Music is something I must do, business is something I need to do, and Africa is something I have to do. That's the way it breaks down in my life. Bob Geldof
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
The goal of my shows, my interviews, my business, my philanthropy, all of it, whatever ventures I might pursue, would be to make clear that what unites us is ultimately far more redeeming and compelling than anything that separates me. Oprah Winfrey
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
Great investors need to have the right combination of intuition, business sense and investment talent. Andrew Lo
Moms and dads don't last forever. If you've got unfinished business, we need to face that, and that's not easy. Every child wants to love their mother and their father. Love is the most important thing, and when they feel rejected and unloved, that hole can never be filled by anyone else. Goldie Hawn
As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth. John Greenleaf Whittier
Writing can be a frightening, distressing business, and whatever kind of structure or buffer is available can help a lot. Aimee Bender
Even if the chef has a good business head, his focus should be behind kitchen doors. A business partner should take care of everything in front of the kitchen doors. Bobby Flay
As an entrepreneur, you love your business like a child, and you're taught to be laser-focused on the business. Daymond John
The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially. Indra Nooyi
It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it's a - very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so well to finally get it done. Dick Cheney
The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams. Arnold Schwarzenegger
I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing. Sally Field
The leverage and influence social media gives citizens are rapidly spreading into the business world. Simon Mainwaring
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
I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable. Tupac Shakur
So much of life is a negotiation - so even if you're not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you. Kevin O'Leary
My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual. Phyllis Diller
I always thought, 'Will I go into the business, or will I not go into the business?' But when my father got arrested, I really didn't have a choice. I was the oldest son, and it was something that had to be done. Jared Kushner
Exchange ideas frequently. James Cash Penney
When you are in business for a long time, you go through good times and bad times. When you go through bad times, you learn to control costs, satisfy customers better, satisfy employees better and become more transparent. Therefore, you build character in the company. N. R. Narayana Murthy
We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference. Steve Ballmer
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 E. Gerber
The Kingdom is the love of God prevailing in politics, in business, in government, in media. It is all the impact of the laws of God creating a social environment where the strong help the weak, where those who have give to those who don't. It's a society where relationships are built on love. Myles Munroe
Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money. Walt Disney
Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business. Michael Gerber
When I was 13, I opened my own business called The Awesome Pretzel Company, and my dad helped me build a pretzel cart. Guy Fieri
I am in the business of exploring crazy possibilities. John Lithgow
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
I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't. Steve Martin
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
My vision is to build an e-commerce ecosystem that allows consumers and businesses to do all aspects of business online. Jack Ma
Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him. P. T. Barnum
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
I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king's business. Isaac Newton
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 purpose of a business is to create a customer. Peter Drucker
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. Andy Warhol
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
The Beach Boys have always been a part of the '60s spectrum, with The Beatles and that kind of thing. They were a part of the music business like everyone else. And they did quite well as a singing group, and I finished a lot of good records, and I'm very proud of them. Brian Wilson
In this business, you never say no to anything. Mercedes Ruehl
Something like 80 per cent of business decisions have a location element. In fact, it's probably higher than that. Jack Dangermond
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
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. Khalil Gibran
You've got to be very cognizant of the correlation between social media links and business because they don't always correlate as highly as people would like. Mark Cuban
It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business. Dolley Madison
Groupon as a company - it's built into the business model - is about surprise. A new deal that surprises you every day. We've carried that over to our brand, in the writing and the marketing that we do, and in the internal corporate culture. Andrew Mason
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. Aristotle Onassis
People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.' Sinclair Lewis
There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change? Andrea Jung
A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts. Elvis Presley
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
Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility. Dalton Trumbo
A healthy society rests on three pillars: business, government and civil society, or non-profits. Each has a distinct and important role to play, and all three need to work together synergistically to create the most value for society. John Mackey
Once you do embark upon the separation or divorce process, it is very important to remember three key things: Be kind, be reasonable, be brief. Remember that this person will no longer be your spouse, but he or she will continue to be your co-parent, family member, and perhaps business partner in certain assets or entities. Laura Wasser
Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people. Steve Jobs
The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad. Morrissey
I loved Internet businesses, having built and sold one. And I loved the financial business, despite the fact that it was almost all a scam. James Altucher
Nobody is accidentally in Alaska. The people who are in Alaska are there because they choose to be, so they've sort of got a real frontier ethic. The people are incredibly friendly, interesting, smart people - but they also stay out of each other's business. Marcus Sakey
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
I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company. Elon Musk
There are no right and wrong ways to work in this business, but there are some basic common-sense practices. Work very, very hard and always be prepared; never give up; and once you get the job, give them more than they ever expected: - Shine! Jimmy Smits
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. Peter Drucker
The building up of a new, far-reaching system of inspection on the question of equal pay, with power to investigate every business in the United States, administered by a colossal new government agency with vast enforcement powers, would not be helpful to women, as far as I can see. Alice Paul
If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you. Zig Ziglar
If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars. James Surowiecki
I thought, if I went into business I'd be able to control my own destiny. Tommy Hilfiger
I hope I'm going to act for the rest of my life. What scares me is that if I get a big head, my mum said she would take me out of the business instantly - and if you knew my mum, she would do it! Daniel Logan
In the restaurant business, you learn quickly there's no margin in having enemies. John Hickenlooper
My basic strategy is to stick to my core business and to my area of expertise. Henry Sy
You know, you hear people talk about soul mates? That one person that you see, and that's it for you? Well, TOMS is the business equivalent of a soul mate for me. Blake Mycoskie
While big business gain subsidies and political access, small businesses drown in red tape, and individuals now risk being classified as terrorists for complaining about it. Economic globalisation is about homogenising differences in the worlds' markets, cultures, tastes and traditions. It's about giving big business access to a global market. Zac Goldsmith
Within that dream of working with your partner, you want to be able to separate and have a home life. You have to be able to be husband and wife at the same time as business partners. Eric Winter
Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas. Natalie Massenet
The rise of digital technologies has eroded boundaries: Anyone can participate, start a business, and reach a global audience. David Cohen
Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: 'Oh, that's just the way things are done around here.' Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business. Steve Jobs
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
I want tension in my business. Tension creates change. Change is necessary to evolve and prosper. I am never satisfied. Kenneth C. Griffin
Come to West Virginia and we'll show you how to live... how to treat people. We're open for business. West Virginia is truly on the move. Joe Manchin
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well. Jeff Bezos
Of course, everybody makes mistakes, and we've all been young and stupid. But people need to have a sense of respect, particularly in this business, because hundreds of people are ready to take your place at any time. Maybe some people should think about that. Sophia Bush
Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show. Gary Vaynerchuk
Our core values and business ethics will always be paramount in all that we do, and we are always looking to do the right thing and settle claims fairly and accurately. Tricia Griffith
Whenever you're sitting across from some important person, always picture him sitting there in a suit of long red underwear. That's the way I always operated in business. Joseph P. Kennedy
It's amazing how small business owners figure out how to stretch a dollar as far as they possibly can. Marc Veasey
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
I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters. Galileo Galilei
As the Executive Chairman of 'Breitbart News' with a long run in business and finance, I can tell you, it's hard to run a company that is infinitesimally smaller than Fox; it takes a steady and experienced hand. Stephen Bannon
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
There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable. Bill Gates
If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life. Fran Tarkenton
Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide, just take care of business here and now. Jack Carroll
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
A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message. Jack Welch
My life is devoted to business and supporting my family. Colonel Sanders
You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart. An Wang
I don't think any business has to give up legal protections in order to simplify. The main consideration is that whatever protection, rights and remedies a corporation wants, they should be put in terms that are understandable to the consumer. Alan Siegel
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
My friends call me a 'pace-setter.' Sometimes I am impatient, I think, but you must be fast and flexible in business because uncertainty is the only certainty in life. Guler Sabanci
The way most people approach business - and the way they mostly teach in business school - involves the analytical mind. It divides it up and looks at parts in isolation. John Mackey
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
When cattle ranchers clear rain forests to raise beef to sell to fast-food chains that make hamburgers to sell to Americans, who have the highest rate of heart disease in the world (and spend the most money per GNP on health care), we can say easily that business is no longer developing the world. We have become its predator. Paul Hawken
I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you. Jeff Bezos
I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done. Elon Musk
If Satan wasn't around, churches would go out of business. Marilyn Manson
From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I've felt the only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people's lives better. Richard Branson
If you can't admit a failure, you're not an entrepreneur. You are not a good business person. There's nothing brilliant about what you are doing. Mark Cuban
My business affairs are entirely proper, and no amount of smear, rumour or innuendo will alter that fact. Michael Ashcroft
Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you. Alphonsus Liguori
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. Thomas A. Edison
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
What helps people, helps business. Leo Burnett
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
I've learned that friendship does not equate business, business does not equate friendship. Jill Scott
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
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth. Virginia Woolf
Poker is a game where you don't have to have the best hand to win. Poker is really reading other people and reading human emotion, which certainly comes into play in business. Charlie Ergen
If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because no one can guarantee that we'll have them tomorrow. Kathy Ireland
Most entrepreneurs come up with a product, or they come up with an idea and they think they can be successful with it. But if they don't know the financial side of their business and understand credit and working capital and what it takes money-wise, you can't be successful. The product is just a product. Tilman J. Fertitta
Punctuality is the soul of business. Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Trying to do business without advertising is like winking at a pretty girl through a pair of green goggles. You may know what you are doing, but no one else does. Cyrus McCormick
We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them. Samuel Adams
Yes, I am scared of prison. It's the last thing if you are after building up a business over 38 years and you are approaching your 66th birthday and you never owed a man a penny and you feel hard done by and you try to protect yourself and your family and go to prison - if that is the society we are living in, I am happy to accept that. Sean Quinn
I was pre-med, so I was going to go into the family business, more or less. But I came to my senses, luckily, and backed out, and decided to go to drama school. Sendhil Ramamurthy
Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business. Dave Barry
My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible. Robert Smith
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
This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing. Lakshmi Mittal
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
I would suggest that faith is everyone's business. The advance or decline of faith is so intimately connected to the welfare of a society that it should be of particular interest to a politician. William Wilberforce
I think if we get freedom for women, then they are probably going to do a lot of things that I wish they wouldn't do. But it seems to me that isn't our business to say what they should do with it. It is our business to see that they get it. Alice Paul
Every successful business, even Google, Facebook, Twitter, started with a combination of manual improvements and friends of the founders using the site. James Altucher
It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket. Elon Musk
As a small business or startup, one of the factors you should always consider when looking at a potential partnership is the incremental potential reach. Note that wider reach doesn't always mean a better partnership opportunity. Instead of sheer scale, take a look at which communities your potential partner can open up for you. Leah Busque
