Top 100 In Business Quotes
#1. By a kind of happy pre-established harmony, such as a later age discovered between the needs of society and the self-interest of the individual, success in business is in itself almost a sign of spiritual grace, for it is a proof that a man has laboured faithfully in his vocation.
R. H. Tawney
#2. Many in business feel they have to live up to a machismo archetype of the big-swinging-dick business leader
Jon Miller
#3. If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there'd be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan.
Bill Rancic
#4. I have a three-legged milk stool in my office perched on top of a cabinet. It is a great symbol for how to succeed in business. There are three legs: Take care of the customer, have a little fun, make a little money. If you don't do that, it doesn't work, but if you do, it comes together easily.
Larry H. Miller
#5. In business it is most often all about getting your foot in the door and once you do, everything opens up and things start to naturally progress into bigger and more opportunities.
Lori Greiner
#6. I think there's a very clear recognition and understanding that the progress of women in business at the very highest decision-making levels is too slow. This is a discussion that's going on in every country around the world, actually.
Quentin Bryce
#7. All great change in business has come from outside the firm, not from inside.
Peter Drucker
#8. I am a graduate in business management with specialisation in finance, and I love accounts!
Tena Desae
#9. Businessmen are not in business to lose customers, and schools do not exist to free their clients from the agencies of mass persuasion. School and media possess a productive monopoly upon the imagination of a child.
Jonathan Kozol
#10. If your in business your in show business. The moment you get to work your on stage. Give your performance of your life.
Robin Sharma
#11. Many invest wisely in business matters, but fail to invest time and interest in their most valued possessions: their spouses and children.
Billy Graham
#12. The power to rethink a situation is our greatest tool for transforming the world. This notion is taking hold in medicine, in business, in education. But not in politics and the media. They are the last holdouts of old-paradigm thinking.
Marianne Williamson
#13. I am not embarrassed to be a banker. I am not embarrassed to be in business.
Jamie Dimon
#14. Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: 'Oh, that's just the way things are done around here.' Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.
Steve Jobs
#15. It is sad but true that many business people have no business being in business.
Miles Anthony Smith
#16. Idealistic as it may sound, altruism should be the driving force in business, not just competition and a desire for wealth.
Dalai Lama XIV
#17. In order to succeed in business a man does not need a degree from a school of business administration. These schools train the subalterns for routine jobs. They certainly do not train entrepreneurs.
Ludwig Von Mises
#18. You have little representation of young black men in the business sector, so you have children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods who don't hear discussions at the dinner table about what goes on in business. It's almost as if we have two nations.
Edmund Phelps
#19. Marketing is what a company is in business to do. Marketing is a company's ultimate objective.
Al Ries
#20. In war, resources lead to success: in business, success leads to resources. This is a fundamental difference between the processes of war and competition.
John Kay
#21. In fact, for all the secrets and formulas, for all the self-proclaimed thought leadership, success in business is as elusive as ever.
Philip M. Rosenzweig
#22. I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.
Barry Goldwater
#23. If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness ... we would be pursuing not piety,but profit.
Clement Of Alexandria
#24. It's important to have a really clear strategy so when you are in business, you only have to make micro-strategy changes.
Alexa Von Tobel
#25. If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him.
Werner Herzog
#26. My mother remains unmatched in quality, competent in business process, and is never contested for any faults
Priyavrat Thareja
#27. When I started Go Daddy, I tried many things - like building networks and selling education - and none of it panned out. I lost millions of dollars the first couple of years. I made a lot of wrong turns, but that's the process of being successful in business.
Bob Parsons
#28. I believe in incentivizing people. If you can incentivize people in anything, whether it's in politics; in life; in spirituality; in business; just take care of folks. Incentivize them and all of a sudden it's amazing the difference that you'll see.
Zachary Levi
#29. Business is what concerns us. If you care about something enough to do something about it, you're in business
Richard Branson
#30. There is nothing in the way of amelioration of the conditions of life, of politics, of social and ethical matters, that may not be affected through the skilful application of those principles of advertising that, in business, have proved to be so wonderfully effective.
George Arthur French
#31. Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.
