Business Quotes

‘Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.’ – Mark Twain

‘There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.’ – Colin Powell

‘If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

‘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

‘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

‘If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.’ – Elon Musk

‘Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.’ – Dale Carnegie

‘A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.’ – Jeff Bezos

‘Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.’ – Thomas A. Edison

‘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

‘Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.’ – Andy Warhol

‘Details create the big picture.’ – Sanford I. Weill

‘The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.’ – Confucius

‘Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.’ – Edward Gibbon

‘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

‘No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.’ – Niccolo Machiavelli

‘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

‘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

‘Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.’ – Napoleon Hill

‘Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.’ – Peter Drucker

‘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 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

‘First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.’ – Leo Rosten

‘It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.’ – Tom Brokaw

‘If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.’ – Robert H. Schuller

‘An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.’ – Jack Welch

‘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

‘So little done, so much to do.’ – Cecil Rhodes

‘An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today.’ – Laurence J. Peter

‘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

‘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

‘If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.’ – B. C. Forbes

‘Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.’ – Walter Scott

‘Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.’ – Don Marquis

‘The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.’ – Benjamin Jowett

‘Carpe per diem – seize the check.’ – Robin Williams

‘Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.’ – W. Edwards Deming

‘Don’t simply retire from something; have something to retire to.’ – Harry Emerson Fosdick

‘If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.’ – Charles Kettering

‘One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.’ – Arnold H. Glasow

‘Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures.’ – Tom Peters

‘An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.’ – Dee Hock

‘The great leaders are like the best conductors – they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.’ – Blaine Lee

‘A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.’ – Henry Ford

‘Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.’ – Paul Tournier

‘When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.’ – James H. Boren

‘Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman – not the attitude of the prospect.’ – W. Clement Stone

‘To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.’ – Andre Malraux

‘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

‘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

‘Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything.’ – John Kenneth Galbraith

‘If you have to forecast, forecast often.’ – Edgar Fiedler

‘Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.’ – Frank Lloyd Wright

‘It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.’ – Elon Musk

‘One’s mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.’ – A. C. Benson

‘The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.’ – Ambrose Bierce

‘Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn’t always have to be their top priority.’ – William Arthur Ward

‘Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.’ – Tacitus

‘Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.’ – Evan Esar

‘Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.’ – Warren Bennis

‘If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘If it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative.’ – David Ogilvy

‘It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.’ – Will Rogers

‘Word of mouth is the best medium of all.’ – William Bernbach

‘I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.’ – Jeff Bezos

‘Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.’ – Peter Drucker

‘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 work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.’ – Igor Sikorsky

‘When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.’ – Robert Kiyosaki

‘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

‘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

‘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

‘Business is a combination of war and sport.’ – Andre Maurois

‘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

‘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

‘We’re all working together; that’s the secret.’ – Sam Walton

‘I want to put a ding in the universe.’ – Steve Jobs

‘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

‘Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.’ – An Wang

‘It’s called a pen. It’s like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.’ – Dale Dauten

‘I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for – getting paid for doing what you love.’ – Tiger Woods

‘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

‘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

‘All lasting business is built on friendship.’ – Alfred A. Montapert

‘We don’t have a monopoly. We have market share. There’s a difference.’ – Steve Ballmer

‘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

‘Great companies are built on great products.’ – Elon Musk

‘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

‘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

‘Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.’ – Bill Gates

‘Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.’ – Tom Allen

‘If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.’ – Jack Welch

‘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

‘If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.’ – Jane Fonda

‘Business can be a source of progressive change.’ – Jerry Greenfield

‘A company is only as good as the people it keeps.’ – Mary Kay Ash

‘Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something.’ – Thomas A. Edison

‘Never argue with a profit.’ – Jeff Rich

‘In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.’ – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

‘Our favorite holding period is forever.’ – Warren Buffett

‘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

‘Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.’ – Tom Peters

‘As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.’ – John Greenleaf Whittier

‘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

‘I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.’ – Elon Musk

‘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

‘A group or an artist shouldn’t get his money until his boss gets his.’ – Bobby Darin

‘The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.’ – J. Paul Getty

‘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

‘If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.’ – Jeff Bezos

‘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

‘Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.’ – David Ogilvy

‘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

‘The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.’ – Jack Anderson

‘I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.’ – John Cleese

‘Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.’ – Henry Ward Beecher

‘The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.’ – Peter Drucker

‘An economist’s guess is liable to be as good as anybody else’s.’ – Will Rogers

‘If you fire people, you fire customers.’ – Ferdinand Piech

‘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

‘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

‘Ask five economists and you’ll get five different answers – six if one went to Harvard.’ – Edgar Fiedler

‘Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.’ – Stanislaw Lem

‘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

‘No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.’ – Andrew Carnegie

‘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

‘Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.’ – Steve Jobs

‘The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.’ – Thomas Carlyle

‘My father told me, never have partners.’ – Howard Hughes

‘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

‘Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure it just means you haven’t succeeded yet.’ – Robert H. Schuller

‘Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.’ – W. Clement Stone

‘Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.’ – Walt Disney

‘The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.’ – Mitt Romney

‘A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee.’ – Arnold H. Glasow

‘Exchange ideas frequently.’ – James Cash Penney

‘The common question that gets asked in business is, ‘why?’ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‘why not?” – Jeff Bezos

‘The 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

‘The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.’ – Aristotle Onassis

‘Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.’ – Ambrose Bierce

‘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

‘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

‘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

‘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

‘Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.’ – Kin Hubbard

‘An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.’ – Fred Allen

‘The business of America is business.’ – Calvin Coolidge

‘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

‘Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.’ – Don Marquis

‘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

‘The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.’ – Andre Maurois

‘I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.’ – Edward Appleton

‘I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.’ – Winston Churchill

‘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

‘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

‘More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.’ – Rose Kennedy

‘Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.’ – Peter Drucker

‘I buy when other people are selling.’ – J. Paul Getty

‘The consumer isn’t a moron; she is your wife.’ – David Ogilvy

‘Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.’ – Thomas J. Watson

‘Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality its left.’ – John Ray

‘Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.’ – Scott Adams

‘The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.’ – Edgar Fiedler

‘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

‘Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.’ – Stanislaw Lem

‘I don’t think it’s a good idea to plan to sell a company.’ – Elon Musk

‘People will buy anything that is ‘one to a customer.” – Sinclair Lewis

‘I don’t think meals have any business being deductible. I’m for separation of calories and corporations.’ – Ralph Nader

‘Business, that’s easily defined – it’s other people’s money.’ – Peter Drucker

‘The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.’ – Rupert Murdoch

‘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

‘Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.’ – Scott Adams

‘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

‘A bankruptcy judge can fix your balance sheet, but he cannot fix your company.’ – Gordon Bethune

‘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

‘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

‘What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.’ – Blaine Lee

‘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

‘The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.’ – Publilius Syrus

‘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

‘If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.’ – Will Rogers

‘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

‘Employees make the best dates. You don’t have to pick them up and they’re always tax-deductible.’ – Andy Warhol

‘The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.’ – Blaine Lee

‘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

‘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

‘I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.’ – John Dalberg-Acton

‘Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.’ – William Wycherley

‘Business is in itself a power.’ – Garet Garrett

‘Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.’ – Scott McNealy

‘If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we’d all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.’ – James Surowiecki

‘Our new attitude is how can we put you in front of our customer.’ – Terry Semel

‘Inside every working anarchy, there’s an Old Boy Network.’ – Mitch Kapor

‘If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.’ – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

‘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

‘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

‘A manager doesn’t hear the cheers.’ – Alvin Dark

‘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

‘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

‘Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.’ – Norman Cousins

‘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

‘My son is now an ‘entrepreneur.’ That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job.’ – Ted Turner

‘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

‘What we’ve gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question ‘Can we trust Microsoft?” – Steve Ballmer

‘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.

‘For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.’ – Charles Baudelaire

‘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

‘Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.’ – Steve Jobs

‘I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.’ – Leonardo da Vinci

‘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

‘Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.’ – Thomas Carlyle

‘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

‘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

‘A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.’ – John D. Rockefeller

‘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

‘When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.’ – William Wordsworth

‘Politics is show business for ugly people.’ – Paul Begala

‘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

‘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

‘A man should never neglect his family for business.’ – Walt Disney

‘I wouldn’t say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.’ – Brian Clough

‘Joy is the serious business of Heaven.’ – C. S. Lewis

‘Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.’ – Richard Branson

‘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

‘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

‘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

‘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

‘Infrastructure is the backbone of economic growth. It improves access to basic services such as clean water and electricity, creates jobs and boosts business.’ – Alok Sharma

‘A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.’ – Charlie Munger

‘It’s time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.’ – Barack Obama

‘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

‘The business of business is relationships; the business of life is human connection.’ – Robin S. Sharma

‘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

‘A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.’ – Michael LeBoeuf

‘Everybody’s business is nobody’s business, and nobody’s business is my business.’ – Clara Barton

‘I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling.’ – Nicholas II of Russia

‘We all have a choice. We can create transformational action that will safeguard the living conditions for future generations. Or we can continue with our business as usual and fail.’ – Greta Thunburg

‘I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God’s business.’ – Michael J. Fox

‘I served in all commissioned ranks from a second Lieutenant to a Major General. And during that time, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street, and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.’ – Smedley Butler

‘Constantine ‘Costa’ Gratsos had made his fortune as a lifelong associate of shipping icon Aristotle Onassis. He took a liking to me, became my first mentor, and showed me how to swim in the deep, dangerous waters of business.’ – Dan Pena

‘I couldn’t sell water in a desert. I have no business acumen. I can tell you why you have no business acumen, and I can tell you why your project may or may not work, but I have no ability to make money.’ – Richard Quest

‘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

‘To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.’ – Aristotle Onassis

‘Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business – everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs.’ – David Lynch

