Top 100 Better Business Quotes
#1. Research conducted throughout the world shows gender balance in top positions contributes to improved competitiveness and better business performance.
Beth Brooke
#2. I think that saving a little child And bringing him to his own, Is a derned sight better business Than loafing around the throne.
John Hay
#4. Understanding how to be a good investor makes you a better business manager and vice versa.
Charlie Munger
#5. Slower, it turns out, often means better - better health, better work, better business, better family life, better exercise, better cuisine and better sex.
Carl Honore
#6. Find your hidden talents, your hidden potentials, your hidden purposes and convert them into a better business for the benefit of the entire world.
Israelmore Ayivor
#7. I learned hard lessons, and I've taken that lesson and it's helped me become a better business person and a better leader.
Rick Scott
#8. Most of us can cook a better hamburger than McDonald's, but few of us can build a better business system than McDonald's.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#9. Communication, collaboration, and creativity are the keys to run IT as a better business partner.
Pearl Zhu
#10. We're probably doing better business than we thought we would do especially considering the disappointing way the record company has handled the album.
Rick Allen
#11. 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
#12. A better model of leadership means more effective leadership and better business results.
Bob Anderson
#13. Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.
Warren Buffett
#14. Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world
Ann Patchett
#15. You have 30 to 50 times better chances of creating a successful business than at succeeding as a short-term trader.
Robert Rolih
#16. It's a very difficult business, and I'm very interested in the future of it after I'm gone, and I thought that if I can't produce a strong management team here myself, and I can find better management elsewhere, then I should sell it.
Harry Triguboff
#17. I have a problem with the term social entrepreneurship because people say only business helps to make the world a better place.
Sabriye Tenberken
#18. Twenty years in this business convinces me that any normal person using the customary three percent of the brain can pick stocks just as well, if not better, than the average Wall Street expert.
Peter Lynch
#19. Here in the UK the government has decided to accept the recommendations of the Better Regulation Task Force to measure and make targeted reductions in the administrative costs - the red tape costs - that regulations impose on business.
John Hutton
#20. The mental game of business is understanding this Paradox: the better you think you are doing, the greater should be your cause for concern: the more self-satisfied you are with your accomplishments, your past achievements, your 'right moves', the less you should be.
Mark McCormack
#21. I believe that today's businesses - regardless of their size - must be prepared to do good in societies around the globe. I am cautiously optimistic that we can make the world a far better, safer and more equitable place - but business and enterprise must sit at the heart of this process.
Richard Branson
#22. A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost. She should go far. The sooner she starts, the better. The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind.
Joseph Stilwell
#23. This business is all about being seen, and the more people see you the better.
Debra Wilson
#24. Business runs hot and cold so the more you're in charge of your own destiny, the better off you are.
Bill Burr
#25. I should say in general the advantage of education is to better fit a man for life's work. I would advise young men to take a college course, as a rule, but think some are just as well off with a thorough business training.
John D. Rockefeller
#26. The future-driven IT organizations step out of the traditional IT box, to understand the business and customers better via longer time frame.
Pearl Zhu
#27. Good people have always been at the heart of the Virgin business, and that's largely because we have tried to keep our business small, and our management teams tight-knit. I feel that small, compact companies, are better run. That is partly because people feel more connected in small companies.
Richard Branson
#28. There is always something better to do with your time and business. Always look for the next step for growth in your career.
Ehab Atalla
#29. There is a real diversity of talent and background on the A list so as to better reflect our society in all walks. There are people who have been candidates before, Councillors, Doctors, business leaders, charity campaigners.
Adam Rickitt
#30. There are people who believe once somebody gets you a job in show business you are set and the truth is you have to fight for every job. People opened the doors for me for sure and hopefully I've helped open the door for some people but when you're there it's on you and you better be ready for it.
Tom Arnold
#31. Doing the things we do now and doing them better, cheaper and faster will take us far. But it will not take us far enough. We're going to have to do new things in new ways.
Peter Bonfield
#32. No one knew better than Stepan Arkadyevitch how to hit on the exact line between freedom, simplicity, and official stiffness necessary for the agreeable conduct of business.
Leo Tolstoy
#33. I believe our philosophy of conscious capitalism will eventually be widely adopted primarily because it is a better way to do business, and it creates more total value in the world for all of its stakeholders.
John Mackey
#34. The vast majority, who believe in astrology and think that the planets have nothing better to do than form a code that will tell them whether tomorrow is a good day to close a business deal or not, become all the more excited and enthusiastic.
Isaac Asimov
#35. You look ho-ot. Sure you don't wanna drop this vampire business and join the Pack? We've got better ... insurance.
Chloe Neill
#36. What is a business? It's simply an idea that makes someone else's life better
Richard Branson
#37. Most people yearn to contribute, make the world a better place and have success ... all at the same time ... Make sure to give your business a background, a mission and a story. That might be the most important step part of any venture. And remember, giving may be the best investment you ever make.
