Business Quotes

"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."

"I like to play cards. I'm not very good, because I don't want to calculate, I just play by instinct. But I've learned a lot of business philosophy by playing poker."

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

"You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient."

"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."

"Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business."

"To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials."

"Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers."

"I'm constantly amazed that owners and managers of all businesses don't train their people to call the person who pays by credit card by name. It definitely makes the customer feel good and will be a factor in bringing them back to your place of business."

"The purpose of a business is to create a customer."

"There's no seminar in the world that will give you multi million-dollar advice on building a business from scratch!"

"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."

"Wells Fargo had a glitch - the truth of the matter is they made a business judgement that was wrong. I don't think anything is fundamentally wrong."

"Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs."

"Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world."

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

"I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then."

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

"In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone."

"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."

"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."

"To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business."

"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."

"The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation."

"If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business."

"There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there."

"I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information."

"If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance."