Business Quotes

In business, you’re trying to make a buck. God was good to me andblessedme. I made some money and started this foundation years ago, and it hasgrownin size. With the foundation it’s a lot different, because the bottomlineisn’t how you can make more money or get a better return, it’s helpingthe projects that you feel strongly about move forward.
-- Business Quotes by LeeIacocca

In life and business, there are two cardinal sins.. The first is toact precipitouslywithout thought and the second is to not act at all.
-- Business Quotes by CarlIcahn

You learn in this business.. If you want a friend, get a dog.
-- Business Quotes by CarlIcahn

It takes a lot more to run a good business than just trailingcommissionsor kickbacks otherwise everybody would succeed, wouldn't they?
-- Business Quotes by John Ilhan

In business as in life, sometimesbad things happen to good people, andsometimes good things happen to bad people. Butover time, if you play long enough, everybodygets what he deserves.. good and bad.
-- Business Quotes by Jeffrey Immelt

I work with wonderful people whosupport me. And, my beliefs are that thebusiness needs to serve the family ratherthan the family serve the business.
-- Business Quotes by Kathy Ireland

If the community is happy, thenthey support your business and if your businessis doing well, then you can give back evenmore to the community.
-- Business Quotes by Magic Johnson

Being able to touch so many peoplethrough my businesses and make money whiledoing it, is a huge blessing.
-- Business Quotes by Magic Johnson

I love business. I love helpingurban communities grow. I love putting people towork of color. I love making sure.. like rightnow the whole mortgage crisis, I want tohelp people get back into their homes.
-- Business Quotes by Magic Johnson

We are a company that lives andbreathes a philosophy that’s centered onnot only making sound businessdecisions but also personally and professionallyfinding ways to contribute to the wellbeing of society. We are also a companythat understands community.
-- Business Quotes by Magic Johnson

With businesses, you go to thesame places because you like the service, youlike the people and they take care of you.They greet you with a smile. That's howpeople want to be treated, with respect.That's what I tell my employees.. customerservice is very important.
-- Business Quotes by Magic Johnson

I've always studied business. Evenwhen I was a ball player, I'd readbusiness journals and the business sections ofnewspapers.
-- Business Quotes by Magic Johnson

I really want people to know thatI’ve worked hard, very hard, to get towhere I am today.. this didn’t justhappen overnight. I started in businessover 25 years ago and have found a way tobuild on what I’ve learned through every partnership and opportunity.
-- Business Quotes by Magic Johnson

I viewed it as a business, but Ialways viewed it as a game. Anopportunity to show my skills, my basketball skills,amongst the best in the world.
-- Business Quotes by Michael Jordan

When I started the business, Ihardly went home. I became very driven aboutwork and about my career.
-- Business Quotes by Calvin Klein

We take the hamburger businessmore seriously than anyone else.
-- Business Quotes by Ray Kroc

There's no business like showbusiness, but there are several businesseslike accounting.
-- Business Quotes by David Letterman

My first six years in the businesswere hopeless. There are a lot of timeswhen you sit and you say "Why am Idoing this? I'll never make it. It'sjust not going to happen. I should go outand get a real job, and try to survive."
-- Business Quotes by George Lucas

Go for a business that any idiotcan run - because sooner or later, anyidiot probably is going to run it.
-- Business Quotes by Peter Lynch

For us, our most importantstakeholder is not our stockholders, it is ourcustomers. We're in business to serve theneeds and desires of our core customer base.
-- Business Quotes by John Mackey

There can be little doubt that a certain amount of corporatephilanthropyis simply good business and works for the long-term benefit of theinvestors.
-- Business Quotes by JohnMackey

I became a vegan and at the same time I realized, gosh, Whole Foodshas gotto create a higher standard here. I think it will ultimately be a goodbusinessdecision because I think our customers expect us, want us to pave thispath.
-- Business Quotes by JohnMackey

I think one of the most misunderstood things about business inAmerica isthat people are either doing things for altruistic reasons or they aregreedyand selfish, just after profit. That type of dichotomy portrays a falseimageof business. It certainly is a false image of Whole Foods. The wholeidea is todo both: The animals have to flourish, but in such a way that it'll becheap enoughfor the customers to buy it.
-- Business Quotes by John Mackey

