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"There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else."
Sam Walton"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
Mark Twain"Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can."
Paul Tournier"If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem."
J. Paul Getty"A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well."
Jeff Bezos"Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best."
Theodore Isaac Rubin"In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later."
Harold S. Geneen"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest."
Adam Smith"Details create the big picture."
Sanford I. Weill"An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it."
Dee Hock"Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art."
Andy Warhol"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business."
B. C. Forbes"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference."
Tom Brokaw"I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate."
Jeff Bezos"If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion."
Elon Musk"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."
Dale Carnegie"Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun."
Don Marquis"To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less."
Andre Malraux"More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause."
Rose Kennedy"An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage."
Jack Welch"Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana."
Bill Gates"If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it."
Charles Kettering"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."
Howard Aiken"An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today."
Laurence J. Peter"It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket."
Elon Musk"The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows."
Aristotle Onassis"The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights."
J. Paul Getty"When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder."
James H. Boren"We're all working together; that's the secret."
Sam Walton"Great companies are built on great products."
Elon Musk"Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything."
John Kenneth Galbraith"When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge."
Robert Kiyosaki"Carpe per diem - seize the check."
Robin Williams"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant."
Max de Pree"I want to put a ding in the universe."
Steve Jobs"Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities."
Walter Scott"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit."
Napoleon Hill"When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked."
Elon Musk"Our work is the presentation of our capabilities."
Edward Gibbon"The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'"
Jeff Bezos"The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity."
Peter Drucker"Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures."
Tom Peters"Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves."
Herbert Hoover"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard."
Edgar Fiedler"I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill."
Edward Appleton"A company is only as good as the people it keeps."
Mary Kay Ash"Business is a combination of war and sport."
Andre Maurois"Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations."
Steve Jobs"I buy when other people are selling."
J. Paul Getty"Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed."
Peter Drucker"The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players."
Blaine Lee"If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been."
Robert H. Schuller"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it."
Colin Powell"Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight."
Henry R. Luce"Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility."
Ambrose Bierce"Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product."
Elon Musk"First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people."
Leo Rosten"All lasting business is built on friendship."
Alfred A. Montapert"Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with."
Paula Abdul"There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second."
Jeff Bezos"The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully."
Walter Lippmann"If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative."
David Ogilvy"Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something."
Thomas A. Edison"Our favorite holding period is forever."
Warren Buffett"Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them."
W. Edwards Deming"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."
Thomas Jefferson"Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile."
Gary Ryan Blair"One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency."
Arnold H. Glasow"The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork."
Igor Sikorsky"Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility."
Peter Drucker"Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art."
Andy Warhol"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on."
Walter Lippmann"Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast."
Tom Peters"People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'"
Sinclair Lewis"I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done."
Elon Musk"The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own."
Michael Korda"Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch. -Tim Berners"
Lee"Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect."
W. Clement Stone"If you have to forecast, forecast often."
Edgar Fiedler"I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress."
Mark Zuckerberg"The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative."
Elon Musk"Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people."
Mary Kay Ash"If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail."
Jeff Bezos"The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them."
Benjamin Jowett"Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet."
Robert H. Schuller"Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself."
Thomas J. Watson"Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results."
Scott Adams"If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance."
Abraham Lincoln"Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers."
Ross Perot"Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to."
Harry Emerson Fosdick"The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships. The quality of your business is no different."
Harvey Mackay"Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs."
David Lynch"The business of business is relationships; the business of life is human connection."
Robin S. Sharma"You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics."
will.i.am"In our business, things look like a failure until they're not. It's pretty binary transitions."
Satya Nadella"Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation."
Milan Kundera"Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny."
Kin Hubbard"So little done, so much to do."
Cecil Rhodes"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."
Thomas A. Edison"People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year."
Peter Drucker"Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart."
Scott Adams"For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation."
Charles Baudelaire"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business."
Henry Ford"The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell."
Confucius"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"Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left."
John Ray"And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department."
Andrew Carnegie"The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail."
Napoleon Hill"The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife."
David Ogilvy"Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them."
Friedrich Durrenmatt"Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future."
Satya Nadella"It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business."
Dolley Madison"We need business to understand its social responsibility, that the main task and objective for a business is not to generate extra income and to become rich and transfer the money abroad, but to look and evaluate what a businessman has done for the country, for the people, on whose account he or she has become so rich."
Vladimir Putin"Word of mouth is the best medium of all."
William Bernbach"We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference."
Steve Ballmer"Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon."
David Ogilvy"Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while."
Jack Welch"Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon."
Winston Churchill"Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader."
Tacitus"Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work."
Warren Bennis"Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million."
Ted Turner"An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission."
Fred Allen"City life is stressful. Everybody is running around like crazy, stuck in traffic jams trying to make meetings, trying to make ends meet, trying to meet deadlines, trying to get kids to and from activities. There aren't enough hours in the day for all this business."