Steve Jobs
#32. There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing. To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
Akio Morita
#33. Drugs have been in the game for a long time. They were there when I was in college, and even in high school. It's in life. It's in business. It's everywhere.
Michael Jordan
#34. And now, increasing in business and in wealth, my head began to be full of projects and undertakings beyond my reach; such as are indeed often the ruin of the best heads in business.
Daniel Defoe
#35. Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
Walter Scott
#36. In business courtesy and efficiency have a symbiotic relationship.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#37. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot.
Benjamin Franklin
#38. In business, we say that people overestimate what you can do in a year and underestimate what you can do in a decade. This is true in philanthropy as well.
Marc Benioff
#39. The closer I watch politics the more it looks like professional wrestling in business suits.
Bosley Gravel
#40. When workers make more money, they respond by being more productive in their jobs and are less likely to leave, reducing turnover costs. This puts money in business' pockets, and workers also then have more money to spend in the local economy.
David Rolf
#41. Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.
William Penn
#42. Love is woman's business,and in "business" we all lay aside our natural weaknesses.
Jerome K. Jerome
#43. It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
Harold S. Geneen
#44. Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination; they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business.
Charles Dudley Warner
#45. There are four-letter words you should never use in business. They're not fuck or shit. They're need, must, can't, easy, just, only and fast. These words gets in the way of healthy communication
Jason Fried
#46. This is our 40th year in business. We don't have a single penny from outside investors, and we never borrowed heavily from the banks. We have a healthy balance sheet and more credit than we can use.
Andrew Cherng
#47. There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
Joseph Addison
#48. Like it or not, we are all in business and the products we are selling is our unique selves.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#49. act differently in relationships, in business and finance, than
Anthony Robbins
#50. Succeeding in business is all about making connections
Richard Branson
#51. At home, we're listening to TV or playing with our computers, so our entertaining is rusting. We don't know how to be good hosts and guests in business situations.
Letitia Baldrige
#52. Relationships are the only thing that matter in business in life.
Jerry Weintraub
#53. Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.
Carter G. Woodson
#54. Leaders, whether in the family, in business, in government, or in education, must not allow themselves to mistake intentions for accomplishments .
Jim Rohn
#55. Surviving in business is like surviving in the jungle;
you must look for prey while on the lookout for predators.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#56. The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.
Chris Chocola
#57. In business, when things aren't working it's time to mix it up.
Donald Trump
#58. You only have one thing in business, and that is your reputation
Judy Sheindlin
#59. What separates sports from entrepreneurism, however, is that in business we constantly have to overcome undefined and unpredictable challenges. Athletes train for specific events and conditions, whereas entrepreneurs generally have little idea what they will encounter along the way.
Naveen Jain
#60. The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their faults and their - shortcomings, but they were not slothful in business and they were most fervent in spirit.
Henry Cabot Lodge
#61. The problem with venality in business is that getting outraged about it makes it easy to miss the systemic problems that venality often disguises.
James Surowiecki
#62. Over my career, somewhere, somehow I must've made some right calls. Otherwise, I wouldn't be in business.
Marc Faber
#63. In business, real jobs profitably produce goods and services that people value more highly than their alternatives. Subsidizing inefficient jobs is costly, wastes resources, and weakens our economy.
Charles Koch
#64. She wanted a degree in business technology, not to be the next freaking Nora Roberts.
Mari Carr
#65. THERE is widespread agreement among economists that abuse of credit constitutes one of the chief unwholesome elements in business booms and is mainly responsible for the ensuing crash and depression.
Benjamin Graham
#66. Success in any field, but especially in business is about working with people, not against them.
Keith Ferrazzi
#67. Integrity, number one. Even in business that's predicated on lies I refuse to become part of the lies that is all-consuming.
Don King
#68. We've been in business together ever since we were children, so back in the day, there were so many references to 'your dad.' Rather than wanting to sound totally hickified and go, 'Well, my daddy said,' we would refer to him as 'Phil.'
Willie Robertson
#69. New product and new types of service are generated, not by asking the consumer, but by knowledge, imagination, innovation, risk, trial and error on the part of the producer, backed by enough capital to develop the product or service and to stay in business during the learn months of introduction.
