Paul Getty
When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.
— James H. Boren
People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.
— Mary Kay Ash
Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.
— Peter Drucker
We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.
— Steve Ballmer
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
— Thomas Carlyle
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
— Tim Berners-Lee
It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
— Tom Brokaw
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
— W. Clement Stone
Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.
— Tom Peters
You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.
— Elon Musk
One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it's making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it's the people who already have strong trust relationships with you, who know you're dedicated, smart, a team player, who can help you.
— Reid Hoffman
I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.
— Mark Zuckerberg
There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.
— Phil Knight
Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people.
— Freeman Dyson
The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.
— Chris Chocola
As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.
— Morgan Freeman
Our nation stands at the crossroads of liberty. Crushing national debt, rampant illegal immigration, insane business regulations and staggering national unemployment are pushing our nation into unchartered territory.
— James Lankford
Today, companies have to radically revolutionize themselves every few years just to stay relevant. That's because technology and the Internet have transformed the business landscape forever. The fast-paced digital age has accelerated the need for companies to become agile.
— Nolan Bushnell
I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone's got their own definition. Mine, I suppose, is to know myself.
— Eric Clapton
Coca-Cola is the only business in the world where no matter which country or town or village you are in, if someone asks what do you do, and you say you work for Coca-Cola, you never have to answer the question, 'What is that?'
— Muhtar Kent
It's not the things you don't know that trip you up. It's the things you think you know, but you don't. You fail to ask a certain question because you believe you know the answer. Separating your information from your assumptions can be very tricky business.
— Claudia Gray
Negotiating isn't about getting what you want or giving in to what the other party wants. It's not an 'either/or situation.' It's about having both parties walk away satisfied. Over the years in both business and life, I've had to learn this hard lesson.
— John Rampton
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
— John Steinbeck
There are no right and wrong ways to work in this business, but there are some basic common-sense practices. Work very, very hard and always be prepared; never give up; and once you get the job, give them more than they ever expected: - Shine!
— Jimmy Smits
A shady business never yields a sunny life.
— B. C. Forbes
It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich.
— Robin Leach
People are in such a hurry to launch their product or business that they seldom look at marketing from a bird's eye view and they don't create a systematic plan.
— Dave Ramsey
The more moral the people are in their business dealings, the less paperwork you need, the more handshakes you can have, the more the wheels of capitalism work better because there's trust in the marketplace. Business ethics is not a joke. And, in fact, I think most businesses that I've dealt with encourage exactly that type of behavior.
— Rick Santorum
I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.
— Hunter S. Thompson
I spend a lot of time thinking about this business of letting go - letting go of the children God gives to us for such a brief time before they go off on their own; letting go of old homes, old friends, old places and old dreams.
— Susan Estrich
There isn't an amount of money you could offer me to do reality TV. I would rather get my job back on the building site. Or I could own a construction business. Maybe I could retire to my house in Long Island and take up painting, like Captain Beefheart. A crazy recluse: I like that idea.
— Dave Gahan
Good design is good business.
— Thomas J. Watson
In 1979 I teamed up with my friend and business partner, Bill DeWitt, and together we formed an oil and gas company that invested through limited partnerships in oil and gas exploration.
— Mercer Reynolds
I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, 'You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit.' As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.
— Mitch Hedberg
Unless you can fake sincerity, you'll get nowhere in this business.
— Roger Stone
If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because no one can guarantee that we'll have them tomorrow.
— Kathy Ireland
In the luxury business, you have to build on heritage.
— Bernard Arnault
To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.
— Confucius
The concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has long been used as an effective lens through which to examine the actions business can take toward ensuring mutual long-term well-being and sustainability.
— Klaus Schwab
Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.
— Richard Branson
In business, when you can meet an unmet need that is this primal, even meeting it in a superficial way can create a multi-billion-dollar business - e.g., the chat rooms in AOL when it first came out, or the lounges in Starbucks, or the billion people who are on Facebook - even though these are hardly the most intimate of life experiences.
— Dean Ornish
I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.
— Richard M. Nixon
Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.
— Thomas J. Watson