If you stop building stars, whichwe never do, you wouldn't be in business.
-- Business Quotes by Vince McMahon

Regardless of how well a studio isrun, it's only as good as the productit produces.
-- Business Quotes by Vince McMahon

In the four decades ofphilanthropy that have paralleled my businesscareer, I’ve found that the same principlesapply whether you’re providing access to capital to grow a business, creating a newparadigm for medical research, orpioneering innovative approaches to education: Empowerthe most talented people in each field andencourage them to pursue their passions.
-- Business Quotes by Michael Milken

The motivation for war is simple.The U.S. government started the war withIraq in order to make it easy for U.S.corporations to do business in other countries.They intend to use cheap labor in thosecountries, which will make Americans rich.
-- Business Quotes by Michael Moore

In my experience, in thereal-estate business past success stories are generallynot applicable to new situations. We mustcontinually reinvent ourselves, responding to changingtimes with innovative new businessmodels.
-- Business Quotes by Akira Mori

We intend to conduct our business in a way that not only meets butexceedsthe expectations of our customers, business partners, shareholders, andcreditors,as well as the communities in which we operate and society at large.
-- Business Quotes by AkiraMori

Today the strategies of many companies in the real estate industryare premisedon low interest rates, an assumption that has resulted in the rapidexpansionof the real estate securitization business. This trend could be regardedas arisk factor, as it exposes the real estate sector to at least threepotentialproblems: first, interest rate hikes; second, revisions tosecuritization businessaccounting standards; and third, overheating in the real estate market.
-- Business Quotes by AkiraMori

Ibelieve myconcepts are more than just business, they are about our culture.
-- Business Quotes by Minoru Mori

We both (He and Warren Buffett) insist on a lot oftime being available almost every day to justsit and think. That is very uncommon inAmerican business. We read and think. SoWarren and I do more reading and thinking andless doing than most people inbusiness. We do that because we like that kind of alife.
-- Business Quotes by Charlie Munger

You have to know accounting. It'sthe language of practical business life. It wasa very useful thing to deliver tocivilization. I've heard it came to civilizationthrough Venice which of course was oncethe great commercial power in theMediterranean. However, double entry bookkeeping was ahell of an invention.
-- Business Quotes by Charlie Munger

Good journalism is good businesspractice; good business supports greatjournalism.
-- Business Quotes by Lachlan Murdoch

The industry is littered withself-styled purists who believe the businessof media.. the requirement to make a profit..somehow corrupts the craft.
-- Business Quotes by Lachlan Murdoch

I have been privileged to grow upretaining the love of good journalism, thecraft, while learning its business: thedollars and cents. I have learnt that they are notmutually exclusive but integrally self-reliant. Eachdependent on the other.
-- Business Quotes by Lachlan Murdoch

We're starting with our own carbonfootprint. Not nothing. But much of whatwe're doing is already, or soon will be,little more than the standard way of doingbusiness. We can do something that's unique,different from just any other company. Wecan set an example, and we can reach ouraudiences. Our audience's carbon footprint is10,000 times bigger than ours. That's thecarbon footprint we want to conquer.
-- Business Quotes by Rupert Murdoch

I wasn't running toward thetheater but running away from the sportinggoods store. Of course now that I'm sellingspaghetti sauce (with Newman's Own), I beginto understand the romance of business.. theallure of being the biggest fish in the pondand the juice you get from beating outyour competitors.
-- Business Quotes by Paul Newman

When the idea came up, (Newman's Own) I said, "Are you crazy? Stick my face on the label of salad dressing?" And then, of course, we got the whole idea of exploitation and how circular it is. Why not, really, goto thefullest length, and the silliest length, in exploiting yourself and turnthe proceedsback to the community?
-- Business Quotes by PaulNewman

I feel that one of the best things a person can do for another isto createa job. So you do OK commercially, and then you try to make a differenceof somesort.
-- Business Quotes by CraigNewmark

