Great Business Quotes

#1. As a kid, I saw that Dad lost a lot of money in casinos, and I didn't understand that. I thought this must be a great business. At the same time, I saw when I was with him - and I was with him a lot of the time - that this was a really cool business, and it was fun and glamorous.

James Packer

#2. I think Buffett is a better investor than me because he has a better eye toward what makes a great business. And when I find a great business I'm happy to buy it and hold it. Most businesses don't look so great to me.

Seth Klarman

#3. Gradually, they learned that politics is fundamentally a great business, a struggling and a haggling for advantages, over whose lap collects the most rewards cast by the legislation-machine.

Friedrich Naumann

#4. I thought a company that provides mutual-fund information could be a great business, because you could construct an effective moat by building large financial databases and customer lists and a strong brand name.

Joe Mansueto

#5. Strategies are great, business models are great, but the reality is your music has to mean something to people.

Brother Ali

#6. Governor Romney has a great business background. He is extremely well educated. He has several degrees from Harvard, including, you know, business and including a law degree.

Clint Eastwood

#7. Wrigley is a great business, but that doesn't solve the problem. Buying great businesses at advantageous prices is very tough.

Charlie Munger

#8. In order to run a great business, you must know that a bunch of really intrinsically unhappy people, that's not a recipe for success. Don't be anywhere you don't need to be; it's just like that.

Mick Fleetwood

#9. Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.

Josiah Strong

#10. Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea.

Jacqueline Leo

#11. The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

John Morley

#12. Google has a great product. They've built a great business.

Chad Hurley

#13. Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some.

Alphonse Karr

#14. Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, man consumed with earnestness of purpose, with confidence in his powers, with faith in the worthwhileness of his endeavors.

B.C. Forbes

#15. The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.

Pliny The Elder

#16. A lot of things seem to be worth almost no money. but if you do them very well, and they help people fill a need, there's a great business you can build around that.

Steve Wozniak

#17. If you have a great business, if you're great at your craft people should be coming in there. It shouldn't be this secret.

Andrew Mason

#18. See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool.

James Daly

#19. America is a country of entrepreneurship and great business leaders.

Nicky Oppenheimer

#20. Every great business is built on friendship.

James Cash Penney

#21. Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate.

Christie Hefner

#22. For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.

Leland Ryken

#23. I don't think anybody ever started a great business because they wanted to make a little more cash. They had a dream. They wanted to better their life.

Robert Herjavec

#24. To be a great business person, you must be a great observer.

Ehab Atalla

#25. The Cheesecake Factory is a great business model, but if you take your wife there for your 25th wedding anniversary, you might not reach your 26th.

Scott Adams

#26. A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.

Howard Schultz

#27. My father was a great business leader and humanitarian who dedicated his life to the company and the community. He also was a wonderful family man, a loving husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather. He will be greatly missed by everyone who knew him, yet he will continue to inspire us all.

William Clay Ford Jr.

#28. A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.

Charlie Munger

#29. A great business investment, religion. I'll take it over government bonds anytime.

Ron Rash

#30. Soul winning for Christ Jesus is a great business everyone must endeavor to start and keep it diligently

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#31. Great business leaders of our time stand above the crowd not because of what they do, but what they don't do.

Shawn Casemore

#32. Most of what we've done at SurveyMonkey is create a market, which I would say is much harder than trying to enter a market that already exists. But if you get it right, it can become a great business.

Dave Goldberg

#33. So my resolution this year is: I'm not a money guy, but I want to make our next product a commercial success, so that people will say, 'Hey, there's a huge market out there. If you make a high-quality games that can touch people, it's going to do great business.

Jenova Chen

#34. The education of the intellect is a great business; but an unconsecd intellect is the saddest sight on which the sun looks down.

Edwin Chadwick

#35. When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun!

Paul Prudhomme

#36. How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they've got that great business idea.

Mark Burnett

#37. A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the dollar, but is due to pride in one's work, the pride that makes business an art.

Henry Latham Doherty

#38. No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

Andrew Carnegie

#39. Of Congress, "party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day whilst the momentous concerns of an empire ... are but secondary considerations," that "business of a trifling nature and personal concernment withdraws their attention from matters of great national moment.