No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won. Jim Valvano
Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast. Tom Peters
I spend a lot of time thinking about this business of letting go - letting go of the children God gives to us for such a brief time before they go off on their own; letting go of old homes, old friends, old places and old dreams. Susan Estrich
Having been in the newspaper business for a long, long time, I often wonder, Why do we actually need to know about something like a bus crash in Bangladesh that has no effect on us at all? That can be nothing other than voyeurism. Simon Winchester
When you have a creative business and ideas generated from people working together, I think you can work happier together. Diane Nelson
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
It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain. Dale Dauten
Social media presents an opportunity for business people to connect and know each other prior to a phone call or email taking place. Jeffrey Gitomer
Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. Thomas J. Watson
In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs. Wayne Allard
You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing. Rod Stewart
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
I've always wanted to be in the health and wellness business. I try to encourage people to live a healthy lifestyle. Mark Wahlberg
Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues. Larry Page
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality. Henry Ward Beecher
The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks. Rupert Murdoch
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
Joy is the serious business of Heaven. C. S. Lewis
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. Henry Ford
I can be very reserved about things. My business side isn't shy. I can be like a general. But I've got a shy side. I'm also a lot deeper than people think, and a lot more sensitive. But I don't let people in too much.' Michael Bay
I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It's been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two. Cameron Mathison
Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard. Edgar Fiedler
Don't compare your career to anyone else's. It's tough when you're in a business that's competitive. I was having a difficult time with that in college. Now, I'm having to learn to be patient and be where I am. Danielle Brooks
The battle over genetically modified crops is rife with business interests and political opportunism. When GMOs were first produced in laboratories around the world, they were rightly heralded as a tremendous leap forward in our ability to supplement nature by providing high-nutrient foods. Richard J. Roberts
Having children is one of the most passionate and involving bits of business in human life. Siri Hustvedt
Goodwill and reputation are intangibles, but they are the keys to business success. Since they are also inexorably linked to social values, it follows that a change in social norms will have a significant impact on profits. Noreena Hertz
Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business. S. Truett Cathy
In a creative business, if you're happy, it will come out in your work. I don't see how you can be happy if you don't like the people you're working with and if they aren't a joy to have fun with. Christian Louboutin
Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires. Bill Gates
No one on his deathbed ever said, I wish I had spent more time on my business. Paul Tsongas
Never argue with a profit. Jeff Rich
Being effective at social media, whether for business or personal use, means capturing people who have short attention spans. They're only a click away from a picture of a funny cat, so you have to make your thing more compelling than that cat. And that can be a high bar. Alexis Ohanian
It's a grim business, this being funny. Every time you come up with a strong, satiric idea, the world tops it. Del Close
With success comes responsibility of playing your part, to do what you can to help not only those that helped you get to where you're at, but the future of who's going to be playing a part of your business and everything you do in your entire career. Rob Dyrdek
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. Edward Gibbon
In other words, I'd say the whole story of Bob Dylan is one man's search for God. The turns and the steps he takes to find God are his business. I think he went to a study group at the Vineyard, and it created a lot of excitement. T Bone Burnett
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
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
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution. Niccolo Machiavelli
The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business. Aaron Burr
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
I don't mind being cast as some kind of a pantomime baddie, but I am very fair in business. I always have been. I pride myself on being fair. Simon Cowell
I've always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonderful example. Nolan Bushnell
If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset. Harvey S. Firestone
When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business. Joey Ramone
In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits. Lee Iacocca
I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin. John Irving
I'm in a stage where I feel like I need to retrain my mind, because since the beginning of my career, I've been such a fighter and a little hustler and someone who just tried to stay afloat in this business. Ali Larter
I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant. Aubrey McClendon
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
Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards. Thomas Friedman
Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself. Ben Stein
No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly. Octavia Butler
The opportunity is often lost by deliberating. Publilius Syrus
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
I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting. J. K. Simmons
We're in the business of selling pleasure. We don't sell handbags or haute couture. We sell dreams. Alain Wertheimer
Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason. Ralph Steadman
Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience. Mitt Romney
I know my own father's business was very dependent on the goodwill and business and trade from people in northern Mexico. We knew their families and went to their weddings and baptisms and balls and picnics, and we had a great time with them. Linda Ronstadt
The more I am in a position to be tried in faith with reference to my body, my family, my service for the Lord, my business, etc., the more shall I have opportunity of seeing God's help and deliverance; and every fresh instance, in which He helps and delivers me, will tend towards the increase of my faith. George Muller
We need a wireless mobile device ecosystem that mirrors the PC/Internet ecosystem, one where the consumers' purchase of network capacity is separate from their purchase of the hardware and software they use on that network. It will take government action, or some disruptive technology or business innovation, to get us there. Walt Mossberg
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business. Clarence Darrow
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
The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism. John Burroughs
Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon. David Ogilvy
For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business. Karl Liebknecht
The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy. P. T. Barnum
Mainly, I don't like it when music is made solely to impress people or in order to please business people; it doesn't sound good to me. If you're making music in order to become famous or loved by the masses... that's not what I'm about. When somebody's making music for the wrong reasons, I hear it right away. John Frusciante
In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes. Lincoln Steffens
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them. W. Edwards Deming
A new DAO is like a startup. It requires a product/market fit, business model realization, and a lot of users/customers. William Mougayar
The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers. Edgar Fiedler
I always encourage our people and young business people that I meet to have a respect for cash, keeping some in their pockets and purses at all times. To me, that's essential. Muhtar Kent
You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory. Harold S. Geneen
No party or event is without a reason. This is how we foster new relationships, open doors, and launch new ideas that create business opportunities, investments, and jobs in the U.S. and Spain. James Costos
Just about anyone can make a good product, but it's the people that count. In the end, it's the employees who will take it from a kitchen-table idea to the next level. There are a lot of important things in business, but the people portion comes first. Hamdi Ulukaya
Education is a business - the growth business. It cultivates the growth of our learners, translates the growth of new knowledge, and builds professional growth. Heidi Hayes Jacobs
Don't solicit feedback on your product, idea or your business just for validation purposes. You want to tell the people who can help move your idea forward, but if you're just looking to your friend, co-worker, husband or wife for validation, be careful. It can stop a lot of multimillion-dollar ideas in their tracks in the beginning. Sara Blakely
One of the privileges you have of living the life of an artist and creating your own world and everything is the fact that, in-between times, you can kind of spend them however you want. Because, you know, once you open up your candy store again, you're open for business. And you have to be responsible. You have to be available. Quentin Tarantino
Being a Navy SEAL and sniper taught me all about risk management. Take away all the risk variables under your control and reduce it to an acceptable level. The same fundamentals apply in business. Brandon Webb
Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible. Andy Warhol
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
Argentina shows opportunity for doing good business, taking care of the environment to fight climate change, paying taxes. Argentina will continue to grow. Mauricio Macri
All that time that we spend tweeting our thoughts and emotions to our next of kin, we could be writing the great American novel, starting a business, or just living. Alexandra Petri
Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business. Carlos Slim
As a business person, I want the world to share the prosperity together. Jack Ma
In our business, things look like a failure until they're not. It's pretty binary transitions. Satya Nadella
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
The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders. Leo Burnett
Reduced marginal tax rates on individuals and business fosters growth every time. Lawrence Kudlow
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
I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It's that simple. Betty White
You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you. Dale Carnegie
Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money. Peter Drucker
Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy. James Stockdale
Wherever I was in the world, at the beginning of every consulting project, one thing was certain: I would know less about the business at hand than the people I was supposed to be advising. Matthew Stewart
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
My real baby is renewable energy. I feel like whoever starts to crack this nut is going to have a pretty clear shot at the White House. It's a $2 trillion business that America's being left out of. Mark Ruffalo
I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations. Ralph Nader
Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence. Gautam Adani
My concern is that we live in an economy in which stabbing someone and waiting for them to complain before we remove the knife has become the normal way of doing business. When did we lose sight of the fact that it's not nice to stab people in the first place? Simon Sinek
It is business that generates the jobs, income and taxes that keep a country going. Mark Skousen
Really good customer service will deliver sales. You are training salesmen to give the best possible advice and then to achieve the sale. People actually like you to ask for a sale because it shows you value their business. John Caudwell
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
I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate. Jeff Bezos
One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program. Karen Mills
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
In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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
If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business. Ray Kroc
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
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
America is a country of entrepreneurship and great business leaders. Nicky Oppenheimer
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 small business will give you an entrepreneurial way of looking at things. I guarantee you that for every plant that closes, if you gave it to one small-business person in that community, he or she would find a way to make it work. The small-business attitude is you always find a way to make it work. Hamdi Ulukaya
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving! O. Henry
I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap. Snoop Dogg
The only way one should buy stocks is if you understand the underlying business. You stay within the circle of competence. You buy businesses you understand. Mohnish Pabrai
If you fire people, you fire customers. Ferdinand Piech
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. Frank Lloyd Wright
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
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me. John Cleese
It's not government that creates jobs; it's small business. Our job is to make sure they have the access to capital, the access to contracting opportunities, and the help, advice and mentoring that they need to go out and be successful. Karen Mills
I decided to start a medical training program for freelancers, only freelancers. They're the ones who are doing most of the combat reporting. They're taking most of the risks. They're absorbing most of the casualties. And they're the most underserved and under-resourced of everyone in the entire news business. Sebastian Junger
The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy and the stock market. If you want to know where the stock market is headed, forget about consumer spending and retail sales figures. Look to business spending, price inflation, interest rates, and productivity gains. Mark Skousen
If I've learned anything in this business, it's that you have to be fearless. Jody Watley
If a man can't manage his own life, he can't manage a business. S. Truett Cathy
For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase 'the play of ideas' and think that they need to knuckle down and work more. Often, the reverse is true. They need to play. Julia Cameron
Interior design is a business of trust. Venus Williams
In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement. Ben Bernanke
The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it's a tightrope. It's a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity. D'Angelo
First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people. Leo Rosten
Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to. William Weld
We didn't know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent. Ruth Handler
The restaurant business is something that you have to treat like a baby. You have to constantly be there. You can't trust it to anybody else, because no one's going to love it like you do. Action Bronson
Being beautiful is not so fun when you're in a business with all men. Lady Gaga
What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful. Blaine Lee
