Business People Quotes

#1. Modern business-people and lawyers are, in fact, powerful sorcerers. The principal difference between them and tribal shamans is that modern lawyers tell far stranger tales.

Yuval Noah Harari

#2. Successful business people became successful because they took risks. The biggest risk is that once successful, they stop taking risks.

G.R. Gopinath

#3. Laborers want their kids to be merchants or business people. Business people want their kids to be professionals. Professionals want their kids to be academics, professors. Academics want their kids to be artists. And artists don't care if their kids are laborers or not. They can be anything.

Demetri Martin

#4. Most business people today are not going to invest in the uncertainty that exists in America.

Howard Schultz

#5. My government is going to deal with all forms of corruption. White-collar corruption will be high on the list and we are going to plug all gaps that are being used by corrupt leaders (and) business people.

Jakaya Kikwete

#6. Google has been an amazing benefit for our business. People understand the whole world of mapping and want to do more than not get lost. They want to do spatial analytics. It's been fantastic for us.

Jack Dangermond

#7. Look at the Quakers - they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole; they cared for their employees and the community which gave them the wealth. They never took more money out than they put back in.

Anita Roddick

#8. I don't know why it's anyone's business! People do what they need to do. I did it, and it was nowhere near as traumatic as being raped. I was so numb for so long that sex work for me was not a big deal.

Margaret Cho

#9. As business people, we have to remind ourselves that it's up to us to create jobs. It's up to us as business people to drive the economy, and no one else.

Greg Brenneman

#10. I don't believe in talking about my work. I let it speak for itself. I'd rather make money than just talk about my business. People think that because I don't talk much to the media, I am arrogant. I am not arrogant, but I do have an attitude.

Shailender Singh

#11. I, really sense the Lord saying to me that: "There are churches, there are ministers and there are business people that this $8,500 seed is going to connect you to a million dollar plus decision. A million dollar plus opportunity."

Mike Murdock

#12. Fame is a silly business. People who chase it are almost always going to be disappointed.

Tom Conti

#13. Yes, these business people have great energy. There's a question as to what's burned to produce it and what things we can and can't burn.

Saul Bellow

#14. The government itself cannot create jobs. Jobs are created by business people and entrepreneurs.

Tom Marino

#15. People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.

Tori Amos

#16. On the whole, and this comment can get me in a lot of trouble, I find that retailers in the comic book business are not business people. They're fans who've gotten themselves shops.

Rob Walton

#17. China has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to improve the lives of poor people in China and around the world, and seek solutions for them.

Bill Gates

#18. Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.

Eli Broad

#19. Though many intellectuals, following in the footsteps of Saints Augustine and Jerome, hold business people in contempt for their selfishness and greed, in fact a free market puts a premium on empathy.

Steven Pinker

#20. Business people have been made into these rock stars because they've made a lot of money.

James Daly

#21. The networks have a particular agenda, a particular model and structure. It doesn't have anything to do with content. This is not a dis on them - they are a business model, run by business people.

Joss Whedon

#22. When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us.

Bart Stupak

#23. I really don't have heroes in business; I never looked up at business people.

Mo Ibrahim

#24. But people might die." "That's our business, people always die." Crow turned and walked a few steps down the rocky beach. "Your job is to keep that count as low as possible." "And what's yours?" "To help you in your goal." Crow turned, smiling. "And to shoot the other people.

Casey Calouette

#25. Like most business people, I want every aspect of my business to be perfect. I know that this goal is unachievable, but it is nevertheless what I strive to achieve .

Bob Parsons

#26. I always encourage our people and young business people that I meet to have a respect for cash, keeping some in their pockets and purses at all times. To me, that's essential.

Muhtar Kent

#27. I have asked thousands of business people to smile at someone every hour of the day for a week and then come to class and talk about the results.

Dale Carnegie

#28. I don't think about becoming a head coach. I really don't. I'm not oblivious of people who mention it. When you are in any business, people expect to aspire to the top. I guess everyone is supposed to aspire to being the man at the top of the heap. But I never have.

Joe Greene

#29. The share of income that small business people are paying in taxes is the lowest it has been in 65 years - since Obama has cut taxes 18 or 22 times for small business.

Austan Goolsbee

#30. You're not going to build private-sector jobs if you don't like business people.

Rick Scott

#31. I've talked in front of ... like ... a lot of big business people about stuff I didn't even know.

Ryan Lochte

#32. L.A. has always had a ton of creative business people, but tech has always been trumped by Hollywood. Now Hollywood is realizing it needs to be smarter in tech. Hollywood is finally crossing over, and it's really going to charge L.A. to be the next tech center.

