Quotes About Making Business

#1. Interest in business ethics courses has surged, and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making business serve long-term social values.

Peter Singer

#2. I'm not in the speech making business. I'm not in the seminar business. I'm not in the writing book business. I'm in the changing lives business.

Zig Ziglar

#3. You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything.

James Cameron

#4. Retiring isn't even a word I'd understand. Taking what makes you feel alive, and everyone's looking for ways of making them feel alive, in whatever they do - relationships, business or work - and not just being a voice for a money making business.

Anita Roddick

#5. The theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#6. If you're constantly making business decisions on behalf of your investors first, ultimately you're going to wear down your other stakeholders. It's going to be potentially hurtful for your employees and your customers and the community you do business with.

Danny Meyer

#7. avoid the common business pitfall of making business decisions based on the company's skill set rather than on the customers' needs and desires.

Jeofrey Bean

#8. THE DYING GAUL is a Hollywood satire. But Hollywood is not the real subject matter here. My play uses that world of high-rolling big money - that crazy-making business - to examine a whole range of subjects..

Craig Lucas

#9. Well, California used to be in the dream-making business, and unfortunately what's happened I think we're now in the dream-breaking business.

Meg Whitman

#10. These days no one can make money on the goddamn airline business. The economics represent sheer hell.

C. R. Smith

#11. I had long planned to start a foundation. I wanted to do something with long-range benefit to humanity. Starting a business and making a lot of money doesn't make for a fulfilling life.

Fred Kavli

#12. What goes in your butthole is your business, all we care about is making sure Chipotle is what comes out of it. - Rodrigo Chipotle

Kindle Alexander

#13. Film making is an expensive, as well as a serious business. We should be able to entertain our audiences, who are fully aware of what they want. Every filmmaker has a different point of view and presents facets of society.

Rohit Shetty

#14. It's a queer business, making oneself blind.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#15. Building a business doesn't mean getting venture capital funding. It means finding customers and making money.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#16. It's a tough business. To my parents or to their friends, I was not a success, but to me I was a huge success. I was having a blast. I was working on shows I loved, I was working with actors I loved, and I was making a living as an actor. And I loved every second of it.

Christina Hendricks

#17. I think, you know, a lot of the business of comedy is taking your personal experiences and making them relatable to other people.

Kumail Nanjiani

#18. Consider the problem of taking showers with Christians. They are, after all, constantly going on about the business of witnessing in the hopes of making converts to their God and church. Would you want to shower with such people? You never know when they might try to baptize you.

Stanley Hauerwas

#19. Some business bets in which one wins big but infrequently, yet loses small but frequently, are worth making if others are suckers for them and if you have the personal and intellectual stamina.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#20. Strategy is simply resource allocation. When you strip away all the noise, that's what it comes down to. Strategy means making clear cut choices about how to compete. You cannot be everything to everybody, no matter what the size of your business or how deep its pockets.

Jack Welch

#21. For me, politics is not a career. For me, my career was being in business and starting a business and making it successful. My life's passion has been my family, my faith and my country.

Mitt Romney

#22. Decision making and problem solving are not the same. To solve a problem, one needs to find a solution. To make a decision, one needs to make a choice.

Michael J. Marx

#23. Many people fail in their career, business and relationship, and others get stuck because of their inability to make quality decisions.

Nkem Paul

#24. Never start a business just to 'make money'. Start a business to make a difference.

Marie Forleo

#25. My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn't doing this I'd be making documentaries about wildlife and other subjects that interest me.

John Cleese

#26. Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These actors end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging.

Matt Damon

#27. I feel I've done everything late in life. Got married late, and I didn't do my first movie until I was 31. But in this crazy business, you never know what's going to happen. Maybe after 20 years of making movies I'll become an overnight sensation.

Ray Liotta

#28. I am very aware now that music is a business, but there is also a way to go about making music that is true to yourself as opposed to doing, you know, just going through the motions and making things that would just be commercially successful.

Ronnie Montrose

#29. Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are a means to mobilize resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.

Peter Drucker

#30. A woman may be beautiful but have poor character. A man may be a business genius, making money left and right, but lack common courtesy, sensitivity, and compassion.

Myles Munroe

#31. Create reciprocity in your business by making the first gesture, like make a comment on the blog of a great speaker.

Lisa A. Mininni

#32. 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

#33. There are no perfect decisions, only excellent applications.

Todd Stocker

#34. Initially we both did a bit of everything towards making each game but as we began to hire people and the business grew we naturally went in different directions, and away from the coalface of development.

