Making Good Business Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Just like writers can have a lot of different styles, so can readers. It's hard to pigeonhole book buyers.

Kevin Sampsell

#3. The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

Thomas Carlyle

#4. You have to be tough and stand your ground.

Dan Welch

#5. Any business owner or entrepreneur knows that there is no luck or good fortune about keeping a company up and running. It's nothing but hard work, consistency, determination, courage, staying focused, accepting failure, making changes, and simply keeping on with the grind.

Enaka Yembe

#6. I was recently asked about the business side of 'Biggest Loser,' but as long as we entertain people, we can keep coming back and making a difference. It's a delicate balance, but one feeds off the other. I feel so good about the show - it's uplifting and inspiring and entertaining at the same time.

Alison Sweeney

#7. A Johnson honours his obligations. His word is good and he is a good man to do business with. A Johnson minds his own business. He is not a snoopy self-righteous trouble-making person. A Johnson will give help when neeeded.

William S. Burroughs

#8. We are all in the business of sales. Teachers sell students on learning, parents sell their children on making good grades and behaving, and traditional salesmen sell their products.

Dave Ramsey

#9. The best organizations and the ones that survive economic tsunamis are those with emphatic cultures and managers who are able to step outside themselves and walk in someone else's shoes.

Dev Patnaik

#10. We're very focused on making News Feed really good, making our photos experience really good, making messaging really good, and creating great location apps. That's the nature of a platform business of our scale. Most companies that are relevant to us will have some overlaps in some competitive way.

Mark Zuckerberg

#11. We only want to link up with people whom we like, admire, and trust ... We do not wish to join with managers who lack admirable qualities, no matter how attractive the prospects of their business. We've never succeeded in making a good deal with a bad person.

Warren Buffett

#12. Good decision making is the result of years of experience making and learning from one's choices - good and bad.

Michael J. Marx

#13. I believed there were no Hypotheticals in the sense of consciously acting agents conscious entities. There was only the process. The needles of evolution, endlessly knitting.

Robert Charles Wilson

#14. I have targets for business achievements; I do not have targets for acquisitions. Because if you have targets for acquisitions, you end up making compromises in terms of valuations, and you buy things because you have a target, and it is not good for business.

Dilip Shanghvi

#15. You never do anything without a reason." "Of course not. Why do anything without a reason?" "Don't start up with your circular logic.

Richelle Mead

#16. We are cursed with the blessing of consciousness and choice, a two-edged sword that both divides us and can help us become whole. But choosing wholeness, which sounds like a good thing, turns out to be risky business, making us vulnerable in ways we would prefer to avoid.

Parker J. Palmer

#17. They do have these things called bookstores there. I've heard tell that if you give them money, they let you leave with a book.

Lauren Morrill

#18. Luxury is a word of uncertain signification, and may be taken in a good as in a bad sense

David Hume

#19. Pain was as much a part of knighthood as were swords and shields.

George R R Martin

#20. Suffering ... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread.

Michael Pollan

#21. Angie: "How do I pitch these ideas to her?"
Mira: "From a distance, preferably wearing body armor.

Kristin Hannah

#22. Making money is art. And working is art. And good business is the best art.

Andy Warhol

#23. I've never been good at the money thing. I have had a couple of really nice but inept managers, and a business accountant that ripped me off. But I cannot totally blame my money making lameness on them.

Jill Sobule

#24. The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.

Ben Hecht

#25. Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.

Alan Dundes

#26. My first record wasn't even with the Fugees. I was signed to Big Beat Records, so I was signed back in 1989 to the label that the Knocks are on now. You can always tell which generation had the pulse based on how they see things.

Wyclef Jean