Business Quotes · Page 452

I hope to be remembered as someone who promoted positive change in Mexican business and society - even if this is not…

— Ricardo Salinas Pliego

The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.

— Alain de Botton

If I want to go to Europe and get thrashed by the Europeans, that's my business. Every race I lose I learn…

— Steve Prefontaine

Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat…

— Seneca the Younger

The job creators are members of America's vast middle class and the poor, whose purchases cause businesses to expand and invest.

— Robert Reich

The reality is, I've started multiple companies, so actually I'm probably more of a product/creative person than I am sales. Although I…

— Tim Armstrong

“Quinn held Mhisery tight to his chest, offering his strength to her when he could see she was closer to breaking than…

— Alex Morgan

Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what…

— Ed Smith

I definitely want my career to continue to branch out. I've had the pleasure of working in different areas of entertainment, from…

— Naturi Naughton

“To stay cheerful when involved in a gloomy and exceedingly responsible business is no inconsiderable art: yet what could be more necessary…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The bore is good for promoting sleep; but though he causeth sleep in others, it is uncertain whether he ever sleeps himself;…

— Maria Edgeworth

On the whole, and this comment can get me in a lot of trouble, I find that retailers in the comic book…

— Rob Walton

When a company gets into trouble, it should basically have to be resolved, in other words, stockholders lose their money, unsecured bondholders…

— Judd Gregg

Learn to shrink yourself to the size of the company you are in. Take their tone, whatever it may be, and excell…

— Lord Chesterfield

Goods produced under conditions which do not meet a rudimentary standard to decency should be regarded as contraband and not allowed to…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“And there was Ambrose. To deem us simply enemies is to lose the true flavours of our relationship. It was more like…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“He had crossed the room with no notion what he might say or do - he had no knowledge of the language…

— Diana Gabaldon

“After more than ten years as an entrepreneur, I came to reject that line of thinking. I have learned from both my…

— Eric Ries

Time is a function of impact. The longer a book of mine has been in print, the greater its impact seems to…

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Cramped in all kinds of dim cupboards and hutches at Tellson's, the oldest of men carried on the business gravely. When they…

— Charles Dickens

You could not possibly maintain the current level of government taxation without the taxes being hidden, and they are hidden in two…

— Milton Friedman

“For a moment, she let herself forget about the business at hand and smiled at him. “You know, Roarke, you’re kind of…

— J.D. Robb

“There doesn't have to be any of that business with one third of the seas turning to blood or anything," said Aziraphale…

— Neil Gaiman

Democrats lead in all the polls by at least ten points, except one.. Fox News. That is with a margin of error…

— Stephen Colbert

Companies are bought for their revenue, customer base, technology, or people. A few great companies offer all of these, but any valuable…

— Margaret Heffernan

Feminists is something people hate above all. Nothing worse than being a woman in this [movie] business. I really believe that.

— Julie Delpy

I stumbled into this business, I didn't train for it. I yelled 'Action!' on my first two movies before the camera was…

— John Hughes

In the business of acting, those are the actors that make the trains run on time, you know? There's nothing without them.

— Rob Lowe

In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to…

— Zhang Jindong

“Good company requires only birth, manners and education and, with regard to education, I'm afraid it is not very particular”

— Jane Austen

No one has the right to not assume that the business cycle will turn! Every five years or so, you have got…

— Jamie Dimon

Never really intended to be a comedian, just sort of fell into that, but always wanted to be in show business, or…

— Doug Benson

A lot of companies have lots of assets tied up in plant and equipment. Well, is it old plant, or is it…

— Walter Schloss

Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.

— Dada Vaswani

“a great company stay great without its visionary leader? I thought that if any company could, it would be Apple.”

— Yukari Iwatani Kane

I like the music. I love it & live it in fact. But for me the business part of music just plain stinks.

— Artie Shaw

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

— Thomas Jefferson

Jesus is Jesus. So, I'm not sure I'd get into the business of making somebody into Jesus. That's just me.

— Andy Andrews

A lot of companies are able to do without design. A few companies are able to do without creativity. A very few.…

— Marcel Wanders