‘The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.’ – Ronald Reagan

‘There’s nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.’ – Tupac Shakur

‘To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.’ – Thomas J. Watson

‘There’s no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can’t do any business from there.’ – Colonel Sanders

‘Say, my father runs a business, and today my brother is running it for him. There are people who have worked with him for 30 years, but today, my brother is the boss. That’s not fair, but that’s what parents do, and that’s what a legacy is supposed to be.’ – Sargun Mehta

‘It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.’ – Harold S. Geneen

‘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

‘You can’t be successful in business without taking risks. It’s really that simple.’ – Adena Friedman

‘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

‘My vision is to build an e-commerce ecosystem that allows consumers and businesses to do all aspects of business online.’ – Jack Ma

‘I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.’ – William Blake

‘Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.’ – Michel de Montaigne

‘Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.’ – Helen Keller

‘I’m not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There’s no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it.’ – Steve Albini

‘Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves.’ – Satya Nadella

‘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

‘It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people’s business.’ – Dolley Madison

‘Indomitable perseverance in a business, properly understood, always ensures ultimate success.’ – Cyrus McCormick

‘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

‘If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.’ – Anthony Bourdain

‘The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.’ – T. S. Eliot

‘In the luxury business, you have to build on heritage.’ – Bernard Arnault

‘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

‘You know, I’m just grateful to be in this business and to be able to stay in it.’ – Lindsey Shaw

‘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

‘Like the Internet, Bitcoin will change the way people interact and do business around the world.’ – Erik Voorhees

‘I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody’s damned business.’ – Chester A. Arthur

‘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 think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side.’ – Tommy Hilfiger

‘Business is business. I don’t manufacture cars, but we do manufacture money.’ – Kenneth C. Griffin

‘Sustainability has to be a way of life to be a way of business.’ – Anand Mahindra

‘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

‘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

‘Punctuality is the soul of business.’ – Thomas Chandler Haliburton

‘If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.’ – Stephen Covey

‘Money is a strange business. People who haven’t got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.’ – Ayrton Senna

‘I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.’ – Harvey S. Firestone

‘People want to start their own business or become financially independent. But you don’t end up a successful entrepreneur unless you find a way to love the risk, the uncertainty, the repeated failures, and working insane hours on something you have no idea whether will be successful or not.’ – Mark Manson

‘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

‘The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.’ – Pierre Trudeau

‘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

‘There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you’ve been in the business.’ – Oscar De La Hoya

‘The first thing I heard when I got in the business – not from my mentor – was, ‘Bulls make money, bears make money, and pigs get slaughtered.’ I’m here to tell you I was a pig. And I strongly believe the only way to make long-term returns in our business that are superior is by being a pig.’ – Stanley Druckenmiller

‘If we die, we want people to accept it. We’re in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us, it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.’ – Gus Grissom

‘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

‘What other people think of you is none of your business.’ – Regina Brett

‘Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.’ – Plato

‘The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business.’ – Rutherford B. Hayes

‘The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.’ – John Hancock

‘Go for a business that any idiot can run – because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.’ – Peter Lynch

‘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

‘We didn’t know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent.’ – Ruth Handler

‘Being a top performer – whether it’s in business or on the athletic field – requires grit and tenacity, as well as the continuous desire to become better.’ – Amy Morin

‘You have to understand that every negotiation isn’t about taking everything off the table. It’s cliche, but you have to try and make sure the other side feels good and you feel good. Because in my business, when I make a deal, it just means once we’re done negotiating, we have to go off and work together.’ – Maverick Carter

‘The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.’ – Taylor Swift

‘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

‘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

‘I’ve been managing Internet businesses since 1999. That’s 12 years of being in the tornado, and it’s pretty exhausting. I’ll be looking at the next challenge, but in terms of operating an Internet business, I’ve scratched that itch very well.’ – Jeff Jordan

‘The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.’ – Antonin Scalia

‘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

‘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 gig economy is empowerment. This new business paradigm empowers individuals to better shape their own destiny and leverage their existing assets to their benefit.’ – John McAfee

‘All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.’ – Mark McCormack

‘I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate.’ – Joni Mitchell

‘The reason why it is so difficult for existing firms to capitalize on disruptive innovations is that their processes and their business model that make them good at the existing business actually make them bad at competing for the disruption.’ – Clayton M. Christensen

‘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

‘My private life is my own business.’ – Roddy Llewellyn

‘Student loans are delaying retirements. They’re suppressing the housing market. They’re suffocating new business formation. They’re even leading young people to delay getting married and having children.’ – Annie Lowrey

‘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

‘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

‘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

‘Sustainability includes how you run your business, and my bottom line includes how you treat your people. Sustainability starts with your staff.’ – Tom Douglas

‘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

‘For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business. He excites me when I watch him. He moves me. He’s the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more.’ – Frank Sinatra

‘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

‘After two years working with bitcoin and blockchain companies and corporate leaders, we identified that a significant issue hindering the widespread, global adoption of blockchain is the inability to quickly connect with the right combination of partners for testing and deployment of the technology to address real-world business challenges.’ – Meltem Demirors

‘Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.’ – Friedrich Durrenmatt

‘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

‘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

‘The best way to look at any business is from the standpoint of the clients.’ – Jamie Dimon

‘I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.’ – Mark Zuckerberg

‘The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.’ – Erykah Badu

‘Business is about making money but it is also about having fun, so get your character across.’ – Peter Jones

‘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

‘I’m in no hurry to get anywhere. I don’t have any plans. I don’t have a map. If you did in this business, you’d destroy yourself.’ – Colin Farrell

‘If you’re someone in the business of verifying transactions on a proprietary network, the invention of Bitcoin cannot be safely ignored. It will change or disrupt the providers of most proprietary payment networks in the coming years.’ – Brian Armstrong

‘What helps people, helps business.’ – Leo Burnett

‘Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.’ – Robert Louis Stevenson

‘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

‘In terms of diet, my parents had a restaurant business so I don’t eat any junk food – they taught me to appreciate good food.’ – Camille Rowe

‘War is big business. It’s a lot of money going to and fro, and unfortunately a lot of angst, and a lot of fear, and a lot of doubt. And eventually a lot of wonderful people, like soldiers, like men and women that are out there trying to do the best they can, they come back being wounded on many levels.’ – Jon Anderson

‘The good Lord didn’t see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States. Occasionally we have to operate in places where, all considered, one would not normally choose to go. But we go where the business is.’ – Dick Cheney

‘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.’ – Howard Schultz

‘Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.’ – Calvin Coolidge

‘The hard part of running a business is that there are a hundred things that you could be doing, and only five of those actually matter, and only one of them matters more than all of the rest of them combined. So figuring out there is a critical path thing to focus on and ignoring everything else is really important.’ – Sam Altman

‘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

‘When we started, the business name was ‘Fashion 21.’ And change it to ‘Forever 21′ later.’ – Do Won Chang

‘It takes hard work, dedication, discipline and a positive attitude to get to the top – in business or in sports.’ – George Blanda

‘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

‘I had no choice but to work hard. I was a straight-A student, went to college, and I loved business. I never thought I was going to be a singer myself.’ – Jenni Rivera

‘The State of Virginia is similar to a great business corporation… and should be conducted with the same efficiency and economy as any private business.’ – Harry F. Byrd

‘The most important characteristics you need to succeed in business are resilience, determination and persistence.’ – Karren Brady

‘Digital life and digital services are a multi-wave business.’ – Mukesh Ambani

‘If Satan wasn’t around, churches would go out of business.’ – Marilyn Manson

‘The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.’ – Hunter S. Thompson

‘The business of biomedical research is mostly about failure. Few projects we commission will ultimately result in success. But every study we do contributes to the body of knowledge that brings science and society closer to a solution.’ – Kenneth Frazier

‘Poker is about understanding human behavior and managing emotions – yours and the other guy’s. That’s huge in poker, and it’s huge in business.’ – Phil Hellmuth

‘No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.’ – Hosea Ballou

‘If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you’re putting yourself out of business.’ – Lee Kuan Yew

‘We hire military veterans because they make great employees. They bring proven technical and leadership skills. They understand teamwork, and they’re adaptable. Bottom line, hiring veterans is good for business.’ – Randall L. Stephenson

‘On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a computer programmer. But in my heart, I am a gamer.’ – Satoru Iwata

‘As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving.’ – Tom Jones

‘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

‘There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.’ – Lee Iacocca

‘The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.’ – Aaron Burr

‘There is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business or profession can promise.’ – Robert Green Ingersoll

‘All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.’ – Samuel Butler

‘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

‘It is the artist’s business to create sunshine when the sun fails.’ – Romain Rolland

‘I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.’ – Frank Ocean

‘Don’t ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, accounting, accounting. Know your numbers.’ – Tilman J. Fertitta

‘My mom worked for Apple, and my dad owned his own business.’ – Travis Scott

‘People who achieve the highest levels of success – whether in business or in raising families or simply in discovering fulfillment and satisfaction and purpose in life – are those who place their focus on other people rather than themselves.’ – Richard M. DeVos

‘The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.’ – John Steinbeck

‘Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.’ – Gautam Adani

‘In show business, everyone loves a comeback story.’ – Chris Connelly

‘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

‘As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.’ – Morgan Freeman

‘When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.’ – Cameron Sinclair

‘The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.’ – Charles Dickens

‘What other people think of me is none of my business.’ – Gary Oldman

‘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

‘Mum and Dad ran a seaside hotel in Anstruther in Fife. It was a family run business, so I worked in the kitchen and helped out as a chambermaid and waitress.’ – Edith Bowman