Rebecca Pidgeon"When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals."
Gary Vaynerchuk"Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!"
O. Henry"If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business."
Lee Kuan Yew"5G goes beyond the regular operator business; it's a business revolution."
Borje Ekholm"I got some news for you. One, there is no Jesus. Two, there is no God. Three, mind your own business and everything works out."
Ed Asner"For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business."
Karl Liebknecht"In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it."
Hillary Clinton"We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives."
Robert Reich"No one on his deathbed ever said, I wish I had spent more time on my business."
Paul Tsongas"Globalization means that business strategy and business ethics cannot be separated from each other."
Ofra Strauss"We all have a life story and a message that can inspire others to live a better life or run a better business. Why not use that story and message to serve others and grow a real business doing it?"
Brendon Burchard"Now everybody's got a crazy notion of their own. Some like to mix up with a crowd, some like to be alone. It's no one elses' business as far as I can see, but every time that I go out the people stare at me, with me little ukulele in me hand."
George Formby"Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral."
Frank Lloyd Wright"It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain."
Dale Dauten"Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures."
Evan Esar"If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them."
Jane Fonda"Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss."
Lee Iacocca"People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps."
Mary Kay Ash"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work."
Robert Orben"Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness."
Stanislaw Lem"Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything."
W. Clement Stone"If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable."
Will Rogers"Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business."
William Wycherley"I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas."
Ron Paul"I'm a Gemini, so my mood always changes - one minute I'm dance-dancey, the next I'm in the corner minding my own business."
J Hus"Great investors need to have the right combination of intuition, business sense and investment talent."
Andrew Lo"Customer discovery is the process of translating a founder's vision for the company into hypotheses about each component of the business model and creating a set of experiments to test each hypothesis."
Steve Blank"Business is other people's money."
Delphine de Girardin"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."
Eric Clapton"I have learned the hard way to mind my business, without judging who people are and what they do. I am more troubled by the lack of space being provided for the truth to unfold. Humans cannot seem to wait for or honor the truth. Instead, we make it up based on who we believe people should or should not be."
Iyanla Vanzant"People who achieve the highest levels of success - whether in business or in raising families or simply in discovering fulfillment and satisfaction and purpose in life - are those who place their focus on other people rather than themselves."
Richard M. DeVos"I studied business in the U.S. and later worked in Dubai."
Dulquer Salmaan"Politics is a messy business, but campaigning prepares you for governing. It prepares you to get hit, stand strong, and, if necessary, hit back."
James Carville"The purpose of driving traffic to your online business is to get customers. Once a prospect lands on your site, you still have to convert that prospect into a buyer."
Marc Ostrofsky"Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it."
Peter Lynch"The biggest hurdle is rejection. Any business you start, be ready for it. The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is the successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don't want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your face, go to door number 11 enthusiastically, with a smile on your face."
John Paul DeJoria"War is big business. It's a lot of money going to and fro, and unfortunately a lot of angst, and a lot of fear, and a lot of doubt. And eventually a lot of wonderful people, like soldiers, like men and women that are out there trying to do the best they can, they come back being wounded on many levels."
Jon Anderson"To qualify the term 'boss' by adding 'girl' or 'babe' or 'honey' or 'pink' or whatever other ridiculous, antiquated-gender role assignment the media thinks is cute this month, is, at the least, disrespectful and at the worst, damaging to the way young women view themselves and our fight for equality in the business world."
Rachel Hollis"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business."
Michael J. Fox"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"The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark."
Jack Anderson"I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales."
Zig Ziglar"The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'"
Orison Swett Marden"The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason."
Hunter S. Thompson"In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield."
Warren Buffett"Student loans are delaying retirements. They're suppressing the housing market. They're suffocating new business formation. They're even leading young people to delay getting married and having children."
Annie Lowrey"The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs what you have. The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe."
Simon Sinek"When you see corruption, when you see injustice, you speak up. You don't just shut up and say it's none of my business. -Manal al"
Sharif"I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment."
Walt Disney"Business reporting is not dealing with objects, it is dealing with relationships between objects."
Hasso Plattner"Every life a legacy, every small business a school."
Michael Gerber"Look at what is broken in society, figure out how to make it better, and then, around that, formulate a business."
Whitney Wolfe Herd"Never argue with a profit."
Jeff Rich"The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green."
Thomas Carlyle"I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company."
Elon Musk"The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government."
Mitt Romney"When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything."
Dwight D. Eisenhower"The characteristic of great innovators and great companies is they see a space that others do not. They don't just listen to what people tell them; they actually invent something new, something that you didn't know you needed, but the moment you see it, you say, 'I must have it.'"
Eric Schmidt"I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act."
Jennifer Aniston"Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities."
Tom Allen"Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done."
Peter Drucker"A bankruptcy judge can fix your balance sheet, but he cannot fix your company."
Gordon Bethune"My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job."
Ted Turner"A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee."
