Top 425 Business Quotes

In this post, you will find great Business Quotes from famous people, such as Karl Liebknecht, Duke of Wellington, Samuel Beckett, Eric Schmidt, Robert Reich. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.

For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing

For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.
Karl Liebknecht
All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don’t know by what you do; that’s what I called ‘guess what was at the other side of the hill‘.
Duke of Wellington
No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
The characteristic of great innovators and great companies is they see a space that others do not. They don’t just listen to what people tell them; they actually invent something new, something that you didn’t know you needed, but the moment you see it, you say, ‘I must have it.’
There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.
I think that in any group activitywhether it be business, sports, or family – there has to be leadership or it won’t be successful.
The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn’t let them into the family brokerage business.
My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
In business, I think the most important thing is to position yourself for long-term and not be too impatient, which I am by nature, and I have to control myself.
Many people dream about being an entrepreneur, starting their own business, working for themselves, and living the good life. Very few, however, will actually take the plunge and put everything they’ve got into being their own boss.
A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee.
Arnold H. Glasow
Your workforce is your most valuable asset. The knowledge and skills they have represent the fuel that drives the engine of business – and you can leverage that knowledge.
Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy. The other side of it is that you can’t cut enough costs to save your way to prosperity.
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
The reality of life is, if you have a bagel shop and everybody is pouring into the doughnut shop across the street, if you want to stay in business, you start selling doughnuts.
No one on his deathbed ever said, I wish I had spent more time on my business.
I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He’s the biggest. He’s like an Elvis in this business, but no, he’s never been the rebel.
Creating a strong company culture isn’t just good business. It’s the right thing to do, and it makes your company better for all stakeholdersemployees, management, and customers.
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
Blaine Lee
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.
Harvey S. Firestone
The NRA is funded by weapons manufacturers, and those same manufacturers know that they stand to lose some business if we pass common-sense gun legislation. As a result, the NRA contributes money to politicians to ensure that gun control never happens.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.
The business of business is relationships; the business of life is human connection.
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
People think because I’ve got some success, I’ve made it, but in my eyes it’s like, ‘How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?’ Not that I’m trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.
Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business re

Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.
Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.
People are definitely a company’s greatest asset. It doesn’t make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.
Mary Kay Ash
The common question that gets asked in business is, ‘why?’ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‘why not?’
I have a helicopter that I use for U.K. business trips, and I fly myself. I have a yacht in Antibes in the south of France, which is a sort of indulgence, as we only use it for about four weeks a year. The rest of the time, it is chartered out to people as a business.
There’s nothing wrong with raising venture capital. Many lean startups are ambitious and are able to deploy large amounts of capital. What differentiates them is their disciplined approach to determining when to spend money: after the fundamental elements of the business model have been empirically validated.
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.
Stanislaw Lem
You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you’re too inefficient.
Don’t simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.
People are the core of every business. Businesses are based on relationships, and relationships are based on people. I would go to an average restaurant run by amazing people over an outstanding restaurant run by awful people.
In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
It takes more than capital to swing business. You’ve got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by – Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.
I don’t have tiffs with people. I only mind my business, but whatever interferes my freedom of expression, I have always voiced.
In this business you either sink or swim or you don’t.
David Smith
There’s nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.
As anyone who goes into dog-rescue knows, it is not a for-profit business, but the rewards are priceless for me.
In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.
Brethren, let us mind our own business – that is, the calling the Lord has called us to – to do everything we can to promote the good of the Cause of Truth, and never ask how big we are, or inquire who we are; but let it be, ‘What can I do to build up the Kingdom of God upon the Earth?’
Brigham Young
If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what’s going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business.
Peter Shilton
Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.
Ludwig von Mises
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
I don’t want to do business with those who don’t make a profit, because they can’t give the best service.
Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art – or at least people call it that.
Networking has been cited as the number one unwritten rule of success in business. Who you know really impacts what you know.
We must get into the picture business. This is a new industry and a gold mine. it looks like another telephone industry.
Joseph P. Kennedy
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
The first mistake in public business is the going into

