Powerful Business Quotes

#1. Intuition is a powerful business tool. Use it.

Maggie Wilderotter

#2. I say us - obviously I don't vote as I believe democracy is a pointless spectacle where we choose between two indistinguishable political parties, neither of whom represent the people but the interest of powerful business elites that run the world.

Russell Brand

#3. I have a vision for a world where business is the most powerful force for positive change.

Lucas Donat

#4. For many of the most powerful people in the entertainment business, hostility to organized religion goes so deep and burns so intensely that they insist on expressing that hostility, even at the risk of financial disaster.

Michael Medved

#5. Leaders can choose to grow and change, but generally the most powerful predictor of future performance is past behavior. Evaluate them realistically.

Lee Ellis

#6. Dear religious, all-powerful entity, please help me be professional. Please help me resist sleeping with my sexual titan of a boss on this business trip. In the name of God or Krishna or Moses, or whoever can freaking help me. Amen.

Annabel Joseph

#7. I'm actually very snobbish about directors. I have to say 'no' all the time. 'No' is the most powerful word in our business. You've got to protect yourself.

Brad Pitt

#8. Having a weakness is nothing to be ashamed of. If anything~ knowing what your weakness is makes you very powerful indeed.

Nina Montgomery

#9. No matter how much we tweet, blog and post, nothing in business is as powerful as actual face time with prospective business partners and customers.

Jay Samit

#10. Launching a business is essentially an adventure in problem-solving.

Richard Branson

#11. If you run a business, put on top your employees, then your consumers, and then your shareholders.

Richard Branson

#12. When I started my own business, I funded it as a naked model. I still think that the sex industry can, for some men and women, be a powerful tool for improving their financial prospects.

Molly Crabapple

#13. Business is the only mechanism on the planet today powerful enough to produce the changes necessary to reverse global environments and social degradation.

Paul Hawken

#14. Leaders must be good listeners. It's rule number one, and it's the most powerful thing they can do to build trusted relationships.

Lee Ellis

#15. At the end of every day, having a clientele that speaks well of you, that's the largest source of business. I don't care what kind of business you're in. Clients referring us to their friends or relatives is so much more powerful than any advertising we could ever do.

Charles R. Schwab

#16. Work/life benefits allow companies meaningful ways for responding to their employees' needs; they can be a powerful tool for transforming a workforce and driving a business' success.

Anne M. Mulcahy

#17. Make a list of 200 prestigious, influential, and powerful people with whom you want to work, play, grow and do business.

Mark Victor Hansen

#18. The ability to cultivate friends is a powerful aid to success. It is capital which will stand by one when panics come, when banks fail, when business concerns go to the wall.

Orison Swett Marden

#19. There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.

Norman Mailer

#20. A shared vision driven by core values is a powerful alchemy.

Colleen Mariotti

#21. The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that ... don't miss it.

Barbara Corcoran

#22. I like business, and the truth is I save way more than I spend. I invest. I plan for the future. I have a special eye for opportunities and work harder than anyone might expect.

Sofia Vergara

#23. French is the most beautiful," he said, "and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other.

Pearl S. Buck

#24. I think 'No' is a very powerful word in our business that is very hard to use early on in your career. But I also think I was pretty arrogant when I was younger ... I used that word maybe too much, but it did help me with finding roles that I did like.

Peter Dinklage

#25. What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.

Blaine Lee

#26. There is power born of humility ... Humility, in business and in life, is a powerful asset and does not denote lowliness, unimportance, or self-deprecation.

Richie Norton

#27. Reboot your beliefs, create new thoughts, and choose powerful action.

Holly Duckworth

#28. the single most powerful pattern I have noticed is that successful people find value in unexpected places, and they do this by thinking about business from first principles instead of formulas.

Peter Thiel

#29. There is no question about that. Business is my hobby. It is not a burden to me. In any case Reliance now can run without me.

Dhirubhai Ambani

#30. Certainly, my father would not want to see me destroy myself in this business, as so many people in our family have been destroyed. I try to take good care of myself, but we are fighting the good fight, and the truth is powerful.

Sam Sheppard

#31. Modern business-people and lawyers are, in fact, powerful sorcerers. The principal difference between them and tribal shamans is that modern lawyers tell far stranger tales.