Arnold H. Glasow"Networking has been cited as the number one unwritten rule of success in business. Who you know really impacts what you know."
Sallie Krawcheck"Business is about more than just money. It's about being creative and innovative."
Peter Jones"Writing is not work. In fact, there's nothing better. Writing is something that if the music business went completely away tomorrow - radio stations quit existing and music quit being popular and it was old hat - I would still write songs."
Toby Keith"As far as this business of solitary confinement goes, the most important thing for survival is communication with someone, even if it's only a wave or a wink, a tap on the wall, or to have a guy put his thumb up. It makes all the difference."
John McCain"Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business."
Ben Horowitz"There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster."
Jerry Della Femina"What other people think of me is none of my business."
Gary Oldman"In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing."
William Wordsworth"You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place."
Elon Musk"Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets."
Henry Ford"The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself."
Blaine Lee"I came into this music business at 26 years old. I was a fully developed man at that point. At that age, I didn't have anything to prove. -Jay"
Z"Rather than ignore those who choose to publish their opinions without actually talking to me, I am happy to dispel any rumors or misconceptions and am quite proud to say that I am a very content gay man living my life to the fullest and feel most fortunate to be working with wonderful people in the business I love."
Neil Patrick Harris"In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits."
Lee Iacocca"Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together."
Ed Greenwood"Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing."
Robert Kiyosaki"I'm fascinated by the business of belief, obviously, because it's so ever present with humanity anyway. And, you know, when you have science, which constantly talks of proofs, you have religion, which constantly talks of beliefs and faith and so on."
John Hurt"In the luxury business, you have to build on heritage."
Bernard Arnault"The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business."
Rutherford B. Hayes"No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit."
Andrew Carnegie"The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling."
Ambrose Bierce"We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects."
Alexis de Tocqueville"The business of America is business."
Calvin Coolidge"What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful."
Blaine Lee"Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money."
Walt Disney"What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'"
Steve Ballmer"The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away."
Ronald Reagan"A company's logo can be a visual ambassador, one that goes on everything from business cards to delivery trucks. When used effectively, it can be the window into the soul of a brand."
Tahl Raz"The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you."
Charles Dickens"There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward."
Jeff Bezos"My father is a taxi driver, and my mother ran a small business. I hadn't even met a barrister before I got my first shot at the legal profession. But back then, I was lucky enough to be given a break - I can't help but wonder if I would be so lucky today."
Robert Rinder"Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business."
Dave Barry"If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty."
Stephen Covey"If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business."
Anthony Bourdain"The gig economy is empowerment. This new business paradigm empowers individuals to better shape their own destiny and leverage their existing assets to their benefit."
John McAfee"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship."
John D. Rockefeller"Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money."
Peter Drucker"As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth."
John Greenleaf Whittier"The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force."
Andre Maurois"I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. -John Dalberg"
Acton"A manager doesn't hear the cheers."
Alvin Dark"We hire military veterans because they make great employees. They bring proven technical and leadership skills. They understand teamwork, and they're adaptable. Bottom line, hiring veterans is good for business."
Randall L. Stephenson"Indomitable perseverance in a business, properly understood, always ensures ultimate success."
Cyrus McCormick"Starting a business is not for everyone. Starting a business - I'd say, number one is have a high pain threshold."
Elon Musk"I come from the restaurant business; you're talking to a guy used to working 12, 14 hours a day."
Bobby Schilling"When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact."
Warren Buffett"The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States. Occasionally we have to operate in places where, all considered, one would not normally choose to go. But we go where the business is."
Dick Cheney"I had accepted a position as a business analyst at Deloitte Consulting in New York. But before I went into that workforce, I decided to take a year off and went to India to do a social enterprise fellowship. It wasn't the best fit, but that was where a TV show in Korea found me and invited me to first come perform."
Eric Nam"Before WeWork, I had a baby clothing company. When I started out, I had no real contacts in the garment business and no mentor to guide me on how things worked. I just had an idea to put pads on the baby clothes on to protect the baby's knees."
Adam Neumann"Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street."
John Sununu"Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be."
Horatio Nelson"It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts."
Will Rogers"The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers."
Edgar Fiedler"Business can be a source of progressive change."
Jerry Greenfield"The opportunity is often lost by deliberating."
Publilius Syrus"There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!"
Coco Chanel"The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks."
Rupert Murdoch"The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed."
Henry Ford"Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates."
Don Marquis"In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely."
H. Jackson Brown, Jr."Taking bold action on climate change simply makes good business sense. It's also the right thing to do for people and the planet. Setting a net-zero GHG emissions target by 2050 will drive innovation, grow jobs, build prosperity, and secure a better world for what will soon be 9 billion people."
Richard Branson"It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties."
Alfred North Whitehead"Every good business story has a conflict and triumph at the core and a turning point where a transformation takes place."
Dinesh Paliwal"People are becoming more and more aware of how the dominance of development and business is altering their lives and, in particular, their own heritage."
