Top 100 For Business Quotes
#1. Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.
Graham Greene
#2. It's bad for business, and what's bad for business is bad for Man.
Pierce Brown
#3. Despite my best efforts, word that an American tourist was in town quickly made its way around Grozny. That I had come to Chechnya not for business or NGO work, but to see the sites and meet the people, was notable enough to be broadcast throughout the republic.
Anthony Marra
#4. A telephone is useful for business, but it's not a relationship.
Olivia Newport
#5. It is hard to overstate the economic importance of the U.S.A. to Scotland, and that makes it essential that we engage with companies and potential investors and get the message across that we are open for business.
Nicola Sturgeon
#6. Oh shoot, Imagene, you shouldn't have told them that. Big mouth. "I mean, not that the hotel's not open for business now, because it is. Sure enough. You're both here." I flashed a big toothy grin, but only Carter smiled back. The
Lisa Wingate
#7. I fully expect to be able to complete one more campaign goal - and that is to proudly report that signs have been erected as you enter our great state that say 'Welcome to Wild, Wonderful West Virginia: Open for Business!'
Joe Manchin
#8. Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.
Peter Drucker
#9. A corrupt society is terrible for humanity and great for business.
Farhan Akhtar
#10. IN MY DEFENSE, I didn't mean to start the Apocalypse. It wasn't just my personal aversion to oblivion; I had a clear financial motive: The end of the world is bad for business.
J.C. Nelson
#11. All compassion is lost when healthcare trades beneficence for business.
P.J. Nathan
#12. Girls that aren't cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man.
Tennessee Williams
#13. Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect.
Ryan Phillippe
#14. It is important to remember that life is not a dress rehearsal and that none of us should waste our time on doing things that don't spark fires within us. My golden rule for business and life is: We should all enjoy what we do and do what we enjoy.
Richard Branson
#15. A good Catholic boy like myself? You must be joking. Anyway, it kind of changes things when your equipment's used for business instead of pleasure
Tabitha McGowan
#16. I travelled a lot for business and was in the office for long hours.
Mike Jackson
#17. Individualism is bad for business - though absolutely necessary for freedom, progressive knowledge, and any possible interface with the transcendent.
Tom Robbins
#18. I have a head for business and a body for sin. Unfortunately, the sin appears to be gluttony.
Jenny Colgan
#19. It is strange that men will prepare for everything except death. We prepare for education. We prepare for business. We prepare for our careers. We prepare for marriage. We prepare for old age. We prepare for everything except the moment we are to die.
Billy Graham
#20. You know when I'm down to my socks it's time for business
That's why they're called business socks
It's business, it's business time
Flight Of The Conchords
#21. The evolving social and digital media platforms and highly innovative and relevant payment capabilities are causing seismic changes in consumer behavior and creating equally disruptive opportunities for business.
Howard Schultz
#22. Whereas once it was the customer who favored the merchant by dealing with him, conditions changed until it was the merchant who favored the customer by selling to him. That is bad for business. Monopoly is bad for business. Profiteering
Henry Ford
#23. The Phoenix Project is a must read for business and IT executives struggling with the growing complexity of IT.
Jim Whitehurst
#24. New Mexico is an environment where we are open for business.
Susana Martinez
#25. But I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.
David Sedaris
#26. That's the difference between crime and business. For business you gotta have capital. Sometimes I think it's the only difference.
Raymond Chandler
#27. 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
#28. A man does not die for business, but for ideals.
Adolf Hitler
#29. Partner struck me as an ugly euphemism. Euphemism in the sense that people don't like to talk about sex, so they displace it on to some kind of business model. Since I have a distaste for business, I see no appeal to something that sounds like a financial leadership team.
Barbara Browning
#30. This family knew that Dresden was gone. Those with eyes had seen it burn and burn, understood that they were on the edge of a desert now. Still-they had opened for business, had polished the glass and wound the clocks and stirred the fires, and waited and waited to see who would come.
Kurt Vonnegut
#33. I just have a serious problem with business for business' sake: this bottom-dollar mentality. I have a serious problem with evil.
Jeff Ament
#34. Discrimination , in all its forms, is bad for business.
Tim Cook
#35. Advertising is a wonderful lubricant for business, if it's used properly.