Paige Craig

#33. I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal', the 'New York Times', constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.

Barbara Corcoran

#34. I develop artificially intelligent technologies, along with educational and game software and let the business people take it where they will.

Frederick Lenz

#35. Small-business people do not want to have more than 50 employees, because that's when all the regulatory burden of Obamacare kicks in.

Michele Bachmann

#36. For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.

Tony Abbott

#37. Business people get many undeserved prizes - golden parachutes and bonuses even when companies fail. I don't think people should get rewarded for screwing up.

Mo Ibrahim

#38. Evidence from science suggests that business people must be insane to use brainstorming groups,

Susan Cain

#39. Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it ... only business people think it isn't necessary to train.

Tom Peters

#40. 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

#41. She saw the normative life of the planet, business people crossing streets beneath glass towers, the life of sitting on buses that take you logically to destinations, the unnerved surface of rolling plausibly along.

Don DeLillo

#42. Analysts, scholars, business people, diplomats, and journalists involved with China spend so much time questioning one another's biases and loyalties that they have even settled on two opposing categories: 'panda huggers' versus 'panda sluggers.'

Evan Osnos

#43. I hope it is nothing serious. On the other hand, I must also say that we business people, luckily or unluckily, however one looks at it, very often simply have to overcome a slight indisposition for business reasons.

Franz Kafka

#44. When the business people get done with the arts, all that's left will be entertainment.

Daniel R. Thorne

#45. When starting a new business, people get blinders on. They have an idea, they stick to the idea, but they don't test it or check with their potential audience to see if this is a good idea. It happens all the time. Talk to your customers, see what they like and what you can change or not change.

JJ Ramberg

#46. I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.

Dick Bruna

#47. Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll always have some clean air to breathe.

Julia Child

#48. Many business people end up being relationship rich, and referral poor.

Timothy M. Houston

#49. I only wish I could find an institute that teaches people how to listen. Business people need to listen at least as much as they need to talk. Too many people fail to realize that real communication goes in both directions.

Lee Iacocca

#50. If your income on films or whatever you're producing using film drops below a certain level, then you don't have enough money to stay in business. People like to say that this is all just about making money, but if you don't make money, you don't make anything.

Morgan Freeman

#51. Business people need to understand the psychology of risk more than the mathematics of risk.

Paul Gibbons

#52. We designers, we don't work in a vacuum. We need business people. We are not the fine artists we are often confused with.

Dieter Rams

#53. Here's the sting of livingness. He's back after his nightly voyage of sleep, all clarity and purpose; he's renewed his citizenship in the world of people who strive and connect, people who mean business, people who burn and want, who remember everything, who walk lucid and unafraid.

Michael Cunningham

#54. Not only am I a spender, I have had a couple of business people in the past who have been spending my money quite happily.

Roger Moore

#55. Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.

Daniel Goleman

#56. Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That's not a criticism; they're passionate about cutting hair or cooking food, and that's why they got in the business, not because they have an MBA.

Andrew Mason

#57. Agriculture's not insulated from having a percentage of people who might be really good old graziers, but they're no good as business people.

Barry O'Sullivan

#58. When you enter a casino, remember that you are entering a place of business run by very shrewd business people who understand human emotions.

Henry Tamburin

#59. Small business people have gotten us out of nearly all modern recessions - not by waiting for others to fix things or turning to government, but rather by applying leadership, inventiveness, creativity and originality.

Oliver DeMille

#60. Raising the minimum wage allows business people to stop thinking about workers simply as costs to be cut and allows you to start thinking about workers as customers to be cultivated.

Nick Hanauer

#61. The Rotary Club will do the work, because business people are busy. But the impact and the value of this will be to the business.

Dan Abrams

#62. But I tell people all the time that if you can do the job, then there's a spot for you. I refuse to believe that there isn't any room in this business. People leave jobs and jobs open up every year. If you can do the job, you'll find your way into the broadcast booth.

Joe Buck

#63. I found the bank robbery getaway car but was scolded over the FBI radio. Why?"

~ From Walking the Corporate Beat: Police School for Business People.

Michael Tabman

#64. We're not show-business people. We have a life.

Patti LuPone

#65. I think especially older people, and I count myself one, in the business - people get to know who you really are. So there comes a time when you can't just go in and audition without everybody knowing exactly how you've brought up your kids, what you said at the meeting, what kind of food you cook.

Mimi Kennedy

#66. I hope we business people can invest more aggressively outside Metro Manila, whether in real estate, factories, or other enterprises, in order to give equal opportunities to all other regions.