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don’t cost much to be housed.
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.
I believe that starting any business should be as easy as a 10-year-old starting a lemonade stand.
Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure it just means you haven‘t succeeded yet.
Business is the salt of life.
Jeff Rich
We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
If I had been thinking business since I was 21, I’d be a rich man right now.
In the commercial world, you have this problem that the amount of research you can do in a company is based on how well your current business is going, whereas there actually should be an inverse relationship: when things are going worse, you should do more research.
Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
Don’t ever break someone’s trust. Once you do, then nobody wants to do business with you.
Robert Budi Hartono
I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, ‘You’re gonna have to move, you’re blocking a fire exit.’ As though if there was a fire, I wasn’t gonna run. If you’re flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.
It’s so easy to make things complicated in business.
David Green
War is the business of barbarians.
Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.
The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
Jack Anderson
I just want to be master of my own time. It is ironic that someone in the watch business should not be in control of his time.
Johann Rupert
I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.
We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn’t be in this business.
Government ‘help’ to business is just as disastrous as government persecution… the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He’ll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.
What helps people, helps business.
If you grow up in show business, you look beyond the looking glass. So, all of the surface facades get broken.
I think, as a chef and restaurateur, that you have to take care of your business. Otherwise, you’re only as good as your last meal. You have to watch if your food costs are too high, or you could be out of business in no time.
My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
Oprah Winfrey is a big role model for me from a business capacity and a creative capacity. She is an incredible interviewer who cultivated a certain style by inserting her own personhood into a show on national television at a time when no one was talking about empowerment, spirituality, or our inner lives.
There is no Internet business in furniture or bedding. Zero – practically in the world.
If you aren’t playing well, the game isn’t as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.
Thomas J. Watson
Creativity is an import-export business.
Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.
Bill Ackman
Public school was never in business to produce Thoreau. It is in business to produce a man like Richard Nixon and, even more, a population like the one which could elect him.
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Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don’t lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won’t stand up either.
Evan Esar
All lasting business is built on friendship.
Alfred A. Montapert
You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin’ on, I then got the money, and gone.
I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, ‘Don’t you want to have a normal job and a normal family?’ I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.
The restaurant business is something that you have to treat like a baby. You have to constantly be there. You can’t trust it to anybody else, because no one’s going to love it like you do.
I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.
Catherine the Great
Free Trade puts consumers at the centre of economic activity. It lowers the cost of imports, which gives people the opportunity to buy more with the same amount of money: domestic producers have to compete with the lowest global costs or invest in new business.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it’s business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don’t love what you’re doing and you can’t give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You’ll be an old man before you know it.
Al Lopez
Like the Internet, Bitcoin will change the way people interact and do business around the world.
The basic principle which I believe has contributed more than any other to the building of our business as it is today, is the ownership of our company by the people employed in it.
James E. Casey
If we die, we want people to accept it. We’re in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us, it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.
Gus Grissom
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.
Stanislaw Lem
In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
My happiness is not dictated on this business. Once I realized that, everything kind of changed.
The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.
I don’t think meals have any business being deductible. I’m for separation of calories and corporations.
I work in a business environment forty hours a week, and writing is what I do to unwind. It allows me to transport myself to a happy place where I can indulge my hopes, beliefs, aspirations and fantasies. It also allows me to live and breathe a topic for eighteen months while I’m researching and writing.
I am not an economist… I am not a business technician. I am a revolutionary, and I do what is right for an economic revolutionary.
No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.
I had to give Justin Bieber a lot of shirts – he’s a friend of the team, and we got a lot of love for Justin Bieber. I like the apparel business. That’s another $100 million per year, easy.
Birdman
Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today’s winners are tomorrow‘s blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.
Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
What other people think of you is none of your business.
The good Lord didn’t see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States. Occasionally we have to operate in places where, all considered, one would not normally choose to go. But we go where the business is.
Most people in business and within their personal lives move towards complexity. More To Dos. More projects. More products. More meetings. More possessions. More goals. The best – I suggest to you – move in the opposite direction.
I never called my work an ‘art’. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone‘s business.
Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've go