Robert Redford"It is not impossible to succeed as a social democracy, where business and free enterprise thrive, and not abandon the disenfranchised, poor, sick, and elderly."
Richard Belzer"Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request."
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield"If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too. You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it."
Otis Redding"As Canadians who proudly demand the equal treatment of minorities, religious freedom, gender equality and basic human rights for its citizens - allowing our political leaders to shamefully ignore these values in the name of business abroad, falls short of the high standard we rightfully set for ourselves."
Jagmeet Singh"Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all."
Harry Seidler"I am a very hands-on person, and I like to be involved in driving my business."
Baba Kalyani"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves."
E. Joseph Cossman"Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Know your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. Love what you do or don't do it."
Mark Cuban"Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business."
Carlos Slim"I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business."
Harvey S. Firestone"When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life."
Jocko Willink"Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top."
Robert Browning"I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business."
Henry David Thoreau"It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics."
Isaac Asimov"Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality."
Henry Ward Beecher"Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net."
Meg Whitman"What helps people, helps business."
Leo Burnett"For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business. He excites me when I watch him. He moves me. He's the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more."
Frank Sinatra"There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting."
David Letterman"The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions."
John Hancock"If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."
Barack Obama"I went to art school in Chicago for a year at Columbia College. I had this whole master plan of getting into sustainable development and green architecture and construction, so I wanted to go to business school and then get my masters in construction and development."
Nico Tortorella"I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams."
H. P. Lovecraft"Money is catching up to the technological trends transforming all aspects of society and business; entertainment, insurance, health-care, gaming, leisure, retail - all commercial and social verticals are going digital - including money itself."
Max Keiser"The best way to look at any business is from the standpoint of the clients."
Jamie Dimon"Sometimes I think our problems are made worse by the kind of business we're in. Playing these road shows is a weird experience."
Loretta Lynn"Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design. -Tim Berners"
Lee"I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me."
John Cleese"You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing."
Steve Ross"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible."
Andy Warhol"A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships."
Stephen Covey"Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles."
Ayrton Senna"If being a werewolf is really a curse, you've got to treat it honorably. If werewolves are going to carry on, there has to be an incredibly powerful force. There is the business of the craving, the hunger for the kill. It has to be deeply pleasurable and more than an appetite for meat. There has to be a sensual dimension to it."
Glen Duncan"'Handsome' means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business."
Richard Chamberlain"Punctuality is the soul of business."
Thomas Chandler Haliburton"When you are just starting out with an online business, there's a good chance that you'll be making several mistakes. Because of the mistakes that can be made with starting an online business, many people decide to quit or think that online businesses are just a scam."
Fabrizio Moreira"Jerry Ormand was already a legendary Texas oilman when I met him. Yet he took the time to introduce me to the fine points of the oil business and how to survive and prosper amid the chaos of a rough-and-tumble industry."
Dan Pena"I am a graduate in business management with specialisation in finance, and I love accounts!"
Tena Desae"To thrive, all businesses must focus on the art of self-disruption. Rather than wait for the competition to steal your business, every founder and employee needs to be willing to cannibalize their existing revenue streams in order to create new ones. All disruption starts with introspection."
Jay Samit"The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation."
Pierre Trudeau"You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place or worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed - that has nothing to do with the business of the State."
Muhammad Ali Jinnah"It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime."
Michael Eisner"Know your target audience. Always keep them at the forefront of your mind. Understand their lifestyle and what they are looking for. Gather their feedback and use it to tailor your approach. The voice of the consumer is an essential input into the development of any fashion business or blog."
Imran Amed"People want to start their own business or become financially independent. But you don't end up a successful entrepreneur unless you find a way to love the risk, the uncertainty, the repeated failures, and working insane hours on something you have no idea whether will be successful or not."
Mark Manson"People are the core of every business. Businesses are based on relationships, and relationships are based on people. I would go to an average restaurant run by amazing people over an outstanding restaurant run by awful people."
Marcus Lemonis"Time flies so quick. I remember my second year in business when Bullocks Wilshire did a whole window of my white dresses. I was so excited, I went there at night and took pictures."
Tadashi Shoji"The most important characteristics you need to succeed in business are resilience, determination and persistence."
Karren Brady"Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country."
Norman Cousins"Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either."
Evan Esar"I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience."
Debbi Fields"Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network."
Mitch Kapor"If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid."
Thomas J. Watson"Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do."
Richard Nelson Bolles"When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?"
Glenn Beck"I am a social democrat - I believe in pursuing greater equality and tackling social justice - but... you can't do that unless you have got a strong economy, unless you have got a vibrant business base earning the wealth that makes that possible."
Nicola Sturgeon"The premise of anything you do - whether it's writing a song or any business - is ultimately that it hinges heavily on your belief in the thing that you're doing and promoting and selling. It's a reflection of who you are in a very deep way."
Isaac Hanson"Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business."