‘I have learned the hard way to mind my business, without judging who people are and what they do. I am more troubled by the lack of space being provided for the truth to unfold. Humans cannot seem to wait for or honor the truth. Instead, we make it up based on who we believe people should or should not be.’ – Iyanla Vanzant

‘When we talk about ‘smart transportation,’ it is more than moving cargo from A to B. Digitization within transport and logistics means seamless service to our customers, visibility in the supply chain, and driving a more efficient business.’ – Soren Skou

‘Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.’ – Freeman Dyson

‘In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.’ – Bette Davis

‘There were six kids in our family, and I grew up fast. I had to do a lot of things on my own. I was a rebellious teenager. That’s why coming into the film business was good for me because it gave me some discipline. Once I became an actor, I had to grow up a little more.’ – Matt Dillon

‘It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.’ – Ernest Hemingway

‘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

‘Networking has been cited as the number one unwritten rule of success in business. Who you know really impacts what you know.’ – Sallie Krawcheck

‘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

‘The girls and women of our race must not be afraid to take hold of business endeavor and, by patient industry, close economy, determined effort and close application to business, wring success out of a number of business opportunities that lie at their very doors.’ – Madam C. J. Walker

‘You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog.’ – Carl Icahn

‘Our nation stands at the crossroads of liberty. Crushing national debt, rampant illegal immigration, insane business regulations and staggering national unemployment are pushing our nation into unchartered territory.’ – James Lankford

‘All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don’t know by what you do; that’s what I called ‘guess what was at the other side of the hill’.’ – Duke of Wellington

‘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

‘Architecture is not an inspirational business, it’s a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that’s all.’ – Harry Seidler

‘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

‘The business of feeding people is the most amazing business in the world.’ – Jose Andres

‘In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.’ – Warren Buffett

‘The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn’t let them into the family brokerage business.’ – Lyndon B. Johnson

‘While academic abilities remain integral, it is the work ethics that form the soul of the business.’ – Jamshyd Godrej

‘A crowd of persons came in as soon as my office was opened. Among them were several ladies who called to pay their respects. None who called had any business of more importance than an ardent desire to serve their country, provided they could be appointed to a good office. As I has none of these to dispose of, they were, of course, disappointed.’ – James K. Polk

‘The feet are loaded with nerve endings and are the key to balance – and I’m in the balance business. In fact, we all are. I also believe the Earth is charged with an electrical frequency that matches your nervous system and immune system. So the bare feet allow us to absorb that energy and is a critical part of your wellness.’ – Laird Hamilton

‘People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he’s ever read, and another person will say it’s absolutely idiotic. I mean, there’s no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.’ – Paul Auster

‘The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.’ – Pablo Picasso

‘Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.’ – Willie Mays

‘There’s going to be different kinds of challenges on a yearly basis. You’re going to have to overcome injuries, or you overcome a playoff loss or what have you. So there’s always challenges in this business.’ – Jeff Fisher

‘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

‘I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.’ – Margaret Thatcher

‘I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It’s that simple.’ – Betty White

‘I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.’ – Douglas Adams

‘Pluto’s orbit is so elongated that it crosses the orbit of another planet. Now that’s… you’ve got no business doing that if you want to call yourself a planet. Come on, now! There’s something especially transgressive about that.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘A well-maintained physique is a great business card. Ideas and intelligence are what matters, but if you have a well-maintained physique, it’s better.’ – Giorgio Armani

‘Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.’ – Alexandre Dumas

‘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

‘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

‘Do what’s best for you, and do it to the best of your ability – go after your goals like nobody’s business.’ – Michael Oher

‘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

‘I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.’ – H. P. Lovecraft

‘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

‘When it comes to business, diets, working out, writing, or any other dream, success isn’t about how high you fly. Success is about how high you bounce.’ – Rachel Hollis

‘Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.’ – Samuel Johnson

‘People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.’ – Jerome K. Jerome

‘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

‘If I love you, what business is it of yours? – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

‘Don’t ever break someone’s trust. Once you do, then nobody wants to do business with you.’ – Robert Budi Hartono

‘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

‘The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘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

‘Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.’ – Tom Robbins

‘There’s no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.’ – David Letterman

‘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

‘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

‘Certainly in the movie business there are bullies all over – bullies in the distribution business, exhibition business, production. Fine-tuning adult bullying is different. When a bully is an adult, it’s a whole different set of colors.’ – Martin Kove

‘For me, the winning strategy in any start-up business is, ‘Think big but start small.” – Carmen Busquets

‘I was a business major at the University of Richmond, and after I graduated, I took a job at a corporate ad agency. I had comedic dreams, but I also had a realistic look at what I had to do when I left school: maybe I’m funny, but maybe I’m one of a hundred thousand funny people, you know?’ – Lil Dicky

‘Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.’ – F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘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

‘No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.’ – Samuel Beckett

‘Being in the consumer business helps us groom talent in areas like marketing, finance and logistics. We can benchmark our outsourcing business to our consumer business and its best practices.’ – Azim Premji

‘We’re in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.’ – Ice Cube

‘Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families.’ – Melissa Bean

‘Once you learn from your mistakes and you tighten up your hustle and you know your business, you get rich. That’s basically true with anything.’ – Boosie

‘I have laid aside business, and gone a’fishing.’ – Izaak Walton

‘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

‘I’m a Gemini, so my mood always changes – one minute I’m dance-dancey, the next I’m in the corner minding my own business.’ – J Hus

‘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

‘I got an album concept called ‘Exit Strategy,’ that might be one of my last ones. It’s a term they use in business when you build companies. You create an exit strategy as you make a company. You don’t wait till you’re five years in it; you create a exit strategy as you make the company.’ – Nipsey Hussle

‘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 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

‘When you’re eight years old nothing is your business.’ – Lenny Bruce

‘As actors, we deal with rejection so much more than any other business. So I don’t care how much of a genius you are, if you don’t have the propensity to be able to get back up every time you get knocked down, then you’re not going to survive.’ – Ryan Kwanten

‘Whatever I do, it’s my business. It’s not my job to parent America.’ – Christina Aguilera

‘We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.’ – Ray Kroc

‘Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.’ – Carlos Slim

‘Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.’ – Eminem

‘Our goal is to be able to serve our future customers. To do that, we need to build a strong and capable e-commerce business – but also to strengthen what we’re doing in stores.’ – Doug McMillon

‘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

‘The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it’s total crap to pretend it’s not.’ – George Michael

‘The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.” – Orison Swett Marden

‘When I talk about success I don’t mean music business, I just mean the people around me.’ – Young Dolph

‘To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin’.’ – DJ Khaled

‘I’m not really into religion, OK. I saw a lot of things I did not like when I got into organized religion. I think a lot of people abuse it, I think a lot of people use it, I think a lot of people make it what they want. And me, my faith and my relationship with God is very personal. And it’s not anybody’s damn business how we talk.’ – Jake Roberts

‘The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.’ – Brian Tracy

‘When you look at movies, the lead girl is always gorgeous and thin. There is a stereotype that you need to look a certain way and when you get in the business you really feel the pressure.’ – Margot Robbie

‘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

‘In the early days of the video game business, everybody played. The question is, what happened? My theory – and I think it’s pretty well borne out – is that in the ’80s, games got gory, and that lost the women. And then they got complex, and that lost the casual gamer.’ – Nolan Bushnell

‘If I chose to live a bisexual life or I’m gay or whatever, that’s my business.’ – Trina

‘No one on his deathbed ever said, I wish I had spent more time on my business.’ – Paul Tsongas

‘I promise you… nobody cares about your business except for you. Nobody.’ – Arvind Gupta

‘Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people’s business.’ – Jesse Ventura

‘Producing suits me because I have a business mind and a business sensibility. I was a street hustler. I did whatever it took. I sold whatever I could sell. I’m a good organiser.’ – Mark Wahlberg

‘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

‘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

‘We’re not uncomfortable with it, and we’ve already been through enough of the music business where I’m not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way – we’re already past saving, you know what I mean? It’s too late for us.’ – Jerry Garcia

‘A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it’s starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.’ – Ann Bancroft

‘People are in such a hurry to launch their product or business that they seldom look at marketing from a bird’s eye view and they don’t create a systematic plan.’ – Dave Ramsey

‘The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.’ – D. H. Lawrence

‘At Netflix, we realized that we weren’t in business with the Toshibas and the Sonys of the world. We were in business with the guy sitting at home trying to find a DVD to watch. If we had the courage to focus on him, everyone – movie studios, electronics companies, Netflix itself – won.’ – Marc Randolph

‘I learned the life of business, commerce – it’s an art.’ – Emmanuel Macron

‘For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.’ – Karl Liebknecht

‘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

‘From the time I was wee big, my mother was one of the first members of Mary Kay Cosmetics. Women going door-to-door and letting housewives have their own business – that was really a breakthrough. It was huge.’ – Robin Wright

‘I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.’ – Billie Holiday

‘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

‘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

‘Wipe the tears away, stand up, be a man, run your business, find a way.’ – Kevin Plank

‘The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships. The quality of your business is no different.’ – Harvey Mackay

‘Music is spiritual. The music business is not.’ – Van Morrison

‘Business is other people’s money.’ – Delphine de Girardin

‘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

‘You get traded. It happens. It’s part of the business.’ – Jimmy Butler

‘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

‘Politics is just show business for ugly people.’ – Jay Leno

‘The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.’ – William Butler Yeats

‘When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man’s baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government.’ – Jacob K. Javits

‘I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.’ – B. F. Skinner

‘I think that’s exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let’s do a startup in our parents’ garage and try to create a business.’ – Walter Isaacson

‘In the astronaut business – the shuttle is a very complicated vehicle; it’s the most complicated flying machine ever built. And in the astronaut business, we have a saying, which is, ‘There is no problem so bad that you can’t make it worse.” – Chris Hadfield