Some guys play with their heads. That’s okay. You’ve got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you’ve got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.
I believe in family values, and I believe that we all ought to be able to have a family and marry if you want to. I don’t think the government should be in that business of denying people the fundamental right to marry.
Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. That’s the equivalent of more than 1,200 police officer posts. These reforms are a watershed moment in policing. They show that we really mean business in busting bureaucracy.
Starting your own business isn’t just a job – it’s a way of life.
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
Arnold H. Glasow
We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for – to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.
Yuan T. Lee
In the business world and the volunteer world, each job has certain requirements that must be met in order for that job to be done properly and for that organization to survive and prosper.
Ron D. Burton
Money is always the least of the problems. It is finding the right business or growing the right business. You can’t do that without the right people.
Christoffel Wiese
I worry that business leaders are more interested in material gain than they are in having the patience to build up a strong organization, and a strong organization starts with caring for their people.
It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.
Duke of Wellington
I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.
The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
Aaron Burr
While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
Barry Silbert
I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we’re going to win.
People always think women meet us in the hotel lobby, but it’s the opposite. The majority of the time, you go out to eat with your teammates, then rest for the next day’s game. It’s not a vacation – most guys view the road as a business trip.
Being in the consumer business helps us groom talent in areas like marketing, finance and logistics. We can benchmark our outsourcing business to our consumer business and its best practices.
I keep lot of my opinions to myself. My grandfather, who was a gravedigger, told me one day, ‘Son, the next time you go by the cemetery, remember that a third of the people are in there because they got into other people’s business.’
The most dangerous thing for an entrepreneur to do is to actually go into a business that he does not understand fully.
Aliko Dangote
Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.
Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
We were re-engineering the entire business and at the same time having accelerated growth. That’s like changing the engine while the plane is in the air.
My reasons for getting into the entertainment business weren’t entirely selfless. Hollywood as an industry can at times be insular and doesn’t understand the market very well. I saw an opportunity in that fact.
The success combination in business is: Do what you do better… and: do more of what you do.
David Joseph Schwartz
Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
Thomas J. Watson
You can put the greatest seafood restaurant next to an average steak house in an urban area, and that steak house will do more business than the seafood place. If you go to the water, you can put an average seafood place next to the greatest steak house, and people are going to eat seafood.
When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.
The stock market is a giant distraction from the business of investing.
The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
If you fire people, you fire customers.
Ferdinand Piech
What we’ve gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question ‘Can we trust Microsoft?’
Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.
Dad always said, ‘Get a degree and do something on your own before you start movies.’ He always kept me grounded, telling me the realities of the business and the struggles even the legends had to go through.
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
Theodore Isaac Rubin
Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn’t work!
Acting is a trial-and-error business. Every actor has a few movies on their resume that they’re not terribly proud of, but that’s how you learn.
I deal with creativity all the time. What I have fun with is trying to transform creativity into business reality all over the world. To do this, you have to be connected to innovators and designers but also make their ideas livable and concrete.
To me, job titles don’t matter. Everyone is in sales. It’s the only way we stay in business.
People will buy anything that is ‘one to a customer.’
Sinclair Lewis
I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.
In both business and personal life, I’ve always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry.
Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn’t always have to be their top priority.
William Arthur Ward
No business can stay in business without customers. How you treat – or mistreat – them determines how long your doors stay open.
It doesn’t matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.
Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, ‘Make me feel important.’ Never forget this message when working with people.
Mary Kay Ash
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.
The way to write is well, and how is your own business.
I don’t often think of Donald Trump, but his daughter is very smart. She’s a woman working in real estate, which is predominantly men, and she’s both savvy and articulate about her business and her business acumen.
A well-maintained physique is a great business card. Ideas and intelligence are what matters, but if you have a well-maintained physique, it’s better.
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
Trying to do business without advertising is like winking at a pretty girl through a pair of green goggles. You may know what you are doing, but no one else does.
Cyrus McCormick
I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant.
Aubrey McClendon
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
My focus has always been very much on what we’re doing at Red Bull. We can’t control what others do. It’s not our business.
I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
Andre Malraux
Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it’s profitable.
James Rouse
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole busi

Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people.
My son is now an ‘entrepreneur.’ That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job.
Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.
I started studying business and finance in Edinburgh as a backup plan. I was still making music many hours a day, and when I was at university, the electronic music boom started really taking off globally.
Chinese people, young people, they don’t go shopping a lot in department stores. All department store guys hate me. They say business is bad because of Jack.
Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.
No one escapes the long arm of the law, they are a business, they are very good at what they do and eventually they will catch up with you.
The business of biomedical research is mostly about failure. Few projects we commission will ultimately result in success. But every study we do contributes to the body of knowledge that brings science and society closer to a solution.
Our focused customers are small business and young people. We did a great job in China. How can we help those young people in India, in Pakistan, in Africa. If they can use in the same ways.
Online business models are still evolving. New and different products and services pop up every day. This gives rise to supporting products and services. A business can make substantial profit by helping others execute their plans for making money.
In the real estate business you learn more about people, and you learn more about community issues, you learn more about life, you learn more about the impact of government, probably than any other profession that I know of.
No business in the world has ever made more money with poorer management.
Bill Terry
There is not a week that goes by that I don’t have a dream that I am back in the business.
Alan Gerry
‘In Search of Excellence‘ – even the title – is a reminder that business isn’t dry, dreary, boring, or by the numbers. Life at work can be cool – and work that’s cool isn’t confined to Tiger Woods, Yo-Yo Ma, or Tom Hanks. It’s available to all of us and any of us.
Each country is different. Keep an open mind, and you will able to find where the niche entry level lies – the areas where there are gaps. You have to keep an ear to the ground, and you can find a business opportunity.
Binod Chaudhary
Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business – everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs.
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’
People think I am a workaholic but I just love business.
What kind of business world are we living in?
People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.
Jerome K. Jerome
Steve Jobs once asked me for some advice about retail, but I said, ‘I am not sure at all we are in the same business.’
If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.
When I first started out in the entertainment business, I made a list of people I thought it would be good to meet. Not people who could give me a job or a deal, but people who could shake me up, teach me something, challenge my ideas about myself and the world.
Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.
Scott McNealy
What’s the subject of life – to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.
Paul A. Volcker
A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
There is no greater feeling in business than building a product which impacts people’s lives in a profound way. When we look around at the thousands of people who have attended Summit gatherings, it makes us smile to see the new friendships, business partnerships and philanthropic initiatives that each event produces.
Elliott Bisnow
Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.
Gary Ryan Blair
Just like the Internet disrupted the publishing industry, we’re going to see Bitcoin micropayments creating some very interesting opportunities for pay-as-you-go, pay-based-on-time online businesses and, frankly, some risks as well to the traditional business model as to how things get sold online.
Barry Silbert
Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on t

Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It’s all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.
There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you’re good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.
God has blessed me with a wonderful family, a successful business, and outstanding employees. I do not take these blessings lightly.
David Green
Everyone I put in business, I must’ve taught them something. They all have reaped the benefits of it. A lot of them haven’t done right by me, but it’s all gravy.
As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
John Greenleaf Whittier
My mom and dad – they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn’t the end-all. They weren’t out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about ‘What can we do as a family.’
I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for – getting paid for doing what you love.
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
I think the fact that I grew up in show business had a real effect on my personality. If you were born in New York during the golden age of television, and you grew up on Broadway, that marks you.
Infrastructure is the backbone of economic growth. It improves access to basic services such as clean water and electricity, creates jobs and boosts business.
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They’re remembered by the arts.
If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.
My basic strategy is to stick to my core business and to my area of expertise.
Every good business story has a conflict and triumph at the core and a turning point where a transformation takes place.
I feel I’ve done everything late in life. Got married late, and I didn’t do my first movie until I was 31. But in this crazy business, you never know what’s going to happen. Maybe after 20 years of making movies I’ll become an overnight sensation.
You can’t be successful in business without taking risks. It’s really that simple.
Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves.
A man should never neglect his family for business.
Make no mistake, blockchain will be a game changer, but it is not the answer to every business opportunity or problem.
A healthy society rests on three pillars: business, government and civil society, or non-profits. Each has a distinct and important role to play, and all three need to work together synergistically to create the most value for society.
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
‘The bigtime for you is just around the corner.’ They told me that first in 1952 – boy, it’s been a long corner. If I don’t hit the bigtime in the next 25 or 30 years, I’m gonna pack in the music business and become a full-time gigolo.
Ronnie Hawkins
The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.
Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you’re playing by somebody else’s rules, while quietly playing by your own.
I buy when other people are selling.
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.
As a company, we have to be very transparent. We are in a business very related to finance, and I want this company to last long, and I want this company to be audited by everyone.
Nowadays, business is all about productivity - and our

Nowadays, business is all about productivity – and our folks produce.
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today.
I don’t want to run around and look at a shot through a monitor. That doesn’t improve what I’m trying to do. I figure, once I’ve done my job, it’s none of my business.
Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
Being a top performer – whether it’s in business or on the athletic field – requires grit and tenacity, as well as the continuous desire to become better.
What other people think about me is not my business.
The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.
John Hancock
If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn’t any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man’s greatest asset.
Harvey S. Firestone
There is no time and space in the digital world. People chat and collaborate through social networks. Cultural icons garner millions of fans online in locations they have often never been themselves. The boundary between public and private life is now everyone’s business.
Scaling a business at speed can feel like an out of control roller-coaster.
Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman.
I’m not a detail guy. I depend on accountants and administrators to do my detail stuff for me, but I do know the overall picture and I know that if you put business people together in a room, not just politicians, they could shrink the deficit tremendously by good business tactics.
Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.
So much of life is a negotiation – so even if you’re not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you.
5G goes beyond the regular operator business; it’s a business revolution.
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
I even don’t dare to watch our stock price, because this is what other people think who you are. I dare not watch it. I think, let the market take care of themselves; we should take care of the business.
I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It’s done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.
If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you’re putting yourself out of business.
Business reporting is not dealing with objects, it is dealing with relationships between objects.
The most important characteristics you need to succeed in business are resilience, determination and persistence.
Sustainability includes how you run your business, and my bottom line includes how you treat your people. Sustainability starts with your staff.
There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do – but that part is for me. It’s my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There’s a sadness to it, but there’s romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.
Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.
My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturinglayout, processes, and procedures.
If you are in the world of business, that means you are in the business of making money.
I’m pretty good at weaseling my way into a job, even if I have no business being there.
The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal – especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
You have to be cynical because this is a business. Ever

You have to be cynical because this is a business. Everyone is making money out of you.
What other people think of me is none of my business.
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
As Canadians who proudly demand the equal treatment of minorities, religious freedom, gender equality and basic human rights for its citizens – allowing our political leaders to shamefully ignore these values in the name of business abroad, falls short of the high standard we rightfully set for ourselves.
I want tension in my business. Tension creates change. Change is necessary to evolve and prosper. I am never satisfied.
As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.
My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.
The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits – ah! that is another matter – twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent – the sky is the limit.
Smedley Butler
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
The reason why it is so difficult for existing firms to capitalize on disruptive innovations is that their processes and their business model that make them good at the existing business actually make them bad at competing for the disruption.
When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
I just respect people and mind my business. I don’t got time to worry about what the next man’s pockets are looking like, I gotta worry about what mine are looking like and my family.
My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others’ negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.
A manager doesn’t hear the cheers.
Alvin Dark
I am a graduate in business management with specialisation in finance, and I love accounts!
One capability every business is expected to have is the capability to make money. It requires a certain kind of discipline, a certain kind of mindset.
A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.
Michael LeBoeuf
You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.
The business of America is business.
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!
O. Henry
If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
My vision is to build an e-commerce ecosystem that allows consumers and businesses to do all aspects of business online.
If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Just like football, business is a game of inches, where the smallest advancement or advantage can mean the difference between winning and losing.
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
So often, we leave the selfless side of ourselves for nights and weekends, for our charity work. It is our duty to inject that into our day-to-day business, into the work that we do, to improve corporations, to improve civil society, and to improve government.
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensa

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life’s business being just the terrible choice.
Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
I enjoy moving. I like to be in a new place. Settling down doesn’t appeal to me much. I like the whole business of it. And I love the first night in the new place.
If you’re doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.
So many folks in the venture capital business are sheep that just want to follow the herd. They are momentum investors purchasing highly illiquid investments. That is a recipe for disaster.
Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others.
From time to time, you have seminal personalities who really change the way the world sees itself – people like Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela. Warren Buffett is that kind of person in the business world.
Guy Spier
Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.
An Wang
I love producing. I am loving doing that. I think that is my most natural space in the business. I just love producing or editing and that’s where I thrive.
The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-billion dollar enterprises. We can make more money off the kid in Compton if he’s a criminal instead of a scholar. It’s business.
The entertainment business remains a business of blockbusters, and increasingly so.
My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groupsdevelopment, testing, marketing, user education.
It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people’s business.
Dolley Madison
In the military, they give medals for people who are willing to sacrifice themselves so that others may survive. In business, we give bonuses to people who sacrifice others.
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
My father, Beric, ran a joinery business and owned two factories.
Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.
Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future.
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
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.
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
Never argue with a profit.
Jeff Rich
The Oscar or the Emmy says you’ve reached a level of competence in this business, and I would love to have one.
O. J. Simpson
Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.
Donald Fagen
Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
The consumer isn’t a moron; she is your wife.
We’re all working together; that’s the secret.
If someone asks me what cloud computing is, I try not to get bogged down with definitions. I tell them that, simply put, cloud computing is a better way to run your business.
For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business. He excites me when I watch him. He moves me. He’s the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more.
Having children is one of the most passionate and invol

Having children is one of the most passionate and involving bits of business in human life.
You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you’ll never build an enduring business.
Victor Kiam
I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.
In the entertainment business, the biggest gift you could ever get is not an Oscar, it’s not a Grammy, it’s longevity.
It’s called a pen. It’s like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
Dale Dauten
The monarchy is foremost a business, and it’s important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless ‘royal‘ family. I find it very sad.
A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.
More than 30 years ago, when I had embarked upon the fight against child labour, it was not even considered an issue worth any discussion. It was accepted as a way of life in India, much like it was in other countries. Today, no country or business or society can throw this issue away.
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
Harold S. Geneen
Networking is all about connecting with people. But then again, isn’t that what life is about? The more time you can find to get out of the office and build true friendships, the farther your startup will go. Entrepreneurs need to remember to spend as much time working on their business as they do in their business.
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
I wouldn’t say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
Christmas is over and Business is Business.
Franklin Pierce Adams
If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and you’ll have a good life.
Employees make the best dates. You don’t have to pick them up and they’re always tax-deductible.
The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.
John Morley
I think business has to be stupider. I want to do really straightforward, stupid business – just talk to me like a 4-year-old. And I refuse to negotiate. I do not negotiate. I can collaborate. But I’m an artist, so as soon as you negotiate, you’re being compromised.
As a business person, I want the world to share the prosperity together.
If you want to avoid criticism, then you shouldn’t be a historian, because historians are trying to understand and explain. If you’re trying to please people, then you should go into the fashion business, or the candy business.
Business today consists in persuading crowds.
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
My laptop helps me carry on my business functions and stay in touch with my executives when I’m abroad.
Lucio Tan
Stack the cards in your favour, and in a casino, you’ll get arrested and put in prison, but in business and in life, it’s the right thing to do.
Sustainable fishing is a fraud. It’s a marketing term that really means ‘business as usual.’
Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves – who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.
One of biggest lies in politics is the lie that Republicans are the party of big business. Big business does great with big government. Big business is very happy to climb in bed with big government. Republicans are and should be the party of small business and of entrepreneurs.
I served in all commissioned ranks from a second Lieutenant to a Major General. And during that time, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street, and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.
Smedley Butler
If you go back, ‘The Great Gatsby‘ would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.
Small business is America's engine of job creation.