Peter Lynch"People are in such a hurry to launch their product or business that they seldom look at marketing from a bird's eye view and they don't create a systematic plan."
Dave Ramsey"I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant."
Aubrey McClendon"Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology."
Donald Johanson"Being a top performer - whether it's in business or on the athletic field - requires grit and tenacity, as well as the continuous desire to become better."
Amy Morin"Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass."
Ron Jaworski"The more you drive positive change, the more enhanced your business model."
Anand Mahindra"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough."
Abraham Lincoln"Do what's best for you, and do it to the best of your ability - go after your goals like nobody's business."
Michael Oher"I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist."
Dick Bruna"When you think about it, Airbnb is a great solution if your family is traveling with you on business and you need more space, if you're going for an extended stay, like a week plus. It's a great solution if you want close proximity to the work site and maybe there isn't a hotel across the street or whatnot."
Nathan Blecharczyk"I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century."
Hillary Clinton"If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something."
Rupert Murdoch"An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's."
Will Rogers"Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops."
Thomas J. Watson"Business is in itself a power."
Garet Garrett"I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations."
Ralph Nader"Cannibals prefer those who have no spines."
Stanislaw Lem"A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his."
Bobby Darin"If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work."
Khalil Gibran"I'm probably not your typical business person in many ways. I don't wear a suit. I don't carry a briefcase. I don't wear a tie. I'm fairly casual. I haven't got a big office, and it's in a very ordinary part of town. I'd much prefer to downplay than impress."
Gerry Harvey"A man should never neglect his family for business."
Walt Disney"My mom worked for Apple, and my dad owned his own business."
Travis Scott"Yes, we can do business in Nepal and still succeed. That is what I proved."
Binod Chaudhary"Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world."
Michael Leunig"At many companies, business development is treated as a sales tool for incremental growth, but I believe that business development can bend our growth curve in a big way. It should accelerate our ability to grow, helping us quickly close gaps or leap ahead of competitors."
Peggy Johnson"In show business, everyone loves a comeback story."
Chris Connelly"I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, 'You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit.' As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit."
Mitch Hedberg"Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business."
Tom Robbins"When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected."
Helen Thomas"If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly."
Thomas Sowell"Reality TV is flat with the anti-cultural imperatives of business: cheap to make, it does ideological work even when it is not giving guru status to dull business people. It fits in with capitalism's anti-mythic myth: the idea that we have liberated ourselves from the dangerous illusions allegedly propagated by art and politics."
Mark Fisher"There is not a week that goes by that I don't have a dream that I am back in the business."
Alan Gerry"Just because you're working does not mean you're making money. That's two very different things in show business."
Billy Porter"A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price."
Charlie Munger"Like the Internet, Bitcoin will change the way people interact and do business around the world."
Erik Voorhees"Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business."
Clara Barton"There is no time and space in the digital world. People chat and collaborate through social networks. Cultural icons garner millions of fans online in locations they have often never been themselves. The boundary between public and private life is now everyone's business."
Eduardo Paes"Succeeding in business is not just about making money."
Daniel Snyder"Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way."
Edna Ferber"No partnership between two independent companies, no matter how well run, can match the speed, effectiveness, responsiveness and efficiency of a solely owned company."
Edward Whitacre, Jr."We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world."
Yuan T. Lee"There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it."
Marc Andreessen"No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation."
Orison Swett Marden"I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier."
James Cash Penney"It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent."
Barack Obama"The stock market is a giant distraction from the business of investing."
John C. Bogle"Many people dream about being an entrepreneur, starting their own business, working for themselves, and living the good life. Very few, however, will actually take the plunge and put everything they've got into being their own boss."
Fabrizio Moreira"You gotta have fun. Regardless of how you look at it, we're playing a game. It's a business, it's our job, but I don't think you can do well unless you're having fun."
Derek Jeter"If I love you, what business is it of yours?"
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke."
Alvin Toffler"Exchange ideas frequently."
James Cash Penney"What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life."
Paul A. Volcker"Our new attitude is how can we put you in front of our customer."
Terry Semel"I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod."
Winston Churchill"The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment."
D. H. Lawrence"The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: do more of what you do."
David Joseph Schwartz"You can't be the accountant in your accounting firm. You can't cut the grass in your landscaping business. You can't work on the vehicles in your auto repair shop... And you really can't spend all of your time managing those actions, either."
Michael Gerber"The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance."
Brian Tracy"If you run a business, and I see F1 as a business, if you have to go back every five weeks saying 'oh, I need another two million', it gets old pretty quick. Then the trust is lost."
Guenther Steiner"We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So you end up with dentists who are more traders than dentists. A dentist should drill teeth and use whatever he does in the stock market for entertainment."
Nassim Nicholas Taleb"There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success."
Phil Knight"The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches."
Antonin Scalia"Joy is the serious business of Heaven."
