Top 100 Business Is Good Quotes
#1. A business is good if it gives a decent day's reward for a decent day's work, treats people decently, and gives them a voice at the top.
Frances O'Grady
#2. Business is good right now, but now my personal life is a disaster.
James Packer
#3. We believe that business is good because it creates value. It is ethical because it is based on voluntary exchange; it is noble because it can elevate our existence, and it is heroic because it lifts people out of poverty and creates prosperity.
John Mackey
#4. In life and in business, you need to be good-hearted and trustworthy, and to have integrity. This is the way to build long-term relationships. It is also important to be optimistic and to look at challenges as opportunities.
Henry Sy
#6. Be careful what you wish for - getting to be a successful business and maintaining it is so hard. Anyone can be good one night; being good over several years is incredibly difficult.
David Chang
#7. Politics is noble; it is one of the highest forms of charity, as Paul VI used to say. We sully it when we mix it with business. The relationship between the Church and political power can also be corrupted if common good is not the only converging point.
Pope Francis
#8. Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. - It is not fair. - He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. - I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it - but fear I must.
Jane Austen
#9. It's my impression that investment in Europe is done for the right reasons. Europe is a very good place to do business; it's a large market.
Margrethe Vestager
#10. In a knowledge economy, a good business is a community with a purpose, not a piece of property.
Charles Handy
#11. The mark of a good conversationalist is not that you can talk a lot. The mark is that you can get others to talk a lot. Thus, good schmoozer's are good listeners, not good talkers.
Guy Kawasaki
#12. I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.
George Bernard Shaw
#13. Why can't it be awesome to work for a food company? Why can't we create an environment where people are trying to push each other to do great things, and we're not trying to steal from anybody - we're trying to be good to our farmers and run an honorable business, if there is such a thing anymore?
David Chang
#14. Regardless of how well a studio is run, it's only as good as the product it produces.
Vince McMahon
#15. The thing I preach constantly is do your research; build your knowledge base. Don't just go into business on a whim or a prayer - and don't think 'I'm an entrepreneur so I have to take risks'. Entrepreneurs don't take risks. They take calculated risks; only the good ones.
Theo Paphitis
#16. Business is a useful tool in politics, but it's not enough. You need much more than to be a good businessman, to be a good politician.
Sebastian Pinera
#18. Wherever there is abuse there is also corruption. Politics, philosophy, theology, science, industry, any field with the potential to affect the well-being of others can be destroyed by abuse and saved by good will.
Criss Jami
#20. The reason why many clients don't value design is because haven't had a designer prove to them the value of it. You need to prove it to clients who've hired a bunch of shitty designers and their business has not been that successful. When they hire a good designer, they see the difference.
Jessica Hische
#21. 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
#22. Now, the good of business is put above anything else, as corporations have become the new ruling body. Most decisions seem to be made like ones of a medieval king: whatever makes profit while ignoring and repressing the truth about whatever suffering it may cause (like pop music, for that matter).
Julian Casablancas
#23. Happiness is a good business these days, more you talk crap about happiness the large number of crowd you will gather.
Santosh Kalwar
#24. Paying your employees well is not only the right thing to do but it makes for good business.
James Sinegal
#25. Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.
Robert Kiyosaki
#26. Reduce risk, lower your required capital, and focus on what you're really good at - and hire others for what you are not.) This is something you should think about in any business: don't try to do everything. You aren't the best at everything. Find out where you have an advantage and stick to that.
Marc Ecko
#27. That business of relaxation, which is so terribly modern today, is all good and well, but my work interests me so much, and is so varied, that many times it seems relaxing when I go from one aspect to another.
Arne Jacobsen
#28. I like to think I have a good few years left of my career yet, as long as I stay fit and healthy. However, it's always good to have a backup plan, which is why I have been working hard to build my business portfolio outside tennis.
Andy Murray
#29. I have a dad-ager. My dad is really good at the business end of things. But it's really a family affair. My mother handles all my social media stuff - Facebook, Twitter, e-mails, that kind of thing.
Jencarlos Canela
#30. Linguistics is a good way of defining the culture of a brand. The vocabulary used by sports and lifestyle brands - running, fitness, training, motorsports - is all about functionality, whereas the vocabulary of the luxury business - handbags, ready-to-wear - is all about the product.
Francois-Henri Pinault
#32. 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
#33. I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.
Aaron Yoo
#34. When you compete with a person, you only have to be as good or better than the
person to win. If you compete with yourself, there is no limitation to how good
you can be.
Chin-Ning Chu
#35. After 'A Good Day to Die Hard,' I had a bit of an identity crisis as far as where I wanted to place myself in the business. When it's all new and fresh, there is a lot of pressure to know what you represent, and I didn't really get that.