George Washington

#40. Our business is all about helping someone - a founder, a CEO - building a great business. It's not about seeing our names in the press.

Douglas Leone

#41. Action is the great business of mankind, and the whole matter about which all laws are conversant.

John Locke

#42. We've been in the Mac software business for more than 20 years. And it's been a great business for us.

Scott Erickson

#43. The State of Virginia is similar to a great business corporation ... and should be conducted with the same efficiency and economy as any private business.

Harry F. Byrd

#44. The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.

A. N. Wilson

#45. We have outlived this embryo, this human cradle, and now it's time to be up and about the great business of becoming citizens of the galaxy and at home with our own heart.

Terence McKenna

#46. The States separately have very inadequate ideas of the present danger. Party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day, whilst the concerns of the nation are secondary.

George Washington

#47. a great business is defined by its ability to generate cash flows in the future.

Peter Thiel

#48. The best entrepreneurs know this: every great business is built around a secret that's hidden from the outside. A great company is a conspiracy to change the world; when you share your secret, the recipient becomes a fellow conspirator.

Peter Thiel

#49. Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.

Dan Rosensweig

#50. Every great business leader I've ever met, in addition to being very smart, very driven, they have this, 'Why not me? Screw it, I deserve it, let's go.' And if you don't have that, you can't achieve greatness.

Donny Deutsch

#51. I found that the writer who says SUBLATA LUCERNA NULLUM DISCRIMEN INTER MULIERES ('when the lamp is taken away, all women are alike') says true; but without love, this great business is a vile thing.

Giacomo Casanova

#52. Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

Horatio Nelson

#53. A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping ... may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities?

Jane Addams

#54. Those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.

Booker T. Washington

#55. There are some key elements to business being a success, and that's a smart visionary and great management behind the people that are going to build it.

Rob Dyrdek

#56. In the marketplace, small businesses are the face and voice of humanity, which provides them with a great advantage in the Age of the Customer.

Jim Blasingame

#57. I've always heard that women secretly want their father. So I used to walk around in a 1950s business suit, with a hat and a pipe. My opening line would be, 'You should be getting to bed now.'

Conan O'Brien

#58. Rule No. 1. Make a great product. Rule No. 2. Don't forget rule No.1.

David Hieatt

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

Anita Roddick

#60. The classic business story is much like the classic human story. There is rise and fall; the overcoming of great odds, the upholding of principles despite the cost, questions of rivalry and succession, and even the possibility of descent into madness.

Mark Helprin

#61. It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the people, but they ought to take great care that they do not receive that inclination from the few persons who may happen to approach them.

Edmund Burke

#62. Vikings were pretty brutal, but also very educated people. They were salesmen, businessmen who started raiding when business wasn't good. That's why they had such great boats.

Baltasar Kormakur

#63. What cruel mistakes are sometimes made by benevolent men and women in matters of business about which they can know nothing and think they know a great deal.

Florence Nightingale

#64. Great companies first build a culture of discipline . . . and create a business model that fits squarely in the intersection of three circles: what they can be best in the world at, a deep understanding of their economic engine, and the core values they hold with deep passion.

Isadore Sharp

#65. A great sports car that goes from 0-60 in 3.9 seconds is just a fact. To the wrong audience, it's irrelevant. But to the right audience, it's a passion.

David Brier

#66. I think the business of writing a great deal of it is the business of paying attention to your characters, to the world they live in, to the story you have to tell, but just a kind of deep attention and out of that if you pay attention properly the story will tell you what it needs.

Salman Rushdie

#67. It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large.

Chris Patten

#68. I've found that men I've dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I've found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren't competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been ... challenging.

Taylor Swift

#69. After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.

Lara Spencer

#70. It takes healthy, resilient leaders and employees to achieve great results.

Sue Tetzlaff

#71. All my shows are great. Some of them are bad. But they are all great.

Michael Grade

#72. The artist is not a reporter, but a Great Teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is, but as it ought to be.

H.L. Mencken

#73. You can make great money in a utility type of business by borrowing cheaply and lending sensibly but that's not what's being done.

