Business Quotes

• Who are businesses really responsible to? Their customers? Shareholders? Employees? We would argue that it’s none of the above. Fundamentally, businesses are responsible to their resource base. Without a healthy environment there are no shareholders, no employees, no customers and no business.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Environment
  • Responsible
  • Customers

• Embrace what you don't know, especially in the beginning, because what you don't know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from everybody else.

  

  Sara Blakely
  • Different
  • inspirational
  • Inspiring

• When you are led by values, it doesn't cost your business, it helps your business.

  

  Jerry Greenfield
  • Business

• My teeth, my car, my vagina, my business.

  

  Kelly Osbourne
  • Business
  • Car

• Indomitable perseverance in a business, properly understood, always ensures ultimate success.

  

  Cyrus McCormick
  • Business
  • Success
  • Perseverance

• The older I get, the more interesting I find lawyers and accountants.

  

  Alex James Blur
  • Interesting
  • Lawyer
  • Finance

• Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

  

  Blackie
  • Great
  • Diet
  • Earnest

• I think for any small business that's bootstrapped, the overwhelming challenge initially is getting to positive cash flow.

  

  John Mackey
  • Small
  • Challenge
  • Positive

• The essence of a successful business is really quite simple. It is your ability to offer a product or service that people will pay for at a price sufficiently above your costs, ideally three or four or five times your cost, thereby giving you a profit that enables you to buy and to offer more products and services.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Success
  • Giving

• Baseball is a poorly run business.

  

  Jerry Reinsdorf
  • Business
  • Baseball

• My passion for innovation and my interest in the 'business of science' has seen Biocon commercialize many innovative platforms and products.

  

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
  • Science
  • Passion
  • Innovation

• It is important to let every employee know where he or she stands throughout his or her time in your business; I would suggest every quarter of the fiscal year. By being honest and open with each team member and their performance, you create value in their efforts.

  

  Clay Clark
  • Time
  • Important
  • She

• Before I start a company, I always invest at least one year to knowing that sector thoroughly. I research about almost everything related to that business - competition, market potential, revenue model, legal and regulatory obligations, among other aspects.

  

  Bhavin Turakhia
  • Model
  • Research
  • Obligations

• Everybody hangs out with everybody, which is very strange for a cast this large and this young. We're all cool and down to earth and not caught up in this maniacal business at all... . Everybody really, really likes everybody else.

  

  Lizzy Caplan
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Cool

• In our equities business, 49 of the 50 most important Lehman clients are back doing business with us. The flows are 75 to 80 per cent of what they were prior to the bankruptcy. The issues which damaged Lehman were around commercial mortgages and illiquid private equity assets.

  

  Bob Diamond
  • Important
  • Business

• Despatch is the soul of business.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Business
  • Soul

• When I was growing up, I said I wanted to be a model, but people said I had no chance and when I realized my ambition, people in the business still continued to state negative stuff.

  

  Katie Price
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• I took business classes as a back up but I made movies all the time. I would get my classes done in two days and then spend the rest of the time making my movies.

  

  Dennis Muren
  • Up
  • Time
  • Done

• The same Jesus Who turned water into wine can transform your home, your life, your family, and your future. He is still in the miracle-working business, and His business is the business of transformation.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Life
  • Family
  • Home

• 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
  • Business

• It's sad when you see most of your friends in the business gone, like Tommy Cooper, Frankie Howard, Eric Morecambe, Roy Castle, Les Dawson. They were very dear to me. You no longer have the chance to bump into them at a celebrity do.

  

  Bruce Forsyth
  • Friends
  • Sad
  • Celebrity

• As leaders, we must remember that effectively executing business plans involves a consistent engagement in activities that would typically create animosity in every other non-business relationship.

  

  Clay Clark
  • Remember
  • Relationship
  • Engagement

• I'm not saying I'm wealthy. The best thing that ever happened to me in that context was turning everything over to Rita. And the business people. I am on a leash. That's not the end of the world.

  

  David Milch
  • People
  • World
  • Business

• Got to build that business base and then you can fund all the things people want: education, health care, strong law enforcement, roads, bridges, infrastructure - all those things flow from that economic base.

  

  John Hoeven
  • People
  • Strong
  • Education

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