Business Technology Quotes

#1. When you come to the spiritual needs, the emotional needs, the needs of our inner life, then politics and business and technology are completely impotent. They are completely unable to meet and address the needs of human beings.

Satish Kumar

#2. Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.

Clement Mok

#3. I'd say we [Apple Inc.] are the most creative of the technology companies and definitely the most artist-friendly. Almost everyone in the music business uses a Mac and everyone has an iPod.

Steve Jobs

#4. Innovation happens at the intersection of people, process, technology, customers, and business ecosystem.

Pearl Zhu

#5. Forward-thinking organizations seek hybrid professionals who are highly proficient writers, analytical, creative, and tech savvy, with strong competencies in business management, information technology (IT), and human behavior.

Paul Roetzer

#6. Well, the rollout of new technology always affects how wizards do business.

Diane Duane

#7. The best and most evolved technologies are those that do not destroy the very base on which we live

Vandana Shiva

#8. Holding back technology to reserve business models is like allowing blacksmiths to veto the internal combustion engine in order to protect their horseshoes.

Don Tapscott

#9. Just as one year in a dog's life is equivalent to seven years in a human life, one year in the high-technology business is like seven years in any other industry.

Regis McKenna

#10. All this technology has not changed the way NFL Films does business and our process. Yes, with one touch of a button now you reach millions of people but it is still the same approach that my father and I started out with.

Steve Sabol

#11. You'd better have the technology knowledge. I really urge you not to think you can start a whole company and business with just ideas on paper, because you'll end up owning so few of those ideas.

Steve Wozniak

#12. Consumers today are less responsive to traditional media. They are embracing new technologies that empower them with more control over how and when they are marketed to.

Jim Stengel

#13. Societies or companies that expect a glorious past to shield them from the forces of change driven by advancing technology will fail and fall. That applies as much to my own, the media industry, as to every other business on the planet.

Rupert Murdoch

#14. New York has been, and will continue to be, a magnet for people from all over the world. This is where the arts, business, research and technology converge to create the world's foremost urban economy.

Michael Bloomberg

#15. Companies are bought for their revenue, customer base, technology, or people. A few great companies offer all of these, but any valuable business offers one.

Margaret Heffernan

#16. The markets were now run by technology, but the technologists were still treated like tools. Nobody bothered to explain the business to them, but they were forced to adapt to its demands and exposed to its failures - which was, perhaps, why there had been so many more conspicuous failures.

Michael Lewis

#17. The business we're in is more sociological than technological, more dependent on workers' abilities to communicate with each other than their abilities to communicate with machines.

Tom DeMarco

#18. For associations to emerge healthy and strong, they must re-engage with their members around the heart-centered why of why they exist, leverage current leadership, and build future leadership while they integrate the balance of technology and face-to-face experiences.

Holly Duckworth

#19. We should never lose sight of the underlying essence of a market-a place where buyers and sellers come together. Every other feature-whether crafted by tradition or technology-exists only to serve that primary purpose.

Arthur Levitt Jr

#20. To understand products, it is not enough to understand design or technology: it is critical to understand business.

Donald A. Norman

#21. Everyone always wants new things. Everybody likes new inventions, new technology. People will never be replaced by machines. In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy.

Michael Scott

#22. Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do - and the business side.

Marissa Mayer

#23. In practice, downsizing is too often about cutting your work force while keeping your business the same, and doing so not by investments in productivity-enhancing technology, but by making people pull 80-hour weeks and bringing in temps to fill the gap.

James Surowiecki

#24. In various fields, such as science, technology, sports, business and the arts, immigrants enrich our culture every single day.

Charles B. Rangel

#25. Each business is a victim of Digital Darwinism, the evolution of consumer behavior when society and technology evolve faster than the ability to exploit it. Digital Darwinism does not discriminate. Every business is threatened.

Brian Solis

#26. It's obviously unfair to paint with a broad brush here, but the germ of an idea for a breakthrough in technology doesn't come out of a business school curriculum. It comes out of a laboratory or a math lecture or a physics tutorial.

Michael Moritz

#27. It's far too rarely stated that the technology industry is not in the business of making people productive. It is only in the business of selling more technology.

Mark Hurst

#28. The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them - capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it.

John Locke

#29. Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.

Michael Dell

#30. Don't become a slave to technology - manage your phone, don't let it manage you.

Richard Branson

#31. Libraries function as crucial technology hubs, not merely for free Web access, but those who need computer training and assistance. Library business centers help support entrepreneurship and retraining.

Scott Turow

#32. If you ask what keeps me up at night, it's the pressure in the system forcing us to do all sorts of things. Content, data and technology are forcing us to think about business in a very different way.

