Top 43 Business Is A Game Quotes
#1. Business is a game, and as with all games, the team that puts the best people on the field and gets them playing together wins. It's that simple.
Jack Welch
#2. Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.
Sidney Sheldon
#3. Poker is a game where you don't have to have the best hand to win. Poker is really reading other people and reading human emotion, which certainly comes into play in business.
Charlie Ergen
#4. It's important to build a personal brand because it's the only thing you're going to have. Your reputation online, and in the new business world is pretty much the game, so you've got to be a good person. You can't hide anything, and more importantly, you've got to be out there at some level.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#5. If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
Fran Tarkenton
#6. The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid, the mentally lazy, the person of inferior emotional balance, or the get-rich-quick adventurer. They will die poor.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#7. Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.
Willie Mays
#8. It's not only the myths surrounding chess. Chess itself is a myth, you know? A game of hierarchy, of war. It's a story that people have been using to explain complex concepts for eons. Mathematics, yes. Geometry. Business. Philosophy. Even love.
Skye Warren
#10. Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
Walter Kirn
#11. Your mission is to find a product or service that can positively impact the lives of 1 billion people because that's the game we're playing today.
Peter Diamandis
#12. Free-to-play isn't a business model. Free-to-play is a marketing strategy. It's a way to get people over the hump of trying out your game. It gets rid of the friction that happens when you charge an upfront fee.
Mitch Lasky
#13. It wasn't about who had dibs now or who was sitting next to whom in the cinema. The game had changed; or rather, it wasn't a game at all anymore. It was a matter of making it through the night, which is often harder than it sounds, and always a very individual business.
Amor Towles
#14. Once the day's work starts there is little chance to walk, to ride or to take part in a game. Taking walks or rides early in the morning is a lonesome business, and the inevitable Secret Service guard when the president leaves the White House grounds is not enlivening company.
Herbert Hoover
#15. In a game there are winners and losers. But a business deal is always advantageous for both parties. If both the buyer and the seller were not to consider the transaction as the most advantageous action they could choose under the prevailing conditions, they would not enter into the deal.
Ludwig Von Mises
#16. Imitating recent successes is a game that everybody knows how to play. But seeing the next big thing before anybody else sees it is far more valuable... It means being a little bit wrong at just the right time.
Derek Thompson
#17. Even though professional soccer has become more about business and less about the game itself, I still believe football is a party for the legs that play it and for the eyes that watch it.
Eduardo Galeano
#18. You know what I'm talking about. This business has changed. Flyers aren't pilots anymore, they're engineers. This is a college man's game. Our work is done. The pioneering is over.
Frank Wead
#19. To high-drive labs and boarder collies, fetch is often more than just a game; it's their job, a dead serious business.
Nick Jans
#20. You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.
Warren Buffett
#21. Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.
Venus Williams
#22. Chess is a game that benefits people of all ages, especially kids, in any area of life, business, problem solving, and social skills. Chess has the unique ability to combine focus, concentration, imagination, coordination, teamwork, and leadership all at the same time.
Dustin Diamond
#23. I wish someone had put a golf club in my hands, not skates on my feet. It is a really great game for business. It's a great game for making connections.
Condoleezza Rice
#24. Business is a sport and I want to win. I want to kick your ass. I may not win every game. But I certainly am going to try.
Mark Cuban
#25. Crime is interesting. It's huge and fascinating, and it's what my business, TV and film, is largely based on. But the realities are tragic, and in crime drama you rarely see the pain of bereavement or any consequences. It's reduced to a chess game.
Peter Capaldi
#26. The average business page gets between 100 and 250 likes. This may not sound like a lot, but even at that level, if some posts go viral, your reach may expand to thousands. What matters most is that you get in the game.
Brian Basilico
#27. In some respects, the video-game business is a lot like the razor business, which follows a simple model: Give away the razor, gouge 'em on the price of the blades.
James Surowiecki
#28. you really need to think about your game as a service where you will launch the game as early as is feasible and you will steadily iterate new releases while simultaneously building a loyal audience. This is much more akin to running a subscription business
Anonymous
#29. It is a game before a product, a sport before a market, a show before a business.
Michel Patini
#30. Acting is a precarious business. I have had periods where I felt like I couldn't get arrested, but you have to see it as a long game.
Ewen Bremner
#31. Business is a basketball game. The more tricks you know, the more points you score.
Ehab Atalla
#32. A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play.
Jon Meacham
#33. A good businessman sees where others don't see. What I see, you may not see. You cannot see because that is the secret of the business ... the entire world is a big market waiting for anybody who knows the rules of the game.
Orji Uzor Kalu
#34. Life ... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.
Anita Brookner
#36. The desire the law makers have in having only dispensary owners to control marijuana is part of the game our law makers play to create a bureau of specific business created that owes its allegiance to the political process and therefore will make sure that process continues.
Steven Machat
#37. Hollywood is about playing the game, and I can't think of any successful actresses who didn't play the game. There's a lot more renegades in the music business, from Patti Smith to Janis Joplin.
Madonna Ciccone
#38. I don't push my luck. I don't worry about the results and therefore everything seems to work out well. That's something I've learnt over the years. The whole thing about the acting business is that it's a hit-or-miss game so I keep my distance from it.
Anthony Hopkins
#39. Lymond said gently, Let us bathe in moral philosophy, as in a living river. Double-dealing is my business.
Dorothy Dunnett
#40. Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business.
George Orwell
#41. Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind.
Martin H. Fischer
#42. In business, I believe that if you focus only on the journey, you'll miss the whole point of the enterprise. There has to be a goal, an end game of some kind; otherwise, you're just spinning your wheels. Yes, the journey is important, but the destination is important, too.
Ivanka Trump
#43. Business is a money game with few rules and a lot of risk.
Bill Gates