John Cullum
#36. We have already discovered how quickly we become dependent on the Internet and its applications for business, government and research, so it is not surprising that we are finding that we can apply this technology to enable or facilitate our social interactions as well.
Vint Cerf
#37. Forget about the business outlook ... be on the outlook for business.
Paul J. Meyer
#38. I have become a subscriber for 'Business Week.' It teaches me a lot about business, and I have really started to get into it. I'm interested in business and learning about how everything works.
Marko Jaric
#40. 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
#41. You don't want to ask after the health of anyone, if you're a funeral director. They think maybe you're scouting for business.
Neil Gaiman
#42. We have the enormous opportunity in our hands to make a positive difference for business, people, and the planet.
Richard Branson
#43. Here for business or pleasure, Mr. Wheeler?"
"Redemption," Shane says.
Jess Walter
#44. Looks like more of those eejits paid tonight than usual. Means I don't have to go chasing any of 'em. Seems like you're going to be good for business, Em, even if I only have you collecting subs
R.J. Prescott
#45. If Triple H asked you to jump off a bridge, would you? Because I think that's good for business.
CM Punk
#46. The trick for business professionals, and for educators, is to present bodies of information so compelling that the audience does this (encoding) on their own, spontaneously engaging in deep and elaborate encoding.
John Medina
#47. Healthcare is very much a high priority for me. Healthcare is also a huge issue for business, both big and small.
Jon Tester
#49. Based on my pool of coached clients, 90% of the challenges for business owners exist in a lack of personal development.
Darren L Johnson
#50. Giving does not just feel good, but it's really, really good for business, and it's good for your personal brand.
Blake Mycoskie
#51. The incentive for business is not, and cannot, be anything other than the root incentive for all business: they must profit.
Edward Norton
#52. When I look back, I did what I had to do for business and then fit family life into it.
Jerry Reinsdorf
#53. For business and life, if you are not experiencing growth, you're possibly dying.
Nkem Paul
#54. A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man.
John Adams
#55. We showed that when we say 'Wisconsin is open for business', we mean it.
Scott Walker
#56. My purpose in going to Walden Pond
was not to live cheaply
nor to live dearly there
but to transact some private business,
with the fewest obstacles ...
It's a good place for business ...
it offers advantages
which it may not be good policy to divulge.
Henry David Thoreau
#57. One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.
Fareed Zakaria
#58. When you go for business, you just see the airport, the offices, cities. You never see what 80 per cent of the population does in a country, so if you want to understand what Indonesia is made of, or the depths of China or India, you have to go and see.
Jean-Pascal Tricoire
#59. The landscape for business isn't changing because of social media, it's changing because consumer expectations are evolving.
Brian Solis
#60. Cycling to work is an important issue for business - the more who do it, the more our communities will support it. Healthy and green, cycling is worthy of the support of every business in the land.
Digby Jones, Baron Jones Of Birmingham
#61. In books there's nothing of the fish covered in the coldness of the sea, or the feeling of a star touching space. Bad for business.
Steve Aylett
#62. Massachusetts led the nation passing the first state minimum wage a century ago in June 1912, and with passage of an $11 state minimum wage ... will be leading the nation again with a wage floor that is good for business, good for customers and good for our economy.
Holly Sklar
#63. Governments must take on the central role of creating an investment climate across Africa that supports enterprise and the role of the private sector and provides a clear and predictable economic policy framework for business to succeed.
Jeroen Van Der Veer
#64. The mindset, vision, competency, capability, culture and marketing opportunity are all great starting point for business model innovation.
Pearl Zhu
#65. I've always been a multi-passionate woman, so my passion for business existed right alongside my passion for dance.
Marie Forleo
#66. For business, our internet love affair was a gift from the gods.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#67. Beware of a misfit occupation ... Consider carefully your natural bent, whether for business or a profession.
Marshall Field
#68. I think for business reasons, fiscal reasons, I think these cable networks can take greater risks and I think with a risk comes better programming. And I think USA has got an amazing identity to it now that is clearly defined with its 'Characters welcome' tag.
Tim DeKay
#69. North Vegas is where you go if you're a hooker turning forty and the syndicate men on the strip decide you're no longer much good for business out there with the high rollers.
Hunter S. Thompson
#70. I'm not interested in business for business's sake.