Meredith Whitney

#74. Great businesses can be built on scale. I think Amazon has built a phenomenal commerce business largely on scale. Their network effect isn't obvious to me, but boy, have they used scale effectively.

Jeff Jordan

#75. I don't think there's a shortage of remarkable ideas. I think your business has plenty of great opportunities to do great things. Nope, what's missing isn't the ideas. It's the will to execute them.

Seth Godin

#76. I was born to fight devils and factions. It is my business to remove obstacles, to cut down thorns, to fill up quagmires and to open and make straight paths. If I must have some failing let me rather speak the truth with too great sincerity than once to act the hypocrite and conceal the truth.

Martin Luther

#77. The Power of WHO provides great lessons about how to succeed in business and in life. If you surround yourself with quality people and great friends, the sky's the limit.

Wayne Gretzky

#78. The great thing about reading diverse news from the fields of business, health, science, technology, politics, and more is that you automatically see patterns in the world and develop mental hooks upon which you can hang future knowledge.

Scott Adams

#79. 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

#80. In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there, he can be great and kind
but he must get there first.

John Steinbeck

#81. Why can't it be awesome to work for a food company? Why can't we create an environment where people are trying to push each other to do great things, and we're not trying to steal from anybody - we're trying to be good to our farmers and run an honorable business, if there is such a thing anymore?

David Chang

#82. Create reciprocity in your business by making the first gesture, like make a comment on the blog of a great speaker.

Lisa A. Mininni

#83. There seems to be a great propensity in this business to write tear-jerkers, 'You-left-me' songs. I thought, 'Why don't I count my blessings by looking at what I have?' I'm pretty much an optimistic guy.

Jerry Jeff Walker

#84. Great results, can be achieved with small forces.

Sun Tzu

#85. I've appeared in those kind of films and have great fun doing it, and I'm always up for a challenge. I think with things like Mission: Impossible and Star Trek, those things are such an ensemble, it's not like I'm Ethan Hunt. I'm Benji. I'm the guy that does the computer business. I know my place.

Simon Pegg

#86. Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman.

Dolly Parton

#87. I am the luckiest guy in the world. All my
dreams came true. I was in a wonderful business,
and I met great people all over the world.

Van Johnson

#88. That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.

Mitt Romney

#89. Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.

Ed Greenwood

#90. It really isn't anybody's business how many people we have working for us. What's offensive is that I'm portrayed as this prima donna with these sycophants telling me how great I am all the time. Yes, they do work for me, but we're working together for a higher good ...

Demi Moore

#91. Ann Taylor - great name, great real estate, shitty business. Gap -great name, great real estate, declining business. J.Crew - Hellooo? Great name, better fashion image than the Gap.

Millard Drexler

#92. Operate your day-to-day business as if bad times are always here, which is a great precaution.

Donald J. Trump

#93. Yes, these business people have great energy. There's a question as to what's burned to produce it and what things we can and can't burn.

Saul Bellow

#94. A business is an army;
you are the general,
and your subordinates are your troops.
Victory is achieving your goals.
Great victory is surpassing your goals.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#95. I think a lot of people see, obviously, the business side of my father. But, I mean, he's just a great guy. We enjoyed the holidays so much. To be able to spend time with him when he's not necessarily working or not doing the political thing, I mean, he's much more of a blue collar American.

Donald Trump Jr.

#96. You know something? I'm decent! There isn't a great deal of decency in the world, especially in our business, and I'm one of the few really decent ladies around.

Judy Garland

#97. I'm sure there are writers who are great businessmen, but I
never met any.

Arthur Miller

#98. Business gives you a massive high. Doing a great deal, coming up with an inspirational solution ... It's very addictive. But it doesn't last long. In isolation, it's a bit sterile. It doesn't reward the soul.

John Caudwell

#99. You're stifling me brother! Can I not have a moment to myself? I swear it wouldn't surprise me to find you sitting atop me one day as I do my morning business in the privy, like some great mother hen!" Elf

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#100. I am more scared now that I was at any point since I began trading, because I recognize how ephemeral success can be in this business. I know that to be successful, I have to be frightened. My biggest hits have always come after I have had a great period and I started to think that I knew something.

Paul Tudor Jones