Blake Mycoskie
#38. A small profit it better than a big loss
Ron Rash
#39. When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government.
Jacob K. Javits
#40. Reporters now are better educated than the crowd I knew when I broke in. We still had guys shaped by Prohibition and the Depression, so the news business still had badly paid people who loved it for the life, because every day was different.
Pete Hamill
#41. If you were a corporation needing financial services, and I can give you something better, faster, and cheaper across 12 products as opposed to eight, that's business. I'm doing it because I'm serving you; I'm not doing it because I want to be universal.
Jamie Dimon
#42. But it doesn't have to be this way. We can do things better. We need to stop doing business as usual and start focusing on end-to-end quality. Security needs to be built in from the start - not slapped on after the fact.
Gene Spafford
#43. Any man who goes into anything in life and does it better than the average will have a successful life. If he does it worse than the average, his life will not be successful. And no business can exist in which success cannot be won on that basis.
Charles M. Schwab
#44. I care more about the people than about the company. That's why I don't want to own it. I don't want to run a business. People do it better than I do.
Karl Lagerfeld
#45. I love film and I love the film business. And I don't think there's any better way, with my personality, than being a producer which is a little bit of a control freak.
Graham King
#46. If someone asks me what cloud computing is, I try not to get bogged down with definitions. I tell them that, simply put, cloud computing is a better way to run your business.
Marc Benioff
#47. Gambling is not as destructive as war or as boring as pornography. It is not as immoral as business or as suicidal as watching television. And the percentages are better than religion.
Mario Puzo
#48. We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served - as shareholders and in all other ways - by a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains. This is an important aspect of our culture and is broadly shared within the company.
Larry Page
#49. Don't be cocky. Don't be flashy. There's always someone better than you.
Tony Hsieh
#50. While 2015 was challenging, we implemented many strategic and operational initiatives to improve our business and better position J.Crew for the future.
Mickey Drexler
#51. There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster.
Jerry Della Femina
#52. Don't worry; skills are cheap, passion is priceless. If you're passionate about your content and you know it and do it better than anyone else, even with few formal business skills you have the potential to create a million-dollar business.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#53. You can never get to a place of comfort in this business. As soon as you hit that little cushy spot, somebody's gonna kick you out. So I have a constant need to do it better.
Charlize Theron
#54. The role of business is to provide products and services that make people's lives better - while using fewer resources - and to act lawfully and with integrity.
Charles Koch
#55. Always hire people who are better than you. Hiring dummies is shortsighted. You can't move up the ladder until everyone is comfortable with your replacement.
Lois Wyse
#56. Inherently, Larry & Serge aren't paper-oriented - they're product oriented. If they have another 10 minutes, they want to make something better. They don't want to take 10 minutes to tell you something they did.
- Terry Winograd
Steven Levy
#57. I think if you checked the attendance records of all the announcers, you'd find a lot better record than you would of anybody else in any other business because we love the game and have a passion for it.
Ernie Harwell
#58. There is a lot of lip service paid in this Congress and downtown at the White House about family values and small business. Who better represents family values and small business than the fishermen and women on the Oregon and California coast.
Peter DeFazio
#59. I think Mr. Obama is a disaster for business and a disaster for the United States. Not that Mr. Romney would be much better, but the Republicans understand the problem of excessive debt better than Mr. Obama, who basically doesn't care about piling up debt.
Marc Faber
#60. It is far better to have 10,000 Facebook friends who are in the same category or aligned with your values or a common inter- est than 100,000 random robot followers from around the world.
Brian E. Boyd Sr.
#61. You see, captain, here is the truth of the business: some persons are better, others are less. But it may be nice for you to think otherwise.
Salman Rushdie
#62. Business success depends on good business leadership, and that means hiring and partnering with only the people your business really needs. These are the smart, hardworking people who know your industry as well as, or even better than, you.
Kevin J. Donaldson
#63. The thorniest business problems will surface at the board meetings, and the different, sharp opinions help to better explore the poles of the arguments to make better decisions.
Scott Weiss
#64. I have never had anything that I can remember in the business - and that includes all the movies and the stage shows and everything - that I didn't enjoy. I didn't like some of the small-time vaudeville, because we weren't going on and getting better. Aside from that, I didn't dislike anything.
Fred Astaire
#65. There was a proposal in California that would keep out Wal-Mart but allow Costco. You opposed it. Are you nuts? That's true: I always oppose these kinds of things. Competition makes us better. Some of our best stores have a Sam's Club next door.
James Sinegal
#66. People who work in an environment where doing their best is recognized have a better chance of feeling good about their work.