C. S. Lewis"Business is business. I don't manufacture cars, but we do manufacture money."
Kenneth C. Griffin"When you run a part of the relay and pass on the baton, there is no sense of unfinished business in your mind. There is just the sense of having done your part to the best of your ability. That is it. The hope is to pass on the baton to somebody who will run faster and run a better marathon."
N. R. Narayana Murthy"One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do."
A. C. Benson"The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency."
Bill Gates"You can't be successful in business without taking risks. It's really that simple."
Adena Friedman"We're in the business of selling pleasure. We don't sell handbags or haute couture. We sell dreams."
Alain Wertheimer"My dad was a man of integrity who taught me to always do the right thing even when nobody is watching. He ran a trucking company, and watching how he operated his business instilled a drive and work ethic that stuck with me."
Rob Stone"Empathy is one of our greatest tools of business that is most underused."
Daniel Lubetzky"Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business."
Richard Branson"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."
Thomas Paine"The reason why it is so difficult for existing firms to capitalize on disruptive innovations is that their processes and their business model that make them good at the existing business actually make them bad at competing for the disruption."
Clayton M. Christensen"I've always been a big believer in diversification for anybody. It's never good to put all of your efforts and all of your time and all of your financial resources into just one project. Diversification is key for any individual and any business."
Paul Heyman"If the planters carry politics into the fields they will find it bad business."
Charles E. Merrill"The more people you meet, and the more people you have influence over your business can scale quicker."
Peter Jones"My father told me, never have partners."
Howard Hughes"Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products."
Scott McNealy"It takes hard work, dedication, discipline and a positive attitude to get to the top - in business or in sports."
George Blanda"In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb."
Miroslav Volf"You can put the greatest seafood restaurant next to an average steak house in an urban area, and that steak house will do more business than the seafood place. If you go to the water, you can put an average seafood place next to the greatest steak house, and people are going to eat seafood."
Tilman J. Fertitta"My father runs a restaurant business in Delhi, so if I had chosen to sell kebabs, it would be far easier for me than for anybody else."
Huma Qureshi"If we all act together - business, governments, NGOs and citizens and, especially, the young - just imagine the good we could create."
Paul Polman"So often, we leave the selfless side of ourselves for nights and weekends, for our charity work. It is our duty to inject that into our day-to-day business, into the work that we do, to improve corporations, to improve civil society, and to improve government."
Leila Janah"Business is a battlefield. You need to be able to go to battle with your team members. Like the military. Know them, trust them, and know who you're working with."
Pamela Meyer"There is a business built around racial grievance. And that business is booming at such a level that white people are like hey, I'm going to adopt a whole new identity so I can benefit from being Baby Al Sharpton, Baby Jesse Jackson, and in academia, this has been embraced and she has been able to pull off this scam."
Jason Whitlock"The first rule of show business is get off the stage while people still want more."
Terence Winter"You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog."
Carl Icahn"On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a computer programmer. But in my heart, I am a gamer."
Satoru Iwata"I couldn't sell water in a desert. I have no business acumen. I can tell you why you have no business acumen, and I can tell you why your project may or may not work, but I have no ability to make money."
Richard Quest"Jim Newman, the business visionary who created the term 'comfort zone,' showed me how to expand my horizons. Thanks to Jim, after I attended one of his PACE Seminars in 1978; I moved out of my comfort zone at Bear Stearns and became a super successful oilman."
Dan Pena"I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't."
Steve Martin"To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart."
Thomas J. Watson"In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population."
Noam Chomsky"Your customers are the lifeblood of your business. Their needs and wants impact every aspect of your business, from product development to content marketing to sales to customer service."
John Rampton"A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all."
Michael LeBoeuf"My father, Beric, ran a joinery business and owned two factories."
Toyah Willcox"In business it's about people. It's about relationships."
Kathy Ireland"It's safe to say headphones is a good business."
DJ Khaled"It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way."
Ernest Hemingway"Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns."
Plato"Your mission is to find a product or service that can positively impact the lives of 1 billion people because that's the game we're playing today."
Peter Diamandis"If you fire people, you fire customers."
Ferdinand Piech"If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty. -Marie von Ebner"
Eschenbach"Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change."
An Wang"In the real estate business you learn more about people, and you learn more about community issues, you learn more about life, you learn more about the impact of government, probably than any other profession that I know of."
Johnny Isakson"Music is one of the toughest industries, so I respect everybody who has travelled any distance, come far in this music business and achieved anything because it is so hard, and there are so many people out there these days. -G"
Eazy"Hard work isn't enough. And more work is never the real answer. The sort of grit you need to scale a business is less reliant on brute force. It's actually one part determination, one part ingenuity, and one part laziness."
Reid Hoffman"Business is just about enabling human beings, nothing more, nothing less. Businesses need to recognize this fundamental fact."
Bruce Dickinson"Steve Jobs once asked me for some advice about retail, but I said, 'I am not sure at all we are in the same business.'"
