Top 92 Business Relationship Quotes
#1. There are very few people that I deal with from a business side that it's just strictly a one-sided business relationship. I think that's important.
David Nail
#2. The first discount you give to a client marks the end of your business relationship
Pawel Grabowski
#3. I'm an independent artist, but I do have a good business relationship with Lego, since I'm a unique customer. They're aware of what I'm doing. A painter may not have a relationship with a paint maker, but there's only one company that makes Lego.
Nathan Sawaya
#4. Business happens over years and years. Value is measured in the total upside of a business relationship, not by how much you squeezed out in any one deal.
Mark Cuban
#5. Elena, we have a business relationship which has profited us both immensely. Let's keep it that way. What was between us is part of past. Anastasia is my future, and I won't jeopardize it in any way, so cut the fucking crap.
E.L. James
#6. Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company.
Ornette Coleman
#7. When you have a cat you assume certain responsibilities that, in a spiritual sense, transcend those of a marital or a business relationship.
Kinky Friedman
#8. Constraints inspire us in how we approach the press, how we approach business relationships, how we do everything.
Jack Dorsey
#9. Your children need to know they are loved and safe. Everything else is adult business.
Jeannine Lee
#10. What goes on between a man and his missus is nobody's business; especially where desert toppin's involved.
Tanya Huff
#11. When a person travels through a few years with an organization, or with a partnership, or any other kind of working association, he leaves a 'wake' behind in these two areas, task and relationship: what did he accomplish and how did he deal with people?
Henry Cloud
#12. Human beings are very unpredictable in relations and there are no written agreements ... Unlike in business transactions ...
Honeya
#13. The best system I've ever seen for intellectual distribution is the direct selling business-also known as one-to-one marketing, network marketing, referral marketing or relationship marketing.
Paul Zane Pilzer
#14. Saxon and I had no business even attempting any type of relationship with each other. We were gunpowder and one hell of a spark, and I wasn't about to test our combustibility.
Liz Reinhardt
#15. I began to expand my personal service in the church, and to search more diligently for a closer relationship with God among my different business, professional and political interests.
Jimmy Carter
#16. Even before my parents died, I felt all the responsibility to my family. I don't know why. In any business, any relationship, if something goes wrong, I feel I am to blame. It's something inside me.
Mikhail Prokhorov
#17. An Oxford degree or owning a successful business or a perfect looking body does NOT guarantee inner-happiness, peace of mind, self-love, and a loving relationship.
Maddy Malhotra
#18. Salespeople are the most vital people in any business. Without sales, the biggest and most sophisticated companies shut down. Sales are the spark plug in the engine of free enterprise. There is a direct relationship between the success of the sales community and the success of the entire country.
Brian Tracy
#19. I have this home in New York, I have a long-term relationship with my boyfriend, who's from Australia, and I had this business that I had maintain. Even though I wasn't actively shooting, there's a lot of peripheral work.
Claire Danes
#20. Without commitment, you cannot have depth in anything, whether it's a relationship, a business or a hobby.
Neil Strauss
#21. While paying attention to positive and negative feedback is very important, it is not enough. What also matters is acknowledging and responding to this feedback. This is how you nurture your relationship with your audience.
Cendrine Marrouat
#22. Friendship/Relationship... all is about the deal and business... give or take!?
Deyth Banger
#23. A COnNeCtworker is a networker who is always taking into account the needs of others. Approaching people with a service attitude to bring them value and build a relationship. Then when that person is looking for a reliable service provider in a particular industry, they will pick the COnNeCtworker.
Michele Jennae
#24. Business colleagues who have not seen each other for a long time but who have a good relationship can always shake hands warmly and grab each other's right upper arm or shoulder with their free left hand. Men and women executives should not kiss each other in public.
Letitia Baldrige
#25. It's very different than it use to be. I think everybody has a lot more experience in how to be in a relationship - whether it's a marriage or a significant other or a business or a friend.
Kathy Valentine
#26. Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.
Joyce Meyer
#27. When things are running perfectly smoothly, with people and boxes on charts enjoying a one-to-one relationship, then the processes and infrastructure have caught up to the business.
Eric Schmidt
#28. My relationship with Salman Khan is too personal to talk about. I take my work like any other regular job, and what I do in my personal life is no one's business. I'd rather let my work do all the talking.
Katrina Kaif
#29. In a very real sense, there are only two roles in organisations: customers and suppliers. Everybody functions simultaneously in both roles, whether inside or outside the organisation the essence of good business, therefore, is the quality of the relationship between customer and supplier.