Martin Sorrell

#33. We use technology to make it cheaper, better, and faster for the client. And then if you have the most flow, you can win. Now, having said that, Silicon Valley wants to take on this business. They think they see an opening.

Jamie Dimon

#34. Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.

Aaron Levie

#35. Education is the only business still debating the usefulness of technology.

Rod Paige

#36. The app saved three minutes of my time. But in the process, it cut a neighborhood business out of the economic equation. And, in a way, I had cut off myself from the inconvenient, maddening, but all-too-necessary messiness of human interaction.

Nick Bilton

#37. The big reason why we don't have space colonies and regular trips to the moon is that flying into outer space is just plain 'hard.' The business of safely transporting people off the Earth is a costly affair that requires a lot of technology.

Ben Parr

#38. The genomics revolution, proteomics, metabolomics, all of these 'omics' that sound so terrific on grants and on business plans. What we're doing is we are seizing control of our evolutionary future. I mean we're essentially using technology to just jam evolution into fast-forward.

Gregory Stock

#39. The utility of the robot needs to come first. It's business model over technology.

Colin Angle

#40. The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

Bill Gates

#41. I spent my whole career in the technology business, and I was convinced of the importance, at a grand scale, of the development of global connectivity.

John Morgridge

#42. I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.

Elon Musk

#43. After Scour, I started a company called Red Swoosh. The idea was to take those litigants who sued us for a huge amount of money and turn them into customers with the same technology. I wanted to get them to pay me. It was a revenge business.

Travis Kalanick

#44. After coming from a major label, I realized the entire business has been decimated, and you can't look to labels to try to figure it out because they don't even use the technology, and they're oblivious to how people consume music these days.

Trent Reznor

#45. There's a fundamental problem with how the software business does things. We're asking people who are masters of hard-edged technology to design the soft, human side of software as well. As a result, they make products that are really cool - if you happen to be a software engineer.

Alan Cooper

#46. The new companies often put the old ones out of business; the young were forever eating the old. The whole of the Valley was a speeded-up Oedipal drama. In this drama technology played a very clear role. It was the murder weapon.

Michael Lewis

#47. The global triumph of American technology has been predicated on the implicit separation between the business interests of Silicon Valley and the political interests of Washington.

Evgeny Morozov

#48. The key to success for Sony, and to everything in business, science and technology for that matter, is never to follow the others.

Masaru Ibuka

#49. In the technology world, you have to execute fast or you're out of business.

Vivek Wadhwa

#50. The Internet is ultimately about innovation and integration, but you don't get the innovation unless you integrate Web technology into the processes by which you run your business.

Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

#51. The point of an accelerator is to teach you about companies and business, not about technology.

Sam Altman

#52. Big companies often use their leverage to take stakes in would-be suppliers, especially in the technology business.

Alex Berenson

#53. The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected.

John McKinley

#54. I'd always loved technology. It's something I always messed around with in computer labs at school. So I glommed onto it very early as way to differentiate myself in business.

Daniel Suarez

#55. One reason product management is such an appealing career is you get to sit at the intersection of technology, business, and design.

Gayle Laakmann McDowell

#56. Not since the digital revolution in the early '90s has technology placed such a comprehensive burden on business, employees and individuals to reinvent their business plans, services and products, and themselves to keep pace with the changing marketplace.

Simon Mainwaring

#57. 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

#58. Be a surfer. Watch the ocean. Figure out where the big waves are breaking and adjust accordingly.

37 Signals

#59. In terms of the technology I use the most, it's probably a tie between my Blackberry and my MacBook Pro laptop. That's how I communicate with the rest of the world and how I handle all the business I have to handle.

John Legend

#60. There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.

Bill Gates

#61. This is not a phone business. This is the smallest video camera, it's the smallest computer, smallest TV.

Canning Fok

#62. Technology is something we buy to sell to the customers. Ericsson, Nokia and IBM do technology for a living, so let's give it to them because they know best. It has made the business model of Bharti very, very sustainable.

Sunil Mittal

#63. Potatoes are popped, with no oil, using the same technology used in the rice cake manufacturing business. It took a lot of trial and error and lots of practice, though, to get the right flavor.

Keith Belling

#64. Ten million new millionaires will be created by 2016, and you can become one of them
especiall y if you are in direct selling, technology or home-based business..

Paul Zane Pilzer

#65. I don't think piracy is going to kill the music industry. But digital technology and the ability to download will change the packaging from CDs to a single-based business.

Richard Parsons

#66. I came to the conclusion long ago that limits to innovation have less to do with technology or creativity than organizational agility. Inspired individuals can only do so much.

Ray Stata

#67. Technology and technology-driven change has virtually nothing to do with igniting a transformation from good to great

James C. Collins

#68. She wanted a degree in business technology, not to be the next freaking Nora Roberts.

