Top 80 Ask For The Business Quotes
#1. Jess, I've got no business judging anyone. But I can offer you some advice if you don't mind.
"Sure." Though my palms start to sweat anticipating what he might say.
"Never ask someone to tell you who you are. You tell them.
Erin McCarthy
#2. Now, there is no business like show business, and there is no publicity like word of mouth. What is word of mouth, you may ask? Well, word of mouth is gold to Hollywood bigwigs, and it equates to box office bonanzas and hit TV shows.
Kristoffer Polaha
#3. God was in the business of bringing blessings out of unexpected circumstances, but Lucy didn't want this twist to her life. ... but didn't God ask the seemingly impossible at times?
Colleen Coble
#4. You may have had someone ask you, "What can I do for you?" Instead of postponing the offer by responding with "I'll let you know," seize the opportunity with a specific response. What's even better is when your answer benefits the both of you.
Lisa A. Mininni
#5. All of my friends in the business ask, 'Why is this woman not a star? Why is she not a household name?'
Annie Golden
#6. I can not, therefore, see how this can be imputed as a crime, or how any of the king's ministers can be blamed for his doing what the public has no concern in; for if the public be well and faithfully served it has no business to ask by whom.
Robert Walpole
#7. As a young analyst just out of Stanford business school in the 1960s, I got to really understand what growth was about. Back then, you had to ask a customer to pay some money. That was the most important thing in getting a company off the ground.
Charles Schwab
#8. To develop judgment, you need to not only read theory but also apply it, and discussion-based or case-based teaching is a way to simulate business situations and have students ask themselves, "What would I do if I were in this specific situation?
Espen Anderson
#9. Are you considering the other person you're calling when you call? Do you ask if it is a good time? If not, why not?
Loren Weisman
#10. If you ask what keeps me up at night, it's the pressure in the system forcing us to do all sorts of things. Content, data and technology are forcing us to think about business in a very different way.
Martin Sorrell
#11. Clients don't want us to do what they ask, they want us to go further
Kevin McLean
#12. Benedict Cumberbatch is not only the best name in show business, it's also the response you get when you ask John Travolta to pronounce Ben Affleck.
Neil Patrick Harris
#13. If you're an over thinker or try to anticipate every barrier-before beginning, ask yourself, if I had to accomplish this project in three steps or less, what would they be?
Lisa A. Mininni
#14. One might ask why big business data is still so often used on faith, even after it has failed spectacularly. The answer is of course that big business data happens to facilitate superquick and vast near-term accumulations of wealth and influence.
Jaron Lanier
#15. Anyone who has been in business can tell war stories about the bumps in the road. But if they've outlasted the competition, ask for their stories about survival. They've figured out how to turn disappointments into opportunities.
Harvey MacKay
#16. When most people ask about a business growing, what they really mean is growing revenue, not just growing the number of people using a service. Traditional businesses would view people using your service that you don't make money from as a cost.
Mark Zuckerberg
#17. I've been talking to certain wrestlers on the phone lately, and certain female wrestlers that were huge stars ten years ago, and the first thing I ask them is 'do you still want to work?' Do they want to talk, or do they want to wrestle or do something else in the business?
Hulk Hogan
#18. I've always declined to speak about things I don't think are anybody's business, and what I always get from the interviewers is, 'Well, you know, we have to ask those things.' I say, 'Well, maybe you do, but I don't have to answer them.'
Annie Potts
#19. If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.
Sheryl Sandberg
#20. The next time a prostitute solicits your business, ask for the clergyman's rate.
George Carlin
#21. But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose.
Mark Cuban
#22. When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make money. That's the first act of corporate citizenship. If you do that, you'll have to hire someone else, and you'll have enough profit to help one of those non-profits we're so proud of.'
Mitch Daniels
#23. To those men and women in business, remember the ultimate end of your work: to make a better product, to create better lives. I ask you to plan for the longer term and avoid that temptation of quick and easy paper profits.
George H. W. Bush
#24. I'm not in the movie business anymore, and hardly any 70 year olds are. I always ask the producers: 'Are there no 70-year old vampires?' Apparently there are not - or even zombies for that matter. I guess they all get eaten.
Brian Dennehy
#25. We mean business, George Bush, ... and we're going to go to Congress and we're going to ask them, 'How many more of other people's children are you willing to sacrifice for the lies' And we're going to say, Shame on you. Shame on you for giving him the authority to invade Iraq.
