Business Quotes

Business neglected is business lost.

— Daniel Defoe

What you manage in business is people

— Harold Geneen

Seeing is a neglected enterprise.

— Saul Leiter

But a man needs company.

— John Steinbeck

Mama, humanity is my business.

— Philip Zimbardo

I've never sold my company or products.

— Jeffrey Combs

Punctuality is the soul of business.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Business is business, no child's play.

— Swami Vivekananda

IBM decided they were going to enter the copying business in 1968.

— Arthur Rock

It's nice to be in a picture that's doing business.

— Fred MacMurray

A leader should be a visionary and have more foresight than an employee.

— Jack Ma

Being in the business and growing up in L.A., I think I turned out pretty OK.

— Emma Roberts

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

— Bill Gates

I know love and lust don't always keep the same company.

— Stephenie Meyer

No one beats The Legend Killer.. Thats why I'm the greatest in this business!

— Randy Orton

Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.

— Maria Edgeworth

What needs to change is the nature of advertising itself. That business hasn't really evolved since the days of Don Draper.

— Daniel Lyons

China has to understand America wants to trade with them. We want a world that's stable. We like free enterprise, but you…

— Mitt Romney

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

— Ross Perot

It is a tough business but if you get yourself in a situation like I, you can maintain a career over many…

— Ray Stevenson

As long as there are big corporations, there will be big unions. The economic power of big business will be matched by…

— Margaret Chase Smith

Obamacare won't just bankrupt the country. It may bankrupt small businesses. It may bankrupt individuals.

— Rush Limbaugh

One of the fun things about venture capital is you are constantly learning new ideas and strategies from one business and then…

— Joe Lonsdale

You're not supposed to go into business with the sole purpose of putting your neighbor out of business. This is not the…

— Ruby Dee

“Learning the nuts and bolts of the company could later give you a big advantage. All of our top growth-mindset CEOs knew…

— Carol S. Dweck

I think the marketplace has reflected that I'm pretty good at recognizing market opportunities and building companies. I have had a great…

— Clay Travis

You get hate in this business growing up. When you're a young performer, you just don't get the credit for the work…

— Jaleel White

I was quite convinced that I didn't want to be a lawyer. But I felt that law school would be a useful…

— Kevin Warsh

This business is filled with really talented actors, and I'm sure there's a lot of guys out there who could have also…

— Elden Henson

I remember reading scripts when I started in the business, and [Latino roles] were either nonexistent or written as the maid or…

— Eva Mendes

I'd be at these different clubs passing out my business cards and fliers. Then the club would end, the light would come…

— Ari Lennox

Somebody told me ... that he overheard a banker's wife saying her husband was working for free this year-this was 2009. What…

— John Lanchester

Commitment never allows us to lose sight of our target. It is the battery that gives power to all types of activities.…

— T Joseph Benziger

As an entrepreneur, it's easy to feel ownership over every aspect of your business because you're putting your reputation, your money, and…

— Sallie Krawcheck

You have to imagine a world in which there's this abundance of data, with all of these connected devices generating tons and…

— Michael Dell

“Jobs described Mike Markkula's maxim that a good company must "impute"- it must convey its values and importance in everything it does,…

— Walter Isaacson

“If you get an opportunity that someone offers you, take it. A business school professor of mine told me this 20 years…

— Ellen Pao

Working with great actors - being part of something of that magnitude and not knowing the business and what the business entailed…

— Mekhi Phifer

We've teamed up with some Japanese companies to, basically by 2010, make all our clothing out of recycled and recyclable fibers. And…

— Yvon Chouinard

“Chancellor Angela Merkel attributed some of her own country’s decline in the second quarter to the Russia-Ukraine crisis, over which tit-for-tat sanctions…

— Anonymous