Stephen Covey
#30. A telephone is useful for business, but it's not a relationship.
Olivia Newport
#31. Business schools have always had a complicated relationship to science, and have a long tradition of repackaging ideology as academic studies.
Carl Cederstrom
#32. As and when I get into a relationship, I'll flaunt her to the world. I'm looking for a soul mate, and in any case, I'm not very much for casual dating. I'm such a simple guy away from this dating-shating business.
Suresh Raina
#33. What makes for a good marriage isn't necessarily what makes for a good romantic relationship. Marriage isn't a passion-fest; it's a partnership formed to run a very small, mundane and often boring non-profit business. And I mean this in a good way.
Lori Gottlieb
#34. Sidney was annoyed. What business was it of anyone else? His relationship with Amanda was private. He hated the idea of anyone talking about them. Now he would have to explain something that he didn't want to explain because he liked it all being vague and inexplicable.
James Runcie
#35. You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again.
Henry Ford
#36. If I get married, it's something you really have to work at. It's hard enough to work at having a relationship with best friends and girls that are in the business.
Selma Blair
#37. When you're confident in what you bring to the table, you don't have to chase and beg anyone to sit down and eat.
Stephan Labossiere
#38. Art is a service, not a product. Created beauty is a relationship, and a relationship with the Holy at that. Reducing such work to 'content' is like praying in swear words. End of Sermon. Back to business.
John Perry Barlow
#39. There was a time when the contractual relationship between the employer and the employee was supposed to be none of the public's business. That time has passed.
Frank Murphy
#40. In business courtesy and efficiency have a symbiotic relationship.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#41. Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
Warren Bennis
#42. I always had a kind of strange relationship with New York City, with total love affair in the beginning then retreat during the kind of conservatives of politics and real estate and business came, and then I am again kind of fighting for the justice to the city, to open the city for the artists.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#43. Because every exchange is always a relationship, to get the most while giving the least is unjust, unethical, antisocial, abusive, perhaps 'evil.' Yet predatory commerce ("the free market" as it is euphemistically called) operates regularly on the principle of 'get the most and pay the least.
James Hillman
#45. Yours is more than business. Your opinion of him - and your continuing relationship with him - matters. My nephew is not accustomed to that, and he's struggling with it.
Kelley Armstrong
#46. Sabanci has many years of experience in the tire reinforcement industry, and we are committed to the success of this business through an advanced technology relationship with KoSa and a strong commitment to our customers.
Guler Sabanci
#47. When it comes to business, I am a woman, and when it comes to relationships, I am a child. I just haven't figured out how to bring the same confidence and conviction I have in the boardroom to my romantic relationships.
Drew Barrymore
#48. I am a Muslim. I am a practising Muslim. I don't - i accept proper relationship with a man and woman and the family life. It is not our business to knock at every door and checking people's orientation and casting aspersions or having prejudice against people.
Anwar Ibrahim
#49. Content is the currency of the social web and sharing that content is the catalyst to new relationships and business benefits.
Mark Schaefer
#50. Building a professional relationship on respect as opposed to affection is a very good idea. Running your art projects the way you'd run a dry-cleaning business is also a really good idea. You shouldn't go into work like you're going on a date, like you're hanging out with friends.
Penn Jillette
#51. Here's a rule of thumb for networking events: one new honest-to-goodness relationship is worth ten fistfuls of business cards. Rush home afterward and kick back on your sofa. Carve out restorative niches.
Susan Cain
#52. I don't buy or sell relationships, so let's talk business.
Sukant Ratnakar
#53. One genuine new relationship is worth a fistful of business cards.
Susan Cain
#54. A tree 'fires' its leaves every autumn, and a mother bird 'fires' its babies from the nest in spring, right? Be alert to the need to call an end to a relationship within your business, and if it's your turn to fire, do it swiftly.
Andrea J. Lee
#55. Lunch should consist of at least 1/3 relationship building talk. If you don't have time for business talk, it was a very successful lunch.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#56. Meeting everyone you wanted to know in the small surf industry, I saw how the surf trade was made up of characters that not only surfed, but were able to develop a business out of their relationship with their product and the ocean.
John Van Hamersveld
#57. One honest relationship can be more productive than fistfuls of business cards.
Susan Cain
#58. People don't trust conglomerates; they trust individuals. Network marketing brings trust and the quality of the relationship to the center of the business. And it enables you to expand indefinitely, simply by expanding the number of relationships.
Brian Tracy
#59. I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry.
Hank Haney
#60. Relationship networking is about who you know and more importantly, who knows you. Building the right network can open new doors to future success in your business.
