Famous Quotes
- There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?
- Andrea Jung on Business
- There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.
- Jeff Bezos on Business
- 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.
- Jeff Bezos on Business
- There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.
- Wentworth Miller on Business
- There is a fundamental shift that social media necessitates in business today - the need to transition from 'Me First' to 'We First' thinking.
- Simon Mainwaring on Business
- There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.
- Russell Baker on Business
- There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions.
- Michael Bloomberg on Business
- There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
- Lee Iacocca on Business
- There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
- Coco Chanel on Business
- There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
- Joseph Addison on Business
- There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media.
- Rush Limbaugh on Business
- 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.
- Sam Walton on Business
- 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.
- Alexander McQueen on Business
- There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.'
- Muhammad Yunus on Business
- There's a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can't write. It's a big business.
- There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.
- Maureen O'Hara on Business
- There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses.
- David Cameron on Business
- There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.
- David Letterman on Business
- There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.
- Colonel Sanders on Business
- There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.
- Tupac Shakur on Business
- There's not a business or a master plan as far as I'm concerned. I take it week by week, and I don't think you ever expect to be able to do the next thing.
- Lauren Conrad on Business
- These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty they are in showbiz, and showing what they've got is part of their business as much as it is for male show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney.
- Julie Burchill on Business
- They keep the old business. We keep the ongoing business.
- Harvey Weinstein on Business
- This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.
- Jacqueline Bisset on Business
- This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
- Bill Gates on Business
- 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.
- Benjamin Franklin on Business
- Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
- Peter Drucker on Business
- To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
- Baltasar Gracian on Business
- To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have.
- Fiona Shaw on Business
- To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
- Andre Malraux on Business
- To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.
- Paul McCartney on Business
- To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.
- Richard Branson on Business
- To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise.
- Dave Eggers on Business
- To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
- Aristotle Onassis on Business
- To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
- J. Paul Getty on Business
- To talk about a relationship trivializes something that's nobody's business.
- Jennifer Aniston on Business
- To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.
- Alvin Toffler on Business
- 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.
- Theresa May on Business
- Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
- Wendell Phillips on Business
- Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
- Honore De Balzac on Business
- Treaties, agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary, but they often favor the interests of business over citizens.
- David Suzuki on Business
- Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
- W. Clement Stone on Business
- Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.
- Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.
- Marilyn Vos Savant on Business
- Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.
- Jeff Bridges on Business
- Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.
- James Buchan on Business
- Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.
- Henry Louis Gates on Business
- Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.
- Carroll O'Connor on Business
- War is the business of barbarians.
- Napoleon Bonaparte on Business
- Washington has to become an ally of business, not the opposition of business.
- Mitt Romney on Business
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