Marilyn Suttle
#67. We need to think harder and smarter. What we really need is holistic analysis, not holistic media data. We need to make better use of what we have. We need to dig deeper and ask, 'Do you need to repeat the whole study or can you examine the bits that have changed and re-calibrate?'
Jenny Beck
#68. More you know, better advice you give. Less you know, more advice you give.
Gerry Geek
#69. I realized that it's my own fault that people take advantage of me. I should be around people who cherish my talents, my health, my time. I'm not a pawn for anyone's future business. I'm an artist. I deserve better than to be loyal to people who only believe in me because I make money.
Lady Gaga
#70. Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what is necessary and indeed what is useful, but what is honorable is better. On such principles children and persons of every age which requires education should be trained.
Aristotle.
#71. That is why I strongly believe we should working in Congress to make America a better place to run a business by reducing the costly burdens of bureaucracy and red tape.
Michael K. Simpson
#72. I believe I'm a better writer now than I was when I started. I'm grateful that I had good guidance because you don't make it in this business without good editors and a lot of support from your publishers.
Sharon Draper
#73. America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.
Barack Obama
#74. We should be doing more business with China. We should be better connected to the Chinese economy.
George Osborne
#75. Do your homework and know your business better than anyone. Otherwise, someone who knows more and works harder will kick your ass.
Mark Cuban
#76. My dad was in the restaurant business, but I didn't really think about following him. Had I done better at school, I don't know if I would have been a chef.
David Chang
#77. The music business is rougher than the movie business. In film you get noticed in a small role, even in a movie that bombs. But in records you better have that hit or else it's 'See you later.'
Amy Madigan
#78. When I started in this business, everybody said the Democrats were the better communicators because they sounded like social workers, and Republicans were awful because they sounded like morticians. In some cases. they actually dressed like morticians.
Frank Luntz
#79. By making offers Modular, the business can create and improve each offer in isolation, then mix and match offers as necessary to better serve their customers. It's like playing with LEGOS: once you have a set of pieces to work with, you can put them together in all sorts of interesting ways.
Josh Kaufman
#80. For me the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality (whatever that is) on film ... if, later, the reality means something to someone else, so much the better.
Garry Winogrand
#81. I have got to say, I'm a businessman, I work in business, worked with some very large corporations around the world, and I have never seen a better operating machine than what the New South Wales right machine is.
Warren Mundine
#82. A government cannot be wrong in punishing fraud or force, but it is almost certain to be wrong if, abandoning its legitimate function, it tells private individuals that it knows their business better than they know it themselves.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#83. There isn't a plant or a business on earth that couldn't stand a few improvements-and be better for them. Someone is going to think of them. Why not beat the other fellow to it?
Roger Babson
#84. Starting a business is a huge amount of hard work ... You had better enjoy it.
Richard Branson
#85. Those who deal with customers on a regular basis should be circumspect whenever they open their "traps." It is better not to say anything at all than to say, and later, pay!
J. N. HALM
#86. The American Dream is ownership ... a house, a car, a vacation home and, even better, your own business
Mario Batali
#87. I can say that hands down from being in this business 32 years; we're going to be much better than we were last year just because there's eight new players that now have experience and Palacios will be healthy.
Rick Pitino
#88. When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.
Daniel Day-Lewis
#89. Your customers are only satisfied because their expectations are so low and because no one else is doing better. Just having satisfied customers isn't good enough anymore. If you really want a booming business, you have to create Raving Fans.
Ken Blanchard
#90. I was raised in a beautiful Black two-parent family that has given me amazing morals to go out to make a better life for myself and others. That is who I truly am. And this show allows me to display the true essence of who I am and why I'm in this business.
Eva Marcille
#91. I can honestly say that I have never gone into any business purely to make money. If that is the sole motive then I believe you are better off not doing it. A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
Richard Branson
#92. Too many abused beers have suffered in the name of networking. Let us find a better way to mix torture and business.
Jarod Kintz
#93. [On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I'd choose to believe in God - He's been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
#94. Studying design has made me a much, much more astute observer of this aspect of business. And I'm working mightily to improve my empathic skills. I've dramatically improved my ability to read facial expressions - and I'm trying to be a better, more attentive listener.
Daniel H. Pink
#95. Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.
Ed Rendell
#96. 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
#97. I think you have to humble yourself before the process of starting and running a business. Only the incredibly fortunate achieve their success quickly. Most people, it takes many many years of incredible hard work, and many periods of severe poverty, and it kind of makes it all the better.
Patrick Grant
#98. If I was in a situation where it wasn't working and I had a choice with another man, I'm gonna assess it like a business deal: who is the better person for me?
Patti Stanger
#99. You don't need to cure the lepers to be a faith healer. We're all of us in my business doing the same work, because what is faith but another story that you tell yourself to feel better?
John Joseph Adams
#100. Don't let nobody take care of your business better than you.
James Brown
