Top 100 Good Business Quotes
#1. It takes a lot more to run a good business than just trailing commissions or kickbacks otherwise everybody would succeed, wouldn't they?
John Ilhan
#3. Everybody is watching you every minute anyways. If they think the message you're sending out is phony, they're going to say, 'Who does he think he is?' It's again good business. But it is also an obligation.
James Sinegal
#4. I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.
Adam McKay
#5. I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.
S. Truett Cathy
#6. A good business is based on information, analysis and insight, not speculation or opinion. Not all business owners share
Doug Richard
#7. Good business outcomes are testable, valuable, independently achievable, and negotiable (TVIN). As
Sriram Narayan
#8. In a knowledge economy, a good business is a community with a purpose, not a piece of property.
Charles Handy
#9. I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.
George Bernard Shaw
#10. Some of the fans here were not too sure about their club signing a player from their biggest rivals. Fortunately, we had a great season and won the League title for the first time in four years. Now, I think, everyone can say it was good business.
Luis Figo
#11. Cost-effective, attractive to business partners, environmentally friendly, easy access to a wide range of guidance and support - it makes good business sense to implement and maintain a robust and effective environmental management system
Elliot Morley
#12. It's always good business practice to eliminate any potential avengers.
Kerry Greenwood
#13. Street traders were doing good business selling a paper toy which represented a pig, but if you put the paper together and unfolded it in a certain way it turned into Hitler's face.
Wladyslaw Szpilman
#15. You know I think if the people who work for a business are proud of the business they work for, they'll work that much harder, and therefore, I think turning your business into a real force for good is good business sense as well.
Richard Branson
#16. The essence of good business is knowing when to step on a train and when to step off.
Richard Rainwater
#17. Observation over many years has taught us that the chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of good business conditions. The purchasers view the good current earnings as equivalent to 'earning power' and assume that prosperity is equivalent to safety.
Benjamin Graham
#18. As to the meaning of "corporate social responsibility," Friedman and I would agree: If a certain action improves the corporation's bottom line, there's no point in labeling it "socially responsible." It's just good business.
Robert Reich
#19. You listen to the street traders any morning. They don't shout, 'Nearly-fresh oranges, only slightly squashy, reasonable value,' do they? No, they shout, 'Git chore orinjes, they're luvverly.' Good business sense." He
Terry Pratchett
#21. a lot of so-called health breakthroughs are not nearly as impressive as their marketing makes them appear. While it may be good business to spin the numbers to increase sales, it isn't good science. One
T. Colin Campbell
#22. Whatever the composition of a firm, if it is to do good business it should be a place where everyone is encouraged to progress toward complexity- or at the very least a place that does not make it more difficult to achieve personal growth.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#23. You can't do a good business with a bad person. Find the right people to work with and you can't go wrong.
Richard Branson
#24. Making money is art. And working is art. And good business is the best art.
Andy Warhol
#25. It's because fear sells. It's because war is sport. And it's also very good business.
Hugh Howey
#26. If you can make peoples lives a lot better, you've got a really good business.
Richard Branson
#27. Friends don't necessarily made good business or creative partners.
Joseph Barbera
#28. A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event.
Bill Gates
#29. That's the way people were. Nobody believed in the things you believed but yourself, nobody believed that even you were really sincere about it, people believed whatever was good business for them at the time. Nobody believed in anything but good business.
Dawn Powell
#30. We never had a giant library or owned a lot of commercial characters the way most studios did. And since we didn't have a lot of internal resources, we had to find ways to be inventive and resourceful, which I think is a healthy way to run a good business.
Toby Emmerich
#31. Happiness is a good business these days, more you talk crap about happiness the large number of crowd you will gather.
Santosh Kalwar
#32. Any good business is a hobby. We have an integrated company culture, and I can honestly say that many people who come here to work make Yandex a central part of their lives.
Arkady Volozh
#33. Paying your employees well is not only the right thing to do but it makes for good business.
James Sinegal
#34. At the heart of any good business is a chief executive officer with one.