That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams ofits people,the insistence on small miracles. That we can say what we think, writewhat wethink, without hearing a sudden knock on the door. That we can have anidea andstart our own business without paying a bribe or hearing a sudden knockon thedoor. That we can participate in the political process without fear ofretribution,and that our votes will be counted-or at least, most of the time.
-- Business Quotes by BarackObama

eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business withanotherperson, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure oftrust, eitherin the other person or the system.
-- Business Quotes by PierreOmidyar

When I started eBay, it was a hobby, an experiment to see if peoplecoulduse the Internet to be empowered through access to an efficient market. Iactuallywasn't thinking about it in terms of a social impact. It was reallyabout helpingpeople connect around a sphere of interest so they could do business.
-- Business Quotes by PierreOmidyar

Like most business people, I want every aspect of my business to beperfect.I know that this goal is unachievable, but it is nevertheless what Istrive toachieve.
-- Business Quotes by BobParsons

Let’s be honest. There’s not a business anywhere that is withoutproblems. Business is complicated and imperfect. Every businesseverywhere isstaffed with imperfect human beings and exists by providing a product orserviceto other imperfect human beings.
-- Business Quotes by BobParsons

A friendship founded on business is a good deal better than abusiness foundedon friendship.
-- Business Quotes by JohnD. Rockefeller

Business is not financial science, it's about trading..buying andselling. It's about creating a product or service so good that peoplewill payfor it.
-- Business Quotes by AnitaRoddick

For me, campaigning and good business is also about puttingforwardsolutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rightsabuses.
-- Business Quotes by AnitaRoddick

To be successful, you have to be able to relate to people;they haveto be satisfied with your personality to be able to do business with youand tobuild a relationship with mutual trust.
-- Business Quotes by GeorgeRoss

If I were born again, I would still be an industrialist. I complainbecauseit’s very hard work with no weekends, but I would still do it.
-- Business Quotes by Sakip Sabanci

There's no reason to be therichest man in the cemetery. You can't do anybusiness from there.
-- Business Quotes by Colonel Sanders

We want passion for our business..workers who can interpret and execute ourmission, who want to build a career, notjust take a temporary job.
-- Business Quotes by Howard Schultz

I don’t believe in talking aboutmy work. I let it speak for itself.I’d rather make money than just talkabout my business. People think thatbecause I don’t talk much to the media, I amarrogant. I am not arrogant, but I do have anattitude.
-- Business Quotes by Shailendra Singh

I don’t care about awards and public image. We know the business of entertainment. We worship our work, we worship our clients and weworship profitability.
-- Business Quotes by ShailendraSingh

Harry is my elder brother. He is the wiser one who leads Percept, he shows usthe path.My job is to run it, create the relationships, and run the business asprofitablyas I can. Harry acquires, merges, expands he is responsible forPercept ’sgrowth.
-- Business Quotes by ShailendraSingh

Thepace at eBay was frantic and urgent. We knew that if we didn't movefast, somebodywould come into the market and quash us. Participant doesn't make a lotof sensefrom a financial investment perspective, so it's unlikely that otherpeople willbe approaching the business in the same way. So you see less urgency;you seea thoroughness and willingness to spend extra time to get things right.WhichI think is really important.
-- Business Quotes by JeffSkoll

Globalization has gone wrong, as it has no rules. Multinationals arealmost abovethe law. They are so huge they are bigger than governments.
-- Business Quotes by DickSmith

Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.
-- Business Quotes by GeorgeSoros

Allthe thingsI love is what my business is all about.
-- Business Quotes by MarthaStewart

The most important adage and the only adage is, the customercomes first,whatever the business, the customer comes first.
-- Business Quotes by KerryStokes

Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which ourwhole societyis based, and business is a part of our society, and it's integral tothe practiceof being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honeststandards. Andit's much easier to do business with someone when you look them in theeye andsay, "This is what we're going to do," and you understand what you eachmean, and you can go away and get it done.
-- Business Quotes by KerryStokes

The essence of a successful business is really quite simple. It is yourabilityto offer a product or service that people will pay for at a pricesufficientlyabove your costs, ideally three or four or five times your cost, therebygivingyou a profit that enables you to buy and to offer more products andservices.
-- Business Quotes by BrianTracy