Jai Courtney
#36. 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
#37. I have a saying, which is, 'Crazy is good for business.' I think rock and roll really is about being a bit crazy.
Billy Corgan
#39. What this means is that people are seeing a stable business, which is good, and a business that is in control, which is also good.
Steve Jobs
#40. In my opinion, what the country needs, first and foremost, is a good, sound, business-like conduct of its affairs. What we need is - a business administration !
Sinclair Lewis
#41. Adopting big-business practices is one thing, and adopting agribusiness practices that would dilute the meaning of 'organic' is another. On the whole, I think we're doing a pretty good job of preserving the integrity of organic foods.
Nell Newman
#42. Mostly, as I said, a desire to do a bit of good, and the quaint notion that this is what we signed up for, this is the business that we have chosen.
Christiane Amanpour
#43. The essence of business to me is great people run great companies. Mediocre people don't do a very good job.
Kenneth Langone
#44. Most of us need a good ride on the Sin Wagon, and if I were to meet a man who was better looking than say, Yoda, I might treat him to some Serta hospitality. I'd like to have said this to Mama but could not because she is certain that a real Southern lady doesn't enjoy the business at hand.
Susan Reinhardt
#45. As we say at Year Up all the time, investing in our young people is not just a matter of economic justice. It's good business sense.
Gerald Chertavian
#46. Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.
Charles Spurgeon
#47. Among idealists and visionaries, there is no shortage of good intent, but there's often a shortage of discipline.
Scott Belsky
#48. The strategy is about putting a good team together to give you a multifaceted picture zooming into the business culture.
Pearl Zhu
#49. There is a spiritual aspect to our lives - when we give, we receive-when a business does something good for somebody, that somebody feels good about them!
Ben Cohen
#50. Good decision making is the result of years of experience making and learning from one's choices - good and bad.
Michael J. Marx
#51. I am aware that success is more than a good idea. It is timing too.
Anita Roddick
#52. You may love football, but that doesn't mean you have any business trying to play the sport. It's the same thing with filmmaking ... everybody has a great idea for a movie, but do you have the stamina to get good at your craft and deal with how heartbreaking it is?
Adam Green
#53. We wrote every day, but the letters began to seem like checks drawn on the summer's capital. There had been a lot in the bank, but it is never good business practice to live on your capital, and I had the feeling, somehow, of living on the capital and watching something dwindle.
Robert Penn Warren
#54. Early rising is also essential to the good government of a family. A late breakfast deranges the whole business of the day, and throws a portion of it on the next, which opens the door for confusion to enter.
Mary Randolph
#55. The only person you can trust with a good idea is a fool; he will not know what to do with it. The last person you trust with a good idea is a shrewd person; he will take advantage of it better than you would.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#56. A project goal like a joke. If you have to explain it, it is not good / fun.
Gerry Geek
#57. What we are trying to do is to create a social business in Bangladesh, a joint venture to create restaurants for common people. Good, healthy food at affordable prices so that people don't have to opt for food that is unhealthy and unhygienic.
Muhammad Yunus
#58. The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
Henrik Ibsen
#59. In my business, if you look good, no one is going to be checking up on whether you work out. So it's up to me.
Josie Maran
#60. Acting is a tough business, and you need to be in good shape mentally and physically.
Juliette Binoche
#61. A good idea for a new business tends not to occur in isolation, and often the window of opportunity is very small. So speed is of the essence.
Richard Branson
#62. A decent IP attorney is one, who meets client's requirements; A good IP attorney is one, who helps clients secure business success.
Kalyan C. Kankanala
#64. A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
#65. Amidst all the hype and hoopla around this business, I wanted to emphasize the challenge - it is seductive but the failure rate is very high. And those who fail have no good place to go.
Mahendra Ramsinghani
#66. The speed at which a business success is recognized, furthermore, is not that important as long as the company's intrinsic value is increasing at a satisfactory rate. In fact, delayed recognition can be an advantage: It may give us the chance to buy more of a good thing at a bargain price.
Warren Buffett
#67. Personally I think that competition should be encouraged in war and sport and business, but that it makes no sense in the arts. If an artist is good, nobody else can do what he or she does and therefore all comparisons are incoherent.
Edward St. Aubyn
#68. The one thing you learn from looking at places like Afghanistan is that the power of business to do good is enormous.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#69. Never make too good of a deal. It sounds a little counterintuitive, but the deals that are too good of a deal for you in the long run will end up hurting you. A lot of people in our business don't realize that. They think their job is to go in a room and negotiate the highest price.