‘If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers! – Marilyn Monroe’ – Marilyn Monroe

‘Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.’ – Ralph Steadman

‘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

‘The whole concept of treating people with dignity and respect is a concept that isn’t a business concept, it’s a life concept. It’s who you are at the end of the day.’ – Greg Brenneman

‘Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.’ – Milan Kundera

‘I came into this music business at 26 years old. I was a fully developed man at that point. At that age, I didn’t have anything to prove.’ – Jay-Z

‘Music is spiritual. The music business is not.’ – Claudio Monteverdi

‘Creativity is an import-export business.’ – Ethan Zuckerman

‘Rappers aren’t the really rich ones. We all have nice houses with studios and cars, but you need a piece of someone’s business to be super wealthy.’ – Drake

‘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

‘All you have in business is your reputation – so it’s very important that you keep your word.’ – Richard Branson

‘It’s been a rollercoaster ride. There have been some great moments and some low points… like when I was leaving Stax. That’s when I actually thought of getting out of the business.’ – William Bell

‘Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.’ – Lord Northcliffe

‘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

‘The great thing about albums is it gives you a lot of choices, and we can all say that the album business is dead, but watch Taylor Swift. I don’t think it’s dead. I just think we’ve got to hit on the energies that make people want to collect albums.’ – Garth Brooks

‘Our movements and feelings are constantly monitored, because surveillance is the business model of the digital age.’ – Katharine Viner

‘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

‘Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven’t been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me.’ – Justin Bieber

‘Again, talent is the real import of being in the business.’ – Bobby Sherman

‘A woman’s two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.’ – Loretta Lynn

‘Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.’ – William S. Burroughs

‘Good design is good business.’ – Ian Schrager

‘I think maybe one reason why ventriloquists are looked down on is because it’s very difficult to be funny. I think what happens is that people get a dummy, they learn the technique of ventriloquism, they memorize the script, they think they’re in show business.’ – Jeff Dunham

‘It hasn’t always been easy, but you get to a point where you’re not doing the solo stuff with any kind of expectation in terms of commercial or a business outcome, you’re doing it because you believe in this.’ – Lindsey Buckingham

‘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 music business doesn’t take up that much of my time. I probably should put a little more energy into it.’ – Alan Jackson

‘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

‘Our business is about technology, yes. But it’s also about operations and customer relationships.’ – Michael Dell

‘Good design is good business.’ – Thomas J. Watson

‘My father is a taxi driver, and my mother ran a small business. I hadn’t even met a barrister before I got my first shot at the legal profession. But back then, I was lucky enough to be given a break – I can’t help but wonder if I would be so lucky today.’ – Robert Rinder

‘Small business is the backbone of our economy. I’m for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs are generated.’ – Michele Bachmann

‘The world is full of people who have dreams of playing at Carnegie Hall, of running a marathon, and of owning their own business. The difference between the people who make it across the finish line and everyone else is one simple thing: an action plan.’ – John Tesh

‘Oprah Winfrey is a big role model for me from a business capacity and a creative capacity. She is an incredible interviewer who cultivated a certain style by inserting her own personhood into a show on national television at a time when no one was talking about empowerment, spirituality, or our inner lives.’ – Ava DuVernay

‘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

‘We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives.’ – Robert Reich

‘I’m one of the most successful adult movie directors in the business.’ – Stormy Daniels

‘Four or five frigates will do the business without any military force.’ – Lord North

‘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

‘If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.’ – Joey Adams

‘If you are too proud, you don’t do business.’ – Marc Rich

‘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 am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.’ – Rihanna

‘My business is hurting people.’ – Sugar Ray Robinson

‘Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.’ – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

‘Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.’ – Blaise Pascal

‘It’s my job as a reporter to not be about the business of making friends or enemies but just be in the tireless pursuit of truth.’ – Stephen A. Smith

‘It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.’ – Michael Eisner

‘In this business, you gotta hustle.’ – Tiny Tim

‘My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.’ – Sara Blakely

‘There are many things which swallow up men’s thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.’ – J. C. Ryle

‘We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it’s grand and great.’ – Lucy Maud Montgomery

‘It’s all about culture. If you can get the right people with the right mindset, the right core values and the ability to change on a dime, then you have the ability to invest and do what’s best for the health and long-term value proposition of the business.’ – David Steward

‘Before WeWork, I had a baby clothing company. When I started out, I had no real contacts in the garment business and no mentor to guide me on how things worked. I just had an idea to put pads on the baby clothes on to protect the baby’s knees.’ – Adam Neumann

‘Basically, as everybody that has had a taste of the record business knows, they are gangsters and crooks.’ – Steve Miller

‘I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.’ – Martha Stewart

‘Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it’s profitable.’ – James Rouse

‘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

‘A boss is all about good business, so start with everything that you can control and you can turn up that costs you nothing, then lay all the knobs out, look at all the controls, all the remotes, and just turn them all up. It don’t cost you nothing.’ – Rick Ross

‘I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you’re at the top, it’s so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.’ – Rod Stewart

‘I wear two hats. The one is business and increasing my shareholders’ value; the other is social responsibility.’ – Guler Sabanci

‘If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.’ – Zig Ziglar

‘The more diverse a research group or a business, the more robust it is, the more flexible it is, and the better it succeeds.’ – Jocelyn Bell Burnell

‘In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It’s not so competitive.’ – Barbra Streisand

‘Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.’ – Anthea Turner

‘It’s business inside the ring, but outside it, it’s friendship and brotherhood. I try to do that with all my opponents.’ – Joseph Parker

‘Maintaining a beard is serious business.’ – Mohit Raina

‘We mean by ‘politics’ the people’s business – the most important business there is.’ – Adlai Stevenson I

‘If I had been thinking business since I was 21, I’d be a rich man right now.’ – Nate Diaz

‘Ticketing is a people-intensive business to get it right on a global scale.’ – Julia Hartz

‘A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.’ – Lee Iacocca

‘I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant.’ – Aubrey McClendon

‘Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.’ – Ludwig von Mises

‘Doing a me-too business, because it’s you – the only person who cares about that is you. The market doesn’t care if it’s you. The market is pretty much being served. You better have something that the world doesn’t have, because even then, you might screw it up through your own ineptitude and inexperience.’ – Stephen A. Schwarzman

‘Music is not a very stable business. It comes and it goes, and so does money, but your education stays with you for the rest of your life. When you have that education, and you have nothing to fall back on, you can get a get a job anywhere.’ – Selena

‘I think I was attracted to Trump because he was a business man first. He isn’t a politician. He spoke with common sense and he was fearless.’ – Nick Searcy

‘Globalization means that business strategy and business ethics cannot be separated from each other.’ – Ofra Strauss

‘I launched my website when many in my fraternity had not even heard of the concept. Then I tried my hand at make-up business which has made life simpler for actors.’ – Poonam Dhillon

‘This industry is a business – I’m a business myself, and I want to be able to run my own business.’ – Sydney Sweeney

‘You know what happens in all the big companies and business in the world. If something doesn’t work, you have to find a solution.’ – Pep Guardiola

‘No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.’ – Mikhail Baryshnikov

‘5G goes beyond the regular operator business; it’s a business revolution.’ – Borje Ekholm

‘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

‘The government should not be in control of the private sector. You create opportunity, you create business, you create development, you hand it to the investor and start creating something new.’ – Mohammad bin Salman

‘As an artist, illustrator, and photographer, most of my daily work was formed around the Art & Entertainment business, which was about packaging ideas that looked like they were crafted as artist ideas. In the distributed products, my artist credit was hidden inside the package of the artist or entertainment personality.’ – John Van Hamersveld

‘Growing up, around the dinner table my father and I didn’t talk sports. We talked business.’ – Jared Kushner

‘This is not a change of career for me. Just an expansion of it. I have contracts and obligations and business partners who are counting on me. And I would only want to do another movie if it’s as good as this one.’ – Claudia Schiffer

‘I started with shoes, and with hard work and discipline, the business prospered.’ – Henry Sy

‘I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business.’ – Orville Redenbacher

‘Each country is different. Keep an open mind, and you will able to find where the niche entry level lies – the areas where there are gaps. You have to keep an ear to the ground, and you can find a business opportunity.’ – Binod Chaudhary

‘I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.’ – Randy Travis

‘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

‘If you’re a single man and you happen to be in this business, you’re deemed a player. But I don’t see myself as a ladies’ man.’ – Bradley Cooper

‘The Australian economy is resilient, but business and consumer confidence is fragile.’ – Julie Bishop

‘There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.’ – Phil Knight

‘You know, being a test pilot isn’t always the healthiest business in the world.’ – Alan Shepard

‘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

‘Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears – of everything that concerns you.’ – Alphonsus Liguori

‘Everything that you do in this entertainment business, you build a fan base.’ – Joanna Krupa

‘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

‘Peace in the world is everybody’s business, no matter where you live or what you do.’ – Betty Williams

‘Putting somebody else in crisis mode and causing them to make quicker decisions, urgent decisions, rather than prolonged, more logical decisions can be very advantageous. So, to be successful in business, you have to understand the power of confrontation and how to use it correctly.’ – Jon Taffer

‘Doing a residency in any particular city requires a large repertoire to ensure repeat business.’ – Prince

‘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

‘You take care of business on the field; everything will take care of itself off the field.’ – JuJu Smith-Schuster

‘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

‘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

‘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

‘Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century – they combine Art and business!’ – Roger Corman

‘Brethren, let us mind our own business – that is, the calling the Lord has called us to – to do everything we can to promote the good of the Cause of Truth, and never ask how big we are, or inquire who we are; but let it be, ‘What can I do to build up the Kingdom of God upon the Earth?” – Brigham Young