Bernard Arnault"The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business."
Aaron Burr"Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It's a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can't get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy."
Noam Chomsky"Family business management is a discipline that has evolved from an art into a science. The market for this line of education has been created by the growing recognition of family-run companies that shareholders are demanding greater clarity on issues ranging from succession to the management of wealth and the distribution of profits."
Sanjaya Baru"Your political views should be your political views. I believe in business being non-partisan."
Mark Henry"Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do."
Michel de Montaigne"No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business."
Mikhail Baryshnikov"I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create."
William Blake"It's not the things you don't know that trip you up. It's the things you think you know, but you don't. You fail to ask a certain question because you believe you know the answer. Separating your information from your assumptions can be very tricky business."
Claudia Gray"Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life."
Samuel Johnson"Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business."
Jesse Ventura"Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores - these didn't come out of nowhere."
Paul Ryan"Politics is show business for ugly people."
Paul Begala"Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it."
Al Lopez"What other people think of you is none of your business."
Regina Brett"Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people."
Steve Jobs"I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death."
Leonardo da Vinci"Before you can become a millionaire, you must learn to think like one. You must learn how to motivate yourself to counter fear with courage. Making critical decisions about your career, business, investments and other resources conjures up fear, fear that is part of the process of becoming a financial success."
Thomas J. Stanley"Our movements and feelings are constantly monitored, because surveillance is the business model of the digital age."
Katharine Viner"If Satan wasn't around, churches would go out of business."
Marilyn Manson"The beauty of the Internet is there's a niche market for everything, and if you can focus on it, you can build a sustainable and viable business of it."
Michelle Phan"As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less."
Morgan Freeman"Sustainability makes good business sense, and we're all on the same team at the end of the day. That's the truth about the human condition."
Paul Polman"Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally."
Ulrich Beck"Companies that grow for the sake of growth or that expand into areas outside their core business strategy often stumble. On the other hand, companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time."
Jamie Dimon"In terms of diet, my parents had a restaurant business so I don't eat any junk food - they taught me to appreciate good food."
Camille Rowe"If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars."
James Surowiecki"No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution."
Niccolo Machiavelli"Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority."
William Arthur Ward"I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love."
Tiger Woods"We mislead ourselves when we pretend we can make someone into an effective manager by putting them through a few courses in business school."
Matthew Stewart"Our nation stands at the crossroads of liberty. Crushing national debt, rampant illegal immigration, insane business regulations and staggering national unemployment are pushing our nation into unchartered territory."
James Lankford"Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business."
Paul Valery"I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business."
Chester A. Arthur"Judges should be in the business of declaring what the law is using the traditional tools of interpretation, rather than pronouncing the law as they might wish it to be in light of their own political views."
Neil Gorsuch"That's the beauty of country music - you have to get out there and earn it and work hard. And when you're on the road with big name acts, you realize there's no easy way to the 'Promised Land' in this business."
Luke Bryan"Having been in the restaurant business, our job in the restaurant business is to be responsible for our customers' happiness. It's the nature of the hospitality business. You need to take care of people. You take care of customers above all others. Customers are your lifeblood."
Andrew Zimmern"In business, speed is everything."
Eric Yuan"There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there."
Colonel Sanders"All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it."
Samuel Butler"The Internet has changed the way we communicate with each other, the way we learn about the world and the way we conduct business."
Ron Wyden"Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it's integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards."
Kerry Stokes"Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts."
Eli Broad"No business can stay in business without customers. How you treat - or mistreat - them determines how long your doors stay open."
Harvey Mackay"If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down."
Ray Bradbury"My philosophy is it's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier."
Anthony Hopkins"Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other."
Bill Gates"There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business."
Oscar De La Hoya"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."
Thomas Carlyle"God has blessed me with a wonderful family, a successful business, and outstanding employees. I do not take these blessings lightly."
David Green"Infrastructure is the backbone of economic growth. It improves access to basic services such as clean water and electricity, creates jobs and boosts business."
Alok Sharma"Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion."
Jack Welch"Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence."
Gautam Adani"Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself."
Joyce Meyer"Business is the salt of life."
Jeff Rich"In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone."
Bill Gates"Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job."
Robert Kiyosaki"Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march."
Howard Schultz"I have a saying, which is, 'Crazy is good for business.' I think rock and roll really is about being a bit crazy."
Billy Corgan"By reading, you learn through others' experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men."
Jim Mattis"Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it's starting a new business, whether it's leaving home, whether it's getting married, or whether it's flying in space."
Chris Hadfield"What I have found is that, in a family business structure, sometimes what is needed is a sense of discipline rather than creativity. You have to take everyone's ideas and make it work. When you are dealing with money, there is a limitation on how creative you can be."
Ashwin Sanghi"There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of."
Wentworth Miller"Your workforce is your most valuable asset. The knowledge and skills they have represent the fuel that drives the engine of business - and you can leverage that knowledge."
Harvey Mackay"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"I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one."
