Business Quotes
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We ought to start running the government like a private-sector business. I have that ability as CEO of our companies. I have line item vetoes, and if I didn't, we'd probably be out of business by now.
John Raese
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People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail. The fear of criticism, in such cases is stronger than the DESIRE for success.
Napoleon Hill
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Treat your career as a business. Invest your earnings into good tools that can enhance your business. Film businesses are the same as non-film businesses. Ploughing part of your earnings back into your filmmaking business would grow career exponentially.
Elliot Grove
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The Army is into every business in this country. Except hairdressing.
Asma Jahangir
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Gavin Lambert was the first person in the movie business my wife and I met when we moved to Los Angeles in 1964.
John Gregory Dunne
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When you incorporate giving into your business in an authentic and transparent way, your customers become your best marketers.
Blake Mycoskie
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I've never lost the passion for playing, but I've learned the realities of it all, and how hard it is. The music business is a tough business, but I would never tell anybody not to get into it. The first thing you have to have is the love of it and enjoy doing it. That's the most important part.
Bobby Balderrama Question Mark & the Mysterians
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When the business people get done with the arts, all that's left will be entertainment.
Alejandro Maldonado
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It's my impression that investment in Europe is done for the right reasons. Europe is a very good place to do business; it's a large market.
Margrethe Vestager
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One of our six key strategic priorities was the reinforcement of all professional staffing and solutions business.
Alain Dehaze
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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
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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
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Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and bribery was seen as an unpleasant but necessary part of doing business there. In some European countries, businesses were even allowed to deduct bribes as an expense.
James Surowiecki
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I mentioned that I was thinking of getting out of the business after Call Me Madam. I thought maybe I should become a homebody.
Ethel Merman
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I eventually settled in Washington, where my partners and I have been fortunate to build a restaurant business that now employs thousands of Americans across the country.
Jose Andres
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In my business, if I get too close to you and you die, it hurts me. And so you develop a natural inclination not to be close to the patient, so that if things don't work out ideally, you can still get up the next day and care for the next patient.
Mehmet Oz
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As soon as I stopped trying to think about a business idea and started focusing on what I’m passionate about, that’s when it came to me.
Nicholas D. Woodman
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If we take care of the business and keep our eye on the goal line, the stock price will take care of itself.
James Sinegal
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Every time you have a new tax, or every time you have to pay really an inordinate amount for a regulation, it's really stifling this country and really stifling American business.
John Raese
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When I talk about taking bold actions in the world, few things are bolder than creating the 'Huffington Post' from scratch and reinventing the newspaper business.
Peter Diamandis
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I definitely hope to attend UCLA in a year, and major in business.
Mila Kunis
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If everybody minded their own business... the world would go round a deal faster than it does.
Lewis Carroll
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I had business experience. I had made my living designing and building electronic equipment. Basic business was not new to me, but the music business was completely new to me. I knew nothing about distribution, or any of those things.
Greg Ginn Black Flag
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Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die
Gary Hirshberg