‘Writing is not work. In fact, there’s nothing better. Writing is something that if the music business went completely away tomorrow – radio stations quit existing and music quit being popular and it was old hat – I would still write songs.’ – Toby Keith

‘It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.’ – Aristotle

‘I think quite a bit of organized religion has become big business. Jesus Christ never sold the word of God. He never gave a sermon and then said, ‘For $8.99, you can buy the CD.” – Ving Rhames

‘This is a business of love and labor.’ – Chester Bennington

‘Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step – it is an old business procedure.’ – Fran Lebowitz

‘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

‘I’m always a fan of good business moves.’ – Future

‘Business comes and goes and we make a strategic decision that could lead you to whole new place.’ – Jensen Huang

‘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

‘Football’s a very unforgiving business.’ – Simon Jordan

‘I was the drummer hiding behind the cymbals. By the time fame came along, I’d worked in the business for a decade, then suddenly, I was being mobbed.’ – David Essex

‘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

‘I’m the best person ever to have a column in this business. There’s never been anybody in my league.’ – Jimmy Breslin

‘The blessing that this film business has given me is that when I walk into a school I automatically have everyone’s attention. They want to hear what the guy from ‘Con Air’ and ‘Desperado’ has to say.’ – Danny Trejo

‘Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support the free enterprise system and are unsupportive of big government.’ – Arthur C. Brooks

‘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 have targets for business achievements; I do not have targets for acquisitions. Because if you have targets for acquisitions, you end up making compromises in terms of valuations, and you buy things because you have a target, and it is not good for business.’ – Dilip Shanghvi

‘As ‘Austrian’ business cycle theory has pointed out, any bank credit inflation sets up conditions for boom-and-bust; there is no need for prices actually to rise.’ – Murray Rothbard

‘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

‘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

‘The central task for a business is to make a profit. The challenge is to make a profit by doing things which are genuinely good for people and good for societies.’ – Alain de Botton

‘The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.’ – David Hare

‘Many years ago, when I was born in the ’50s – ’50s and ’60s didn’t belong to girls in India. They belonged to boys. They belonged to boys who would join business and inherit business from parents, and girls would be dolled up to get married.’ – Kiran Bedi

‘Once I started doing stand-up, everything fell into place. That was when I started acting more; I felt like I’d found my place in the business.’ – Chris D’Elia

‘Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.’ – Wietse Venema

‘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

‘I think business has to be stupider. I want to do really straightforward, stupid business – just talk to me like a 4-year-old. And I refuse to negotiate. I do not negotiate. I can collaborate. But I’m an artist, so as soon as you negotiate, you’re being compromised.’ – Kanye West

‘Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.’ – Jim Carrey

‘The most dangerous thing for an entrepreneur to do is to actually go into a business that he does not understand fully.’ – Aliko Dangote

‘We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.’ – Samuel Adams

‘Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.’ – Winston Churchill

‘Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.’ – George Washington

‘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

‘The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life – to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.’ – Archibald MacLeish

‘When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.’ – Magic Johnson

‘Building a successful business requires a combination of human capital, financial resources, market opportunity, persistence, community support, and even luck.’ – Andrew Yang

‘Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody’s business to interfere when they see it.’ – Anna Sewell

‘I’m not British. I’m not American. I’m not French. Whatever thing they practise, that is their business. I am an African. I am Rwandese.’ – Paul Kagame

‘I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities. At the same time, when I can go off with a backpack or off on a surfboard or even off on a run somewhere in the woods – that’s where I’m really happy.’ – Matthew McConaughey

‘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

‘In every interview I’ve got to explain something about being white but still being into hip hop. It’s gone way beyond the musical aspect of the business. And I’m as critical about music as everybody else is.’ – Brian Austin Green

‘Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.’ – Muhammad Yunus

‘Personal relationships are always the key to good business. You can buy networking; you can’t buy friendships.’ – Lindsay Fox

‘Bitcoin is very ideologically fulfilling, it’s my form of political activism, but it’s also a huge business opportunity.’ – Erik Voorhees

‘The NRA is funded by weapons manufacturers, and those same manufacturers know that they stand to lose some business if we pass common-sense gun legislation. As a result, the NRA contributes money to politicians to ensure that gun control never happens.’ – Ana Kasparian

‘I spent most of my career in business not saying the word ‘woman.’ Because if you say the word ‘woman’ in a business context, and often in a political context, the person on the other side of the table thinks you’re about to sue them or ask for special treatment, right?’ – Sheryl Sandberg

‘All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel… and that’s what I’ve been doing all my life.’ – Count Basie

‘The music business is one of a few places where everything you’ve heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it’s true.’ – Patrick Stump

‘I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.’ – Edmund Burke

‘Time is money in the shipping business.’ – Ander Crenshaw

‘To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.’ – Baltasar Gracian

‘In this business, there is an insane amount of pressure, spoken and unspoken, to be thin. If you look at some of the television shows, eating disorders become like a competitive thing.’ – Kim Raver

‘Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.’ – Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

‘In business it’s about people. It’s about relationships.’ – Kathy Ireland

‘Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.’ – Paul Valery

‘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 like money because I can hire more people and grow a business but not so I can increase my lifestyle, or whatever.’ – MrBeast

‘In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow – and at this point I think the odds are against me… the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there’s only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.’ – Zac Efron

‘I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others.’ – Kate Moss

‘I just respect people and mind my business. I don’t got time to worry about what the next man’s pockets are looking like, I gotta worry about what mine are looking like and my family.’ – E-40

‘Whenever I leave my apartment, especially if I go on a head-cleansing walk, I always have three things in my pocket: my driver’s license, health insurance card and Washington Post business card with my husband’s cellphone number and message to call him in an emergency.’ – Jonathan Capehart

‘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

‘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 beat Larry Holmes and George Foreman. I whupped Mike Tyson twice. I had my ear chewed off and spat on the ground in front of me. I’ve seen everything it is possible to see in boxing. I know this business better than anyone. So I live and die by my own decisions.’ – Evander Holyfield

‘Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every ‘world’ I’ve been in, most people I’ve meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.’ – James Altucher

‘Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.’ – Horatio Nelson

‘Money is available from investors as long as you have a great business model and a talented leader.’ – Masayoshi Son

‘I’ve always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.’ – Robert Reed

‘Perhaps the single most effective antagonist of American business is Ralph Nader, who – thanks largely to the media – has become a legend in his own time and an idol of millions of Americans.’ – Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

‘In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement.’ – Ben Bernanke

‘I’ve got to keep breathing. It’ll be my worst business mistake if I don’t.’ – Steve Martin

‘I think it’s a terrible shame that politics has become show business.’ – Sydney Pollack

‘If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.’ – Barack Obama

‘Hospitality is central to the restaurant business, yet it’s a hard idea to define precisely. Mostly, it involves being nice to people and making them feel welcome. You notice it when it’s there, and you particularly notice it when it isn’t. A single significant lapse in this area can be your dominant impression of an entire meal.’ – John Lanchester

‘I do not believe that government should be in the business of telling women what they should do with their bodies.’ – Kamala Harris

‘I… now see a rare opportunity to push across the goal line much of the unfinished business of America: investing in our infrastructure and workers, universal healthcare, comprehensive immigration reform and scrubbing a tax code that’s out of shape and behind the times.’ – Xavier Becerra

‘I’ve always been a big believer in diversification for anybody. It’s never good to put all of your efforts and all of your time and all of your financial resources into just one project. Diversification is key for any individual and any business.’ – Paul Heyman

‘A shady business never yields a sunny life.’ – B. C. Forbes

‘Leaders of companies of any size, at any stage of development spend a lot of time focused on growing the business. We develop our game plan and ensure that we are optimally executing on our objectives. We concentrate on looking forward.’ – Dinesh Paliwal

‘This business – the auditions, the anxiety – it’s all so, aaah, crazy! But I can always call my mom in Cuba to be reminded of what real life is.’ – Ana de Armas

‘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

‘Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver.’ – Jonathan Sacks

‘There’s a lot of buzz words in the business world these days – Design thinking, innovation, fast-failure, disruption, cross-functional leadership – and at the heart of every one of these concepts is the ability for people to make small moves forward, learn, iterate.’ – Mel Robbins

‘That’s what I love about my faith and Christianity. It’s the polar opposite of darn near everything I experienced in the wrestling business. I still love the business, and I’m thankful for everything that it’s provided, but the idea that it deals in the truth is the furthest thing from reality.’ – Shawn Michaels

‘Without our customers, we don’t have a business.’ – Leanne Caret

‘To be successful in business, you have to be ruthless.’ – Burt Reynolds

‘In our business, things look like a failure until they’re not. It’s pretty binary transitions.’ – Satya Nadella

‘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 you would expect, I come from a business background, and the idea that a finance director would be somewhat not working closely with the CEO of a company is very strange to anyone in the business world.’ – Rishi Sunak

‘Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can’t have a healthy economy, you can’t have a healthy anything in a degraded environment.’ – Peter Coyote

‘I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?’ – Mick Jagger

‘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

‘Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.’ – Bill Vaughan

‘War is the business of barbarians.’ – Napoleon Bonaparte

‘The first rule of show business is get off the stage while people still want more.’ – Terence Winter

‘The system of creating opportunities for those who were by law excluded, you’ve got to do that. But you mustn’t create a perception that the process is devoid of competitiveness… devoid of building a world class, sustainable black business community.’ – Patrice Motsepe

‘I’ve learned from my dealings with Johnny Carson that no matter what kind of friendship you think you have with people you’re working with, when the chips are down, it’s all about business.’ – Joan Rivers

‘Great investors need to have the right combination of intuition, business sense and investment talent.’ – Andrew Lo

‘Competitions are a business, first and foremost.’ – Abby Lee Miller

‘Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.’ – Benjamin Franklin

‘A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.’ – Henry Ford

‘When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have to humiliate myself.’ – Jerry Seinfeld

‘American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.’ – Barry Goldwater

‘The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I’d say probably in the early ’70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, ’cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.’ – Jimmy Buffett

‘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

‘I have always looked after the little things of my business; weightier matters will take care of themselves.’ – Collis Potter Huntington

‘My stepfather is my mentor. He’s also like a father to me. He taught me how to be a man, how to carry myself and how to handle my business.’ – Zion Williamson

‘Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of the mouths of other people.’ – Jane Austen

‘Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do.’ – Bob Geldof

‘Some guys play with their heads. That’s okay. You’ve got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you’ve got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.’ – Vince Lombardi

‘No one escapes the long arm of the law, they are a business, they are very good at what they do and eventually they will catch up with you.’ – Chris Eubank Sr.

