Business Quotes
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A major reason so many start-ups fail is the flawed assumption that if the product is good enough, consumers will find it, the Field of Dreams philosophy of Build it and they will come. Except a lot of times, they don’t. Founders can be overly optimistic when it comes to acquiring customers instead of better preparing for what is usually a time consuming and expensive aspect of growing a business.
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Actually it broke my heart to hear that we were going to have to part ways, ... It's a business and they had to do what they had to do.
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Business is like sex. When it's good, it's very, very good; when it's not so good, it's still good.
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No one has any idea what's next... the uncertainty of the business climate in America is frightening, frightening to everybody, and it's delaying the recovery.
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When I'm writing in long hand, it just goes on and on and on. When I was in the saloon business, I would just greet people and talk to them and avoid taxes, and getting behind the bar. What else.
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I have to say I was very lucky in this [movie] business. I was in the right place at the right time when I first got started.
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He comes in here early, he works out, he goes about his business the right way. He goes about his business the rookie way be quiet and don't talk unless you're talked to.
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Whenever I really get serious about something, I pull my hair back into a tight ponytail. If you see me with that, you know I mean business.
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Affaires meant 'business.' How like the French to kill two birds with one stone.
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The left controls the media, the institutions of higher learning and the government. They preach against business, disparate merit, decry free enterprise and slander capitalism.
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I was going to study business administration at Florida A&M, at the height of Reaganomics.
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You want to go to your deathbed saying, 'I didn't sell out.' But it's a tough business to keep to what you believe in and get through and do well.
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I'm not averse to making a lot of money. But where does that end? I hang out with people with hundreds of millions of dollars. Is that the standard by which I should measure myself? Where does that take you if you're in my business? I think it takes you to pretty dark, corrupt places.
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TV is an interesting business. You audition with a couple of little papers in your hand, and if you're lucky, you get to say those lines in the show. Then, once in a while, you get to do more.
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Love is neither a conditional business nor an ever-fixed mark arrangement. People always know somewhere inside them if they are not loved. No gestures, talk, conciliation, pronouncements can prevail over that deep instinctual knowledge.
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I remember reading scripts when I started in the business, and Latino roles were either nonexistent or written as the maid or a drug dealer. We're no longer just that. I'll play any part that challenges me. What's important is that all races have choices.
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There's been a big spur in downtown development with new business, restaurants and a lot of loft buying. The buses run, and there's a subway that runs through downtown.
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The unique thing about my life is the extent to which it took me on a path-business-I had no desire to walk.
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The government ought to stay out of the prayer business.
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Run your business like you own it. When you trust people to solve problems and make decisions, and then let them go, that’s when the magic happens.
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You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.
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Whenever you see some business person quoted complaining about how he or she can't find workers with the necessary skills, ask what wage they're offering. Almost always it turns out what said business person really wants is highly educated workers at a manual-labor wage. No wonder they come up short.
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I don't believe in taking right decisions. I take decisions and then make them right.
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You know, you don't have to have money to be a successful businessperson. You don't need a college degree. You just need a lot of common sense backed up by a willingness to work hard.