W. Edwards Deming
#70. Business is the ultimate sport. In business, as in sport, the one thing you can control is effort.
Mark Cuban
#71. In business, there is nothing more valuable than a technical advantage your competitors don't understand. In business, as in war, surprise is worth as much as force.
Paul Graham
#72. Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
Walter Kirn
#73. I believe that raising the status of women in Turkey is a responsibility shared by everyone. It is not only in Turkey; we are still in need of serious support for the role of women in business and society all around the world.
Guler Sabanci
#74. I feel like I'm back in business now, and I'm managing pretty well as a single mum. I've proved to myself I can do it. You come out the other end and think, 'Wow, I'm pretty good at this!'
Donna Air
#75. In business we often find that the winning system goes almost ridiculously far in maximizing and or minimizing one or a few variables - like the discount warehouses of Costco.
Charlie Munger
#76. In business or in football, it takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to produce spectacular results.
Roger Staubach
#77. A man who cannot command his temper should not think of being a man in business.
Lord Chesterfield
#78. What you wear for work should be comfortable and empowering. If you're working in business, your outfit should mean business. If I go to meet somebody about an acting job, or something creative, then I'll be in my jeans. For me, overdressing is my biggest fear.
Twiggy
#79. Being in business is not about making money. It is a way to become who you are.
Paul Hawken
#80. I have got to say, I'm a businessman, I work in business, worked with some very large corporations around the world, and I have never seen a better operating machine than what the New South Wales right machine is.
Warren Mundine
#81. Employee engagement is an investment we make for the privilege of staying in business.
Ian Hutchinson
#82. He was the first prime minister in a long time who did not have a son or a son-in-law in business or real estate
Sanjaya Baru
#83. I've always leaned toward a feminine, funky style, even in business settings. I used to paint my nails blue in 1993, before it was mainstream.
Sara Blakely
#84. To be sure, India has achieved enviable success in business services, like the glistening call centers in Bangalore and elsewhere. But in the global jousting for manufacturing jobs, India does not get its share.
Steven Rattner
#85. Trust is the great simplifier. If people in business told the truth, 80 to 90 percent of their problems would disappear.
William Schutz
#86. It is such a great fault to talk too much that, in business and conversation, if what is good is also brief, it is doubly good, and one gains by brevity what one often loses by an excess of words.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#87. If you don't have a positive attitude in business and in life, you will never, ever be successful.
Donald Trump
#88. To be even more successful in Business Development, lighten up, enjoy the journey, learn from your prospects and learn from your experiences. As a professional Business Developer, don't take yourself or any situation too seriously, and always be thankful for your resulting opportunities.
Nicholas Coppings
#89. It's important to think good, speak good, and do good. If we want to see positive change in the world, then we need to connect to goodness. I try in everything I do, both in business and philanthropy, to make a positive change and do that by doing good.
Shari Arison
#90. There's a lot of books out there about how you lead change in business, but I've certainly not seen any ... on how you do that in public institutions.
Robert M. Gates
#91. Human beings are very unpredictable in relations and there are no written agreements ... Unlike in business transactions ...
Honeya
#93. But it's hard to feel bad for her, because as much as she's hurting, she doesn't know pain. She doesn't know it like I know it. I keep it alive. I keep it in business. I keep it thriving with as much as I experience it
Colleen Hoover
#94. 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
#95. Year after year, an ideological and economic barrier hardened between our two countries, meanwhile, the Cuban exile community in the United States made enormous contributions to our country, in politics, in business, culture and sports.
Barack Obama
#96. It is solely bigness in business which makes it possible to supply the masses with all those products the present-day American common man does not want to do without. Luxury goods for the few can be produced in small shops. Luxury goods for the many require big business.
Ludwig Von Mises
#97. Meanwhile, the empty forms of social behavior survive inappropriately in business situations. We all know that when a business sends its customers 'friendly reminders,' it really means business.
Judith Martin
#98. Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.
Hans Eysenck
#99. No decision in business provides greater potential for the creation of wealth (or its destruction, come to think of it) than the choice of which innovation to back.
Robert Heller
#100. Old politicians chew on wisdom past,
And totter on in business to the last.
Alexander Pope