Brian Clough"Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships."
Michael Dell"You can't take anything personally in this business. Follow your dreams, but there is a lot of criticism. You have to brush it off. Everybody is looking for something different."
Kendall Jenner"We need to revise our economic thinking to give full value to our natural resources. This revised economics will stabilize both the theory and the practice of free-market capitalism. It will provide business and public policy with a powerful new tool for economic development, profitability, and the promotion of the public good."
Paul Hawken"Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business."
Kevin Mitnick"Your mindset matters. It affects everything - from the business and investment decisions you make, to the way you raise your children, to your stress levels and overall well-being."
Peter Diamandis"There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone's business."
Vikram Patel"Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming."
Richard Branson"I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling."
Nicholas II of Russia"The first thing I heard when I got in the business - not from my mentor - was, 'Bulls make money, bears make money, and pigs get slaughtered.' I'm here to tell you I was a pig. And I strongly believe the only way to make long-term returns in our business that are superior is by being a pig."
Stanley Druckenmiller"If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you."
Zig Ziglar"In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement."
Ben Bernanke"In the military, they give medals for people who are willing to sacrifice themselves so that others may survive. In business, we give bonuses to people who sacrifice others."
Simon Sinek"Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment."
Grenville Kleiser"If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life."
Fran Tarkenton"Small business is the backbone of our economy. I'm for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs are generated."
Michele Bachmann"Caste is about dividing people up in ways that preclude every form of solidarity, because even in the lowest castes, there are divisions and sub-castes, and everyone's co-opted into the business of this hierarchical, silo-ised society."
Arundhati Roy"If I had been thinking business since I was 21, I'd be a rich man right now."
Nate Diaz"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"The saying in business is that, 'You hire for skills and you fire for behavior.' And one would argue that in order to move up in career, to be promoted, to take on additional responsibility, in many ways that's linked more to the attitudes and behaviors that you carry rather than what you know technically about a given subject."
Gerald Chertavian"All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'."
Duke of Wellington"On YouTube, women are not just users; they're creators. They're learning about business and technology, and having a voice."
Susan Wojcicki"The story of Rod Stewart, the story of Carlos Santana is so inspiring to young musicians because it shows in this trendy business how long a career can last. It shows how you can soar back, regardless of age."
Clive Davis"I don't care what straight people do, I don't care what gay people do. I don't care what nobody do. That's they business. I just care about what I do. You know what I'm saying?"
ASAP Rocky"Your own business growth and success depends on many things, and along that growing path, you are going to have to concede certain responsibilities and activities - whether for your accounting, your production, or day-to-day management."
Michael Gerber"Constantine 'Costa' Gratsos had made his fortune as a lifelong associate of shipping icon Aristotle Onassis. He took a liking to me, became my first mentor, and showed me how to swim in the deep, dangerous waters of business."
Dan Pena"When we talk about 'smart transportation,' it is more than moving cargo from A to B. Digitization within transport and logistics means seamless service to our customers, visibility in the supply chain, and driving a more efficient business."
Soren Skou"Sustainability has to be a way of life to be a way of business."
Anand Mahindra"Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families."
Melissa Bean"Music is spiritual. The music business is not."
Van Morrison"Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people."
Sonia Sotomayor"The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not."
George Michael"In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create."
David Ogilvy"When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary."
Ezra Pound"Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty."
James Altucher"I grew up in a family business... that really has provided the core of my belief in American small business, and in America's ability to grow and operate important businesses that can compete and be successful."
Karen Mills"I remember when I was young, I was watching TV, and my father came into the room, agitated, and told me to start a business. I was eight years old."
Sebastian Maniscalco"The business of biomedical research is mostly about failure. Few projects we commission will ultimately result in success. But every study we do contributes to the body of knowledge that brings science and society closer to a solution."
Kenneth Frazier"Don't ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, accounting, accounting. Know your numbers."
Tilman J. Fertitta"It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich."
Robin Leach"All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend."
Mark McCormack"Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves."
Satya Nadella"Hospitality is central to the restaurant business, yet it's a hard idea to define precisely. Mostly, it involves being nice to people and making them feel welcome. You notice it when it's there, and you particularly notice it when it isn't. A single significant lapse in this area can be your dominant impression of an entire meal."
John Lanchester"Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable."
James Rouse"If you're not learning, then you're stagnant. If you're stagnant, then you're not evolving and the business isn't progressing."
Seth Rollins"Bitcoin is both disruptive from a technology perspective, but there's a tremendous power of social good behind it. So you can both build a cool business or have a great investment return, and there's the promise of potentially improving the remittance industry or banking the unbanked."
Cameron Winklevoss"A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts."
Richard Branson"All you have in business is your reputation - so it's very important that you keep your word."
Richard Branson"If someone asks me what cloud computing is, I try not to get bogged down with definitions. I tell them that, simply put, cloud computing is a better way to run your business."
Marc Benioff