Business Quotes
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If the planters carry politics into the fields they will find it bad business.
Charles E. Merrill
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If you take existing ideas and make them affordable and scalable, you substantially change business models.
Chanda Kochhar
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I wrote my first piece about the disruption of the Harvard Business School in 1999. Because you could see this coming. I haven't yet done the one about the disruption of the Stanford Business School.
Clayton Christensen
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I think it magnified it. For me, I wasn't sheltered so I think it was magnified. Especially when you're a teenager and you go to high school and you're in the business and you are known.
Heather Matarazzo
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Who's more likely to succeed - someone with high skill and no ambition, or no skill and high ambition? If you're an entrepreneur, you can hire as many skilled people for your business as you want.
Max McKeown
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Unfortunately, since the Sept. 11 tragedy, our business is not doing too well.
Hunter Tylo
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I was four when I started modeling. My mom was very much an off-the-stage mom who knew nothing about the business. She married my stepdad when I was about four, and he had been an actor. Because I was a really smiley kid and could read, which is something they're always looking for, she just decided to give it a shot.
Charlotte Arnold
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Entrepreneurialism, to me, means being able to fail. And I believe that kind of leadership is not necessary only in business, but it's necessary for running countries, too. You've got to be able to believe in something strongly enough that you want to do it even if there's a risk of failure.
Bernard L. Schwartz
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Liberals tend to be much more concerned about business and corporations as the oppressors. They look to government as the solution. On the Right it's the opposite. They see business as good, as what generates wealth in society, and they see government as the oppressor, which makes it hard for especially small businesspeople.
Jonathan Haidt
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Businessmen must move with the times...the correlation between knowledge and business as the key to success is closer than ever.
Li Ka-shing
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No one can measure the loss of business that may arise from a defective item that goes out to a customer.
W. Edwards Deming
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Do you want a successful career or a close relationship with your family? Both! Do you want a focus on business or have fun and play? Both! Do you want money or meaning in your life? Both! Do you want to earn a fortune or do the work you love? Both! Poor people always choose one, rich people choose both.
T. Harv Eker
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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
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The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.
Bill James
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What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields.
Daniel H. Pink
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There's a tendency for designers to embellish the size of their business. I never lie.
Carolina Herrera
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Microwork gives marginalized people a chance to earn a living by playing a vital role in the business processes of big companies. In parallel, the organization assists local entrepreneurs in running microwork centers, helping to grow a new pool of business talent across the developing world.
Leila Janah
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The good news is in the record business, they only count your successes.
Jimmy Iovine
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I'd like to think my strengths are in connecting with people and the relationship aspect of this business.
Kirsten Green
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'Shark Tank' has been a sincere joy. As our traditional venture-backed companies get bigger, the investing side tends to get more political and complicated. 'Shark Tank' takes me back to my early days working with ambitious founders in their earliest and scrappiest days. The show reminds me of what I deeply love about this business.
Chris Sacca
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My mission is to grow business in Silicon Alley.
Jason Calacanis
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Become an expert in one fundamental area of your market or business, no one starts out as a generalist.
Adolph Alfred "Al" Taubman
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I loved everything about show business, meeting the stars, the whole ambience. I was living every young kid's dream. I was told a pop singer's life was three years, but I was still making money seven years later.
Cilla Black
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It's not my business what other people think of me.
Jon Jones