I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward thebottom line.Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.
-- Business Quotes by DonaldTrump

You can't know it all. No matter how smart you are, no matter howcomprehensiveyour education, no matter how wide ranging your experience, there issimply noway to acquire all the wisdom you need to make your business thrive.
-- Business Quotes by DonaldTrump

Watch, listen, and learn. You can't know it all yourself.. anyonewho thinksthey do is destined for mediocrity.
-- Business Quotes by DonaldTrump

Inbusiness,I’ve discovered that my purpose is to do my best to my utmost abilityeveryday. That’s my standard. I learned early in my life that I had highstandards.
-- Business Quotes by DonaldTrump

Every day, you'll have opportunities to take chances and to workoutsideyour safety net. Sure, it's a lot easier to stay in your comfort zone..in mycase, business suits and real estate.. but sometimes you have to takerisks. Whenthe risks pay off, that's when you reap the biggest rewards.
-- Business Quotes by DonaldTrump

Leaders are people who can discern the inevitable and actaccordingly. Whenpeople talk about business acumen, discernment is a big part of it. It’s a bit like gut instinct, but a little more developed.
-- Business Quotes by DonaldTrump

I run my operation like a family business. I sign every check,every receipt,I’m not tough, but I’m strong.
-- Business Quotes by Ivana Trump

We are perfectionists. We arehungry to work all the time. We areentertained by every aspect of business and wenever want to stop working.
-- Business Quotes by Suzy Welch

Perhaps the best place to beginwith an integral approach to business iswith.. oneself. In the Big Three of self,culture, and world, integral mastery startswith self. How do body and mind andspirit operate in me? How does that necessarilyimpact my role in the world of business?And how can I become more conscious ofthese already operating realities in myself andin others?
-- Business Quotes by Ken Wilber

Conscious business.. business that is conscious of inner and outerworlds..would therefore be business that takes into account body, mind, andspirit inself, culture, and nature. Put differently, conscious business would bemindfulof the way that the spectrum of consciousness operates in the Big Threeworldsof self and culture and nature.
-- Business Quotes by Ken Wilber

This is a business that thrives oncompetition (Casino Resorts). For 24 hours aday, seven days a week, the strip hosts themost violent competition in business inAmerica.
-- Business Quotes by Steve Wynn When all is said and done, whatmust be remembered is a newspaper is abusiness. It used to be a fabulous businessthat made extraordinary margins. It's now avery good business with appropriate margins.
-- Business Quotes by Sam Zell

I believe that being successfulmeans having a balance of success storiesacross the many areas of your life. You can'ttruly be considered successful in yourbusiness life if your home life is inshambles.
-- Business Quotes by Zig Ziglar

Statistics suggest that whencustomers complain, business owners and managers oughtto get excited about it. The complainingcustomer represents a huge opportunity formore business.
-- Business Quotes by Zig Ziglar

I like thatcombination between creativity and the creative process and theorganization needed to make a business likethis successful worldwide.
-- Business Quotes by Bernard Arnault

I like to tell people that all ofour products and business will go through threephases. There's vision, patience, andexecution.
-- Business Quotes by Steve Ballmer

Everybody makes business mistakes.I mean, I take the responsibility, and Idid. I was the captain of the ship and Itook that responsibility.
-- Business Quotes by Alan Bond

I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It'sdone ongut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey outof theconsumer.
-- Business Quotes by RichardBranson

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has toexerciseyour creative instincts.
-- Business Quotes by Richard Branson

To me, money is a means to dogood. I reached a point in my life where I hadenjoyed tremendous business success that afforded myfamily everything we could possibly want.My wife and I then decided that we coulduse our wealth to make a difference. So wecreated the Broad Foundations to do fourthings: to improve urban public education,to support innovative scientific and medicalresearch, to foster art appreciation foraudiences worldwide and to support civicinitiatives in Los Angeles.
-- Business Quotes by Eli Broad

Family, religion, friends.. theseare the three demons you must slay if youwish to succeed in business.
-- Business Quotes by Monty Burns

Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face,especiallyif you are in business. Yes, and that is also true if you are ahousewife, architector engineer.
-- Business Quotes by DaleCarnegie

I'm not sure I knew what an entrepreneur was when I was ten, but Iknew thatstarting little businesses and trying to sell greeting cards ornewspapers door-to-dooror just vending machine kind of thing is.. there's just something veryintriguingto me about that.
-- Business Quotes by SteveCase

They say a year in the Internet business is like a dog year..equivalentto seven years in a regular person's life. In other words, it's evolvingfastand faster.
-- Business Quotes by Vinton Cerf

Business is recognizing the roleit can play in combatting climate change.Thank God, is all I can say, for thereis a desperately urgent need for business to playthat role. Your lobbying influence can besubstantial, but together, united and in largeenough numbers it could prove decisive inturning the tide.
-- Business Quotes by Prince Charles

We have to make America the bestplace in the world to do business.
-- Business Quotes by Dick Cheney

A culture of discipline is not aprinciple of business; it is a principle ofgreatness.
-- Business Quotes by Jim Collins

We must reject the idea..well-intentioned, but dead wrong.. that the primarypath to greatness in the social sectors isto become "more like a business." Mostbusinesses.. like most of anything else inlife.. fall somewhere between mediocre andgood.
-- Business Quotes by Jim Collins

I think the most important CEOtask is defining the course that the business willtake over the next five or so years. Youhave to have the ability to see what thebusiness environment might be like a long way out, notjust over the coming months. You need to beable to both set a broad direction, andalso to take particular decisions alongthe way that make that broad directionunfold correctly.
-- Business Quotes by Chris Corrigan

You can't overestimate the need to plan and prepare. In most of themistakesI've made, there has been this common theme of inadequate planningbeforehand.You really can't over-prepare in business!
-- Business Quotes by ChrisCorrigan

I'm a firm believer that to really understand a business takesyears, notmonths. As an investment analyst you think you understand a businessfrom theoutside, but the reality is that, once you are inside, you can go onlearningfor five or ten years.
-- Business Quotes by ChrisCorrigan

I was always acting primarily with shareholder interests in mind.It's alsotrue I've always had a fairly moralistic attitude to business, and wouldnot doanything that I considered improper. As a consequence, I haveoccasionally pursuedissues during my career that other people might have avoided.
-- Business Quotes by ChrisCorrigan

I'd always had a childhood ambition to go into the investmentcapital business,and spent twenty-odd years in it. But the thought of spending the secondhalfof my career in the same business was boring, so I looked around forother opportunities.
-- Business Quotes by ChrisCorrigan

I thinkVirginBlue is still a very promising and exciting business. Now, I know that'snot aview that's widely held in the market but I think the market is simplythrowingit into the too-hard basket at the present time because of the oil priceevents.But we think it is still a very exciting business.
-- Business Quotes by Chris Corrigan

On one level, going bust didn'tbother me. It was the 80s, and there wasn'tthe stigma about bankruptcy that you mightthink. My mates weren't bothered. My dad wasin business.. he knew that it happened, too. Heloaned me the money to bail me out, and Igot a loan from the bank to pay himback.
-- Business Quotes by Simon Cowell

Many business leaders today viewtheir jobs as entailing responsibility forthe welfare of the wider community. Theseindividuals do not define themselves asprofit-making machines whose only reason forexisting is to satisfy escalatingexpectation for immediate gain.
-- Business Quotes by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

A business is successful to the extent that it provides a productor servicethat contributes to happiness in all of its forms.
-- Business Quotes by MihalyCsikszentmihalyi

Since the purpose of business is to satisfy existing desires, orstimulatenew ones, if everyone were genuinely happy, there would be no need forbusinessany longer.
-- Business Quotes by MihalyCsikszentmihalyi

It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. It doesn’t matter howmany times you almost get it right. No one is going to know or careabout yourfailures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from themand thosearound you because... All that matters in business is that you get itright once.Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.
-- Business Quotes by MarkCuban