‘I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.’ – Dan Fogelberg

‘I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation’s largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations.’ – John Perkins

‘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

‘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

‘In an age where everything and everyone is linked through networks of glass and air, no one – no business, organization, government agency, country – is an island. We need to do right by all our stakeholders, and that’s how you create value for shareholders. And one thing is for sure – no organization can succeed in a world that is failing.’ – Don Tapscott

‘In my experience, the most effective professionals in business and government have the ability to get things done. They’re trained to work with multiple stakeholders, to understand how to identify a problem, devise solutions, to compromise and work well with others.’ – Henry Paulson

‘Movies are an expensive business.’ – Albert Brooks

‘I’m in this business, man, and I honestly don’t know anything about show business at all. I don’t know how it works.’ – Bobby Lee

‘And I’m not apolitical – I’m very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it’s nobody’s business unless you’re over at my house having dinner.’ – Tom Hanks

‘In this business it takes time to be really good – and by that time, you’re obsolete.’ – Cher

‘Business is destroying the world, with flair, expertise, and panache.’ – Paul Hawken

‘Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.’ – Huston Smith

‘In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.’ – Victor Kiam

‘You have to grow! You grow as a person, and then you will grow in business.’ – Andrew Cherng

‘We are not a trading company. We are a midstream asset company: pipe, storage and terminals. It’s an unsexy, dirty business. It’s not rocket science.’ – Richard Kinder

‘I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.’ – Bobby Seale

‘The Feeding the 5000 campaign is inviting food businesses to sign up to the principles of the Food Waste Pyramid tool, which illustrates a simple set of steps that any food business can take to avoid and reduce food waste.’ – Tristram Stuart

‘I’ve never been good in the financial and business arenas. I handle the creative side of things.’ – Daryl Hannah

‘People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I’ll tell you what I’ve learned that’s kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I’ve met everybody in the business. I’m fortunate people want to work with me.’ – Tate Taylor

‘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

‘It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.’ – Herbert Hoover

‘Everyone in business is tenacious and extremely aggressive. If you’re not a ‘now’ person – do it right now – then you’re not going to be successful. I like that kind of mentality.’ – Larry Wilcox

‘I don’t believe in funerals. I believe in celebrating life, and showing people, while they’re alive, how much I care about them. And I don’t believe in this business of burial. I’m an organ donor. Whether its my skin or my eyeballs, use whatever bits are intact and put the rest in the garbage.’ – Carmen Dell’Orefice

‘Starting a new business will take its toll on your time and energy, and this can place strain on family and social relationships, depending on their expectations and how open you are in your communication with them.’ – Fabrizio Moreira

‘I’m proud of my independence. And certainly from a business perspective, that’s always been a main agenda for me – to make my own position, don’t try and be like somebody else, because there already is that somebody else.’ – Rob Van Dam

‘One of the people who most influenced me was Ben Shapiro, a marketing professor at the business school. He used to rant and rave and pound his fist: ‘It’s all about the customers!’ And he was right. He was also right that, at that time, retailing was devoid of really talented people; he urged me to go in that direction.’ – Thomas G. Stemberg

‘Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.’ – Joel Osteen

‘If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.’ – Karl Lagerfeld

‘I don’t give interviews on Chanel because it is not useful for the Chanel business.’ – Alain Wertheimer

‘A lot of the game of AI today is finding the appropriate business context to fit it in. I love technology. It opens up lots of opportunities. But in the end, technology needs to be contextualized and fit into a business use case.’ – Andrew Ng

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

‘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

‘There are some who invoke separation of church and state – to try to get the government out of the business of morality – but this is antithetical to what the founders wanted. The founders wanted to keep theology out of government so that government could focus on the proper business of morality.’ – Dinesh D’Souza

‘I’m a lady, and I run my business with dignity. I don’t need to be tough. You get nowhere screaming.’ – Ivana Trump

‘Now we’re here in 2009. My boys are 16 and 18, one’s going to USC film school, and the other seems to be a natural comedian. So now I have to go back into show business as a senior comedian. So I hope to get Walter Brennan-type roles, Gabby Hayes kind of stuff, be the old-timer. We’ll see what happens.’ – Dana Carvey

‘I love big business!’ – Clint Eastwood

‘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

‘Everybody told me I was making a mistake by going into this business, but I know how to grow hair as well as I know how to grow cotton.’ – Madam C. J. Walker

‘Family business management is a discipline that has evolved from an art into a science. The market for this line of education has been created by the growing recognition of family-run companies that shareholders are demanding greater clarity on issues ranging from succession to the management of wealth and the distribution of profits.’ – Sanjaya Baru

‘My father never really encouraged me or even took an interest after I walked away from the family business. No one did except my mother and my grandfather. To be truthful, I cannot remember one meaningful conversation I had with my father.’ – Juergen Teller

‘I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy… fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks! I entered in with no business sense.’ – Lilly Pulitzer

‘A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine’s a business today. It’s a business.’ – Jack Kevorkian

‘Everybody would love to be mayor of Chicago. If you look at what we have done over many, many years and where we are today and the commitment by the business community, the commitment by the not-for-profit community – all this coming together – this is a wonderful city.’ – Richard M. Daley

‘Coming from where I come from, I didn’t have the luxury of having a trust fund. Or money from generations. Or the luxury of hoppin’ into the family business, you know?’ – Patrick Beverley

‘Well, you can’t be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there’s going to be a flip side to it.’ – Jennifer Garner

‘One of the fun things about venture capital is you are constantly learning new ideas and strategies from one business and then applying them to others.’ – Joe Lonsdale

‘Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.’ – Fred Wilson

‘I find, in merchandising and design and creative, a business school degree isn’t particularly helpful.’ – Mickey Drexler

‘In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.’ – Billie Jean King

‘In my opinion, life is more important than show business.’ – Penny Marshall

‘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

‘Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there’s a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.’ – Ed Greenwood

‘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

‘I went through a period of pulling away from everything – acting, people – not sure if I would ever have a voice in this business.’ – Selma Blair

‘The affairs of America I shall ever look upon as my first business whilst I am in Europe. Any confidence from the king and ministers, any popularity I may have among my own countrymen, any means in my power, shall be, to the best of my skill, and till the end of my life, exerted in behalf of an interest I have so much at heart.’ – Marquis de Lafayette

‘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

‘I’ve never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can’t tell what acting is or how it’s done.’ – Paul Muni

‘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 easy way to make money is to get special political privilege. From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.’ – Charles Koch

‘The best defence against mafia business is full declaration of assets and incomes.’ – Milos Zeman

‘Movies are the shadiest business in the world.’ – Jessica Alba

‘People in business tend to have an instinctive reaction to people.’ – Nigel Farage

‘I’ve been in this business for a long time, and I no longer think that anything that I do by way of clarification is ever going to eradicate the mistakes.’ – Ann Beattie

‘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

‘You have to be just as mistrustful of straightforward rationality in business as you do of a uniquely gut approach.’ – Bernard Arnault

‘The phrase ‘change the world’ is tossed around Silicon Valley conversations and business plans as freely as talk of ‘early-stage investing’ and ‘beta tests.” – George Packer

‘I am really excited to be partnering with Palmer’s Cocoa Butter Formula. Aside from being a longtime fan of their products, they’re a family business with a strong ethical foundation, and that makes us a great match.’ – India Arie

‘Today’s business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone’s job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop.’ – Allen Klein

‘The 21st century for the black community is about building human capital. That is the undone business. That is the unmet need. That is the completion of the civil rights mission.’ – Amy Wax

‘I love every aspect of show business and that includes both the show part of it and the business part of it.’ – Kristy Swanson

‘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

‘I’ve got a couple of grays in my beard and maybe a little salt and pepper in my hair. If I let my hair down and go through it, you’d see a good bit of grays. Maybe from the stress of the road and the crazy business I’m in.’ – Roman Reigns

‘Everyone with all those good intentions came to help Indonesia rebuild from the tsunami; but the co-ordination problem was very big, because they came with their own way of doing business; they came with the inflexibility of their own governance.’ – Sri Mulyani Indrawati

‘Who says a lighthearted approach to business is incompatible with success?’ – Herb Kelleher

‘Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business – which at least does us all some good.’ – Stephen Fry

‘From being a little girl in the projects, going through all of the mess that I was going through, to ending up at the Inauguration for the first African-American president, I’m speechless right now because I never thought I’d – I never ever – I couldn’t even see that far. Even when I ended up in the music business, I couldn’t see that.’ – Mary J. Blige

‘Don’t go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you’ll land in trouble too big for you.’ – J. R. R. Tolkien

‘If you help a chicken out of an egg, most of the time that bird will die. If you help a moth out of a cocoon, it’ll die because they don’t go through that struggle and maturation. I can give you a fish for the day and you’ll eat a day, but if I teach you to fish, you’ll eat for a lifetime. Maybe even start a business.’ – Ted Yoho