Mari Carr

#69. Every decision by every decision-maker needs to be informed by an understanding of how technology changes business processes.

Pearl Zhu

#70. There is some confusion because we only recently began our marketing. We're in an era were people need to think about business processes and applications horizontally ... We need to think of the enterprise not as an island of stand-alone technology.

Carly Fiorina

#71. [L]ean start-ups are the small furry mammals competing with the large dinosaurs - meaning they're one asteroid strike away from world dominance. Exponential technology is that asteroid.

Peter H. Diamandis

#72. 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

#73. Look, the media are trapped by changes in the technology and business of their industry.

David Frum

#74. The Web and new technology offer more opportunities to reach a world market at a lower price. Today, a person can start a business at home and reach the world market.

Robert Kiyosaki

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

Elon Musk

#76. The mobile phone acts as a cursor to connect the digital and physical.

Marissa Meyer

#77. Always seek input from others to aide you in reaching the best possible decision for your business/start-up. This is due to entrepreneurship mostly being about taking calculated risks, and you will always create better strategies if more facts and information go into the decision-making process.

Luigi Wewege

#78. Nothing happens to a business growth until someone sells its product.

David W. Wang

#79. Business models change. As technology processes, business models change.

Marsha Blackburn

#80. Generating a system architecture is not a deterministic process. It requires careful consideration of business requirements, technology choices, existing infrastructure and systems, and actual physical resources, such as budget and manpower.

Andrew Holdsworth

#81. To reboot your association for success, you must shift your beliefs to realize how vitally important key investments in technology can be as an ongoing and personalized communication tool with your members.

Holly Duckworth

#82. Government is itself an art, one of the subtlest of the arts. It is neither business, nor technology, nor applied science. It is the art of making men live together in peace and with reasonable happiness.

Felix Frankfurter

#83. When I returned from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972, my father was running a forging business with a turnover of Rs 3.5 crore. But I had no patience and wanted to grow the business via exports.

Baba Kalyani

#84. I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.

Aaron Levie

#85. New technologies make it possible for even the mass marketer to assume the role of a small proprietor, doing business again wit individuals, one at a time.

Don Peppers

#86. It is important to note that everything in the business is converging with technology. The more you can understand how that convergence is happening, and the more you can steward that change into your organization, then the more you'll be sought after as that strategic partner.

Stephen Gillett

#87. Grassroots techies - the mostly unknown people who write code and start companies that don't make the headlines - hate, loathe, and despise Microsoft. At technology conferences, it is the devil, or the guaranteed laugh line. Its products are mocked, its business practices booed.

Virginia Postrel

#88. Zefr has all the ingredients for success - dynamic, inspiring management, the ability to marry technology and content, and a business model that can scale. I'm thrilled to be part of the team.

Ross Levinsohn

#89. It's a scary question for a musician or songwriter today - what does the future hold? It is a strange time in the music business too; it feels like we are all in some kind of transitional period, stuck between old technology and new.

Dean Wareham

#90. Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

Bill Gates

#91. The lifeblood of our business is that R&D spend. There's nothing that flows through a pipe or down a wire or anything else. We have to continuously create new innovation that lets people do something they didn't think they could do the day before.

Steve Ballmer

#92. I'd really love to see a business model for higher education going forward that is actually affordable, that uses modern technology to reach scale and quality and that really reimburses the services rendered in a way that's meaningful to everybody.

Sebastian Thrun

#93. We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.

Pierre Omidyar

#94. I'll be involved more with Adobe overall in terms of our technology direction and the problems we are trying to solve, working across the different business units at Adobe.

Kevin Lynch

#95. There has been a seismic shift in the business world. The great classical business principles still hold true but they need to be fused with cutting edge internet technology.

Harvey MacKay

#96. In my column series 'The Main Thing', I often talk about how Internet technology can improve the way people communicate - both within a business and between a business and its customers and partners.

Jim Barksdale

#97. Today, companies have to radically revolutionize themselves every few years just to stay relevant. That's because technology and the Internet have transformed the business landscape forever. The fast-paced digital age has accelerated the need for companies to become agile.

Nolan Bushnell

#98. Idiocy in the modern age isn't an all-encompassing, twenty-four-hour situation for most people. It's a condition that everybody slips into many times a day. Life is just too complicated to be smart all the time.

Scott Adams

#99. When you build a product, you make a lot of assumptions about the state of the art of technology, the best business practices, and potential customer usage/behavior.

Steven Sinofsky

#100. The role of business in advancing women's rights is growing, particularly in the area of economic opportunity including opening access to training, mentoring, networks, markets, technology and even to capital in some circumstances.

Melanne Verveer