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 was raised in restaurants. My parents opened their first restaurant, Buonavia, in Queens when I was just 3. This business has always been my way of life. As a kid, home was reserved only for sleeping. After school, you could find my sister and I helping out at the family restaurant. Joe Bastianich
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
Novelists go about the strenuous business of marrying and burying their people, or else they send them to sea, or to Africa, or at the least, out of town. Essayists in their stillness ponder love and death. Cynthia Ozick
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet. Robert H. Schuller
If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business. B. C. Forbes
What's bad, boring, and barely read all over? Business writing. Jason Fried
This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency and at an accelerated pace. Margaret Chan
The sooner you accept the fact that you will have both successes and failures, the easier it will be to get your business and personal life headed in the right direction. Harvey Mackay
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. Evan Esar
It can be easy to become 'friends' or 'connected' with someone in a digital world, but it requires thought and strategy to convert social media connections into rewarding business relationships. Lewis Howes
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
I've always had a strange acting life. I'm the daughter of a director, and a very French, typical director who fell in love with every single one of his actresses. And that's also something that's kind of normal in the acting business, because everything is based on desire, one way or the other. Lou Doillon
We buy and sell goods. We buy low and sell higher - that's what we all do to make a profit. But I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and - very important - knows how to run a business, knows the numbers. Mickey Drexler
If you create something, you don't want someone else to go and profit from it; you have your right to make a living and everything. So I respect copyright. What I don't respect is copyright extremism. And I what I don't respect is a business model that encourages piracy. Kim Dotcom
The biggest challenge for everybody to realize out there is that we're in a very complicated business world and that were all under one umbrella and it's very challenging for everybody to figure out where the priorities lie and where the loyalties lie. Scott Bakula
When I talk about taking bold actions in the world, few things are bolder than creating the 'Huffington Post' from scratch and reinventing the newspaper business. Peter Diamandis
You can get too close as a team. You need time away from each other. You change in the same dressing room, you play on the same cricket field, you stay in the same hotel, you travel in the same planes and buses. C'mon - this business of everyone holding hands and being pally is nonsense. Glenn Turner
The idea that you can create a template that will work forever doesn't happen in any business. There's some really, really bright people in this business. You can't do the same thing the same way and be successful for a long period of time. Billy Beane
I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for a shower of rain now and then, that ushers in the wet season. William Dampier
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
It's easier to build a business around a first-class product, even if it's a more expensive product to produce. Jared Kushner
The print magazine and print journalism industry is obviously in a great deal of trouble, and one of the things that happened when this business started to give way to the Internet and to broadcast television is that a lot of organizations started cutting specifically investigative journalism and they also started cutting fact-checkers. Matt Taibbi
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
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large. Henry Ford
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. Walter Scott
I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game - if I put everything into the fight business - then I would eventually run the fight business. Conor McGregor
My pipe business I created from scratch; my media assets and bank I bought from the secondary market. Victor Pinchuk
If you have to forecast, forecast often. Edgar Fiedler
What other people think of you is none of your business. Regina Brett
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
Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products. Scott McNealy
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
My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts. Steve Jobs
Know the business; you need to know the business side of things. Brian McKnight
My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings. Campbell Brown
The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches. Antonin Scalia
The Strauss Group identified water as a strategic category presenting significant business opportunity in line with the Group's long term business strategy and vision. We view the development of a technology that enables high quality drinking water for both home and offices as a means to improve the quality of life of millions of people. Ofra Strauss
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
You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other. Gary Vaynerchuk
I know what it's like to start a business. I know how extra ordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing. I know how government kills jobs and, yes, I know how it can help from time- to-time. Mitt Romney
Quality for me is key, and this stands true in every facet of my business from real estate, hotels, and fashion. Ivanka Trump
The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business. Geoff Mulgan
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
When it comes down to hardball, we have a veto pen, and I've used it in the past, and I expect we will have opportunity to use it in the future. That's the nature of the business. Gary Herbert
Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job. Robert Kiyosaki
Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business. Leo Burnett
What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign. Dennis Miller
I am a full-time mom; that is my first job. The most important job ever. I started my business when he started school. When he is in school, I do my meetings, my sketches, and everything else. I cook him breakfast. Bring him to school. Pick him up. Prepare his lunch. I spend the afternoon with him. Melania Trump
Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business. Alan Shepard
Personal relationships are always the key to good business. You can buy networking; you can't buy friendships. Lindsay Fox
You want women to think of you in a sexy manner. It's all part of the business. It drives ticket sales. It's all a part of it. Luke Bryan
Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business. Zig Ziglar
I believe that the Laws of Karma do not apply to show business, where good things happen to bad people on a fairly regular basis. Chuck Lorre
This rise of the new global mega-rich is happening as established institutions are falling. The fall runs the gamut from the music business and traditional media to the Detroit automakers who find themselves obsolete, outmaneuvered, and out-priced by entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, Mumbai, Shanghai, and even Siberia. Robert Kiyosaki
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
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
It's the uncertainty, the challenge and the willingness to put it all on the line that draws a lot of people to climb mountains. That can also apply to a lot of other challenges in life, whether it's running for office, starting a family, going to grad school or taking all of your cash and assets and starting a business. Mark Udall
It's safe to say headphones is a good business. DJ Khaled
No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community. Marco Rubio
If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable. Will Rogers
I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good. Peter Cooper
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
When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business. Flannery O'Connor
Networking is all about connecting with people. But then again, isn't that what life is about? The more time you can find to get out of the office and build true friendships, the farther your startup will go. Entrepreneurs need to remember to spend as much time working on their business as they do in their business. Jay Samit
At the end of the day, both men and women who become CEOs have showed tenacity and hard work to succeed in their careers. It takes not just skills but also extreme dedication and commitment. And regardless of gender, CEOs are measured by the same criteria - the growth and success of the business. Susan Wojcicki
I challenge those who are in business and other professions to see that there are copies of the Book of Mormon in their reception rooms. Ezra Taft Benson
Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done. Meg Whitman
I'm the only candidate which has a policy about how to bring economic opportunity - using clean, renewable energy as the key - into coal country, because we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business. Hillary Clinton
There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there. Colonel Sanders
I wouldn't wish any specific thing for any specific person - it's none of my business. But the idea that a four-year degree is the only path to worthwhile knowledge is insane. It's insane. Mike Rowe
Playing music has always felt very natural. You know, you do try to do other things, and you do learn lessons that way, but, eventually - well... if your dad is a plumber, you become a plumber. It's the family business, and I felt like I was taking over the family business. Dhani Harrison
I still run into people in the business who skip over any other credits I have and say, 'I loved 'Hey, Dude!' This was back in '88, '89, '90. It was a goofy show about kids working at a dude ranch in Arizona. We did 65 episodes; I wrote 13 of them. We didn't know what we were doing, but it was writers' boot camp. It was great. Graham Yost
It's really important to find a humble approach to your own creative work, your own business work. To recognize that you can't do everything yourself. Adrian Grenier
Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we're going to win. Kevin O'Leary
Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good. Clement Mok
Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward! Thomas A. Edison
I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to. Rihanna
The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did. Penelope Cruz
On YouTube, women are not just users; they're creators. They're learning about business and technology, and having a voice. Susan Wojcicki
I wrote my first piece about the disruption of the Harvard Business School in 1999. Because you could see this coming. I haven't yet done the one about the disruption of the Stanford Business School. Clayton M. Christensen
Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs. Henry Ford
Whaling was the oil business of its day. Nathaniel Philbrick
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
The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men. Andy Rooney
My recommendation for SEO is very simple. It's Write Good Stuff. In my mind, Google is in the business of finding good stuff. It has thousands of the smartest people in the world, spending billions of dollars to find the good stuff. All you have to do is write the good stuff; you don't need to trick it. Guy Kawasaki
When I was starting out in this business, that was the norm. You did it all. You looked around, and entertainers could dance, sing, play the piano, act, make you laugh. Carol Burnett
I am disappointed in the music business, I feel like a lot of people in the music business are phoney, there's a lot of people who will abuse and take my kindness. Blu Cantrell
The thing about information is that information is more valuable when people know it. There's an exception for business information and super timely information, but in all other cases, ideas that spread win. Seth Godin
Business cycles naturally entail peaks and troughs in employment, and socially responsible businesses should follow successful examples like Coca-Cola, Alcoa, Saudi Aramco, Africa Rainbow Minerals, and Google in working toward mitigating joblessness and enhancing people's abilities to earn a livelihood. Klaus Schwab
If you're a sponsor, and you're doing business globally, to bring your guests to South Florida is pretty nice. Wayne Huizenga
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
Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent. Venus Williams
Think about when a digital business marries up with what I'll call 'digital intelligence.' It is the dawn of a new era about being a 'cognitive' business. When every product, every service, how you run your company can actually have a piece that learns and thinks as part of it, you will be a cognitive business. Ginni Rometty
A bankruptcy judge can fix your balance sheet, but he cannot fix your company. Gordon Bethune
I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all. Catherine the Great
Discipline is not consistency, and the reason why I say that is - like, for an example, making prayer five times a day, that establishes routine and consistency. That I can do. And having certain fundamental consistencies in business, can do. But time management, outside of that, that's where that's a challenge. Ali Shaheed Muhammad
I just think my life's been really blessed, because being in show business, I've met wonderful people, and I've traveled all over the world. Debbie Reynolds
Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer. Anita Roddick
Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business. Clara Barton
While I appreciated the educational advantages I enjoyed in the school and was proud of what I could show in mental culture, I had an earnest desire for something more than a mere business education... I desired to study for a profession, and this prompted me to leave my native state. Hiram Rhodes Revels
America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger. Barack Obama
Everything needs to work at the same time. But what keeps society vibrant permanently is jobs, industry, business, and stuff like that. It pays for everything else. If you just build affordable housing, and those people don't have jobs, it'll no longer be affordable soon. So you really have to build around the business community. Jamie Dimon
Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works. Moby
Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period. John Lasseter
Not to make too much of a claim for poetry, but this is a question that goes to the moral heart of the business of any art: 'How do you see the world, and what right do you have to see the world in the way that you do?' Robert Hass
In order to access private capital, you have to provide competitive return on investment. In order to give competitive returns to investors, you've got to operate on a profitable basis and be thinking of yourself as a business. Pierre Omidyar
Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art. Questlove
A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy. Rod Blagojevich
Delivering a successful presentation could mean landing a major new contract, better prices for your services, or getting the funding you need. Failure can mean lost customers and a business that never gets off the ground. Lewis Howes
Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive. George Washington
We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business. Jeff Bezos
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them. Benjamin Jowett
The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business. Larry King
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. Ambrose Bierce
The best way to look at any business is from the standpoint of the clients. Jamie Dimon
Good website practice and optimizing for conversion usually makes for good search engine optimization. These work together to ensure you drive quality traffic and can persuade that traffic to help you meet your business goals. Marc Ostrofsky
It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption. Darrell Issa