‘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

‘I always read the translator’s draft all the way through – a very laborious business.’ – W. G. Sebald

‘The Rock now the hottest thing. He come from wrestling background. Father, mother, grandfather all from wrestling business: 2-3 generations. I watch his movie. He great movie star, and I be wrestling with his father Rocky Johnson. I love them.’ – The Iron Sheik

‘I know I’m very lucky. A lot of it is quite normal, scooting around the supermarket with a shopping trolley and things like that. With one parent being a prince and the other being an amazing sort of… business woman.’ – Princess Beatrice of York

‘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

‘My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.’ – Johnny Carson

‘Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.’ – Sam Walton

‘I was tired of a system where women waited around for men to send them a message or ask them out. With Bumble – first a dating app, now a social network that helps you make empowering connections in love, life, and business – women had to make the first move, or the match was void.’ – Whitney Wolfe Herd

‘I’m a competitive type of person, whether it’s playing a game of basketball or playing business games.’ – Chuck Feeney

‘The reality is the world’s shifted; the world’s evolved. We now measure ourself by total device space. We have a much bigger opportunity than we’ve ever had in the past to grow our business, but we have to rethink how we look at our business.’ – B. Kevin Turner

‘Small businesses provide 75 percent of new U.S. jobs and are the backbone of our economy, and no outdated ban should be keeping small business owners from collecting the same interest their money could earn if it were held by an individual.’ – Sue Kelly

‘You pay your dues and work your way up through the system, whatever system there is – something guys in the business today don’t really understand, don’t have a clue.’ – Dusty Rhodes

‘I can comfortably say that I very much dislike a person like Jim Cornette, so the day that he disappears from this business permanently, I think, will be a happy day for professional wrestling.’ – Kenny Omega

‘It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn’t know what he is doing.’ – Owen D. Young

‘My company, Kaikai Kiki, is unique because it’s an art business. I had to find out how to do this by myself.’ – Takashi Murakami

‘It’s a very difficult business, and I’m very interested in the future of it after I’m gone, and I thought that if I can’t produce a strong management team here myself, and I can find better management elsewhere, then I should sell it.’ – Harry Triguboff

‘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 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

‘Many business owners dream of having their product or service endorsed by a global celebrity. But instead of trying to get a superstar to support your business, try seeking out a local celebrity instead.’ – Lewis Howes

‘Know your target audience. Always keep them at the forefront of your mind. Understand their lifestyle and what they are looking for. Gather their feedback and use it to tailor your approach. The voice of the consumer is an essential input into the development of any fashion business or blog.’ – Imran Amed

‘During the day, I’m a business owner. I’m a teacher and a mentor.’ – Alyssa Edwards

‘From a branding standpoint, the show represents only a fraction of our business, and the impact you actually have on the consumer is super, super tiny. I mean, what about the pre-collection? That is just as important as the show.’ – Marco Bizzarri

‘That’s the beauty of country music – you have to get out there and earn it and work hard. And when you’re on the road with big name acts, you realize there’s no easy way to the ‘Promised Land’ in this business.’ – Luke Bryan

‘Money is always the least of the problems. It is finding the right business or growing the right business. You can’t do that without the right people.’ – Christoffel Wiese

‘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

‘Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don’t know what to expect from the music business.’ – Ville Valo

‘Compared to what they were, rock concerts now are like business meetings.’ – Paul Kantner

‘My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.’ – Anthony Hopkins

‘Even the first suitcase-off-the-train moment, it’s easy to be discouraged, frustrated, annoyed, angry. Because you’re waiting in freezing weather outside of an open call, and you’re like, ‘This moment of me right now is not the joy I felt when I was doing J. Pierrepont Finch in ‘How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying’ in high school.” – Jonathan Groff

‘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 you want to be a singer, you’ve got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can’t be a well driller, too. You’ve got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don’t ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.’ – Otis Redding

‘The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.’ – Kevin Hart

‘Ever since I bought and started flying an airplane, it’s been almost exclusively for business. I love to fly. It’s a great joy to me. But rarely do I use it for any kind of pleasure, other than it is a pleasure to fly.’ – Arnold Palmer

‘Being a professional musician doesn’t mean you spend 12 hours a day playing music. It means you spend up to 12 hours a day taking care of business, dealing with litigation, with the various characters who’ve stolen your interests, or fending off hostile lawsuits from former members of the band.’ – Robert Fripp

‘America has a unique combination of talent, a vibrant business environment, and access to global markets, which has enabled U.S. companies like Intel to foster economic growth and innovation.’ – Brian Krzanich

‘There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.’ – George Savile

‘I started dancing when I saw Fred Astaire in ‘Flying Down to Rio,’ at approximately nine years old. Fred Astaire influenced me, more than anything, to be in ‘show business.” – Stanley Donen

‘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

‘The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.’ – Twyla Tharp

‘Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as ‘suits’.’ – Paul Graham

‘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

‘The importance of inclusive behavior was modeled for me early in life. I have many childhood memories of my mother – an entrepreneur and business owner – drawing people to herself and inspiring them with the genuineness of her interest in them.’ – Lynne Doughtie

‘I want ‘Vogue’ to be pacy, sharp, and sexy – I’m not interested in the super-rich or infinitely leisured. I want our readers to be energetic executive women, with money of their own and a wide range of interests. There is a new kind of woman out there. She’s interested in business and money.’ – Anna Wintour

‘I’m no relation to Lillian or Dorothy Gish. Not even way back. But when I first became interested in acting, I wrote a letter to Lillian Gish. She wrote back, discouraging me from entering the business.’ – Annabeth Gish

‘I’m a permanently curious person. I probably waste my time being curious about things that have got nothing to do with the business sometimes. What keeps me alive, certainly, is curiosity.’ – Rupert Murdoch

‘Confidence is everything in this business.’ – Reese Witherspoon

‘Responsive governments committed to improving the broader trade facilitation and business environment can help companies of all sizes by improving infrastructure: roads, transportation, ports, information and communication technology, and electricity.’ – Arancha Gonzalez

‘A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.’ – Honore de Balzac

‘I keep lot of my opinions to myself. My grandfather, who was a gravedigger, told me one day, ‘Son, the next time you go by the cemetery, remember that a third of the people are in there because they got into other people’s business.” – Lee Trevino

‘Outside the ring, I am Gennady, but when I get in, I am Triple G: I become a different guy. I don’t know how I switch, but I understand my job, I understand the situation, and I understand my business.’ – Gennady Golovkin

‘It doesn’t matter how successful you are in this business, it’s tough to get through the next door.’ – Kevin Sorbo

‘I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!’ – Henrik Ibsen

‘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

‘You’re only as good as your last movie, period. It’s a business.’ – Robert Lepage

‘I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.’ – Dick Bruna

‘The best in business have boundless curiosity and open minds.’ – Robin S. Sharma

‘I think global warming is the gravest threat. With global warming, it’s the product of a war between old energy – between the carbon cronies, who, by the way, could not stay in business in a true free market capitalism.’ – Robert Kennedy, Jr.

‘Doing good business – being ethical, being transparent, being caring, implementing values in your business – makes a difference, and you make money at the same time.’ – Shari Arison

‘Pursuing higher education should not lead to a lifetime of debt that holds people back from important milestones like having a child, buying a home, or starting a business. Sadly, that’s the reality for too many Americans struggling with mounting student loan debt.’ – Ben Ray Lujan

‘Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what’s around them.’ – Afrika Bambaataa

‘Have we been going up and down in business, and are those round about us as yet unaware of our Christian character? Have we never spoken to them the Word of Life? Lord, arouse us to a deep concern for all with whom we come in contact from day to day.’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘I’ve always wanted to be in the health and wellness business. I try to encourage people to live a healthy lifestyle.’ – Mark Wahlberg

‘Nobody has wrestled everybody in the business like I have, especially not Bret Hart.’ – Ric Flair

‘At the end of the day, don’t nobody go into business to lose money.’ – Young Dolph

‘Starting your own business isn’t just a job – it’s a way of life.’ – Richard Branson

‘Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it’s not going to get the business.’ – Warren Buffett

‘The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person’s e-mail and every single person’s Twitter @ reply.’ – Gary Vaynerchuk

‘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

‘I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I’ve found them to be real smart and good workers.’ – Loretta Lynn

‘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

‘There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.’ – Lee Iacocca

‘I am not embarrassed to be a banker. I am not embarrassed to be in business.’ – Jamie Dimon

‘To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.’ – Confucius

‘My business is to prevent the future.’ – Ray Bradbury

‘I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can’t truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.’ – Zig Ziglar

‘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.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘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

‘Jim Newman, the business visionary who created the term ‘comfort zone,’ showed me how to expand my horizons. Thanks to Jim, after I attended one of his PACE Seminars in 1978; I moved out of my comfort zone at Bear Stearns and became a super successful oilman.’ – Dan Pena

‘Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.’ – Noam Chomsky

‘Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.’ – Mark Twain

‘Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.’ – Jack Welch

”Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.’ – Thomas Paine

‘The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.’ – Charles Dickens

‘The more people you meet, and the more people you have influence over your business can scale quicker.’ – Peter Jones

‘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

‘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

‘If a negative atmosphere pervades where you live or work, go elsewhere. Seek out friends, business associates, and mentors with positive attitudes who share your goals and best interests.’ – Richard M. DeVos

‘Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn’t work!’ – Robin Williams

‘I want tension in my business. Tension creates change. Change is necessary to evolve and prosper. I am never satisfied.’ – Kenneth C. Griffin

‘One capability every business is expected to have is the capability to make money. It requires a certain kind of discipline, a certain kind of mindset.’ – Steve Ballmer

‘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

‘Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.’ – Robert Louis Stevenson