Dasha Zhukova
#71. It turns out that, if you want to know what the U.S. military is doing in Africa, it's advantageous to be connected to a large engineering or construction firm looking for business.
Nick Turse
#72. But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.
Warren Cuccurullo
#73. I have long-range plans, but you always have to wait for business to catch up with you. It's a matter of contracts and meetings catching up with your ideas of what you want to accomplish in life.
Rex Smith
#74. 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
#75. In Utah alone, ten million acres are open for business. Their policy is not about the public or the public's best interest. It is about the oil and gas corporations' best interests.
Terry Tempest Williams
#76. The most successful businessmen were often uneducated when measured by the scholastic standards of the teaching profession. But they were equal to their social function of adjusting production to the most urgent demand. Because of these merits the consumers chose them for business leadership.
Ludwig Von Mises
#77. In D.C., I've passed amendments to allocate $6.3 million to keep our waterways open for business, $1 million as a down payment on our wetland restoration - our natural storm protection - and $5 million to ensure that drilling permits are reviewed thoroughly and efficiently.
Cedric Richmond
#78. Since the purpose of business is to satisfy existing desires, or stimulate new ones, if everyone were genuinely happy, there would be no need for business any longer.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#79. Smart recessionary marketing means not waiting for business to return to normal. Instead, you should cash in on this invaluable opportunity your more cautious competitors may be creating for you. If they pull back, your media investment works much harder.
Sarah Carter
#80. Having a heart that's three sizes too small must be really convenient for business.
Naima Simone
#81. The biggest potential of Facebook is that people can build networks. For business persons, it means that they can build their list of leads, which they can look upon as prospects for furthering their business.
Darren L Johnson
#82. A man should never neglect his family for business.
Cecelia Ahern
#83. For business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.
Mark Twain
#84. It's as if the fasion designers decided that once a woman hit a certain weight, she'd have no need for business suits, for skirts and blazers, for anything except glorified sweatsuits, and they tried to apologize for dressing us like overaged Teletubbies by silk-screening daisies on the tops.
Jennifer Weiner
#85. Claire "The Elysian Fields Guest House? Why didn't he just call it the Vestibule to Hell?"
Dean "Because that would be bad for business?"
From Summon the Keeper
Tanya Huff
#86. I think healthy competition is good for business, and really at the end best for end-users. Just think about what Android would have been if it was not for iPhone - a better blackberry?
Jack Levin
#87. We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is closed to terrorists and drug pushers and smugglers and others who seek to break the law.
Paul Cellucci
#88. In and of itself, keeping the country safe for business is not a bad thing.
Peter Schuyler
#89. My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.
Steve Jobs
#90. Temperance keeps the senses clear and unembarrassed, and makes them seize the object with more keenness and satisfaction. It appears with life in the face, and decorum in the person; it gives you the command of your head, and secures your health, and preserves you in a condition for business.
Jeremy Collier
#91. France in August when you can travel through the entire country without encountering a single pesky Frenchman or being bothered with anything that's open for business.
P. J. O'Rourke
#92. The government must do all it can to help reduce interest rates for business.
Pauline Hanson
#93. Things that are bad for business are bad for the people who work for business.
Thomas E. Dewey
#94. Historically, software for business was seen as unsexy because the products were seen as so poor - they provided such a poor user experience.
Justin Rosenstein
#96. I thought not being part of the [Britain] union was a bad idea. We are better together.
It was dangerous for business as there were no [concrete] plans around the currency or the economy.
Michelle Mone
#97. Let us show the world that a difference of opinion upon medical subjects is not incompatible with medical friendships; and in so doing, let us throw the whole odium of the hostility of physicians to each other upon their competition for business and money.
Benjamin Rush
#98. I am not a celebrity. I work with celebrities, and it is very difficult. When a celebrity wears a dress, it's good for business, so brands fight for the red carpet. Me? I don't like it, because fashion becomes a job about dressing celebrities. And it's a bit boring.
Carine Roitfeld
#99. Intelligence is not mandatory for business or creative success. It helps, but determination and enthusiasm are more important.
Chris Lewis
#100. I believe Business Objects is on the cusp of becoming a multi-billion-dollar sales company. There is tremendous growth potential for business intelligence.
Bernard Liautaud