I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone's got their own definition. Mine, I suppose, is to know myself. Eric Clapton
Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India. Pankaj Mishra
When political and business leaders tell the public - any public - 'We don't trust you to make the right decision' - they prejudice that electorate against the very proposals they want it to accept and undermine public confidence in themselves. Preston Manning
Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people. Freeman Dyson
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
Starting your own business isn't just a job - it's a way of life. Richard Branson
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. Paul Valery
Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships. Daniel Goleman
Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying. J. Paul Getty
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. Winston Churchill
I'm just excited to be in the fashion business. With my son, we did Trukfit, and I think that's been super innovative for the people that bought it and his lifestyle and how he comes across with the skater look. We just excited. Birdman
Cash flow is a problem for a small and developing company, and the lack of it is the reason why many small businesses fail. Ensure that you have enough money in your bank account to make you able to carry out daily basic needs for your business. Fabrizio Moreira
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
The world of extreme sports is also one of big business. Kids might think that snowboarding is the ultimate freedom, but this freedom is being marketed to them by commercial sponsors. Lucy Walker
You can't go into business thinking that success will come to you in just one or two years. Do Won Chang
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations. Steve Jobs
Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line. Richard Branson
The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players. Blaine Lee
As an entrepreneur, I've come across countless articles and quotes proudly telling me that I should accept failure, smile, and keep my head up. In other words, I've been told to stay positive. The thing is, when you're forced to shut down a business and let really awesome people you care about go, staying positive is the last thing on your mind. John Rampton
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
The autonomous car is definitely coming, and when that stage comes, this ride-share business becomes even more important. Masayoshi Son
The rap against Tesla has always been of the 'yes, but' variety. Yes, it's a fine artisanal designer and manufacturer of electric cars, and its CEO is one of the few business leaders alive for whom the label 'visionary' isn't hyperbolic. Adam Lashinsky
Business people do two things with their time fundamentally. The first is that they try to create sales, right? Revenue, key to business. But the other thing they devote their time to equally is cost containment. That is to say, how to not create jobs. Because the fewer jobs you can create for the revenue you create, the more profit you make. Nick Hanauer
It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one. Harold S. Geneen
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less. Andre Malraux
I knew how to sell. I felt confident I could run a business. I was willing to outwork anyone. I wasn't afraid to live like a student on next to nothing. So that meant I had absolutely nothing to lose and everything to gain. Mark Cuban
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
I am not in the stock market. I am beholden to no one in what I do. If I spend billions on a fashion show, I spend billions. It's not public. And if I am in the stock market, I am obligated to account for things, and to show what the business is doing. Giorgio Armani
The same products, services or technologies can fail or succeed depending on the business model you choose. Exploring the possibilities is critical to finding a successful business model. Settling on first ideas risks the possibility of missing potential that can only be discovered by prototyping and testing different alternatives. Alexander Osterwalder
The concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has long been used as an effective lens through which to examine the actions business can take toward ensuring mutual long-term well-being and sustainability. Klaus Schwab
Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming. Richard Branson
Our new attitude is how can we put you in front of our customer. Terry Semel
In sports and in business, the greatest leaders are those who make the best decisions in the most crucial of situations. They are the ones who focus their energy on turning tough decisions into winning decisions. Don Yaeger
Passion gets an entrepreneur through the startup days and the enormous efforts it takes to build a business. Peter Diamandis
Lies that do not hurt, which are different from lies that protect oneself or hurt another person. That is not my business. But the truth is mostly very boring, and you can help it along with lies. There is no harm in that. Gunter Grass
I love the business of business; I love the risk raking. Felix Dennis
My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business. Faith Evans
One of the things that may get lost among all the hubbub when a company is 'going public' is that the business can now be owned, in part, by its greatest fans. Danny Meyer
Our favorite holding period is forever. Warren Buffett
Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart. Scott Adams
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
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress. James Cash Penney
Growing up in a very big family, working together and playing together, that is something that has been part of my life since ever I was born. It has advantages and disadvantages. It's like an older style of living where everyone works in the family business. Margherita Missoni
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains. Walt Whitman
The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights. J. Paul Getty
The luckiest person in the world is somebody who is born into a small, shabby-genteel town on a major railway connection with 24,000 souls and a bird sanctuary and whose grandfather owns a farm and whose father owns a business -whose family is mildly prosperous but not rich, which means you can leave the town. Allan Gurganus
Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing. Robert Kiyosaki
Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. Benjamin Franklin
A disruptive innovation is a technologically simple innovation in the form of a product, service, or business model that takes root in a tier of the market that is unattractive to the established leaders in an industry. Clayton M. Christensen
We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility that we can come up, we can pursue our dreams and our aspirations and we won't be blocked by government regulation, by the inability to get a loan as a small business to make our dreams come true. Jon Huntsman, Jr.
Alignment of business strategy and risk appetite should minimize the firm's exposure to large and unexpected losses. In addition, the firm's risk management capabilities need to be commensurate with the risks it expects to take. Jerome Powell
If you run a business, if you are responsible for a lot of people, you come to grips with the reality that you have to have discipline. You have to protect the enterprise in order to take care of the employees. So, therefore, you can't be wasteful. You can't squander things, or you jeopardize other people. Steve Wynn
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business. Mahatma Gandhi
It doesn't matter if you call it a boom or a bubble. The startup business moves in cycles, and what goes up will eventually come down. Eric Ries
I never aspired to be a public figure. I have always been interested primarily in real business and the development of business strategies. Roman Abramovich
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
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
The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.' Orison Swett Marden
Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics, and there are no easy shortcuts to success. Ethics need to be carefully sown into the fabric of their companies. Vivek Wadhwa
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures. Tom Peters
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader. Tacitus
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. Confucius
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
For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life. Leland Ryken
That's what happens in Hollywood. People are like, 'I want to hate you, because everyone else seems to love you.' But the reality is this: I'm a simple person who's not interested in attention and who just wants to go about her business. Evangeline Lilly
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
That's what the Affordable Care Act is all about. It's about filling the gaps in employer-based care so that when we lose a job, or go back to school, or start that new business, we'll still have coverage. Barack Obama
In this business, you gotta hustle. Tiny Tim
A large social-media presence is important because it's one of the last ways to conduct cost-effective marketing. Everything else involves buying eyeballs and ears. Social media enables a small business to earn eyeballs and ears. Guy Kawasaki
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
If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. Thurgood Marshall
I invited a group of students to my studio to expose them to both the creative and business sides of the fashion industry. It was fun because the group was so bright and full of curiosity. They asked really challenging questions about all aspects of the business and absorbed so much information so quickly. Narciso Rodriguez
As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business. Peter Shilton
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
Without our customers, we don't have a business. Leanne Caret
I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night. Henry Ford
For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom and you have to spend millions of pounds on marketing and this and that, you have this amazing thing now called fan power. The whole world is linked through a laptop. It's amazing. And it's free. I love it. It's absolutely brilliant. Simon Cowell
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
I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. Chester A. Arthur
There's been a big spur in downtown development with new business, restaurants and a lot of loft buying. The buses run, and there's a subway that runs through downtown. Michael Ritchie
Undisclosed and illegal payments, kickbacks, and bribes became a way of doing business at FIFA. James Comey
I came into the advertising business in 1952, at the age of sixteen, as a delivery boy for a stuffy, old-line advertising agency named Ruthruff and Ryan, which could have served as the setting for the 'Mad Men' television series without moving a desk. Jerry Della Femina
Small business people are people with goals and values that can't be calculated on a profit and loss statement. Linda McMahon
Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others. David Brainerd
In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry. Ivanka Trump
It's weird because music is this thing that you love doing, and it comes completely from a place of creativity, and then that transfers into having to manage a business and make decisions and figure out what is the best route to go in terms of getting your product to as many people as possible. Macklemore
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
Everybody had to go to some college or other. A business college, a junior college, a state college, a secretarial college, an Ivy League college, a pig farmer's college. The book first, then the work. Sylvia Plath
It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts. Will Rogers
No business can stay in business without customers. How you treat - or mistreat - them determines how long your doors stay open. Harvey Mackay
The fast-food industry is in very good company with the lead industry and the tobacco industry in how it tries to mislead the public, and how aggressively it goes after anybody who criticizes its business practices. Eric Schlosser
Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman. Dolly Parton
Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly. J. B. Pritzker
The focus around Circle China is really cross-border payments. If I'm a parent in China and my son is studying at London Business School, I might want to send 500 RMB. I should be able to do that and have my child instantly receive it as pounds sterling, in the same way people do that with instant messages today. Jeremy Allaire
What we need to do is run our business. We need to come up with a value prop that is so compelling that customers have to go for it. Safra A. Catz
The big missing part of the jig-saw is to get the assembly back up and running here in Northern Ireland, to get shared government back in business, that is my objective, and we await the IRA statement to see if this will trigger a new dawn. Peter Hain
If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him. Werner Herzog
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
Entrepreneurship is all about an idea that creates differentiated business value to one's customers. You must be able to convince your customers about the benefits that association with you or your products will give them. People are ready to pay if they are convinced about your services or products. N. R. Narayana Murthy
Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks. Mark Twain
If you ask me, 'So what is your business model?' Our business model's always about shifting to higher value opportunities. Ginni Rometty
It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I don't know. But that's fine. Chloe Sevigny
For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family. Tony Abbott
We live in a world where there are a hell of a lot of new inputs that need to be factored in to your business. It used to be just about your employees and your customers. Now there are all the issues about global warming, about sustainability, about ethics and now about gender and the distribution of wealth. Stuart Rose
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business. Calvin Coolidge
What we know about the destination resort business is clearly established. But it's all about one thing, and one thing only. All of the razzmatazz and jazz we hear about facilities and everything else doesn't amount to a hill of beans. It's customer experience that determines the longevity and endurance of these enterprises. Steve Wynn
Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy small business community to bolster and sustain its recovery. Sam Graves
Our business model is primarily that of consulting, engineering, system integration, and managed services. Azim Premji
The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money. Rudolf Bing
I'm in a business that invites narcissism, self-involvement, and egos being blown out of proportion. Michael Keaton
I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit. Jacqueline Cochran
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. Lord Acton
People need to understand how exponential technologies are impacting the business landscape. They need to do some future-casting and look at how industries are evolving and being transformed. Peter Diamandis
The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same. Bill Gates
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
Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy. Howard Schultz
I had to give Justin Bieber a lot of shirts - he's a friend of the team, and we got a lot of love for Justin Bieber. I like the apparel business. That's another $100 million per year, easy. Birdman
For us to stay competitive, we're transforming our services business to be reliable and flexible. Hans Vestberg
I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment. Walt Disney
Time is money in the shipping business. Ander Crenshaw
A man should never neglect his family for business. Walt Disney
There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting. David Letterman
I tell my employees that we're in the service business, and it's incidental that we fly airplanes. Herb Kelleher