Small business is America’s engine of job creation.
Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century – they combine Art and business!
Roger Corman
As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There’s always going to be chaos in the restaurant business.
Rocco DiSpirito
I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone’s got their own definition. Mine, I suppose, is to know myself.
It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.
School taught me how to do a 9-5 job rather than be a person who wants to start a business.
KSI
I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand… Adventure is a state of mind – and spirit.
Jacqueline Cochran
I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
Thomas J. Watson
The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships. The quality of your business is no different.
If it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative.
A business woman needs a successful mix of design and practicality.
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
Henry R. Luce
Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people.
Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.
Your own business growth and success depends on many things, and along that growing path, you are going to have to concede certain responsibilities and activities – whether for your accounting, your production, or day-to-day management.
A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?
My advice to new artists is to not follow a trend, but to start one. By that, I mean to not be tempted to do what business people might suggest to you, to jump on the bandwagon, but to be strong.
In high school, I worked at Abercrombie & Fitch, and once I graduated from business school at USC, I started a company with my partner and had a nine-to-seven job.
I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.
I think the path is different for everybody. Go after the doors that are open to you. That has always been my motto getting into the music business. Do the things that seem to be good opportunities and work hard at it. Try to make good decisions and be nice. Hopefully all of that will pay off at some point.
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
Business can be a source of progressive change.
Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
I don’t think it’s a good idea to plan to sell a company.
No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.
The only thing that was economic, I might say, about my music career, aside from the fact that I did everybody’s tax returns in the band, was the decision I made to leave the music business on economic grounds.
I am happily married to a wonderful man. He is not in the business.
Erin Moran
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions.
A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and i

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
So how does the machine work that you have a financial crisis? How does deleveraging work – what is the nature of that machine? And what is human nature, and how do you raise a community of people to run a business?
When I was 9 or 10, I had a ten-cent business: I would walk your dog for a dime, go to the store for a dime, empty your garbage for a dime – and then I could use the money to buy tricks at the magic store.
In terms of diet, my parents had a restaurant business so I don’t eat any junk food – they taught me to appreciate good food.
I was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a network, and I didn’t want to get that involved in the business aspect of it.
A very good leader is someone who has a great team, it’s all about the team. You only have 12 hours or 14 hours a day, if the people that are with you are doing a great job, you can have a great business. If not, it’s not going to work.
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
I am not embarrassed to be a banker. I am not embarrassed to be in business.
Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.
Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.
Anthea Turner
When you run a part of the relay and pass on the baton, there is no sense of unfinished business in your mind. There is just the sense of having done your part to the best of your ability. That is it. The hope is to pass on the baton to somebody who will run faster and run a better marathon.
Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.
In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.
Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there’s a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
Ed Greenwood
I’m just a giddy teenager who would like to break into show business any way I can.
I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.
We’ve always operated on the thesis that a company can have a personality, that people can be themselves, and be very successful in business at the same time.
Anybody who can improve the business in the long run is a good buyer.
Money, while clearly helpful in solving myriad problems, can often conceal a business’s real flaws. It can also risk rigidifying a company’s business model at the very moment it should be in ‘customer discoverymode or iterating around market opportunities.
The more you drive positive change, the more enhanced your business model.
The sooner you accept the fact that you will have both successes and failures, the easier it will be to get your business and personal life headed in the right direction.
If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.
Fran Tarkenton