Top 97 Business Philosophy Quotes
#1. I like to play cards. I'm not very good, because I don't want to calculate, I just play by instinct. But I've learned a lot of business philosophy by playing poker.
Jack Ma
#2. 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
#3. Social Media begins with a story - your story.
Germany Kent
#4. No business can be a great success without a great purpose.
Debasish Mridha
#5. The thing that will make the biggest difference to your business, your bank account, your health and your relationships in the next 12 months is your philosophy
Jim Rohn
#6. As an entrepreneur building a multimillion-dollar business, your failures are going to be your greatest assets, provided you have a philosophy that addresses mistakes, strives to understand them, learns the key elements in them, and turns them into successes.
Ryan Blair
#7. For it is the business of Ethics, I must insist, not only to obtain true results, but also to find valid reasons for them.
G.E. Moore
#9. There are three basic flavours of incentive: economic, social and moral.
Steven D. Levitt
#10. Be a surfer. Watch the ocean. Figure out where the big waves are breaking and adjust accordingly.
37 Signals
#11. You must always conduct your business with a clear mind, free of personal issues. Until you learn this simple fact, you'll never get anything out of life. -Moses Luzzatto
Riccardo Bruni
#12. The only sacred cow is an organisation should be its basic philosophy of doing business.
Thomas Watson Jr.
#13. Don't work for something in Exchange, Work on something for a Change.
Kevin Awad
#14. I think it's best to keep the controversy on the pages and not in our relationships.
Kayla Curry
#15. We are a company that lives and breathes a philosophy that's centered on not only making sound business decisions but also personally and professionally finding ways to contribute to the well being of society. We are also a company that understands community.
Magic Johnson
#17. It is presupposed that no entity can be conceived in complete abstraction from the system of the universe, and that it is the business of speculative philosophy to exhibit this truth. This character is its coherence.
Alfred North Whitehead
#19. Improving the world can be a nasty and ugly and difficult and dangerous business ... because when you improve the world, you threaten the entrenched interests of evil people.
Stefan Molyneux
#20. All people should know that the principal business in life is to seek happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#21. The ultimate profit from all of my businesses is to be happy and to make all of the customers happy.
Debasish Mridha
#22. When it comes to innovation, business has much to learn from design. The philosophy in design shops is, 'try it, prototype it, and improve it'.
Roger Martin
#23. The ultimate profit of all businesses should be happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#24. A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practice it.
Alexander Pope
#25. The true business of the philosopher, though not flattering to his vanity, is merely to ascertain, arrange and condense the facts.
John Leslie
#26. Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.
Bertrand Russell
#27. Writing is a lonely business, which if allowed publicity and socializing it might deteriorate. Supportive people understand the need of a writer to withdraw to the solitude of oneself.
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#28. I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I'm certainly not going to write any sort of memoir.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#29. What do you need to succeed in business? You need the ability to think critically and communicate, and those things you can get just as easily out of a philosophy degree.
Matthew Stewart
#30. Success in business is important. Success as a human being with values, character, kindness, and love is much more important.
Debasish Mridha
#31. The simple the process is, the smarter the system becomes.
Joey Lawsin
#32. The business of hip hop is probably the most tangible example of the genre's dramatic maturation.
Carlos Wallace
#33. Deception is parcel to ruling. I tell my enemies, my allies, and my subjects what they need to know, when I feel they need to know it. This philosophy tends to have some effects. A man cannot take it as his business to repeatedly deceive the world, without somehow deceiving himself.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#34. I've always had a philosophy that position doesn't define power. Impact defines power. What impact are you making on people? What impact are you making on business?
Mindy Grossman
#35. In thousands of years there has been no advance in public morals, in philosophy, in religion or in politics, but the advance in business has been the greatest miracle the world has ever known.
E.W. Howe
#36. My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.
Phyllis Diller
#37. I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven - that's none of my business, ultimately. I won't lecture her on the philosophy of science.
Noam Chomsky
#38. The first business of philosophy is to account for things as they are; and till our theories will do this, they ought not to be the ground of any practical conclusion.
Thomas Malthus
#39. The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction.
Oakley Hall
#40. What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.
Epictetus
#41. We trusted our instincts, and stuck to the two tenets of my philosophy: Sell things for more than you pay for them, and save more than you spend. Simple, yes, but that is the philosophy that ultimately led to a really big business.
Sophia Amoruso
#42. It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Isaac Asimov
#43. Here we don't drink coffee, we 'take' it, as a medicine," echoed his business partner, Luigi Solito. "To me, the philosophy of the suspended coffee is that you are happy today, and you give a coffee to the world, as a present.
Anonymous
#44. My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.
Anthony Hopkins
#45. Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business.
Julian Barnes
#46. I would prefer a sword to fight duel, but a pen to plan a war.
Robert Thier
#47. Justice will be found, said Plato, when everyone does their own job, and minds their own business
Martin Cohen
#48. The only one that seems to be able to hold the business is Disney. They do it is because they have a fabulous philosophy about marketing- but even they wavered.
Don Bluth
#49. One expects philosophy to promote, and even to accelerate, the practical and technical business of culture by alleviating it, making it easier. {9}
Martin Heidegger
#50. 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
#52. Be the kind of person who catches the shit before it hits the fan, not the one who scrapes it off afterwards.
Jonas Eriksson
#53. 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
#54. Your income is directly related to your philosophy, NOT the economy.
Jim Rohn
#55. Clean your home first before complaining about others.