Cindy Sheehan
#26. You don't want to ask after the health of anyone, if you're a funeral director. They think maybe you're scouting for business.
Neil Gaiman
#27. We were not given any statistics as to how many records were pressed on the blue label. I used to ask Bob Shad how we were going to get paid from record sales and what I got for an answer was not to worry about the business end of the deal.
Phil Harris
#28. Let us ask the Lord for the grace to take these things seriously. He came to fight for our salvation. He won against the devil! Please, let us not do business with the devil! He seeks to return home, to take possession of us Do not relativize; be vigilant! And always with Jesus!
Pope Francis
#29. We should be in the business of protecting cherished institutions and our cultural heritage, otherwise what, I ask, is a Conservative party for? Indeed we are alienating people who have voted for us for all their lives, leaving them with no one to vote for.
Edward Leigh
#30. After adding trillions to the debt on big-government policies most Americans didn't ask for and which we couldn't afford, Democratic leaders say they need more money, which they intend to take from small business, even though small businesses create the majority of new jobs.
Mitch McConnell
#31. What is the environmental policy of the Republican Party? When I ask that question, I get a blank stare, if I'm president of the United States, we're going to address climate change and CO2 emissions in a business-friendly way.
Lindsey Graham
#32. There are those who think that the private lives of candidates are none of our business. But when those candidates ask us for our attention as they explain their plans for how they will represent us, no one should be surprised at our interest in how they represent themselves.
Marlo Thomas
#33. We're still family-owned, which keeps life a whole lot simpler. When my wife and kids and I decide to make a business move, we don't have to ask Wall Street about it.
David Green
#34. I couldn't bring myself to ask Matka why they had taken him. She pretended that he'd gone away on business. I pretended I knew nothing. My brother and sister believed the lie. There were so many lies that we had to live with ... and secrets.
F.C. Malby
#35. But when friends would ask Kathy whether they, too, should start their own business, she talked them out of it. You don't run the business, she would say. The business runs you.
Dave Eggers
#36. You need to ask yourself " How much do you want" before you start your online business.
Satyendra Pandey
#37. The greatest irony is that people with Rolodexes are no longer LinkedIn. And if that pun doesn't make sense, don't ask anyone in your Rolodex to explain it.
Ryan Lilly
#38. I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.
Tiger Woods
#39. I don't know where we should take this company, but I do know that if I start with the right people, ask them the right questions, and engage them in vigorous debate, we will find a way to make this company great.
James C. Collins
#40. Learn as much as you can about your proposed business. Ask questions. Join industry associations. Study successful competitors carefully.
Paul Clitheroe
#41. Ask yourself, are you an artist, or are you an art business? You can be both, but to be successful you need to think and act like a business owner.
Dave Conrey
#42. There is no such thing as a 'free' government benefit. Ask small-business owners who are footing skyrocketing bills for bottomless jobless benefits.
Michelle Malkin
#43. I love when I am around a veteran in [show] business. Because I can dig and ask questions, and find out the "who" and "what" of it all.
Jill Scott
#44. If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do. Lucille Ball
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Lucille Ball
#45. Ask open ended questions. Pull out the pain and the hurt your prospect is experiencing.
Timi Nadela
#46. I have had the privilege of working with the best in the business, from photographers to designers to magazines. There's not much more to ask for but I'm still looking forward to one day working with photographers Mert and Marcus, Tim Walker and Nick Knight.
Chanel Iman
#48. Focus is not a 'business only' thing. Each person has only twenty-four hours per day, and how we spend those hours shows what's important in our lives. The question we must ask ourselves is ... Are we focusing on what really matters?
Mac Anderson
#50. If you don't ask, you'll never know. Be an educated risk taker.
Aliza Licht
#51. No, Mr. Swift's mind doesn't work that way, any more than my father's does. They're men of business. Predators. If Mr. Swift wanted me, he wouldn't stop to ask for my permission any more than a lion would stop and politely ask an antelope if he would mind being eaten for lunch.
Lisa Kleypas
#52. I was a writer for 'New York' magazine. I had been to business school, but what did I know? Still, everybody from the receptionists on up to the editor would ask me what they should do with their money.
