Business Quotes
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I cannot be indifferent to the assassination of a member of my profession, We should be obliged to shut up business if we, the Kings, were to consider the assassination of Kings as of no consequence at all.
Edward VII -
When I took over the family business, it had already been a publicly traded company for 20 years. During one of the first annual meetings I attended, one shareholder stood up and advised me and everyone in attendance that I should resign.
Azim Premji
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Our eyes continue to see for a few nanoseconds an image that is not there anymore, which helps the brain to make sense of the flow of information it catches. Maybe that's what's happening to some entrepreneurs and VCs who have not yet grasped all the essential changes that have been happening in the French environment, and are seeing it as it used to be rather than as it is now! Today's France is business-friendly.
Axelle Lemaire -
Art is fast, but with art you're tied down. That's too negative. What I mean is, you have a business and a place that you go every day. I guess some artists do move around.
Cory Arcangel -
I try to encourage people to really love what they do, like when it's about being a part of this business, love what you do because it's not going to always be defined by who you are. It's going to be a lot of times your good name walks in the door before you do.
Cedric the Entertainer -
The arts of speech are rhetoric and poetry. Rhetoric is the art of transacting a serious business of the understanding as if it were a free play of the imagination; poetry that of conducting a free play of the imagination as if it were a serious business of the understanding.
Immanuel Kant -
Ultimately, an aircraft owner does not want to have to deal with all the intricate details which are necessary for the business.
Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda -
Hunting is doing business with animals.
Carl Eckart
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In the charitable world as in the business world, opportunities should drive budgets, not the other way around.
George Kaiser -
There are three rules for running a business; fortunately, we don't know any of them.
Paul Newman -
My father ran a CB radio business. I grew up in a cluttered space that was filled with radios and antennas. It felt alien.
Rashid Johnson -
'No business before breakfast, Glum!' says the King. 'Breakfast first, business next.'
William Makepeace Thackeray -
There's no question that positive thinking has a place in business. [...just as it has in the the rest of a happy, successful person's life.]
David Mason -
We've got to take care of our own business. If we don't do that, we could be sitting at home in a few weeks.
Craig Biggio
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It's impossible for a dishonest person to grow rich in business.
James Cook -
Fashion is like a four-legged table: you need a good designer, a very good business manager, a good manufacturer, and a very good distributor. Without all the legs, table collapses.
John Rocha -
I tell my graduate students at Bard College, ‘There are two ways to change the world: through policy, or through sustainable business.’ With sustainable business, individuals build solutions within the current system… Sustainable business asks, ‘How would nature do this?’
Eban Goodstein -
Pluck from under the family all the props which religion and morality have given it, strip it of the glamour, true or false, cast round it by romance, it will still remain a prosaic, indisputable fact, that the whole business of begetting, bearing and rearing children, is the most essential of all the nation's businesses.
Eleanor Rathbone -
It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster. There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.
Helen Keller -
Our lives ... are but a little while, so let them run as sweetly as you can, and give no thought to grief from day to day. For time is not concerned to keep our hopes, but hurries on its business, and is gone.
Euripides
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Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Richard L. Evans -
The more big business talks about something, the less of it there is. For example, it 'values' jobs just at the moment when they disappear; it revels in 'autonomy' when in fact you have to fill out forms in triplicate for the slightest trifle and ask the advice of six people to make insignificant decisions; it harps on 'ethics' while believing in absolutely nothing.
Corinne Maier -
If I fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the devil gets the victory through the day. I have so much business I cannot get on without spending three hours daily in prayer.
Martin Luther -
No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.
Mikhail Baryshnikov