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results. Patrick Lencioni
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
I think it's being thrown at the wolves, we call it in our business. Dick Van Dyke
Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems. Stephen Covey
The 9-9-9 plan would resuscitate this economy because it replaces the outdated tax code that allows politicians to pick winners and losers, and to provide favors in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions and loopholes. It simplifies the code dramatically: 9% business flat tax, 9% personal flat tax, 9% sales tax. Herman Cain
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
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done. Peter Drucker
Having haters is just a part of the business, and the more haters you have, the more people like you - that's how I view it, because I try to see the positive in things. Nick Jonas
I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth. Charlie Chaplin
My father told me, never have partners. Howard Hughes
You can't be halfway in this business. If you don't meet the fans, you lose all you've got. Loretta Lynn
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. John D. Rockefeller
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. Robert H. Schuller
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. Henry Ford
We're in the space exploration business, and the outer solar system is a wild, wooly place. We haven't explored it very well. Alan Stern
Business can be a source of progressive change. Jerry Greenfield
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield. Warren Buffett
Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change. An Wang
The best defence against mafia business is full declaration of assets and incomes. Milos Zeman
I think what has allowed me to be successful is that I can absorb more information than most and drill down to the key business elements of that information and make faster decisions. And of course, I truly try to enjoy every minute of my life. I can never understand why anyone wouldn't. Mark Cuban
Women are smart in business and dumb in love. They won't date outside their zip code, let alone outside the city. They are city snobs. Patti Stanger
The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife. David Ogilvy
At a lot of companies founded on principles, the notion of making money is almost antithetical to the ethos of the place. From the very beginning, our business has existed to meet the needs and desires of multiple constituencies: customers, team members, vendors, shareholders, the community. John Mackey
I want to put a ding in the universe. Steve Jobs
I was going to start a housekeeping business at one point because I'm really good at cleaning houses. Britt Robertson
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
I worry that business leaders are more interested in material gain than they are in having the patience to build up a strong organization, and a strong organization starts with caring for their people. John Wooden
The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down. Eddie Rickenbacker
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. Kin Hubbard
I'm a competitive person. Business is a much more competitive sport than any real sport. It's 24x7x365. I'm a business adrenaline junky. Mark Cuban
Unfair and deceptive business practices have been illegal in most states for decades. Yet traffickers routinely use what appear to be legitimate businesses - massage parlors, bars, nail salons - as fronts for their illegal exploitation. It's the ultimate business scam. Josh Hawley
Thanks to the competence, love of God, our country's security and stability, endowed wealth, integrated infrastructure and quality services, the U.A.E. turned into the world's renowned destination for tourism, investment and business management: the interface of choice for hosting major cultural events, artistic and sports, in the world. Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Employers have recognized for some time that it's smart business to have a diverse workforce - one in which many views are represented and everyone's talents are valued. Well, disability is part of diversity. Thomas Perez
Cryptocurrencies are not evil and are not for money launderers and scammers. They are for entrepreneurs, technologists, change-the-world dreamers, and anyone who believes they can (and will) enable new business models, new types of organizations, and new ways to service consumers and businesses alike. William Mougayar
You have to imagine a world in which there's this abundance of data, with all of these connected devices generating tons and tons of data. And you're able to reason over the data with new computer science and make your product and service better. What does your business look like then? That's the question every CEO should be asking. Michael Dell
We'll have a sales leader go run engineering. A lawyer go run business development. A business development leader go run our consumer operations. We're going to train a generalist group of leaders who know how to learn and operate in collaboration teamwork. I think that's the future of leadership. John T. Chambers
Much like my father instilled in us many of the values and traditions that my brothers and sisters and I still carry forward, P.C. Richard and Son is a family run business - now with four generations having worked toward providing customers with honesty, integrity and reliability. We are proud to be associated with such a beautiful family business. Rohan Marley
In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait. Les Brown
In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that. Bill Gates
The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none. Andrew Jackson
As business moves forward, you realize that God has his hand on the whole business and that he brought people to you who are like-minded. It starts with faith. Richard DeVos
Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people. Thomas J. Watson
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
I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling. Nicholas II of Russia
Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world. Mitt Romney
Everyone's got unfinished business with Barcelona. They're the greatest team in the world. Frank Lampard
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while. Jack Welch
The music business is the most childish business in the world. Nobody knows what they're selling or why, but they sell it if it works. Jeff Buckley
When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman. Billie Jean King
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. Harry Emerson Fosdick
Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Nobody has a crystal ball, and part of evolving a business plan is to say, 'I might have said we're going left, but I see the opportunity and we're going right.' Ryan Kavanaugh
If we take care of the business and keep our eye on the goal line, the stock price will take care of itself. James Sinegal
It is the creature that stands at the center of horror movies, not those who have made it their business to bring the beast down. We're all the same. Clive Barker
Full financial citizenship means more than just a savings account and a way to transfer money and pay bills. It also requires access to credit along with the ability to accept payments and run a business, send money to family or transact business across borders, contribute to the community and help others in need, and invest for the future. Dan Schulman
An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's. Will Rogers
The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film - whether it's history, psychology, economics, or architecture - so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn't going to help you unless you have something to say. George Lucas
Obesity is a societal issue. We have to come together with government, business, civil society, and NGOs to create solutions for this. Muhtar Kent
Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner. Walt Disney
All lasting business is built on friendship. Alfred A. Montapert
I thought I would spend the rest of my life being a good tax lawyer. The interesting thing about being a tax lawyer is, none of your clients are poor. I had clients come to me and say, 'Can you help us make investments?' That led to me getting into the real estate business. Jerry Reinsdorf
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
True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist. Kent McCord
Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march. Howard Schultz
Recent research suggests that New Deal programs may actually have had their primary impact on the economy by influencing consumer and business expectations of future growth and inflation. Christina Romer
The business of second chances is everybody's business. Greg Boyle
The IT organization can't drive or lead a digital transformation. It has to come from the business and the business strategy, because they're fundamental to how a company or an organization evolves. Michael Dell
Before you start a business, careful planning is in order to obtain to where you ought to be. The biggest part is to ensure that, once you might have created your own plan, that you simply take motion. Without motion, you are unable to succeed. Fabrizio Moreira
Many people you think are individual achievers in fact have either a strong spousal partner over many years or a business partner who's either in the background, not given enough publicity or less egocentric. Michael Eisner
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. Bill Gates
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
Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made. Bill Cosby
The biggest part of our business has always been moving things, not paper. With the Internet, people in Mississippi can buy things from Macedonia, without regard to time or place or quantity. Frederick W. Smith
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself. Blaine Lee
No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit. Andrew Carnegie
California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible. Frances Beinecke
The music business is filled with some nice people but a lot of strange people, so when you come across someone who's really genuine at an environment as bizarre as an awards show, you typically gravitate to them. Jack Antonoff
There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he asks for. As things are, one must be half a business man, and how can one understand - good heavens! - that's what I really call troublesome. Ludwig van Beethoven
I've been in television for a little bit, and when people are attracted to what you've created, you get very excited because of the numbers. The business side is very exciting. Lisa Ann Walter
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
Nobody has wrestled everybody in the business like I have, especially not Bret Hart. Ric Flair
Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'. Paul Graham
Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do - and the business side. Marissa Mayer
A shady business never yields a sunny life. B. C. Forbes
When you're eight years old nothing is your business. Lenny Bruce
Business is in itself a power. Garet Garrett
The Big Dream of any entrepreneur really has very little to do with the entrepreneur. If you truly love repairing automobiles, chances are, you'll be a lousy business owner. Likewise, if you are fascinated by debits and credits, the dream of building an accounting firm with you at the helm is probably best left unfulfilled. Michael E. Gerber
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
Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business. Eminem
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
'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
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
For many my behavior has been a major disappointment, my behavior has caused considerable worry to my business partners, and everyone involved in my business, but most importantly to the young people we influence, I apologize. Tiger Woods
I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own. Billie Holiday
I love to compete. To me, business is the ultimate sport. It's always on. There is always someone trying to beat me. Mark Cuban
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. Jack Welch
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've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean. Jimmy Dean
Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. Scott Adams
The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality. Chris Chocola
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. John Kenneth Galbraith
If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail. Jeff Bezos
I believe 3D is inevitable because it's about aligning our entertainment systems to our sensory system. We all have two eyes; we all see the world in 3D. And it's natural for us to want our entertainment in 3D as well. It's just getting the technology - it's really more the business model than the technology piece. We've solved the technology. James Cameron
I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way. S. Truett Cathy
Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves. Satya Nadella
The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork. Igor Sikorsky
'Product life' is measured in months, not years, and as soon as you introduce a 'product,' understand that others in your business are going to reverse engineer it to duplicate the results after they circumnavigate the patents, the trademarks, and the intellectual property. Michael E. Gerber
Apple already had everyone's billing information from iTunes... you could buy things just by typing in your password... That, for the first time, brought very, very easy payment to the modern software world. That, more than anything, is why there is a business for paid apps. Marco Arment
My brother started in the music business, and I was an actor - we were both in the entertainment industry, but doing separate things. Then he went over to New Line and started their soundtrack department, that's how he got his foot in the door. Noah Emmerich
Business is a combination of war and sport. Andre Maurois
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
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
It was a proof of Welsh good nature: so long as I had a friend that knew and could introduce me, the whole Welsh people would do anything to entertain, and would even neglect their business to do so. But as a stranger in Wales, it is difficult to break through their suspicion and mistrust. W. H. Davies
I ask people what they do in sales, how much money they made last year, what their cost of sales is, and they don't even know. If you don't know your numbers, you're going out of business. I don't care how good your product is. Tilman J. Fertitta
There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.' Muhammad Yunus
What has been happening more lately - of course, I also put in my bio, I say I do the voice of Goliath, but some people go - you know, I say something, and it's a funny thing when you work in this business, people will talk out loud in front of you like you're not there. Keith David
Your typical business just measures the metrics that have to do with the profitability of the business one way or another. But you can have metrics that measure employee happiness and the morale. You can also do direct customer surveys; you can track it over time. You can do supplier satisfaction scores as well. John Mackey
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions. Charles Dickens
I'm no longer an artist, I'm a business partner. Pitbull
When Gates was active in business, he was the smartest - so focused that no company could surpass Microsoft. Masayoshi Son
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
Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them. Bill Gates
No first-time entrepreneur has the business network of contacts needed to succeed. An incubator should be well integrated into the local business community and have a steady source of contacts and introductions. Jay Samit
I was afraid people wouldn't take me seriously, or would stop respecting me, if I talked about how bad I was feeling. The only people I talked openly about it with was my business partner, Dave Jilk, and my girlfriend - now wife - Amy Batchelor. They were amazingly supportive, but even then, I was deeply ashamed about my weaknesses. Brad Feld
