How To Run A Business Quotes

#1. I learned a lot from Jack Welch about how to run a business.

Kushal Pal Singh

#2. I didn't know how to run a business. I was a terrible gallerist, the worst in history, possibly.

Jeffrey Deitch

#3. I had to learn everything about manufacturing, patents and how to run a business, and eventually I came up with an prototype that worked.

Melissa George

#4. We didn't know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent.

Ruth Handler

#5. I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and - very important - knows how to run a business, knows the numbers.

Millard Drexler

#6. The first thing about Houston is it's an organization run from a different perspective. In Cincy, the team lives off money it earns from football. Houston's owner has other business interests, and he controls the money.

Johnathan Joseph

#7. I have a business to run and stockholders to think about.

Jerry Yang

#8. When you're invested in your own business, you're going to run it better. When people are financially responsible for whether their store succeeds, they're going to have that kind of entrepreneurial spirit that's harder to get if headquarters is running things.

Fred DeLuca

#9. The time to go into a new business is when it's badly run by others.

Richard Branson

#10. A smart entrepreneur knows they cannot run a business on their own. They know that business is a team sport.

Robert Kiyosaki

#11. Don't worry, I'm not quitting. I've decided I'm going to stay and
make his life a living hell while I run his business into the ground.
Kim to Abe

Devon Rhodes

#12. The main trouble with Hollywood is that the guys you have to pitch to, the guys who run the studios, are all business school grads.

Terry Zwigoff

#13. Woodstock was a business. A very poorly run business.

Shawn Amos

#14. You need more than an idea to run a business

Arlene Dickinson

#15. Building a professional relationship on respect as opposed to affection is a very good idea. Running your art projects the way you'd run a dry-cleaning business is also a really good idea. You shouldn't go into work like you're going on a date, like you're hanging out with friends.

Penn Jillette

#16. You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Jessamyn West

#17. In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty, your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.

Akio Morita

#18. We don't think of ourselves as do-gooders or altruists. It's just that somehow we're trying our best to be run with some sense of moral compass even in a business environment that is growing.

Craig Newmark

#19. I guess show business is a lot like baseball: "Wait until next year!" You just never know. Some of the shittiest shows I've ever seen run forever, and some of the best things never get a chance.

Kurt Fuller

#20. Systems run the business and people run the systems.

Michael Gerber

#21. Cash is the lifeblood of your business. There are very few things in business that will kill you, but running our of cash is one of those things. You can recover from almost any other mistake, but if you run out of cash you're dead.

Robert Herjavec

#22. Good people have always been at the heart of the Virgin business, and that's largely because we have tried to keep our business small, and our management teams tight-knit. I feel that small, compact companies, are better run. That is partly because people feel more connected in small companies.

Richard Branson

#23. Gyms would run out of business.. if love-making did more for your fitness than just the moans, groans, huffing and puffing ...

The Fitness Doc

#24. The networks have a particular agenda, a particular model and structure. It doesn't have anything to do with content. This is not a dis on them - they are a business model, run by business people.

Joss Whedon

#25. Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide, just take care of business here and now.

Jack Carroll

#26. I don't care how poor and inefficient a little country is - they like to run their own business. I know men that would -make my wife a better husband than I am but, darn it, I'm not going to give her to 'em

Will Rogers

#27. A shnorrer knocked on the door of the rich man's house at six-thirty in the morning. The rich man cried, "How dare you wake me up so early?" "Listen," said the shnorrer, "I don't tell you how to run your business, so don't tell me how to run mine.

Leo Rosten

#28. I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.

Billy Graham

#29. The ultimate profit from all of my businesses is to be happy and to make all of the customers happy.

Debasish Mridha

#30. So how does the machine work that you have a financial crisis? How does deleveraging work - what is the nature of that machine? And what is human nature, and how do you raise a community of people to run a business?

Ray Dalio

#31. 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

#32. I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

Dolly Parton

#33. Learning never ends, therefore, have a keen eye for learning and studying how successful business and people run the little things that business people might overlook but they are key to their success.

