Business Quotes

"You simply have to love show business to make the risk worthwhile."

"'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."

"A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large."

"A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results."

"A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement."

"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?"

"A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity."

"A shady business never yields a sunny life."

"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."

"Africa's vibrancy and entrepreneurial spirit is un-matched. There's huge potential here to grow business, create jobs, and to improve living standards."

"After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world."

"Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants."

"All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it."

"All you have in business is your reputation - so it's very important that you keep your word."

"Appreciate everything your associates do for the business."

"As far as show business, it's the gratification of doing something that pleases the fans."

"As quickly as it started, our business model evaporated. But while Traf-O-Data was technically a business failure, the understanding of microprocessors we absorbed was crucial to our future success."

"As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less."

"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."

"Barack Obama doesn't believe in free enterprise. He's never going to admit it. For instance, he's never going to come straight out and say, 'If you own a business you didn't build it.' Alright, maybe he will."

"Basically he never went to work and didn't have a job. Of course I thought he did. I thought he was on the phone doing business deals instead of borrowing money from people."

"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!"

"Being a top performer - whether it's in business or on the athletic field - requires grit and tenacity, as well as the continuous desire to become better."

"Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes."

"Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both."

"Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation."

"Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas."

"Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible."

"Business money is limitless."

"Business today consists in persuading crowds."

"By reading, you learn through others' experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men."

"Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business."

"Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs."

"Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure."

"Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy. The other side of it is that you can't cut enough costs to save your way to prosperity."

"Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people."

"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."

"Don't get married until you're certain that you're marrying the right girl. How did I know my wife was the one? I'd seen her for a couple of months. I liked her. She was a very creative person and she had a very good grip on politics and business."

"During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures."

"Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed."

"Even though professional soccer has become more about business and less about the game itself, I still believe football is a party for the legs that play it and for the eyes that watch it."

"Every entrepreneur talks about the passion you have for your work, and I think that's what's missing with a lot of women in business."

"Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing."

"For seven years, I had a business relationship in Milan, Milano. Dealing with Italians, just, let me tell you... Are we the same? Good lord, no! That's why Europe's fun - it's fun because it's different. A political project that seeks to make it all the same - it's ghastly."

"Good design is good business."

"Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way."

"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."