For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation. Charles Baudelaire
I always knew I wanted to run a business someday. Michael Dell
The Small Business Administration was fundamental in helping our company. There's great initiative from the government if you know the right places to look. Kevin Plank
If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business. Lee Kuan Yew
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
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. Thomas A. Edison
And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare. Mitt Romney
I hate being looked at. Can't stand it. I know, I know - I picked the wrong career. I should have been a doctor. If you play certain parts you have this nice face painted on you, and then you have feel as if you have a responsibility to this idea of being beautiful. I hate that about our business. Lena Headey
Just really, really believe in what you're trying to do. Don't let people alter that. Let people advise you and lead you down paths to make smart business decisions. But trust your instinct and trust that overwhelming drive that made you put all your dreams and everything on the line. Luke Bryan
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
If I want to go to Europe and get thrashed by the Europeans, that's my business. Every race I lose I learn from and get tougher. Steve Prefontaine
Secure our borders first. Let us know and let us make sure the American people know that we're taking care of the important business of dealing with the illegal immigration into this country. You cannot begin to address the concerns of the people who are already here unless and until you have made certain that no more are coming in behind them. Michael Steele
I am one of those artists who knows where their money is. I pay my bills; I take care of my mama. I handle my business. I am a businessman. I go to meetings and take care of things, so it's a lot more than just partying and turning up. Juicy J
Many people decide to jump from niche to niche, as they cannot find success immediately with the niche that they have chosen for their online business. Fabrizio Moreira
I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love. Tiger Woods
Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure. Fran Lebowitz
Not every business cycle has a financial crisis. Frequently they do. Kenneth Arrow
Even companies that do big business online struggle to be noticed by Google users. The Web, after all, is home to some 120 million Internet domains and tens of billions of indexed pages. But every company, big or small, can draw more Google traffic by using search-engine optimization - SEO, for short. Jason Fried
I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out. Nas
The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment. D. H. Lawrence
If I love you, what business is it of yours? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Great companies are built on great products. Elon Musk
There's a misconception that survival of the fittest means survival of the most aggressive. The adjective 'Darwinian' used to refer to ruthless competition; you used to read that in business journals. But that's not what Darwinian means to a biologist; it's whatever leads to reproductive success. Steven Pinker
I worked at CNN for almost 26 years. I worked in Mutual Radio for 20 years. I've been in the business 57 years. I have never seen a bias off the air or on. Larry King
If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative. David Ogilvy
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
The role of business is to provide products and services that make people's lives better - while using fewer resources - and to act lawfully and with integrity. Charles Koch
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
Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. Sam Walton
It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich. Robin Leach
Don't ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, accounting, accounting. Know your numbers. Tilman J. Fertitta
There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business. Oscar De La Hoya
If Planned Parenthood wants to be involved in providing counseling services and HIV testing, they ought not be in the business of providing abortions. Mike Pence
When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge. Robert Kiyosaki
Business is a sprint until you find an opportunity, then it's the patience of a marathon runner. Robert Herjavec
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. Paul Tournier
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 profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. John Steinbeck
My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education. Melinda Gates
A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his. Bobby Darin
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
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business. Michael J. Fox
Business is all about the customer: what the customer wants and what they get. Generally, every customer wants a product or service that solves their problem, worth their money, and is delivered with amazing customer service. Fabrizio Moreira
If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
I think the path is different for everybody. Go after the doors that are open to you. That has always been my motto getting into the music business. Do the things that seem to be good opportunities and work hard at it. Try to make good decisions and be nice. Hopefully all of that will pay off at some point. Chris Stapleton
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
The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great. Foster Friess
Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships. Michael Dell
No business in the world has ever made more money with poorer management. Bill Terry
A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results. B. C. Forbes
Every life a legacy, every small business a school. Michael E. Gerber
What we have to do is support business, but also support our workers with job training programs and with reasonable wages. Gina Raimondo
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. Mark Twain
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
When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder. James H. Boren
I don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don't want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There's so much mystery. There's so much awe. Jane Goodall
Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity. Gary Hamel
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. Blaise Pascal
I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill. Edward Appleton
It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. Tom Brokaw
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
Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine. Naveen Jain
Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now. E. Joseph Cossman
I'm a pitchman, my business comes from the pitch, nothing else. Billy Mays
In the business world, bad news is usually good news - for somebody else. James Surowiecki
I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them. Sam Walton
I did not have a happy family life a few years ago. I was divorced, and I was very alienated from my daughter, and I was out there cutting every ribbon and running around New York hosting events for different causes to supplant my loss because I didn't have a family to go home to. Now I don't want to be Mr. Show Business anymore. Alec Baldwin
I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold. Calvin Klein
My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business. Frederick W. Smith
I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality. Peter Fonda
The more moral the people are in their business dealings, the less paperwork you need, the more handshakes you can have, the more the wheels of capitalism work better because there's trust in the marketplace. Business ethics is not a joke. And, in fact, I think most businesses that I've dealt with encourage exactly that type of behavior. Rick Santorum
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
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
In business, when you can meet an unmet need that is this primal, even meeting it in a superficial way can create a multi-billion-dollar business - e.g., the chat rooms in AOL when it first came out, or the lounges in Starbucks, or the billion people who are on Facebook - even though these are hardly the most intimate of life experiences. Dean Ornish
Everything is interconnected. The moment you take philosophy, psychology, religion and business and look at the underlying commonalities, that's when you start looking at business in a different way. Jochen Zeitz
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
There is not a week that goes by that I don't have a dream that I am back in the business. Alan Gerry
In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted. Jackie Robinson
Some people work hard in this business and become really popular, really big stars but they never receive an award from within the business. Somehow, when your colleagues and friends believe in you to the point of handing you an award it means so much more. Sharon Stone
I love making people laugh and feel good, and that's awesome and special for me to be able to do that, but there really is nothing like kicking ass whether it's on a major scale, or whether it's in more of a dramatic fashion. Being physical and taking care of business the old-fashioned way is something that I love doing. Dwayne Johnson
I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful. John Wooden
Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work. Warren Bennis
There's a pure and simple business case for diversity: Companies that are more diverse are more successful. Mindy Grossman
Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society. George Soros
A poor logo doesn't mean a business will fail, and a good logo doesn't mean it will succeed - it just helps. Ultimately a good logo is something that people recognize instantly and relate to. Matt Mickiewicz
A lot of what people are calling 'artificial intelligence' is really data analytics - in other words, business as usual. If the hype leaves you asking 'What is A.I., really?,' don't worry, you're not alone. Om Malik
I try not to think about anyone's expectations but rather focus on always doing my personal best. Modeling was never a thought in my mind growing up, but my mom felt it was important for me to be open to business opportunities and expand my horizons. Anwar Hadid
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
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
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
Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. Lewis H. Lapham
We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else. Ray Kroc
It's a diabolical business. I can't imagine how hellish it must be to be hounded like Amy Winehouse and people like that. I have a little peripheral place on the outskirts of celebrity, when I go to premieres and that sort of stuff, which is as close as I want to get. Jeff Beck
Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles. Ayrton Senna
I wear two hats. The one is business and increasing my shareholders' value; the other is social responsibility. Guler Sabanci
Whether you lead a nation, an enterprise, a community, or a family, we are all in the communication business. Robin S. Sharma
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. Laurence J. Peter
Women in business are talented leaders who can share their skills as trainers, mentors and advocates. Melanne Verveer
I love 'The War Of The Roses,' especially as my husband is in it! I've often said to him it would be great to remake that with me and him in it, because then we could really get down to some serious business. Catherine Zeta-Jones
No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found. Samuel Beckett
I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun. Barbara Corcoran
I can't control what's fair and unfair. I can't control the nature of the business or the nature of society or the nature of the world, but what I can control is how I choose to see the world and what I choose to put back into it. Aisha Tyler
Every entrepreneur, whether man or woman, should start with a robust business structure. Chanda Kochhar
A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren't proud of what you're doing, why should anybody else be? Richard Branson
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
It stands to reason: Higher wages means higher loyalty and morale, which means higher productivity, which means a more profitable business. Thomas Perez
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others. Helen Keller
The worlds of art, philanthropy, and business are absolutely intertwined. Jorge M. Perez
For me, it's about camaraderie. My whole life is like, if something's going on, nothing ever preceded fun. I always put my friends and the fun and the business ahead of everything. Ric Flair
A business woman needs a successful mix of design and practicality. Donatella Versace
Word of mouth is the best medium of all. William Bernbach
I buy when other people are selling. J. Paul Getty
I considered going into business or becoming a lawyer - not for the money, but for the thrill of problem-solving. Lisa Randall
I realized early on, maybe better than some of my competitors did, that a textile business can run only if you have scale. I decided to horizontally and vertically integrate, adding everything from spinning, dyeing, weaving, and stitching to processing and packing. Mian Muhammad Mansha
Managing a business, small or large, today requires an extremely disciplined, thoughtful approach with regard to the pressure that people are under. Howard Schultz
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
It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime. Michael Eisner
If every sector of business and society will be driven by software - how does that get enabled? By highly-paid computer scientists funded by risk capital in Silicon Valley? Or by lots of engineers who can build it themselves? Satya Nadella
I've found that in business opportunities will constantly emerge or situations develop that make you revise your plans along the way. Benjamin Cohen
As a former small business owner, I recognize both the important role small businesses play in our economy and the broad universe of challenges that small business owners face in trying to make ends meet. Sue Kelly
In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand. Barbara Corcoran
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
In my lifetime, as a younger man, you were assumed to be an honest person. Your word was your bond, and a handshake was as good as a contract in business. Mark Skousen
Like the Internet, Bitcoin will change the way people interact and do business around the world. Erik Voorhees
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
Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation. Milan Kundera
Good design is good business. Ian Schrager
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. Don Marquis
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
We appreciate quiet living. It's not exactly a Hollywood way of life - I couldn't stand living out in Hollywood because you can never escape from the business. All people ever do is talk about movies. At least in New York you can have some other life. Frances McDormand
My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss. Barbara Corcoran
Luckily, my husband is my business partner as well as my life partner, so I never had to do the heavy lifting alone, literally or figuratively. Josie Maran
Don't look at small business as a means to an end and a way to make money until the corporation hires you; look at it as a chance to create something of immeasurable value and beauty in a world that desperately needs it. Michael E. Gerber
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
There is no longer any anonymity on the Web - unless we mandate it. The most personal information about your online habits is collected, bought and sold, often instantaneously and invisibly. Data collection is a business driven by profits at consumers' expense. Jackie Speier
We would rather have our employees running our business. James Sinegal
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
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
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
