Business Quotes · Page 224

Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.

— Peter Drucker

The shortest way to get anywhere is to have good company.

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

“The entrepreneur is the god of innovation.”

— Utibe Samuel Mbom

I think there are too many start-ups and not enough real companies.

— Esther Dyson

If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley.

— Bill Gates

I encourage young artists to learn the business.

— Jadakiss

Try to establish the value of a company.

— Walter Schloss

There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.

— William S. Burroughs

A pro football player is lucky. He has a chance to meet a lot of people and make some potential business connections.

— George Blanda

Whether a resident needs to get online to access homework or supplemental educational tools, to search for a job or start a…

— Maya Wiley

Obviously, as with any business, a celebrity can only add so much to a brand's image or vision. So the product must…

— Sussanne Khan

The only person I look up to - and not just in show business but also in the world - is a…

— RuPaul

We expect to be a prime in the fighter jet business for the long run. This is not a business we're getting…

— Dennis Muilenburg

The verification services that could be offered would be applied appropriately according to the business process that was involved,

— Andy Burnham

Education around entrepreneurship should start early, at secondary level, and be very robust by college level.

— Stephen A. Schwarzman

I'm not in the business of telling people 'DIY or die,' but I do think it's important to be as hands-on with…

— Lauren Mayberry

When I need to take a side, I write a newspaper article and I tell my government, "You should not do that,…

— Amos Oz

“I for one refuse to believe that an enterprise so well conceived, so scrupulously produced, and so widely loved can stay boneyarded…

— James Blish

Educational enterprises do not for any length of time remain immune from the struggle of interests for power which is the dominant…

— A. J. Muste

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I'm trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability…

— Nipsey Hussle

Just about anyone can make a good product, but it's the people that count. In the end, it's the employees who will…

— Hamdi Ulukaya

You don't have to patronize your audience, and you can mix art and commerce in a profound way. You can simultaneously play…

— Julie Taymor

“Does a cat not get its food on time? Whereas these people say, "My business is ruined. Now, what will become of…

— Dada Bhagwan

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or…

— Maya Angelou

“One company that did wake up to the importance of employee health was Safeway. The supermarket chain’s former CEO Steve Burd recounts…

— Arianna Huffington

“But the world is changing at warp speed, and cities have to evolve to stay ahead of the curve. Which brings us…

— Anonymous

Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may…

— Abraham Lincoln

Pick something you are interested in, and keep applying a business model that includes Internet Marketing to make it global, get thousands…

— Tracy Repchuk

A simple philosophy to stick to would be that religion and the promotion of religious opinion is none of the government's business.…

— Gene Garman

These pharmaceutical company executives are dope dealers and they should be treated worse, and more roughly than dope dealers. When you're talking…

— Anthony Bourdain

Small business is the gateway to opportunity for those who want a piece of the American dream. [...] Well, wouldn't it be…

— Ronald Reagan

I'm not in favor of no government. You do need a government. But by doing so many things that the government has…

— Milton Friedman

Almost all good businesses engage in 'pain today, gain tomorrow' activities.

— Charlie Munger

Businesses make decisions based on what they are seeing in their order books.

— Anonymous

The single most important thing you can do in business is to be yourself.

— Sherry Lansing

Small businesses are important, but so are tiny businesses.

— Demetri Martin

As your US Senator, Im not in the business of creating jobs.

— Sharron Angle

Record company execs eat their young, I swear to God.

— Linda Barnes

Loneliness is not lack of company, loneliness is lack of purpose.

— Guillermo Maldonado

As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.

— Ben Horowitz