Asia Business Quotes

#1. I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.

Ella Fitzgerald

#2. You are the light of the world. Shine brightly. Smile beautifully! Rejoice daily!

Brenda M. McGraw

#3. I told Quynn that I'm in love with you."
Her face gets real red. That damn cute red that drives me crazy. "Um, why would you do that?"
I shake my head, smiling at her. "Cause its the truth, you dork.

Becca Ann

#4. What business could be mature when you have economies with more than 2 billion people in India, China and Southeast Asia?

Jack Welch

#5. You can't rest on yesterday's growth. You must be dedicated to growing today ... and every day.

Jim George

#6. How can you have a dead service with a living Christ?

Leonard Ravenhill

#7. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out. They don't want to and they don't have the means to sustain it. That's where my heart is and that's what I think about all the time.

Ice Cube

#8. Being a competitor, you always believe you can come back. I'll be up at 3 in the morning watching World Cup races in my hotel whether I'm in Asia on a business trip or in New York City and have to get up in 2 hours.

Apolo Ohno

#9. Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.

H. Rap Brown

#10. Asia can learn much from Europe. Trade could be made easier in Asia, and the conditions for doing business could be improved by reducing red tape. In this regard, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea have done better than the best in Europe.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

#11. Never Underestimate. Just as in any other negotiation, watching before acting is as important as listening before speaking. It's doubly important in China, however, where customs are time-honored and breaches of protocol not so quickly forgiven.

Irl M. Davis

#12. In the midst of the happiness they brought there was always a lurking shadow. The shadow of incompatibility; of the impossibility of being at once bound and free. The garden breeds a longing for the wild; the wild a homesickness for the garden.

Dorothy Richardson

#13. I've never cancelled any public appearance, simply because that's what my life is; it's doing my work, and I never want to stop doing my work unless it becomes impossible for me to do it.

Nile Rodgers

#14. The only time I get headaches is when my alarm clock makes me wake up before noon. Now that's my version of morning sickness.

Joyce Rachelle

#15. Writers to some extent are childish, and it's at the childish level that one really engages with any experience. What really moves you is at the very personal, childish level of the imagination. My business is the imagination, and my imagination is engaged by Asia.

Christopher Koch

#16. Any interpretation of scripture that bred hatred or disdain for others was illegitimate,

Karen Armstrong

#17. I think one of the worst things that happened to me was, you know, my voluntary fallout with my father. And then the greatest thing that happened to me was when I saw the light, and realized I needed to love him in a way that he could love me back.

Steven Spielberg

#18. My career in the movie business began in Hong Kong, my heart has always been tied to Asia, and it is immensely gratifying to see international recognition for Asian cinema as a whole.

Michelle Yeoh

#19. Capital requires the separation of the worker from the means of production and subsistence

Peter Linebaugh

#20. If you look at some of the smaller capital markets in Asia, when they want funding, they either come here to Hong Kong or they go to California, the mecca of the Internet, because they can capture the liquidity and then move on and do what they want to do, which is develop a business.

Richard Li

#21. Introducing non-copy-protected software into this kind of an environment may be the single most boneheaded thing that American business has ever done in its long history of stepping on rakes in Asia.

Neal Stephenson

#22. My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.

Karl Kraus

#23. I don't think there is a sound UK bank now, at least, if there is one I don't know about it. The City of London is finished, the financial centre of the world is moving east. All the money is in Asia. Why would it go back to the West? You don't need London.

Jim Rogers

#24. Too much of British business and industry feels similarly secure in the warm embrace of the European single market and is failing to recognise that today's great export opportunities lie in the developing world, particularly in Asia.

Nigel Lawson