Andrew Oliver

#35. Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such
as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association
the going will be hard indeed.

Phyllis McGinley

#36. The diplomats were at their customary business of making the world safe for new wars.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#37. Passion and hunger are the two ingredients that I look for in first making the judgment on - whether an athlete, an assistant coach, or a horse trainer or anybody I do business with.

Rick Pitino

#38. 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

#39. Many business leaders today view their jobs as entailing responsibility for the welfare of the wider community. These individuals do not define themselves as profit-making machines whose only reason for existing is to satisfy escalating expectation for immediate gain.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#40. Our fathers were actually business partners in the same real-estate firm, and we got together and thought, How can we get a movie together and get distribution and create a new movie genre? We started by making satires of commercials.

David Zucker

#41. In business, one of the challenges is making sure that your product is the easiest to experience and complete a sale.

Mark Cuban

#42. If you can't write like New York, you have no business living in New York and making New York the locale of your stories.

James M. Cain

#43. On behalf of the newspaper industry I wish to announce some changes we're making to serve you better. When I say 'serve you better,' I mean 'increase our profits.' We newspapers are very big on profits these days. We're a business, just like any other business, except that we employ English majors.

Dave Barry

#44. When each of these three elements of vision-concern for excellence, for people and for the wider environment-are present, business is transformed from a tool for making profits into a creative, humane experiment for improving life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#45. Ideas that change business models and who can make money are the most threatening, outside actual religion.

John Day

#46. If companies are in business solely to make money, no consumer can fully trust what they do or say.

Anita Roddick

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

Richard Branson

#48. I'm not averse to making a lot of money. But where does that end? I hang out with people with hundreds of millions of dollars. Is that the standard by which I should measure myself? Where does that take you if you're in my business? I think it takes you to pretty dark, corrupt places.

Tim Ferriss

#49. Natural capitalism is not about making sudden changes, uprooting institutions, or fomenting upheaval for a new social order. Natural capitalism is about making small, critical choices that can tip economic and social factors in positive ways.

Paul Hawken

#50. I love what I do. I made my first record in '57. I don't think I'll ever get tired of making records and writing songs and singing and being in the music business.

Ray Stevens

#51. An elected government making huge changes with the consent of its people, is being undermined by concentrated powers in unregulated markets-powers which go beyond those of any individual government.

George Papandreou

#52. I love making things, like software, and films, and laughter. And working with Gus Silber, to make the Funny Business book, has been a fantastic journey.

Ronnie Apteker

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

Andy Warhol

#54. One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it's making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it's the people who already have strong trust relationships with you, who know you're dedicated, smart, a team player, who can help you.

Reid Hoffman

#55. The best way to make money in business is not to think too much about making it.

Henry Ford

#56. Let us quickly be finished with this business of dying, to save the trouble of making dinner.

Tim Powers

#57. Growing a business requires that we look at ourselves and change the way we make decisions.

David J. Greer

#58. Study Successful People & Businesses, then do what they did to become successful while making slight modifications to fit your life style, your values, your business model & your goals.

Clay Clark

#59. By making a company successful, you can provide more employment, and, if you treat your staff well, then your business itself becomes a charity.

Guo Guangchang

#60. There is no idleness, by which we are so easily seduced, as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business, and by making the loiterer imagine that he has something to do which must not be neglected, keeps him in perpetual agitation, and hurries him rapidly from place to place.

Samuel Johnson

#61. There are many ways to achieve developer happiness, but making your core business products a playground for developers seeking novelty is the path to hell.

Anonymous

#62. We've got customers. We've got suppliers. We've got employees. We've got unions. We've got communities. We've got all of these things that go into making up whether a business succeeds or fails.

Gerry Schwartz

#63. 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

#64. I happen to be blessed with loving what I do for a living. I love acting and I'm so fortunate to be able to work in this business. And I get these marvelous letters about how encouraging it is to see someone making the most of their time and still enjoying it.

Betty White

#65. Jesus is Jesus. So, I'm not sure I'd get into the business of making somebody into Jesus. That's just me.

Andy Andrews

#66. Anything in the entertainment business, there's sharks coming around. It's about staying true to yourself and making sure that, when you look in the mirror, you're happy with what you see.

O'Shea Jackson Jr.

#67. There's something insane about this business - about the cycle of making albums and going on tour to promote them.