Yuval Noah Harari

#32. Women, when they are old enough to have done with the business of being women, and can let loose their strength, must be the most powerful creatures in the world.

Isak Denisen

#33. Believe in better is one of the most powerful words you can use in the business community.

Frank Luntz

#34. I'm very lucky in the sense that I've got a voice that's distinctive. Not good, but distinctive. That's a very useful thing to have in this business. I'm glad on the one hand that I've got it, but I wish it was more powerful. I wish I had a greater range. I wish it was more accurate at times.

Gary Numan

#35. Never go into business purely to make money. If that's the motive you're better off doing nothing.

Richard Branson

#36. A powerful new idea can kick around unused in a company for years, not because its merits are not recognized, but because nobody has assumed the responsibility for converting it from words into action.

Theodore Levitt

#37. My passionate belief is that business can be fun, it can be conducted with love and a powerful force for good.

Anita Roddick

#38. The fact is ... that when totalitarian nations like China and Saudi Arabia play ball with U.S. business interests, we like them just fine. But when Venezuela's freely elected president threatens powerful corporate interests, the Bush administration treats him as an enemy.

Robert Scheer

#39. Because we are a globally connected village, we need
to remember that our choices are not isolated. They have
a powerful ripple effect, and that ripple is global.

Linda Fisher Thornton

#40. Business is one of the most powerful institutions on Earth for creating wealth and opportunity and helping to lift people out of poverty. When you think about it that way, then business is not separate from development policy.

Peter Blair Henry

#41. Business is the most powerful institution on earth today. It is more powerful than politics. Business serves us very well in some ways, but it doesn't serve us as fully as it should; it doesn't serve us fully as people.

Michael Rennie

#42. Regardless of how it's done, transaction costs will continue to plummet as computers get more powerful. Low transaction costs are a wonderful thing if you're in the transaction business. They're wonderful for consumers too, making it cheaper and easier to buy things and creating new things to buy.

Nathan Myhrvold

#43. Entrepreneurial business favours the open mind. It favours people whose optimism drives them to prepare for many possible futures, pretty much purely for the joy of doing so.

Richard Branson

#44. All powerful and lasting change, whether in your personal life or your business, comes from the heart, not the mind.

Tonya Sheridan

#45. Drucker said: 'If you weren't already in this business, would you enter it today? And if not, what are you going to do about it?' ... Simple, right? But incredibly powerful.

Jack Welch

#46. Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.

Anita Roddick

#47. Inertia is the most powerful force in business. Things stay just as they are until something - brute force, reason, fear, enlightened self-interest, the survival instinct - effects movement.

Patrick G. Riley

#48. Business itself is now the most powerful force for change in the world today, richer and faster by far than most governments. And what is it doing with this power? It is using free trade, the most powerful weapon at its disposal, to tighten its grip on the globe.

Anita Roddick

#49. Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.

Roone Arledge

#50. The qualities that make Twitter seem inane and half-baked are what makes it so powerful.

Jonathan Zittrain

#51. In the coming years, if not sooner, social media will become a powerful tool that consumers will aggressively use to influence business attitudes and force companies into greater social responsibility - and, I suggest, move us towards a more sustainable practice of capitalism.

Simon Mainwaring

#52. Adroit geo-strategists take new realities into account as they try to imagine how global politics will unfold. In the foreign policy business, however, inertia is a powerful force and 'adroit' a little-known concept.

Stephen Kinzer

#53. Women spend 80 cents of every dollar in the marketplace. We could be the most powerful force for economic and environmental change in the 21st century if we focused our money where it could make the biggest difference. If a million people did that, it would have a $1 billion impact.

Diane MacEachern

#54. Every power-seeking entity in the world, whether it's a government, a business, or an informal group, has gotten wise to the idea that if you can assemble information about other people, that information makes you powerful.

Jaron Lanier

#55. We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders ... In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force for harm than individual greed or error.

Adair Turner

#56. That said, I should also add that I learned a great deal from being allowed in these privileged circles and am grateful for the opportunity to have worked closely with some of the most powerful and successful people in the business including Steven Spielberg and Ted Turner.

Douglas Wood

#57. It's hard being such a powerful woman in the business. I'm known for not always being warm and fuzzy, because you'll just get bulldozed over.

Christina Aguilera