Heidi
#61. The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
Jack Anderson
#62. Things have changed from the old days when movie studios encouraged stars to partner up for publicity. There's been some pressure from Disney Channel for people to not have a personal relationship with their business partners.
Lucas Grabeel
#63. You've got to build a relationship. You can't just deal with people when it's business. If it is, then you always have to assume that they have an angle when they come at you.
Markwayne Mullin
#64. Any relationship (friend, romantic or business) that's one sided isn't one; it's a one way street headed in one direction ... nowhere. Cultivation requires input from willing participants.
T.F. Hodge
#65. It [moviemaking] is all a relationship business. It's a personal business. It's all personal relationships, if you're lucky enough to build on one to the other.
Graham King
#66. The time I have already spent at Harvard has been a stimulating experience, and I look forward to developing my relationship and activities with the students, faculty and friends of the Harvard Business School community.
Alex Ferguson
#67. A compelling personal vision creates passion. Think about something that you are passionate about, and you will always find a clear vision behind it. If you find you're lacking passion in either your business or in a relationship, it's not a crisis of passion; it's a crisis of vision. We
Brian P. Moran
#68. Many people fail in their career, business and relationship, and others get stuck because of their inability to make quality decisions.
Nkem Paul
#69. Do business with honesty irrespective of what happens, whatever happens thereafter is correct. But do not start any accounts (karma).
Dada Bhagwan
#70. 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
#71. I always have my own opinion before my boss says his.
Gerry Geek
#72. The parent-adolescent relationship is like a partnership in which the senior partner (the parent) has more expertise in many areasbut looks forward to the day when the junior partner (the adolescent) will take over the business of running his or her own life.
Laurence Steinberg
#73. To talk about a relationship trivializes something that's nobody's business.
Jennifer Aniston
#74. God desires your increase in your leadership, stewardship, relationship, and business
Sunday Adelaja
#75. To deem us simply enemies is to lose the true flavor of our relationship. It was more like the two of us entered into a business partnership in order to more efficiently pursue our mutual interest of hating each other.
Patrick Rothfuss
#76. Many business people end up being relationship rich, and referral poor.
Timothy M. Houston
#77. True cultural connection is the Holy Grail for brands if they want to create an enduring emotional relationship with people.
Albert Chmielowski
#78. It was my first big relationship and it was just very abusive. I wouldn't give him the credit of naming him, if he ever reads this. But he was older, in the music business - or so he said.
Lisa Snowdon
#79. A letter is a most hazardous business, the written word allows no indecision, either distance or familiarity will emphasize the tone the letter establishes, and you end up with a relationship that is fiction
Jose Saramago
#80. We often equate a new beginning or fresh start to moving to a new area, changing jobs, starting a new business or entering a new relationship. While this is true, there is also the possibility that God wants to bring newness to you right where you are.
Jamie Larbi
#81. With the increasing speed of business in today's economy, transparency isn't just desirable - it's essential.
Michael Thomas Sunnarborg
#82. People always assume that the church's primary business is to teach morality. But it isn't; it's to proclaim grace, forgiveness, and the free party for all. It's to announce the reconciling relationship of God to everybody and to invite them simply to believe it and celebrate it.
Robert Farrar Capon
#83. Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.
Eminem
#84. I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It's been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two.
Cameron Mathison
#85. Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business, or even a strictly online business, can form the same kind of friendly, loyal relationship with customers as a local retailer. I'm saying it's already been done because I lived it.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#86. A lasting relationship with a woman is only possible if you are a business failure,
J. Paul Getty
#87. The best predictor of a woman's involvement in terrorism, whether it's a secular or religious group, is a relationship with a terrorist: her father, brother, husband or even her son. Terrorism becomes a bit of a family business.
Mia Bloom
#88. Ultimately, if the Lord doesn't build the house (or the Sunday school class, or the church, or the family, or the business, or the relationship, or ), we are laboring in vain anyway (Psalm 127:1). We release the burden of stress when we release the responsibilities for the outcome to the Lord.
Paul Chappell
#89. The U.S. economy and workers benefit from a strong, healthy relationship between government and business.
Harold Ford Jr.
#90. I'm in a relationship with life. My life is just out there. I'm on the road every day. I love my life.
Suze Orman
#91. You can't treat a romantic relationship the same way you do a business one, by being bossy. It takes tender, compromising, loving tactics. And that's such a different approach.
Drew Barrymore
#92. Many business leaders are seeing the relationship between long term success and sustainability, and that's very heartening.
Jacqueline Novogratz