Martin Gore

#68. Running a business is making a difference in people's lives

Richard Branson

#69. The toy business began to drive the [Lucasfilm] empire. It's a shame. They make three times as much on toys as they do on films. It's natural to make decisions that protect the toy business, but that's not the best thing for making quality films.

Gary Kurtz

#70. I thought that making movies was drab. I'd lived through that. And I didn't want to use my parents, ever ... They didn't want to push me into this business.

Liza Minnelli

#71. As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom.

Linda Fiorentino

#72. I'm not in business to make money for the other guy. I'm in business to make money for myself.

Sheldon Adelson

#73. Who a person is will ultimately determine if their brains, talents, competencies, energy, effort, deal-making abilities, and opportunities will succeed.

Henry Cloud

#74. Look around at the azaleas making fuchsia star bursts in spring; look at a full moon hanging silver in a black sky on a cold night. And realize that life is glorious, and that you have no business taking it for granted.

Anna Quindlen

#75. Pinterest has been helpful to my business. Making inspiration boards is really key to developing products. When I was getting married, I literally cut out tear sheets and put my own boards together. Had I known about Pinterest, I would have been able to do it so much more easily.

Dylan Lauren

#76. I believe a business can contribute to society by growing and making money and paying more taxes. That's how we contribute to society.

Anonymous

#77. You have to be very fast-thinking, creative, and mobile. It is key to making a business move.

Jack Dangermond

#78. [GEICO] got to thinking that, because they were making a lot of money, they knew everything. And they suffered huge losses. All they had to do was to cut out all the folly and go back to the perfectly wonderful business that was lying there.

Charlie Munger

#79. What Wall Street is, they're market makers. Wall Street's business model is making money on velocity of money. They're a click industry. That's what Wall Street is. They make a lot of money when there's a lot of turnover. And they make a lot of money when that velocity is fast.

Laurence D. Fink

#80. Well, I don't know, yet," the dragonet said, "but I mean to find a way: just because the business will be difficult is no excuse for not making the attempt.

Naomi Novik

#81. Any business transaction - actually any life transaction - is negotiated by how you are making the other person feel.

Stephanie Danler

#82. I wish someone had put a golf club in my hands, not skates on my feet. It is a really great game for business. It's a great game for making connections.

Condoleezza Rice

#83. Mental illness is not in the business of making sense of itself.

Roni Askey-Doran

#84. Succeeding in business is not just about making money.

Daniel Snyder

#85. When they saw him making money, they said, "He is a man of business." When they saw him scattering his money about, they said, "He is an ambitious man." When he was seen to decline honors, they said, "He is an adventurer." When they saw him repulse society, they said, "He is a brute.

Victor Hugo

#86. The record industry is still pissed off that other people are making money off their business, even if it promotes their products and increases their sales. I think they're still mad about radio.

Jonathan Potter

#87. 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

#88. I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.

John Le Carre

#89. Our day-to-day lives are pretty chaotic. So in terms of the writing part, you have to get pretty disciplined about finding quiet moments and making sure you're making time for the art side, on top of all the time-consuming business side.

Sarah Kay

#90. I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.

B.C. Forbes

#91. When you are not making the present moment into a means to an end, you also are not making every human being you meet - in your business and even at home, in your family - into a means to an end.

Eckhart Tolle

#92. Be attached to opportunities - money-making ideas - not a particular type of business or industry.

Ehab Atalla

#93. Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.

Seth Godin

#94. I think part of the whole agenda of being open for business is about making sure that people can get here and also get there.

Andrea Leadsom

#95. Some guys lose their focus. They get caught up in the business deals or the endorsements, and they lose their focus. For me, it's always about football. I've never lost sight of what's making all these other things happen.

Peyton Manning

#96. A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly on making the right decisions.

Raymond A. Spruance

#97. Learn from the past, prepare for the future, and perform in the moment. (Moments: Making Your Life Count For What Matters Most, Mike Van Hoozer)

Mike Van Hoozer

#98. It's an open secret: Even now, in the 21st century, Korean executives often consult spiritual advisers before making major business decisions - decisions that can affect their employees around the world.

Kim Young-ha

#99. I believe that the process could be fun, I just think that making movies is really tough. And it's stressful as it is, and I think that most of us got in this business because it's fun to make movies.

Francis Lawrence

#100. There isn't any question that Hollywood is profit driven. Anybody that thinks it isn't is a fool. It's a business. Hollywood was never philanthropy. The only purpose it had was making money; the only purpose it still has is to make money.

Sydney Pollack