Debasish Mridha
#56. I support Democrats and Republicans. And I'm telling you that the business community in this company is frightened to death of the weird political philosophy of the President of the United States. And until he's gone, everybody's going to be sitting on their thumbs.
Steve Wynn
#57. I charge my clients for my time and expertise, my heart is free.
Saurabh Gupta
#58. Philosophy is not in the business of explaining anything. Actual occasions explain what happened, not philosophy.
Bruno Latour
#59. One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, let's all be friends in Washington philosophy.
Pete Du Pont
#60. Christianity began in Palestine as an experience, it moved to Greece and became a philosophy, it moved to Italy and became an institution, it moved to Europe and became a culture, and it moved to America and became a business! We've left the experience long behind.
Paul Smith
#61. You will not be a success in every business, but if you don't start a business you will never be a success.
Debasish Mridha
#62. If you consulted your business experiences instead of your ugly individualistic philosophy, you would know that believing in himself is one of the commonest signs of a rotter.
G.K. Chesterton
#63. As life progresses, baggage can accumulate. For a while, things can be swept under the rug, but the wait of unfinished business eventually catches up.
Paul Gibbons
#64. I am of the opinion that a tantric lifestyle can not only build successful individuals, but it has the potential to shape successful yet harmonious communities and even business enterprises.
Vishwas Chavan
#66. Jean-Pierre Marquis, From a Geometrical Point of View: A Study of the History and Philosophy of Category Theory, Springer Science & Business Media, 2008.
Roger Scruton
#67. Nevertheless, the ultimate business of philosophy is to preserve the force of the most elemental words in which Dasein expresses itself, and to keep the common understanding from levelling them off to that unintelligibility which functions in turn as a source of pseudo-problems.
Martin Heidegger
#68. My political philosophy as a libertarian says that government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior. My professional ethic as a thinker and writer, however, says that self-knowledge is our ultimate responsibility
Camille Paglia
#69. The promise of business is to increase the general well-being of humankind through service, a creative invention and ethical philosophy.
Paul Hawken
#70. Everything is interconnected. The moment you take philosophy, psychology, religion and business and look at the underlying commonalities, that's when you start looking at business in a different way.
Jochen Zeitz
#71. If life is a business, then you are blessed with an abundance of capital which is your unconditional love.
Debasish Mridha
#72. The basic philosophy of life seemed to be: What do I care? It's none of my business. [The philosophy of Naples, Italy.]
Franco Di Mare
#73. Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.
Terence McKenna
#74. Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.
Eric Hoffer
#75. Give yourself permission 2 evolve. Become a philosopher; come up with your own interpretation of life and stop accepting someone else's as your truth.
Germany Kent
#76. Unhappy business men, I am convinced, would increase their happiness more by walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change of philosophy.
Bertrand Russell
#77. R.C. Willey is an amazing story. Bill took over the business from his father-in-law in 1954 when sales were about $250,000. From this tiny base, Bill employed Mae West's philosophy: 'It's not what you've got - it's what you do with what you've got.
Mark Gavagan
#78. And though the philosopher may live remote from business, the genius of philosophy, if carefully cultivated by several, must gradually diffuse itself throughout the whole society, and bestow a similar correctness on every art and calling.
David Hume
#79. Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man had no business to be writing, to be a poet unless some philosophic stinker gave him permission.
William Carlos Williams
#81. The real rich people doesn't have bank accounts, they have treasures.
Amit Kalantri
#82. The independents who were our fiercest competitors all succumbed to the one-hit-makes-you-a-genius philosophy. It is a mistake to think you have the magic touch. Show business is roulette. If you start to play for stakes you can't afford, there's no way you can survive.
Samuel Goldwyn
#83. The philosophy of this world may be founded on facts, but its business is run on spiritual impressions and atmospheres.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#84. I guess there are no real strict rules [in comedy], but I just learn to apply my philosophy about comedy which is, it's a serious business and the result needs to be funny, not the process.
Christoph Waltz
#85. I know business, I know money, and therefore I know that they are always slightly troubled by the realities of sexual prostitution, since sex is something that can never be stripped clean.
Jacob Wren
#86. Wasting another's time is serious business for they will never get that time back. Ever.
L.R.W. Lee
#87. Science can only be comprehended epistemologically , which means as one category of possible knowledge , as long as knowledge is not equated either effusively with the absolute knowledge of a great philosophy or blindly with scientistic self-understanding of the actual business of research.
Jurgen Habermas
#88. The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.
Immanuel Kant
#90. My grandma, Mrs Grace Ayorkor Acquah said 'Educating the child is everybody's business.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#91. I've always had philosophy, which has been really helpful for me, getting into the business. I didn't have any connections. I didn't know anyone. It was just about my work.
Daniel Radcliffe
#92. Teenagers and younger children did not need to sit in business class, let alone first - that was Franny's philosophy. The extra room was for people who could appreciate it, truly appreciate it, and she did.
Emma Straub
#93. Mma Ramotswe tucked the cheque safely away in her bodice. Modern business methods were all very well, she thought, but when it came to the safeguarding of money there were some places which had yet to be bettered.
Alexander McCall Smith
#96. Lymond said gently, Let us bathe in moral philosophy, as in a living river. Double-dealing is my business.
Dorothy Dunnett
#97. Put First Things First! These four words cover an entire philosophy which can be applied with profit by every business leader, by every executive and by every employee.
Thomas Watson Jr.
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