Business Shop Quotes

#1. I'm not a one-stop music shop with jazz improv in aisle 3 and country and western in aisle 4. I have a fairly focused and established kind of melody and approach, so people know what they're getting into when they go into business with me.

Charlie Clouser

#2. Melrose was so concerned that the [book]shop might close for lack of business, that he had suggested he would like to invest in it or even become a silent partner. "You see, books have always been a hobby of mine." Books had never been a hobby; they were a necessity.

Martha Grimes

#3. Our country is a place where hope can be born and great companies, organizations and non-profits can spring up from an idea birthed on the back of a coffee-shop napkin.

Todd Stocker

#4. I did an about-face and veered into the sandwich shop. What I ordered is none of your business, but it was really good.

Sue Grafton

#5. What would people think of a tradesman, that was to give a ball in his shop, hire performers, and hand refreshments about, with a view to benefit his business?

Jean-Baptiste Say

#6. I cannot do business. I cannot sit and say, 'How are you, the weather's great, how's your golf?' I'm like a bull in a china shop.

Cilla Black

#7. "Would you tax God?" asks a defender of church tax exemption. Well, if there were a God he should be able to pay his own way and support his own business. If not, then he should do like other business men and close up shop.

E. Haldeman-Julius

#8. During my pre-college years, I went on many trips with my father into the oil fields to visit their operations. On Saturday mornings, I often went with him to visit the company shop. I puttered around the machine, electronics, and automobile shops while he carried on his business.

Robert Woodrow Wilson

#9. And it doesn't matter to me whether you're running a coffee shop or you're an intellectual or you're in business or flying hot air balloons. People who can spread ideas, regardless of what those ideas are, win. But consumers, they got way more choices than they used to and way less time.

Seth Godin

#10. Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#11. This can shake you up, this business of things almost but not quite being the same. A pharmacy is not quite a drugstore; a brasserie is not quite a coffee shop; a lunch is not quite a lunch.

Adam Gopnik

#12. A shop-keeper in good business is quite as well off as a pedlar that travels the country with his wares on his back. Commercial jealousy is, after all, nothing but prejudice: it is a wild fruit, that will drop of itself when it has arrived at maturity.

Jean-Baptiste Say

#13. Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.

Leo Burnett

#14. 23andMe set out to try and change healthcare - this is not an easy business. This is not a coffee shop in Austin.

Anne Wojcicki

#15. Everybody's got something. In the end, what choice does one really have but to understand that truth, to really take it in, and then shop for groceries, get a haircut, do one's work; get on with the business of one's life.
That's the hope, anyway.

David Rakoff

#16. To be successful and grow your business and revenues, you must match the way you market your products with the way your prospects learn about and shop for your products.

Brian Halligan

#17. I think it is completely immoral for a shop to trade in the middle of a community, to take money and make profits from that community and then ignore the existence of that community, its needs and problems.

Anita Roddick

#18. A great advantage I had when I started The Body Shop was that I had never been to business school.

Anita Roddick

#19. When the Academy called, I panicked. I thought they might want their Oscars back and the pawn shop has been out of business for a while.

Woody Allen

#20. Thanks to my father who, as it was to turn out, had already taught me most of what I needed to know about business in his butcher's shop in Belfast. Thanks to my mother, who taught me that there are many things in life much more important than business.

Russell Napier

#21. You can have a worldwide shop from your bedroom. You can do things that weren't even dreamed of when I started off in business. It's why technology is the most wonderful thing for small businesses.

Theo Paphitis

#22. I've always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop, and so I've always had people buying them. I could always sell a few, even if I couldn't sell a lot, and somehow my business grew because people happened to like it. I'm in a fortunate position.

Vivienne Westwood

#23. Greenwood Insurance Group looks out for our company, and our employees. Their thoroughness and ability to shop for the best policies at the best prices shows me that they care about our business - long term.

Matthew Ford

#24. I'm an artist. There are a lot of people in the business who aren't. It's like they've got a shoe repair shop.

Lyle Tuttle

#25. Beneath the ash trees on Johnson Street, just east of campus, Hourglass Vintage stood in a weathered brick building, wedged between a fair-trade coffee shop and a bike-repair business.

Susan Gloss

#26. You know, I lose patience really easily; I'd rather shop in the grocery store than in the department store. I can pick an apple like nobody's business.

Gail Simmons

#27. If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they're receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole so that it's not counting as corporate income, that is what this is counting as a small business.

Austan Goolsbee

#28. When you go into your customary barber shop, you will wait for the man who gives you a little better shave, a little trimmer hair-cut. Business leaders are looking for the same things in their offices that you look for in the barber shop.

Charles M. Schwab

#29. You want people to feel comfortable to walk in their neighborhoods, go out and shop, do business.

Rick Scott

#30. The Internet means everything to everybody and it's growing by the day. You can't survive as a business, especially a small business, without having some form of good Internet presence; whether you're a shop or it's a showcase or just a way to talk to your customers.

Theo Paphitis

#31. Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.

Adlai E. Stevenson

#32. I have no interest in being the biggest, the most profitable or the largest retailer. I just want The Body Shop to be the best, most breathlessly exciting company - and one that changes the way business is carried out.

Anita Roddick

#33. True business can never be left in any shop. It is a care, white or black, that sits behind every horseman.

George MacDonald