I view real estate as the most intriguing opportunity that I've seen in my business lifetime. Richard Rainwater
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
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
A manager doesn't hear the cheers. Alvin Dark
We were determined to be in the fashion, and to visit the various delightful watering places on Long Island Sound. Of course, it would be necessary to combine business with pleasure and pursue our calling as beggars. W. H. Davies
I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride. Hunter S. Thompson
Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost. Steve Jobs
The success stories in biotechnology are mainly due to the straightforward application of design thinking in both the business and science aspects of our lean startups. Ryan Bethencourt
One of the biggest challenges we have, as business owners and people, is that we think in linear terms. Michael E. Gerber
Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority. William Arthur Ward
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
An exit is only a success if you set an exit as your primary goal. My primary goal was to build a globally influential tool, to build something from the ground up that could literally change how we communicated in business and individually. Ryan Holmes
We're all working together; that's the secret. Sam Walton
There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person. Alexander McQueen
The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government. Mitt Romney
Cannibals prefer those who have no spines. Stanislaw Lem
Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future. Satya Nadella
The basic principle which I believe has contributed more than any other to the building of our business as it is today, is the ownership of our company by the people employed in it. James E. Casey
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. Woodrow Wilson
Our relationships with people are formed by small moments - and relationships are crucial in business. Tom Rath
Many Americans do not want persons who openly engage in homosexual conduct as partners in their business, as scoutmasters for their children, as teachers in their children's schools, or as boarders in their home. They view this as protecting themselves and their families from a lifestyle that they believe to be immoral and destructive. Antonin Scalia
Everyone has an idea over time of what the business should be, and during the formative period, too many opinions could be disruptive. Nick Woodman
You're in the game of life to fight. If you're in business, and you're not aggressively building, you shouldn't be in. Jon Huntsman, Sr.
Technology has long been the driver of growth in the music business from the invention of lacquers, eight-track players, vinyl, cassettes and CDs. Troy Carter
But every company of the future is going to be in the business of exquisite care - which means quick turnaround time and convenience. To deliver exquisite care, you need an organization that coordinates well and listens well. Fernando Flores
There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me. Tupac Shakur
There are men - now in power in this country - who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit. John Lindsay
It doesn't matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline. Harvey Mackay
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
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
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything. W. Clement Stone
The greatest asset, even in this country, is not oil and gas. It's integrity. Everyone is searching for it, asking, 'Who can I do business with that I can trust?' George Foreman
Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business. Sammy Sosa
I initially wanted to be a teacher, and then I was going to become an engineer and build bridges and highways, but pretty soon I went into the business world. I never did get to be a teacher except in a different way. Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
Today, companies have to radically revolutionize themselves every few years just to stay relevant. That's because technology and the Internet have transformed the business landscape forever. The fast-paced digital age has accelerated the need for companies to become agile. Nolan Bushnell
Looking for love is tricky business, like whipping a carousel horse. George Cukor
Unless you can fake sincerity, you'll get nowhere in this business. Roger Stone
My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform. Tony Blair
People can talk all they want; that doesn't affect how I go about my business. Colin Kaepernick
When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. Steve Jobs
Since I was 9 years old, I've been in the entertainment business, and everyone is always telling me what - and what not - to do... you just get a tough skin and have to not care about what people think, or you will not end up in a good place. Kylie Jenner
The business of America is business. Calvin Coolidge
An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage. Jack Welch
My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business. Harry Houdini
A well-functioning microfinance bank can actually be a profitable business as well. So it became a perfect proof point that, through business, you can provide an experience that leads to individual self-empowerment. Pierre Omidyar
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
I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and you'll never have a problem. That's what I did. Willie Mays
Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness. Stanislaw Lem
Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country. Norman Cousins
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod. Winston Churchill
Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business plan. Karen Mills
Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll always have some clean air to breathe. Julia Child
Keeping customers is about the experience, and the employees control the culture and temperature of the business. Never forget that. Steve Wynn
When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change. Cameron Sinclair
The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions. John Hancock
You can't be successful in business without taking risks. It's really that simple. Adena Friedman
Bootstrapping allows you total creative freedom. For example, if you decide to approach your business in a certain way that makes it a two- or three-year process to get to your first product, you can do that, versus being rushed into it by investors. Nick Woodman
The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark. Jack Anderson
Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football. Roger Staubach
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. Don Marquis
If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future. Jack Ma
Depression is a surfeit of empathy - a killing empathy - that makes depressives great friends to everyone but themselves. Having a self is a rough business, and depressives can empathize with others who have to deal with it, but not with themselves. Michael Redhill
When I first started doing sketch comedy, I promised myself that if I were ever to have any success in this business, I wouldn't hold back. Why get there and play it safe? Will Ferrell
An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it. Dee Hock
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
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
We want real job creation and a fertile business environment for small business owners. Chuck Fleischmann
The thing about this business is that you always end up finding these amazing stories and these amazing people who make amazing films. I just want to work with good people and keep challenging myself with different kinds of characters. Madhur Mittal
It's a business you go into because you're an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession. Katharine Hepburn
A government of, by and for the people is obligated to conduct the nation's business in a manner that respects dissent. Jim Leach
Paying your employees well is not only the right thing to do but it makes for good business. James Sinegal
What I look for in a script is something that challenges me, something that breaks new ground, something that allows me to flex my director muscle. You have got to think fast in this business, you've got to keep reinventing yourself to stay on top. Michael Bay
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
I have always been an honest trader. I come from a school of traders where there was honour in the deal. No contracts, just a handshake and that's it, done. That's the way I prefer to do business but it's not always possible these days, sadly. Alan Sugar
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
I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it. Bill Rancic
Small business owners that are female, that is their number one problem, is access to capital. Marsha Blackburn
All you have in business is your reputation - so it's very important that you keep your word. Richard Branson
I'm not asking any of you to make drastic changes to every single one of your recipes or to totally change the way you do business. But what I am asking is that you consider reformulating your menu in pragmatic and incremental ways to create healthier versions of the foods that we all love. Michelle Obama
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance. Abraham Lincoln
Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce. Leland Stanford
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
I feel like dress socks differentiate you in a different way - especially men in suits who just have the traditional business suit. The dress sock is the way to change it up in your mind and I like wearing my pants up higher so you see them. Rob Kardashian
The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective. Warren Buffett
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
If you go out to Hollywood you'll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic. Jimmy Cliff
So little done, so much to do. Cecil Rhodes
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
We believe that the business system only is the key to success. It's no miracle, only day-to-day work in the appropriate way. Alexei Mordashov
Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope. Hunter S. Thompson
To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart. Thomas J. Watson
There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners. Hunter S. Thompson
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
Hip-hop from the beginning has always been aspirational. It always broke that notion that an artist can't think about money as well. Just so long as you separate the two and you're not making music with business in mind. At some point, it has to be real when they touch it, when they listen to it. Something has to resonate with them that's real. Jay-Z
Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain. P. T. Barnum
Fashion is not art. Fashion is a business that requires discipline and attention to detail and very organized systems of logistics and operations and processes. But even with the most smoothly oiled machine to manage the business, without creativity, fashion could not exist. Imran Amed
What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart. Mario Andretti
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
Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left. John Ray
There is no greater feeling in business than building a product which impacts people's lives in a profound way. When we look around at the thousands of people who have attended Summit gatherings, it makes us smile to see the new friendships, business partnerships and philanthropic initiatives that each event produces. Elliott Bisnow
The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault. Ty Cobb
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
I have the right temperament. I have the right leadership. I've built an incredible company. I went to a great school. I came out - I built an incredible company. I wrote the number one selling business book of all time: 'Trump: The Art of the Deal.' Donald Trump
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
We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential. Jaron Lanier
Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity. Gary Wright
The one thing a lifetime in the newspaper business teaches you is pace - you spend all your time trying to make sure that the reader's going to finish what you're writing. Carl Hiaasen
In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business. Safra A. Catz
If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself. Bernard Meltzer
The most important decision I've made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought everybody with me, my homies from the neighborhood, criminals. I just said, 'Come on everybody, we made it.' Then I had to realize we didn't make it. I made it. Snoop Dogg
What's so wonderful about football and business and show business is that every time I start thinking I'm special, I get knocked on my ass. Fran Tarkenton
More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause. Rose Kennedy
I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless. Marsha Sinetar
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them. Jane Fonda
Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty. Steve Martin
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
We've been in the nation-building business since World War I, and especially since WWII. The goal is not a Jeffersonian Democracy in Afghanistan, but a representative government that respects human rights, protects its own people, and is a friend of the West. These are very realistic - and necessary - goals. Oliver North
My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job. Ted Turner
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
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
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
The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it. Barbara Corcoran
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. Thomas Huxley
I'm kind of like a samurai. They say if you want to be a samurai, you can't be afraid of dying, and as soon as you flinch, you get your head cut off. I'm not afraid of losing this business. Yvon Chouinard
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
A company is only as good as the people it keeps. Mary Kay Ash
An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission. Fred Allen
The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred. Henry Louis Gates
Business is not a science; it is not susceptible to experiments that can be controlled and replicated. Everything in business is too unpredictable for that - every business, employee, product, market is different and keeps changing. Margaret Heffernan
The high-tech business, the semiconductor business, it's very competitive. You're out there every day slugging it out, no different from players slugging it out on the ice. Henry Samueli
It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails. Romain Rolland
Content marketing is one of the most effective ways to promote your business online - but only when it's done right. John Rampton
A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. Richard Branson
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
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. Napoleon Hill
Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business. Warren Buffett
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
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. Ambrose Bierce
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
A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee. Arnold H. Glasow
When you expand a business as fast as McDonald's did, part of the strength you have is the process and the efficiency. Steve Easterbrook
I think I know I've been working very hard for the family business, sometimes those days are long days and I think if I know I'm working hard and pulling my weight, both working and playing hard at the same time, I think everyone who I work with can see I am there pulling my weight. Kate Middleton
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
The real test of business greatness is in giving opportunity to others. Many business men fail in this because they are thinking only of personal glory. Charles M. Schwab
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.