Andrew Tan

#67. I believe - I'm not a political expert, but I believe there is a broad consensus, a middle ground if you will, that Democrats and Republicans, business people and workers can agree on, to get this - the economy growing faster, getting people back to work.

Austan Goolsbee

#68. Learning never ends, therefore, have a keen eye for learning and studying how successful business and people run the little things that business people might overlook but they are key to their success.

Donald Allen

#69. To get your name well enough known that you can run for a public office, some people do it by being great lawyers or philanthropists or business people or work their way up the political ladder. I happened to become known from a different route.

John Glenn

#70. Business people don't need to understand designers better. They need to be designers.

Roger Martin

#71. I'm not a detail guy. I depend on accountants and administrators to do my detail stuff for me, but I do know the overall picture and I know that if you put business people together in a room, not just politicians, they could shrink the deficit tremendously by good business tactics.

John Paul DeJoria

#72. The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost.

Michael Gerber

#73. What has been happening more lately - of course, I also put in my bio, I say I do the voice of Goliath, but some people go - you know, I say something, and it's a funny thing when you work in this business, people will talk out loud in front of you like you're not there.

Keith David

#74. There are certain skills that business people have that are - that are, in fact, helpful in - when it comes to being in political leadership.

Rick Santorum

#75. Pop is an easy way for evil business people to make a lot of money. But I find myself humming a Christina Aguilera song every once in a while.

Brandon Boyd

#76. Business people have a a good view of what's happening internally in countries, and they can be a positive force.

John Kasich

#77. I understand that show business people can wear the public a bit thin when it comes to politics. I know they wear me thin.

Clint Howard

#78. [Louis] Brandeis, like [Tomas] Jefferson, is an equal opportunity critic of bigness. And he, like Jefferson, sees American history as this incredible clash between small producers, farmers, and small business people on the one hand, and wicked oligarchs and financiers and monopolists on the other.

Jeffrey Rosen

#79. Real change agents comprise less than 10% of all business people.

Jack Welch

#80. So, there's like one luxury you take and since we do that, y'know, you're involved with people in suits; business people all the time. But hey, if I sit down on a bar and they leave, good for me.

Kerry King

#81. It is sad but true that many business people have no business being in business.

Miles Anthony Smith

#82. We have the enormous opportunity in our hands to make a positive difference for business, people, and the planet.

Richard Branson

#83. I'm a businessman. I work for business people. The kind of thing they say is: Now we've sold a lot of records, let's sell some more.

Nat King Cole

#84. America is one of the biggest businesses in the world, and the people who run it can't balance their budget. We need business people in there and lobbyists out of there.

John Paul DeJoria

#85. Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

Elon Musk

#86. The career stuff is for business people.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#87. In business, people are held accountable. In Washington, nobody is held accountable. In business, people are judged on results. In Washington, people are measured by their ability to get reelected.

Ross Perot

#88. Social media presents an opportunity for business people to connect and know each other prior to a phone call or email taking place.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#89. It is high time that the E.U.'s internal market delivered substantially lower communications charges for consumers and business people traveling abroad. A mobile-phone customer should not be charged a higher tariff just because he
or she
is traveling abroad.

Viviane Reding

#90. Business people love to hate their current software and love to love the next software they haven't yet bought. Salespeople count on this. But tomorrow's tools will become the current tools.

David E. Wile

#91. All of the development I do is with the help of business advisors who are more like my best friends than just business people. They helped me as I created Ipsy back in 2011, which is a beauty community that ships out sampling bags to subscribers.

Michelle Phan

#92. I run a business. People want to work for less money, I pay them less money ... Women shouldn't be so grateful. Know what you're worth. Walk away.

Amy Pascal

#93. I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.

Nikki Giovanni

#94. There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking an intelligent interest in it. They do not experiment, compare, fit the tobacco to the occasion. A man should always be pleasantly conscious of the fact that he is smoking.

J.B. Priestley

#95. Pour your heart and soul into your business. People will notice.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#96. Life is getting better, but that won't stop a war if politicians and business people decide it's to their advantage to have one.

Octavia Butler

#97. The people that are running the bulk of the comic shops in North America aren't business people and they don't understand sales. They don't understand good product.

Rob Walton

#98. It has become harder and harder in the United States to make films unhampered by outside influences. I've always been able to steer clear of that and keep the business people out of my hair completely.

Woody Allen

#99. The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub some of it off on to people who come to see you, and they hate that. To be alone trains one for death.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#100. The more time I spend with our people, the more I find out about our business.

Herb Kelleher