Donald Allen

#34. I didn't realize how hard it was to run a small business.

Andrew Mason

#35. Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.

Ursula Burns

#36. In school, you get a limited view of the world. Start working. Find your passion. Take your time doing that. Once you've found what you're passionate about, then lock down. Even if you want to start a business, it's helpful to work, see how other businesses are run.

Joe Mansueto

#37. I grew up in a business-inspired environment, and over the years have started and run several businesses and philanthropic organizations. Understanding how large corporations work, by having hands-on and board experience, I apply that knowledge to the benefit of all that I do.

Shari Arison

#38. In general, we run the farm like a business instead of a welfare recipient, and we adhere to historically-validated patterns.

Joel Salatin

#39. When the Supreme Court says baseball isn't run like a business, everybody jumps up and down with joy. When I say the same thing, everybody throws pointy objects at me.

Bill Veeck

#40. I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop!

Edan Lepucki

#41. This is not a business where you can hand off and run by remote control.

David Neeleman

#42. I had Japanese once. A business man I had run into in New York ... but that's not what he meant.

L.M. DeWalt

#43. All generations need to realize they can learn from each other, to run a successful business and an advanced society.

Pearl Zhu

#44. My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He's my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#45. 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

#46. Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

Peter Lynch

#47. I'm not the businessman. I don't deal with the business at all. Not anymore. Occasionally, every four years or five years, they tell me I've run out of money, I have to go and make some more.

Mick Jagger

#48. In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.

Warren Buffett

#49. Give us a world where half our homes are run by men, and half our institutions are run by women. I'm pretty sure that would be a better world.

Sheryl Sandberg

#50. Don't go in and tell somebody else how to run their business.

Carl Icahn

#51. The airline business is it is mostly run by a bunch of spineless nincompoops who actually don't want to stand up to the environmentalists and call them the lying wankers that they are.

Michael O'Leary

#52. 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

#53. When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine

Margaret Thatcher

#54. Something will master and something will serve. Either you run the day or the day runs you; either you run the business or the business runs you.

Jim Rohn

#55. When a young woman tells me that she wants to become and actor, I say, 'No, be a writer. Or go to business school and learn how to run a studio.' The only real change will come from behind the scenes.

Halle Berry

#56. Success in the long run has less to do with finding the best idea, organizational structure, or business model for an enterprise, than with discovering what matters to us as individuals.

Jerry I. Porras

#57. The way I run my business seems to be easier than the way I run my life.

Donald Trump

#58. The average small-business owner uses 18 apps to run their business every day, and if those applications don't allow data to flow seamlessly and they don't integrate, it's going to become a point of friction. It's going to prevent the small business from being successful.

Brad D. Smith

#59. You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business.

Jim Cantalupo

#60. You don't run a business hoping you don't have a recession.

Jamie Dimon

#61. You can't run a business based on sympathies; otherwise our business would be hampered.

Marc Rich

#62. 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

#63. Regardless of how well a studio is run, it's only as good as the product it produces.

Vince McMahon

#64. Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency, because if you don't become efficient, you don't run a business well, and you are out of business. And I think some of those principles could be applied to leadership in Washington.

Steve Daines

#65. Gold is a commodity; over the long run, as we look back, it has not been a good investment. You can't look at the intrinsic value of gold as you can a business. Gold doesn't give you cash flow, and, at the end of the day, cash flow is what is important. Gold doesn't give you dividends.

Michael Lee-Chin

#66. Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.

Anthea Turner

#67. Being general manager is like being the de facto owner. It's like wearing the crown of 'Restaurant Man' without being 'Restaurant Man.' You're trying to run the business, but you're running the ranch without riding the big horse.

Joe Bastianich

#68. Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.

Carroll O'Connor

#69. Christine O'Donnell is making a mockery of running for public office. She has no real history, no real success in any kind of business. And what that sends to my generation is, one day, you can just wake up and run for Senate, no matter how [much] lack of experience you have.

Meghan McCain

#70. 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