‘The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.’ – Alexis de Tocqueville

‘Although it’s easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket… it’s part-ownership of a business.’ – Peter Lynch

‘I am personally a big believer that technology is the biggest driver of human development, and if you can use technology to benefit people, then that’s the best business you can have.’ – Mukesh Ambani

‘I used to be and I still am into psychology. I would like to be able to pursue something like that, but I don’t know. The older I’ve gotten, the more endearing this business has become and I can’t really imagine leaving it.’ – Lindsey Shaw

‘A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.’ – Richard Branson

‘Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer’s avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.’ – Elvis Presley

‘In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.’ – Taylor Swift

‘If you’re not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.’ – Ray Kroc

‘Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all… good design must primarily serve people.’ – Thomas J. Watson

‘The Dwolla incident was to be expected. The government will go after sites that it thinks are supposed to register as money transmitters. Some Bitcoin companies will register as such, and some won’t, but business will carry on regardless.’ – Erik Voorhees

‘The purpose of a business is to create a customer.’ – Peter Drucker

‘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

‘Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.’ – Ross Perot

‘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

‘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

‘Great businesses can be built on scale. I think Amazon has built a phenomenal commerce business largely on scale. Their network effect isn’t obvious to me, but boy, have they used scale effectively.’ – Jeff Jordan

‘Money is not the motivating force. It’s nice to have money, but I don’t live high. What I enjoy is running the business.’ – Rupert Murdoch

‘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

‘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

‘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

‘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

‘Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves – who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.’ – Stephen Covey

‘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

‘I’m in this business to be creative – I’ll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.’ – Frank Ocean

‘The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs what you have. The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe.’ – Simon Sinek

‘Starting a business is not for everyone. Starting a business – I’d say, number one is have a high pain threshold.’ – Elon Musk

‘Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.’ – Adlai Stevenson I

‘I’ve always treated the music business as a business.’ – Simon Cowell

‘Self-publishing provides more freedom and control, but it also provides more risk. Publishing provides more credibility and promotion, but your vision can also get lost in the bureaucratic machinery of the business. It’s a tough decision to make.’ – Mark Manson

‘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

‘I think the most important reason for our success is that very early in our quest into globalisation, we invested in people – and we have done that consistently and particularly in the service business.’ – Azim Premji

‘The characteristics of successful business people, whether they are male or female, are very similar. It’s about determination, it’s about enthusiasm, it’s about strategy, it’s about communication, it’s about integrity. And sometimes men and women display those differently but fundamentally they are the same qualities.’ – Karren Brady

‘To qualify the term ‘boss’ by adding ‘girl’ or ‘babe’ or ‘honey’ or ‘pink’ or whatever other ridiculous, antiquated-gender role assignment the media thinks is cute this month, is, at the least, disrespectful and at the worst, damaging to the way young women view themselves and our fight for equality in the business world.’ – Rachel Hollis

‘I had no choice but to work hard. I was a straight-A student, went to college, and I loved business. I never thought I was going to be a singer myself. It came accidentally.’ – Jenni Rivera

‘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.’ – Richard Branson

‘As much as I’d only like to concentrate on the creative side of acting, the whole business in general is just that – a business – and you have to do your homework if you want to be successful.’ – Margot Robbie

‘Revenue cures everything in the business world.’ – Jon Taffer

‘If you or I fail at business, we fail. If we cheat and fail, we go to jail. But if you’re rich and politically connected, your incompetence may be protected by a government bailout.’ – Robert Kiyosaki

‘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

‘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

‘In business, I think the most important thing is to position yourself for long-term and not be too impatient, which I am by nature, and I have to control myself.’ – Bernard Arnault

‘You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.’ – An Wang

‘Every breakthrough business idea begins with solving a common problem. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity. I discovered a big one when I took apart an IBM PC. I made two interesting discoveries: The components were all manufactured by other companies, and the system that retailed for $3,000 cost about $600 in parts.’ – Michael Dell

‘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

‘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

‘If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.’ – Warren Buffett

‘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

‘When I was in N.W.A. and didn’t get paid all the money I was owed, that’s when the business side of showbiz hit me.’ – Ice Cube

‘The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits – ah! that is another matter – twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent – the sky is the limit.’ – Smedley Butler

‘My first album was mainly dealing with street issues, and it was ‘coded’: it was called ‘Reasonable Doubt.’ So the things I was talking about… I was talking about in slang, and it was something that people in the music business was not really privy to. They didn’t understand totally what I was saying or what I was talking about.’ – Jay-Z

‘I’m really into both sides of the industry – in front of the camera and behind the camera. I love the business side of it; I love all of the contracts and negotiating and the different connections that you can make.’ – Sydney Sweeney

‘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

‘It is true that too many people are not getting a fair opportunity to get ahead. We must find ways to help them move up the economic ladder, and everyone – business, government, and nonprofits – needs to play a role.’ – Jamie Dimon

‘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

‘Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.’ – Tom Peters

‘I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It’s the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.’ – Elon Musk

‘I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations.’ – Madam C. J. Walker

‘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

‘Good economic theory must give the people the chance to use their talents to build their own lives. We must get away from the traditional route where the rich will do the business and the poor will depend on private or public charity.’ – Muhammad Yunus

‘I always vote for the guy I think can get it done. And it ain’t nobody’s business who I vote for, but I voted for Clinton twice. And that just blows people’s minds when they hear that.’ – Toby Keith

‘If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.’ – Dolly Parton

‘Negotiating isn’t about getting what you want or giving in to what the other party wants. It’s not an ‘either/or situation.’ It’s about having both parties walk away satisfied. Over the years in both business and life, I’ve had to learn this hard lesson.’ – John Rampton

‘I started the site when I was 19. I didn’t know much about business back then.’ – Mark Zuckerberg

‘My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.’ – Woodrow Wilson

‘Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.’ – Herbert Hoover

‘We have teams of people working on electric cars. So you never know – you may find Virgin competing with the Tesla in the car business as we do in the space business.’ – Richard Branson

‘Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn’t quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak’s board. Wanting to create a business.’ – Walter Isaacson

‘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

‘If I didn’t get a job, between 16 and 18, that wasn’t significant, I was just going to go to college. I didn’t want to be a struggling actor at 36 with five kids, doing something I hated. You see the story so much. It’s such a vicious business to be in when you’re not meant to be in it.’ – Jessica Alba

‘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 can take more punishment than anyone in the business.’ – Ric Flair

‘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

‘Every business and every product has risks. You can’t get around it.’ – Lee Iacocca

‘Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future.’ – Satya Nadella

‘No business can stay in business without customers. How you treat – or mistreat – them determines how long your doors stay open.’ – Harvey Mackay

‘I believe that starting any business should be as easy as a 10-year-old starting a lemonade stand.’ – Mark Cuban

‘You can’t be halfway in this business. If you don’t meet the fans, you lose all you’ve got.’ – Loretta Lynn

‘Your billion-dollar ideas don’t show up in the middle of dramatic distraction. They show up when you have the business and personal discipline to make space for your creative mind to flourish.’ – Robin S. Sharma

‘I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.’ – Noam Chomsky

‘I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember how the car workers lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in. My father was a car salesman, and I remember how we lived. I remember how modestly we lived.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘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

‘I never called my work an ‘art’. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.’ – Walt Disney

‘The key to our business, it’s a lot of research.’ – Kenneth C. Griffin

‘Societies or companies that expect a glorious past to shield them from the forces of change driven by advancing technology will fail and fall. That applies as much to my own, the media industry, as to every other business on the planet.’ – Rupert Murdoch

‘There’s no point in starting a business unless you’re going to make a dramatic difference to other people’s lives. So if you’ve got an idea that’s gonna make a big difference to other people’s lives, then just get on and do it.’ – Richard Branson

‘It’s good to stand for something, to believe in something and base your business on values.’ – Jerry Greenfield

‘A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.’ – B. C. Forbes

‘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.’ – Jack Ma

‘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

‘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

‘When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‘I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.’ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.’ – Frank Ocean

‘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.’ – Sam Walton

‘I told myself, if I sacrifice Young Dolph and never sign to a major label and I get Young Dolph hot? I’m going to earn and get all of these relationships and do a lot of networking. I’m gonna know the business, all the way, ins and outs.’ – Young Dolph

‘Stationary storage will be as big as the car business long term. The growth rate will probably be several times what it is for the car business.’ – Elon Musk

‘The Internet is the Viagra of big business.’ – Jack Welch

‘ShapeShift, like SatoshiDICE before it, demonstrated how an old business could operate in a brand new way because of the properties of cryptocurrencies.’ – Erik Voorhees

‘We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.’ – Stephen Covey

‘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

‘Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.’ – Bill Gates

‘I deal with creativity all the time. What I have fun with is trying to transform creativity into business reality all over the world. To do this, you have to be connected to innovators and designers but also make their ideas livable and concrete.’ – Bernard Arnault

‘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.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.’ – Warren Buffett

‘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

‘If you want to be more productive, then start at the start: get there on time. Whether it is a meeting, a flight, an appointment or a date, it’s important to ensure you are there when you say you will be there. This may feel like an old-fashioned tip to give, but it has served me well for five decades in business.’ – Richard Branson

‘The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.’ – Zig Ziglar

‘Even though I’m a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I’m looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it.’ – Gary Vaynerchuk

‘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

‘Pessimism doesn’t grow your business or even maintain the status quo. The pessimists on your staff make the job harder for everyone around them. They make difficulties out of opportunities.’ – Harvey Mackay

‘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

‘Eventually you won’t think of ‘the Internet business.’ You’ll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn’t clear.’ – Bill Gates

‘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

‘In business, if you realize you’ve made a bad decision, you change it.’ – Richard Branson