Malcolm Forbes
#35. Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
Jack Welch
#36. When building foliage, a tree must budget for each leaf individually and allocate for each position relative to the other leaves. A good business plan will allow our tree to triumph as the largest and longest-living being on your street. But it ain't easy, and it ain't cheap. The
Hope Jahren
#37. Markets come and go. Good business don't.
Fred Wilson
#38. Here I am, a not over-good business man, a second-rate engineer. I can make poor mechanical drawings. I play the piano after a fashion. In fact, I am one of those proverbial Jack-of-all-trades who are usually failures. Why I am not, I can't tell you.
Charles M. Schwab
#39. Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it
M. Anthony Burns
#40. I'm born into the cycle of giving that we're all born into, and I recognize it. So just because something is a good business, I'm not a business guy. I'm a creative guy.
Russell Simmons
#41. Thermostats are made by very large companies with no incentive to innovate. Their customers are contractors or HVAC wholesalers, not consumers. So why spend to make them better? It's a good business.
Tony Fadell
#42. 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
#44. Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man.
Felix Dennis
#46. I don't remember if I've been asked seriously to direct a picture. I understand that. I'm very good business for people as an actor and perhaps they'd rather I didn't.
Jack Nicholson
#47. If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.
Ernst Fischer
#48. Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind.
Martin H. Fischer
#50. The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.
Bill Gates
#51. Being a good human being is good business.
Paul Hawken
#52. I found an approach to investing that made enormous sense to me: rigorously analyzing a company's fundamentals, understanding exactly how it makes money, developing a view on the business's future prospects, and deciding if it's a good business.
Joe Mansueto
#53. It took forever for me to get work because I was a political comic, and now it's become good business, and God knows how long that'll last. You have to do it night after night after night to kind of make it. I still find myself on 'Piers Morgan' or on some show and I think, 'I hope this is funny.'
Lewis Black
#54. Personal relationships are always the key to good business. You can buy networking; you can't buy friendships.
Lindsay Fox
#55. Common sense is a skill to learn, and it is the foundation of all good business.
Ehab Atalla
#56. As we say at Year Up all the time, investing in our young people is not just a matter of economic justice. It's good business sense.
Gerald Chertavian
#57. If you wait for customers to tell you that you need to do something, you're too late. Good business leaders should be half a step ahead of what customers want, i.e. they don't actually quite know they want it. That's what innovation's about. With Plan A, we didn't wait for the consumers to tell us.
Stuart Rose
#58. I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.
Cyndi Lauper
#59. To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not only good manners, but equally good business.
Emily Post
#60. I do business with many people over the course of centuries, and treachery is a bad long-term investment. It simply isn't good business.
Jim Butcher
#61. We wrote every day, but the letters began to seem like checks drawn on the summer's capital. There had been a lot in the bank, but it is never good business practice to live on your capital, and I had the feeling, somehow, of living on the capital and watching something dwindle.
Robert Penn Warren
#62. At CNN, our view is that good journalism equals good business.
Jim Walton
#63. Business success depends on good business leadership, and that means hiring and partnering with only the people your business really needs. These are the smart, hardworking people who know your industry as well as, or even better than, you.
Kevin J. Donaldson
#64. Banking is very good business if you don't do anything dumb.
Warren Buffett
#65. There will be no good business unless the majority comes to agree that we should demand more from business than large quarterly returns.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#66. The people who are competing business-wise out there want what other successful labels and artists have. I don't want what they have; I want my own path, my own sound, my own identity. Record labels care nothing about identity or artistic freedom, they want good business.
Joe Nichols
#67. America's corporations learned long ago that equality is just good business and is the right thing to do,
Lloyd Blankfein
#68. For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses.
Anita Roddick
#70. Any good business person applies financial discipline to everything they do. The movie business is and should be no different; I don't believe you have to sacrifice creativity to have business success. To the contrary, great art requires discipline.
Paula Wagner
#71. Doing good business - being ethical, being transparent, being caring, implementing values in your business - makes a difference, and you make money at the same time.
Shari Arison
#72. Photography works upon the human eye: what is seen is reflected in the brain without the need for complicated thought. In this way the bourgeoisie takes advantage of the mental indolence of the masses and does good business as well.
