Top 100 Quotes About A Business
#1. No matter how confident you are in your own abilities, you can't build and run a business alone. You need your army pulling you ahead, rather than holding you back.
Martin Zwilling
#2. Finding creative and effective ways to simultaneously give back and economically empower people is something that is increasingly important. Not everyone can open a business and directly create jobs in the way that we have at Red Rooster Harlem.
Marcus Samuelsson
#3. Prayer is like a business , the you put in more input the greater the output becomes.
Osunsakin Adewale
#4. If a business is to be considered a continuous process, instead of a series of disjointed stop-and-go events, then the economic universe in which a business operates-and all the major events within it-must have rhyme, rhythm, or reason.
Peter Drucker
#5. High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out. And that's wrong.
Willard C. Butcher
#6. Brains are far more important than money or connections. Everyone and anyone can create a business out of their bedroom.
Mark Cuban
#7. We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is a business, an economic theory, a political party, the White House, Newsworld or CNN.
B.W. Powe
#8. This is a business meal. The calories do not count. I am mentally labeling these as 'business calories' so my body will know they were eaten in the line of duty and will process them differently.
Cathy Guisewite
#9. Well there's nobody who has a more supportive husband than I do, and he has a business that he runs, and it's his own business, so he has work to do, my kids have school to do, I mean, people have - there are other things in life besides politics.
Caroline Kennedy
#10. As the economist Herman Daly once put it: The current national accounting system treats the earth as a business in liquidation.
Bill Bryson
#11. Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport.
Philip K. Wrigley
#12. Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity
Peter Drucker
#13. I was just born into a business family. It is really a destiny.
Teresita Sy-Coson
#14. Ignore the stock market, ignore the economy, and buy a business you understand.
Warren Buffett
#15. building a brand may be more important than building a business.
Donald J. Trump
#16. A business that is not in love with its customers, but only the money they bring, should not expect love back.
J. N. HALM
#17. I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents' garage and try to create a business.
Walter Isaacson
#18. Any time a customer comes into contact with any aspect of a business, however remote, is an opportunity to form an impression.
Jan Carlzon
#19. I'd really love to see a business model for higher education going forward that is actually affordable, that uses modern technology to reach scale and quality and that really reimburses the services rendered in a way that's meaningful to everybody.
Sebastian Thrun
#20. A business without loyalty is a business without long-term thinking. A business without long-term thinking is a business that's unable to invest in the future. And a business that isn't investing in tomorrow's opportunities and technologies - well, that's a company already in the process of dying.
Reid Hoffman
#21. It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?
Adam Braun
#22. Before there is a business, a successful entrepreneur is designing this type of business in his or her mind's eye. According to my rich dad, this is the job of a true entrepreneur.
Robert Kiyosaki
#23. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
Pamela Anderson
#24. You just can't keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It's got to be a business.
Don Bluth
#25. I give Bill Gates an A for vision because, as a business person and a strategist, he's brilliant. His flaw is that his view is not informed by a humanistic or compassionate vision of how to make computers work for people.
Mitch Kapor
#26. First, in order to build a business, you have to be able to sell because Sales = Income. When income is lacking, it's usually because the owner doesn't like to, doesn't know how to, or is simply reluctant to sell. Without sales, however, you have no income.
Robert Kiyosaki
#27. The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits - ah! that is another matter - twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent - the sky is the limit.
Smedley Butler
#28. Money, while clearly helpful in solving myriad problems, can often conceal a business's real flaws. It can also risk rigidifying a company's business model at the very moment it should be in 'customer discovery' mode or iterating around market opportunities.
Maelle Gavet
#29. Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.
Venus Williams
#31. The fastest way to get kicked out of a venture capitalist's office is to say that you want to build a business that grows steadily, focuses on employees, and creates wealth over the long term. Entrepreneurs with such ambitions are considered pariahs.
Vivek Wadhwa
#32. When you're building a business, you're either all in, or you're not.
Barbara Corcoran
#33. It may be self published... but it's still a business!
Apollo Butler
#34. A woman may be a mother, a sister, a business woman, or she may own a business. Woman do many things, and it is important that we do it with grace and style.
Kimora Lee Simmons
#35. At a relatively early age, I began to believe that building a business was perhaps the greatest opportunity for making an impact, because it's a tool for making a change in the world.
Elizabeth Holmes
#36. Love is not a business. It's not a transaction. It's not an exchange or something you get for doing something it's not a trade. It's a gift!