In the founders, I look for a person I feel is trustworthy, driven and smart. I invest in the person first, because in the event the business fails, the person and I can move forward and create another business. Daymond John
Because my business life is so busy, my home is really my sanctuary. That is where I reflect and spend quality time with my girls. Rachel Roy
Learn computer science. It's extraordinarily helpful. I like recommending learning economics as well so they think in terms of business, they have rational frameworks for looking at the world, but yeah, computer science is an amazing way to get into, even if you want to be CEO, having a tech background is helpful. Fabrice Grinda
The business side of real estate investing is fraught with risk. Unlike purchasing mutual funds or savings bonds, with real estate, you can lose money; this is one of the reasons that seasoned real estate investors caution neophytes never to get too emotional about a property and always be willing to walk away. Fabrizio Moreira
Blogging can generate a great deal of traffic to your online business. Fabrizio Moreira
Put a love note in his shaving kit before he leaves on a business trip. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
What is clear is that business leaders must commit to champion change - to be transparent about their goals for change, to align their incentives systems to drive the change, and to make sure their work environments are flexible in a way that allows men and women who choose to work to be able to achieve all of their potential. Beth Brooke
The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: do more of what you do. David Joseph Schwartz
I have been very fortunate to be supported by many people in my career. I also appreciate my personal friends, business friends, and my family who have been patient and understanding of my long working hours. Shuji Nakamura
It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business. Herbert Hoover
Having a small business and being one of thousands of people whom no one in government will listen to, I have decided to run for supervisor as a person. Harvey Milk
What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?' Steve Ballmer
Like leaders in many walks of life, my business has been to serve with, and for, others. Stanley A. McChrystal
Oh, I'm all about small business. I think what we've learned from big business and big Wall Street is that unchecked greed and the creation of false value gets us all in trouble. If we look at the American economy, who's really creating value? It's the small businesses. Robert Herjavec
Potatoes are popped, with no oil, using the same technology used in the rice cake manufacturing business. It took a lot of trial and error and lots of practice, though, to get the right flavor. Keith Belling
The best in business have boundless curiosity and open minds. Robin S. Sharma
From the very depth of my being, I challenge the right of any man or any group of men, in business or in government, to tell a fellow human being that he or she is expendable. Jimmy Reid
Atlanta is the number one place to live. You live better, you eat better, the rides are better, vehicles is better deals. It's better people. More mean people, but at my level you want it to be about business, so it's perfect for me. Young Thug
When I started my airline business, I didn't know everything, right? If I start up a newspaper tomorrow, I might get ripped off by journalists. You'd be naive to think you know everything from day one. Tony Fernandes
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart. William Butler Yeats
I learned a lot from Dick Wolf. I'll always remember playing that character because it was such a good character. It was great to be able to be a character like that for television. I think the thing that I'll bring from the whole experience, the whole 10 years, is I had never been interested in the television business before. Vincent D'Onofrio
The challenge of the retail business is the human condition. Howard Schultz
I'm not in the business of warning people. John Bercow
As writers, we have to make our own work - as bloggers, writing for video games, whatever we can do. Everyone breaks into the business in a different way. Ransom Riggs
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
There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area, all of them formed by MIT faculty and all had gone public. Amar Bose
In my movies, I'm not trying to erase any old image of myself, really. And also I'm not trying to imitate anyone or follow in their footsteps, because I know, Burt Reynolds was just one of the people that told me this, I know how you can only last in this business if you got something special to offer, just by being yourself. Mark Wahlberg
No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience. P. T. Barnum
By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw. Harvey Mackay
Peace in the world is everybody's business, no matter where you live or what you do. Betty Williams
It's the job of any business owner to be clear about the company's nonnegotiable core values. They're the riverbanks that help guide us as we refine and improve on performance and excellence. A lack of riverbanks creates estuaries and cloudy waters that are confusing to navigate. I want a crystal-clear, swiftly flowing stream. Danny Meyer
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
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously. Douglas Adams
Indomitable perseverance in a business, properly understood, always ensures ultimate success. Cyrus McCormick
So much business is based on the belief that we should do whatever we can within legal limits to make as much money as we can. Ben & Jerry's was based on values, and we try to operate a business that not just sells ice cream but partners with all our stakeholders - whether that's suppliers or customers - to bring about a more sustainable world. Jerry Greenfield
Carpe per diem - seize the check. Robin Williams
Cricket is my passion; it is my first love. So I will not act in my movies, as they will just be a side business for me. Harbhajan Singh
Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits. Carter G. Woodson
I've helped some of my classmates on how to strategize to get to the next level of their businesses. And it's interesting, because here I am sitting there from the entertainment industry and the fashion industry, and I'm giving a billionaire that has a business that's been in his family for 300 years - I'm giving him advice about strategy! Tyra Banks
The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance. Brian Tracy
Actors have given up their clout. Now decision making is in the hands of lighting men, designers, bankers, special-effects people. We need to cut that out and just go with the most able trained actors in the business. Peter O'Toole
Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect. W. Clement Stone
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. Thomas Carlyle
We are all in the business of sales. Teachers sell students on learning, parents sell their children on making good grades and behaving, and traditional salesmen sell their products. Dave Ramsey
Business coaching and the personal development and self-help industry is considered to be one of the booming industries today. Brendon Burchard
I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century. Hillary Clinton
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
Based on my pool of coached clients, 90% of the challenges for business owners exist in a lack of personal development. Darren L Johnson
The business model of racing is not a pretty one. Jeff Gordon
The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business. Rutherford B. Hayes
I think that fashion has become such a big business and with globalization we are on new territory at this point. We are not just designing for a country we are designing for a world now. Anna Sui
I'm not in the business of telling people what to do. I'm much more in the business of describing things, situations and stuff like that and leaving them out there, and you can make up your minds about them. Nick Cave
If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it. Charles Kettering
Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network. Mitchell Kapor
Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business. William Wycherley
In the private sector, there is always innovation. There's always change. There's always improving productivity, and if you're not leading that, you'll be passed and ultimately go out of business. So there's an urgency to constantly update and renew and to rethink your enterprise. Mitt Romney
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed. Peter Drucker
I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business. Jack Ma
I guess the worst moment I ever had in business was the fear that Southwest Airlines wouldn't get off the ground. Herb Kelleher
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
When someone takes their existing business and tries to transform it into something else - they fail. In technology that is often the case. Look at Kodak: it was the dominant imaging company in the world. They did fabulously during the great depression, but then wiped out the shareholders because of technological change. Charlie Munger
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. Peter Drucker
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
For me, the winning strategy in any start-up business is, 'Think big but start small.' Carmen Busquets
An adaptable company is one that captures more than its fair share of new opportunities. It's always redefining its 'core business' in ways that open up new avenues for growth. Gary Hamel
Details create the big picture. Sanford I. Weill
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
Once in a while, I see my fellow TV investors praise a business just because they like the entrepreneur behind it. That kind of thinking might make you feel warm and fuzzy inside - but let's get back to reality. Kevin O'Leary
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
A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all. Michael LeBoeuf
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
The Profit and Loss Statement tells you a lot about how your business is doing. It can also help you to determine ways that you can go about saving money so that you get to bring more money home! Basically, the P&L statement measures all of your income sources verses all your business expenses for any given period of time. Darren L Johnson
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. Arnold H. Glasow
Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities. Tom Allen