Willi Munzenberg
#73. Treat your business relationships like friendships (or potential friendships). Formality puts up walls, and walls don't foster good business relationships. No one is loyal to a wall ... except the one in China.
Steve Pavlina
#74. I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.
Marcus Buckingham
#75. In a business, you have a vision, and you follow the vision. You have to execute. And then you have to learn how to run a good business. And I think if you look at the characteristics of any successful fashion business, it's all about that.
Mickey Drexler
#76. While good business ideas are plentiful, many entrepreneurs struggle to understand payroll taxes, health care and other thorny issues ... In other words, they don't have the financial literacy to scale their businesses and attract investors.
Daymond John
#77. The fears you do not face become your walls. Most people in business, and in their personal lives, design everything so they can avoid doing what makes them feel uncomfortable. Yet any good business person knows we are not only paid to work, but also we are paid to be scared.
Robin S. Sharma
#78. When all is said and done, what must be remembered is a newspaper is a business. It used to be a fabulous business that made extraordinary margins. It's now a very good business with appropriate margins.
Sam Zell
#79. I'm not a detail guy. I depend on accountants and administrators to do my detail stuff for me, but I do know the overall picture and I know that if you put business people together in a room, not just politicians, they could shrink the deficit tremendously by good business tactics.
John Paul DeJoria
#80. Every film may not be appropriate for a theatrical release, and the theatrical business is not a very good business for anybody except the distributor.
Alex Gibney
#81. Why are we trying to measure social media like a traditional channel anyway? Social media touches every facet of business and is more an extension of good business ethics.
Erik Qualman
#82. There is also a schedule to fashion - the deadline is always set. So maybe the fashion business is a good business for me in that way because I'm basically lazy, man.
Yohji Yamamoto
#83. Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.
Richard M. Nixon
#84. A generation ago, the image was that you had to trample everyone else down to succeed; but I don't believe that makes good business sense
Richard Branson
#85. The only currency isn't money. For me, it's about how can you build a good business that's also a social business.
Elliott Bisnow
#86. If you start hustling then don't pay a person what they deserve, pay them what they accept. That's good business. Even if you're not hustlin' pay them what they accept because you can capitalize off of people.
Curtis Jackson
#87. An investor will succeed by coupling good business judgment with an ability to insulate his thoughts and behavior from the super-contagious emotions that swirl about the marketplace.
Warren Buffett
#88. 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
#89. The potential of this nation is as boundless as the imagination and drive of the American people ... Quality management is not just a step. It must be a new style of working. Even a new style of thinking. The dedication to quality and excellence is more than good business; it's a way of life.
George H. W. Bush
#90. In five years I don't think there'll be a reason to have a tablet anymore. Maybe a big screen in your workspace, but not a tablet as such. Tablets themselves are not a good business model,
Thorsten Heins
#91. The boom is called good business, prosperity, and upswing. Its unavoidable aftermath, the readjustment of conditions to the real data of the market, is called crisis, slump, bad business, depression.
Ludwig Von Mises
#92. Filling a need is not merely good business; it's a basic attitude towards life. If you see a need, do whatever you can to meet that need.
George Foreman
#93. If we want people on the front lines of companies to be responsible for making good business decisions, they must have the same information that managers use to make good business decisions.
Ken Blanchard
#94. Landlords in New York are generally the scum of the earth. They're beneficiaries of the worst kind of nepotism, eating off the good business decisions of their parents. They have no compassion because they've never had to work for shit to know how it feels to need a fucking break. (256-257)
Eddie Huang
#95. They realize that spending millions to save billions is just good business.
Jack Abramoff
#96. I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.
Herb Ritts
#97. Good journalism is good business practice; good business supports great journalism.
Lachlan Murdoch
#98. So I'm leaving Sony, a free agent, owning half of Sony. I own half of Sony's Publishing. I'm leaving them, and they're very angry at me, because I just did good business, you know.
Michael Jackson
#99. 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
#100. I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.
Nikki Giovanni
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