Tony Robbins
#37. Even if the chef has a good business head, his focus should be behind kitchen doors. A business partner should take care of everything in front of the kitchen doors.
Bobby Flay
#38. I got a business card because I wanna win some lunches. That's what my business card says: Mitch Hedberg, Potential Lunch Winner. Gimme a call, maybe we'll have lunch. If I'm lucky!
Mitch Hedberg
#39. Execution is everything. Even if you start a business with the wrong idea or too many competitors, you can out-execute all the better ideas in the right market.
Robert Jordan
#40. I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone's got their own definition. Mine, I suppose, is to know myself.
Eric Clapton
#41. Leadership is about relationships - whether it's a business deal with a client or a conversation with a family member - our ability to understand and appreciate individual uniqueness and perspective is paramount to living a fulfilled life.
Steve Knox
#42. I'm a business first and foremost so whatever my business is, it's separate from my personal. It's like whatever I do business wise, it's done in the business fashion whether it's promoting , marketing, whatever I'm doing.
Snoop Dogg
#43. Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and a state government designed for efficient use of fewer tax dollars.
Kenneth Blackwell
#44. There's just something fascinating to me about watching a business interaction unfold, and the negotiation. And how everything is negotiable in life.
Kether Donohue
#45. There are two things that make today the greatest entrepreneurial age: 1. We have access to teachers like never before. 2. You can start a business from home while still working at your job.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#46. In my column series 'The Main Thing', I often talk about how Internet technology can improve the way people communicate - both within a business and between a business and its customers and partners.
Jim Barksdale
#47. I started in a business background, but then it was like, 'you know, I can't do math,' so I changed it to a liberal arts degree and got my Bachelor of Arts in Communications and it made sense.
Jeff Dunham
#48. But it is never about who has given what. That is not the way of gifts. This is not a business we are conducting.
Ann Patchett
#49. Marriage isn't a business, co-owned and managed. It's a love story. The most important things we can give our marriage are time and romance, kissing and laughing. Laundry can wait, but a love story needs to be written a little bit every day. WHEN
Shauna Niequist
#50. Periodically, 'The New York Times' runs a business news story lamenting how few women still make it to the top in the Wall Street boys' club. Could it be that women are choosing to be conscientious objectors in these wars of one against all?
Tina Brown
#51. The more years you put behind you, hopefully making music that surpasses what you did before, you're playing bigger places and it kind of weirdly becomes a business.
Mark Lanegan
#52. We have a business that some people feel pollutes, and I happen to agree with them ... And so on the basis of trying to do good and, you know, hopefully turn a profit, what we did was we pledged that we'd put all the profits from our airline business into trying to develop clean fuels.
Richard Branson
#53. I think the moment that I'm very proud of is building a business without using animals. And, hopefully, changing people's perception of how you can do luxury fashion.
Stella McCartney
#54. Me trying to make a business around Linux would have been a total disaster.
Linus Torvalds
#55. Anytime you open a business, you have to be effective in promoting whether it's a franchise or not. You'll need to learn to be a Web marketer extraordinaire. There's plenty of material out there.
Dave Ramsey
#57. When the business grows, the person who founded it is incredibly busy. Rapid growth puts an enormous strain on a business. You outgrow your production facilities. You outgrow your management capabilities.
Peter Drucker
#58. Building a business is like building a home. If the foundation rests on an unstable setting or is constructed with subpar materials, it doesn't matter if the rest of the home is perfect. It will never be a joy to its owner
Thomas J. Stanley
#59. Ask anybody who has ever remodeled their house. There's always problems. They open up walls, they find this, they find that. There is always something. I'm in a business where you have to control those variables.
Alan Casden
#60. Remember, acting is not a business of glamour. It is science, craft and an art. Read about acting; don't do it for the sake of fun. Actors such as Paresh Rawal and Naseeruddin Shah are great examples; they are surviving only because they have read well.
Boman Irani
#61. A business owner who is liberal probably inherited the business.
James Cook
#62. We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
Yahoo Serious
#63. A business commentator who correctly announces that "the business did better this year because it had done poorly last year" is likely to have a short tenure on the air.
Daniel Kahneman
#64. We try to say it's creative and in a manner it is creative, but it is a business, because today, with the cost factor in crossing the boundaries that you do.
Skitch Henderson
#65. entrepreneurs can't use the excuse that "I don't have time, I'm running a business." This is your business.
