Business Quotes · Page 393

“While I may be pessimistic about parts of the business that support journalism, I’m optimistic about the robust survival of journalism in…

— George Brock

I cut my hair myself and colour it. I know everybody in the hairdressing business despairs of me, but it's so much…

— Joanna Lumley

You cannot have an agreement... that gives a tailor's cut, a perfect handiwork, to a specific company.

— Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal

If I hadn't gotten into the entertainment business, I would be probably making minimum wage still.

— Billy Bob Thornton

“Conform to the enemy's tactics until a favorable opportunity offers; then come forth and engage in a battle that shall prove decisive.”

— Sun Tzu

This caste system had grown by the practice of the son always following the business of the father.

— Swami Vivekananda

Continuous Improvement is taking control of how your company's money is being put to work.

— Anonymous

L.A. has great business opportunities for my film and TV production company and acting career, but it can be a very lonely…

— Kenya Moore

Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small…

— Alice Hoffman

If you come from Africa with your economic poverty and your cultural riches, and you meet someone like Peter Gabriel or a…

— Youssou N'Dour

A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion.…

— Lewis Black

I have never left the company. I keep a tiny residual salary to this day because that's where my loyalty should be…

— Steve Wozniak

Big business, elite media and major donors are throwing money at Hillary Clinton because they have total control over every single thing…

— Donald Trump

Rockefeller viewed his philanthropy through the lens of his business, and it really mirrored the Industrial Revolution. It was highly centralized, it…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Great statesmen seem to direct and rule by a sort of power to put themselves in the place of the nation over…

— Woodrow Wilson

Once you’re in sales, you will also learn what sells and what not. Use the sensitivity of detecting market sentiments as a…

— Li Ka-shing

“Future historians, pondering changes in British society from the 1980s onwards, will struggle to account for the following curious fact. Although British…

— Stefan Collini

“Will and George were doing well in business, and Joe was writing letters home in rhymed verse and making as smart an…

— John Steinbeck

“As a Facebook product manager, you resembled an Afghan warlord or a pirate captain: fearsome in appearance to any outsiders, the scourge…

— Antonio Garcia Martinez

“the immigrants who secure rights thanks to the anti-racist anti-colonial struggle might be securing the right to free capitalist enterprise, refusing to…

— Slavoj Žižek

[Slave] trade ... is the most shocking violation of the law of nature, has a direct tendency to diminish ... liberty, and…

— James Otis

Lions don't have to roar. There is power in silence, confidence and persistence. Those who work don't talk and those who talk…

— Les Brown

Understand that relationships are more important than contracts. Business deals are relationships between people. The signed piece of paper is important, but…

— Steve Pavlina

The evidence is inarguable that Australia is becoming too expensive and too uncompetitive to do export-oriented business. Africans want to work, and…

— Gina Rinehart

I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.

— Hillary Clinton

Resources businesses must contribute to sustainable development if we are to continue to have access to resources.

— Cynthia Carroll

“Humans are all too happy to keep company until the company turns out to be less appealing than solitude.”

— Thor Benson

It is at the heart of our human enterprise, that is to say, at the heart of society, to allow consensus a…

— Jesse Ball

While Mitt Romney was at Bain Capital, almost one out of every four companies they were involved with went bankrupt or went…

— John Brabender

I love everything related to business. That's my field, besides entertainment, which I'm really good at.

— Maryse Mizanin

“To guard our character with unwavering commitment, our best protection comes from being humbly aware of our vulnerability.”

— Lee Ellis

I'm just saying that being in this business is not easy, and it's definitely not for everybody.

— Michael Sorrentino

People who instinctively establish a strong network of relationships have always created great businesses.

— Keith Ferrazzi

I have a staff of 12 people, so it's easy for them to handle all the management and the day to day…

— Chris Stokes

There are only two kinds of businesses in this world: Businesses in crazy competition, and businesses that are one of a kind.

— Peter Thiel

The music business is just the worst as far as Machiavellian, sharky, evil games going on, as far as manipulation.

— Robert Greene

The main trouble with Hollywood is that the guys you have to pitch to, the guys who run the studios, are all…

— Terry Zwigoff

“Like other factory owners of the time, he was as much in the business of manufacturing energy as manufacturing goods. But”

— Nicholas Carr

I think for larger-scale entrepreneurship, it's true - for men and women - that people who already have capital tend to do…

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

You can't have success without trust... especially in businesses that deal with the public.

— Jim Burke