Business Quotes

• In my opinion, Marxism is a great creed of human liberation. It is the creed which says that when all other empires fade and vanish, our business is to enlarge the empire of the human mind.

  

  Michael Foot
  • Opinion
  • Liberation
  • Empires

• Your customers are judging every aspect of every transaction and rating everything, from friendliness of people to ease of doing business to quality of product to service after the sale.

  

  Jeffrey Gitomer
  • People
  • Quality
  • Service

• The state of perpetual emptiness is, of course, very good for business.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Good
  • Business

• I was just burnt out. I didn't like the music business and I didn't like me. There's an element of falseness about the whole thing. Even things like doing an interview. It's not as though we just met in the pub and are having a chat - it's part of a process. If you do it all day, every day for years, you end up thinking: 'Who the hell am I?' I was lucky enough to make some money, enough to let me kick back. It was a great experience and it was nice to have a couple of No.1s but the best thing about it was that the money I made allowed me to have freedom and choice in my life.

  

  Rick Astley
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• Business is hard, really hard, but it's worth it.

  

  Beverly Johnson
  • Business
  • Hard
  • Worth It

• The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Business
  • History
  • Study

• I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• I never knew anything other than wanting to be an entrepreneur. I tried my first business when I was 6 years old, and I started another business when I was 8. I don't think I knew anything besides that.

  

  Daymond John
  • Business
  • Entrepreneur

• Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid.

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • Wall
  • Pieces
  • Dollars

• In 2012, the city of Austin erected an eight-foot-tall bronze statue of Willie Nelson in the heart of the business district. Schoolchildren, churchgoers, tourists, slackers, conventioneers, tech geeks - everybody, it seems - now congregate around this ponytailed shrine to outlaw country.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Country
  • Heart
  • City

• It's also show business. It's not "show fun friends".

  

  Lauren Graham
  • Business
  • Friends
  • Fun

• I think the rocket business is quite cyclic. There are a great many peaks and troughs.

  

  Elon Musk
  • Great
  • Business

• Even in the business department of a magazine, tech was a backwater.

  

  Daniel Lyons
  • Business

• The education business is a little murky because by 1900, it has been pretty well decided that a certain amount of education was required to make the system of repression work. You had to have people who showed up punctually. You had to have people who took their orders obediently and understand them fully.

  

  David Levering Lewis
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I would suggest maintaining a life and a career outside the Industry. This is a fickle business and a lousy one to make a steady living in, so it's important to have a good family, friends, job and education to fall back on.

  

  Fred Savage
  • Life
  • Good
  • Important

• The Commissioner was correct to ban Mr. Sterling from all official NBA business, to levy the stiffest allowable fine, and we will support his recommendation to press for Mr. Sterling to relinquish his ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers franchise.

  

  Jerry Reinsdorf
  • Business
  • Support

• 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
  • Success
  • Society
  • Science

• A lot of people ask, 'How did you start the business, and how did you do it money-wise?' And the truth is that I had three jobs. A day job, an evening job, and then designing my collection as well. That's just how we did it.

  

  Emilia Wickstead
  • People
  • Money
  • Job

• I started out as a business manager for a national hotel chain based in Oklahoma. I got frustrated with what was happening in the state capital - the high cost of doing business and a lack of educated workers.

  

  Mary Fallin
  • Business
  • High

• People want to sensationalize things. That's just the nature of the business.

  

  Henry Olusegun Adeola Samuel
  • People
  • Business
  • Nature

• You'd be surprised how much easier it is to conduct business over tea than over lunch or dinner in a bustling restaurant.

  

  Letitia Baldrige
  • Business
  • Tea

• I grew up in the motel business, and it evolved into hotels.

  

  Penny Pritzker
  • Up
  • Business

• As a general rule, I am very passionate about any business that I engage in.

  

  Pollyanna Chu
  • Business

• Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

  

  Chris Chocola
  • Business
  • Sales

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