James Altucher
#66. A business owner can become rich exponentially and people who work for wages become rich incrementally.
Robert Kiyosaki
#67. When you create a business, you create something that improves the life of your customer, of another person, maybe of ten people, of a thousand people, of a million people. There's no higher calling.
Paul Zane Pilzer
#68. If you are under the illusion that you can start a business and run it at your life's schedule, you are mistaken. The business is like a starving puppy - when it needs to eat, then it needs to eat regardless of what you have going on personally.
Robert Herjavec
#69. This is the difference between U.S. Latina/o letters and Latina/o Letters from Latin America: In the United States, writing is a business. In Latin America, writing is life and death.
Daniel Pena
#70. I don't want people ever to think I'm not in advertising. It's such a business of enthusiasm that if you're not totally excited about it, you should leave it.
Jerry Della Femina
#71. Above all, film is a business ... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do.
Mel Gibson
#72. School programs the schooled to type a CV. Life inspires the unschooled to type a business plan.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#73. A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers, and opens doors. It is a key not only to starting a business but also to clarifying your own personal identity and choices. A
Blake Mycoskie
#74. Mitt Romney knows America's prosperity didn't happen because our government simply spent more. It happened because our people used their own money to open a business.
Marco Rubio
#75. Since the opposition (shadow) is capable of preventing the audience (hero) from achieving success, the goal of a business narrative is to defeat the opposition (shadow).
Luis Cubero
#76. Running IT as a business, IT performance has to be clearly linked with the business performance.
Pearl Zhu
#77. I've always treated the music business as a business.
Simon Cowell
#78. Television is ultimately a business of failure. You try a lot of things, and most of it fails.
Greg Berlanti
#79. Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.
Henry R. Luce
#80. A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
B.C. Forbes
#81. A missions conference is a business meeting to decide the fate of the heathen.
Dwight L. Moody
#82. More on this in chapters 7 and 8.) Getting Value from Entrepreneurial Talent We three authors come from a business environment where the employment alliance
Reid Hoffman
#83. In times of recession there are massive opportunities and fortunes to be made, so for new up and coming entrepreneurs, this is the time to go and start a business.
Richard Branson
#84. 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
#85. We must see creation as a garden and not exclusively as a business opportunity.
Bruce Sanguin
#86. The neighbors could be as mad as they want, but I'm not running a business at the house. It's just a location. It will never get me out of here, because I don't have offices set up at my house, and that's what the township thinks.
Bam Margera
#87. As much as writing is an emotional experience, it is a business as well. Coming from a business background, I treat it as such.
Chevy Stevens
#88. A business owner is the boss, but it's a job, a place that is stable and profitable. An entrepreneur is an artist of sorts, throwing his/herself into impossible situations and seeking out problems that require heart and guts to solve. Both are fine, but choose.
Seth Godin
#89. Our government is committed to helping our young people develop the skills and training they need to succeed. Through our Summer Company program, students can launch a business, become employers, and gain an advantage in the highly competitive global economy - all while still in school.
Brad Duguid
#91. The strategy is obviously a business decision to have limited advertising on the WWE Network. We want subscribers to know that there won't be commercial breaks during scheduled programming, so your shows won't be interrupted.
Stephanie McMahon
#92. If the penalty for hiring illegals is just a fine, it becomes a business decision. But if the penalty is jail time, illegal immigration will come to a screeching halt.
Jose Ferreira
#93. A great mantra to have, whether you're breaking up with your boyfriend or you lose your job, or something changes that you didn't anticipate - which is a fact of life, and very much a fact of running a business - is: 'I was OK before this, I will be OK after this.'
Sophia Amoruso
#94. That is why I strongly believe we should working in Congress to make America a better place to run a business by reducing the costly burdens of bureaucracy and red tape.
Michael K. Simpson
#95. I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man.
Finley Peter Dunne
#96. I find, in merchandising and design and creative, a business school degree isn't particularly helpful.
Mickey Drexler
#97. There can be no one best way of organizing a business.
Joanne Woodward
#98. We're all on a journey. The average American switches professions four times. I'm lucky to be in a business where I can change the character I am playing every couple of months.
Josh Hartnett
#99. I really do have rules for running and managing a business that have never been formalized before.
Martha Stewart
#100. You learn to understand it, but if you step back, you do think it is either strange or unfair. But I know that if you don't score, play well or win, you are wrong to have a helicopter and fly home each week to see your kids. You are wrong to have a business outside of football.
Michael Owen