In business, one of the challenges is making sure that yourproductis the easiest to experience and complete a sale.
-- Business Quotes by MarkCuban

The NBA (National Basketball Association) is never just a business.It’salways business. It’s always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.
-- Business Quotes by MarkCuban

Creating a close connection to those you do business with has itsmany risks,rewards and consequences. There are few things in business I haveencounteredthat are more difficult than firing someone, particularly if thatsomeone hasalways been, or has become a friend. On the flipside, I have beenrewarded withmany friends
-- Business Quotes by MarkCuban

Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also aboutoperations andcustomer relationships.
-- Business Quotes by MichaelDell

The corporation is the “master”, the employee is the “servant”. Because thecorporationowns the means of production without which the employee could not make aliving,the employee needs the corporation more than vice versa.
-- Business Quotes by PeterDrucker

It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you arelucky ithappens once in a lifetime.
-- Business Quotes by MichaelEisner

The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oilbusiness. Everyonewants a gusher.
-- Business Quotes by MichaelEisner

Information technology and business are becoming inextricablyinterwoven.I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without thetalking aboutthe other.
-- Business Quotes by Bill Gates

Why is it that with all theinformation available today on how to besuccessful in small business, so few people really are?
-- Business Quotes by Michael Gerber

If your thinking is sloppy, yourbusiness will be sloppy. If you aredisorganized, your business will bedisorganized. If you are greedy, your empoyees will begreedy, giving you less and less ofthemselves and always asking for more.
-- Business Quotes by Michael Gerber

The entrepreneur is not really interested in doing the work; he isinterestedin creating the way the company operates. In that regard, theentrepreneur isan inventor. He or she loves to invent, but does not love to manufactureor sellor distribute what he or she invents.
-- Business Quotes by MichaelGerber

If they don’t fail outright, most businesses fail to fully achievetheirpotential. That’s because the person who owns the business doesn’t truly know how to build a company that works without him or her.. which is thekey.
-- Business Quotes by MichaelGerber

The message from Wal-Mart today to the rest of the businesscommunity isthere need not be any conflict between the environment and the economy.We willfind the way not only to reconcile (those), but to find new profits andnew opportunitiesas we do the right thing.
-- Business Quotes by AlGore

I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make moremoney butit’s not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work.
-- Business Quotes by PhilipGreen

I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies willbe Internetcompanies. I still believe that. More than ever, really
-- Business Quotes by AndrewGrove

Basically we get confused a bit about what retail is. It is reallyjust buyingthings, putting them on a floor and selling them.
-- Business Quotes by GerryHarvey

I think one of the big errors people are making right now isthinkingthat old-style businesses will be obsolete, when actually they will bean importantpart of this new civilization. Some retail groups are introducinge-commerce andthink that the "bricks" are no longer useful. But they will continueto be important.
-- Business Quotes by CarlosSlim Helu

The reason I entered the election race was to promote reforms. Forus whoengage in business, we will be severely affected if financial andstructural reformsdon't proceed.
-- Business Quotes by TakafumiHorie

Elections are a kind of business. I have to present myself: 'I cando thisand that for this area so please give me your vote'. People vote for thepoliticianswho can best understand and contribute to their region or country. In abusinessyou can choose your clients, and the message is targeted to them only.But politicsis universal; no matter what age the audience, you have to send the samemessageto everyone.
-- Business Quotes by TakafumiHorie

It's not that I'm not interested in politics, but rather, I thinkthat thepeople who become politicians in Japan are not very dynamic. Honestly, Ifindbusiness much more interesting than politics.
-- Business Quotes by TakafumiHorie

Remarks such as ‘great Australian’, ‘larger than life’are sometimes used where they are not appropriate. But in the case of -- Business Quotes by KerryPacker both of those descriptions are entirely appropriate. He was agreatAustralian, he was a larger than life character and in so many ways heleft hismark on the Australian community over a very long career in business,particularlyin the media and also that other great passion of his, Australian sport
-- Business Quotes by JohnHoward

In business, I loved cars. I couldn’t wait to get to work in themorning.Only in America can you decide to get a good education and pursue whatyou like.
-- Business Quotes by LeeIacocca