Andrew Tobias
#53. As a business leader you have to ask yourself, "Am I creating a consumer environment that is conducive to loyalty?" If the answer is no, FIX IT!
Steve Maraboli
#54. They were all too tightly bound together, men and women, creatures wild and tame, flowers, fruits and leaves, to ask that any one be spared. As long as the whole continued, the earth could go about its business.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#55. Ask ourselves: How can we serve, nurture and sustain the planet and its people in our business ventures?
Horst Rechelbacher
#56. Really good customer service will deliver sales. You are training salesmen to give the best possible advice and then to achieve the sale. People actually like you to ask for a sale because it shows you value their business.
John Caudwell
#57. Women are often meeker in meetings and afraid to ask for raises and promotions. I've told countless female colleagues to stop apologizing when they ask for more. It's not personal, it's business.
Katharine Weymouth
#58. Look for patterns, and then ask why those patterns exist.
Debra Kaye
#59. I spent most of my career in business not saying the word 'woman.' Because if you say the word 'woman' in a business context, and often in a political context, the person on the other side of the table thinks you're about to sue them or ask for special treatment, right?
Sheryl Sandberg
#60. Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.
Mark Pincus
#61. thousand CEOs, business owners, and highly successful entrepreneurs about their businesses and how they lead companies through good times and bad. One of the most important questions I ask them is "What's the biggest worry keeping you awake at night?
Jason Jennings
#62. So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
Calista Flockhart
#63. In the early stages of negotiation software, on your smartphone, there may be programs that listen to the pitch of a voice, or that test for stress. You'll just ask the program, 'Was he lying? Was he eager to do business with me?' Maybe the computer will be right sixty per cent of the time.
Tyler Cowen
#64. You don't have to be a Christian to work at Chick-fil-A, but we ask you to base your business on biblical principles because they work.
S. Truett Cathy
#65. I asked questions when I was a stripling, and it is not my business to ask questions now, but to teach people what I have discovered.
Apollonius Of Tyana
#66. Make it a habit to ask for business referrals. There's nothing pushy about it. People won't give you referrals unless you deserve them.
Timi Nadela
#67. People often ask if I pay my speakers to speak. No I don't. If you are able to explain the benefits of the virtual summit to the speaker (which we address in chapter 5) then it will be easy for you to get the caliber of speakers you want.
Osayi Emokpae Lasisi
#68. I feel fine, I don't care who the director is. All you have to do is know what your doing - all of us - everybody in the business - that's all you ask anyone - you know your job, I know mine, let's go do it.
Morgan Freeman
#69. Customers expect salespeople to stimulate the sales process, to ask the right questions and finally to ask for their business. When this initiative or confidence is lacking, no matter how much they like you personally, they aren't going to respect or value you as a business partner.
Ann-Marie Heidingsfelder
#70. I put up with the music business because I understand that I'm in the tradition, I'm in a tradition that's of far greater importance than the business I seem to be in. Everywhere I go in the world, people ask me about the business that I seem to be in, but I'm not really in that business.
Billy Corgan
#71. Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#72. The first step to success in any business is to ask your customers what they want.
Kevin Stirtz
#73. Ask for the sale when the mood is right. The worst possible place is in the prospects' office. Best place is a business breakfast, lunch or dinner. Next best is your office. Next best is a trade show. Ask early, and ask often.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#74. In Khazak culture, historically, if any traveller comes riding from a long way, there is an obligation to take him into your home. For the first three days, the host doesn't even have the right to ask his name, his destination or his business.
Tim Cope
#75. Before I begin, may I ask how old you are?"
"You may ask."
"How old are you?"
"It's none of your business
Christopher Pike
#76. I'm just trying to survive and stay relevant! That's all anyone in the music business can ask for.
Christopher Tin
#77. My batting average has been good, so people ask how much luck is involved. I tell them when I work 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, I get lucky.
Armand Hammer
#78. There was one path across Boston Commons that a young man must not ask a young woman to take unless he meant business. Which path was that? she asked Holmes. "Ah," she remembered the elderly doctor saying, "if I were only fifty years younger I would show you.
Katherine Paterson
#79. The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work.
Ayn Rand
#80. When looking at trends I always ask myself basic and timeless questions about business, and the one I seem to always come back to is, 'How is this different than anything else in the marketplace?'
Daymond John