Ryan Kavanaugh
#70. No matter how good or successful you are
or how clever or crafty, your business and its
future are in the hands of the people you hire. To
put it a bit more dramatically, the fate of your
business is actually in the hands of the youngest
recruit on the staff.
Akio Morita
#71. I don't care to dress up except when it is necessary or good for my business.
Ethel Waters
#72. Good government is that which delivers the citizen from being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently-one that relieves him sufficiently from the barbaric business of guarding them to enable him to engage in gentler, more dignified, and more agreeable undertakings ...
H.L. Mencken
#73. What we lack is a good, strong business climate with lower taxes, fairer regulation.
Kevin Brady
#74. Writing is a tough business, but never forget the reason why you write. It's for the love of story telling. Fame and fortune may elude you, but that's no reason to give up. Remember, there's always someone ready to listen to a good story.
Robert Bartram
#75. Loyalty is earned with friendliness, responsiveness, ease of doing business, fair value, and the good feeling customers get when they call you, visit you, or interact with you.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#76. Someday, you need to build a business that's difficult to replicate. This is an important part of a good idea.
Sam Altman
#77. 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
#78. My running ambition is to keep doing it until I'm way past the point where I have any business running. Just to keep doing it throughout my whole life - to stay fit and feel good.
Leroy Chiao
#79. Wal-Mart provides a chilling example of the damage that low-wage, nonunion corporations can wreak, and their business model is going to set the standards for our children unless we do something now. Wal-Mart is the sewer pipe through which good jobs are being flushed.
Andy Stern
#80. No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.
Jared Diamond
#81. The problem is that many entrepreneurs start with good intentions to create a new mindset system but then slack off. The solution is to make that system part of your daily routine.
Lisa A. Mininni
#82. It is expedient to have acquaintance with those who have looked into the world, who know men, understand business, and can give you good intelligence and good advice when they are wanted.
George Horne
#83. Giving education away for free is a really good idea, but it can't be the future of education. There has to be a business model around it that actually works.
Sebastian Thrun
#84. Business skills, when well applied, can do more than just make money. They can potentially make money and do some real good, which is immensely satisfying. To do that, it's important to think outside the box, take risks, and be an entrepreneur.
Jeffrey Skoll
#85. If you want to get into the business of doing voices for cartoons, you've got to be a good actor. It's all about acting. It's not about the voice. The voice is just one part of what you bring to the character.
Bob Bergen
#86. After several trillion dollars of stimulation by the Obama Administration and the Fed, one might think the economy would be chugging along at a pretty good clip. But, it just isn't so, and the light at the end of the tunnel is pretty dim. Just ask a small business owner.
Bob Beauprez
#87. A friend of mine once asked how to make it in show business and I said "Be so good that they can't ignore you." She thought I was being flip but it's true. The challenge is trying to live up to the opportunities given me.
Steve Martin
#88. That is the godawful thing about television today. Performers don't have any place to hit and miss. You're either in or you're out; you don't have a chance to become good at your craft. If you make three pictures in a row and they don't go over, you're out of the business.
Donald O'Connor
#89. The potential of this nation is as boundless as the imagination and drive of the American people ... Quality management is not just a step. It must be a new style of working. Even a new style of thinking. The dedication to quality and excellence is more than good business; it's a way of life.
George H. W. Bush
#90. The fact is that while there has been a good deal of discussion for and against women in business, farm women have always been business women, and I have never heard a protest.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#91. If you wish to know the truth about your business or your profession, know that it is an activity of good. It is an activity of your partnership with the infinite.
Ernest Holmes
#92. A nation is safer and progressive when the citizens own or are involved in healthy businesses that can aid them enjoy good livelihood without any fear for tomorrow.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#93. The goal is not to be good at social media, the goal is to be good at business because of social media.
Jay Baer
#94. We know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today
Sydney Smith
#95. Good journalism is good business practice; good business supports great journalism.
Lachlan Murdoch
#96. How good one feels when one is full
how satisfied with ourselves and with the world! People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.
Jerome K. Jerome
#97. I am accounted by some people as a good man. How cheap that character is acquired! Pay your debts, don't borrow money, nor twist your kitten's neck off, nor disturb a congregation, etc., your business is done. I know things of myself, which would make every friend I have fly me as a plague patient.
Charles Lamb
#98. But smuggling people is a referral business, and you don't get good references by robbing and killing your charges. You may get away with it once or twice, but then business dries up.
George Friedman
#99. In seeking to serve social needs because it makes good business sense to do so, a corporation is doing what it knows how to do best.
Henry Ford II
#100. The last thing I need is more high school drama but a support group that doesn't dig into my personal business sounds good. They can keep the drama for themselves.
Nikki Godwin
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