Business Quotes · Page 488

I see Intershop as a leader in the E-commerce digital economy and believe the company has truly long-term potential.

— Eckhard Pfeiffer

There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white.

— John Francis Dodge

You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know…

— William Shatner

There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than…

— James Russell Lowell

“You can build your business life where you are working with people you want to work with. Then it becomes a pleasure,…

— Andy Morgan

We believe that when the right talent meets the right opportunity in a company with the right philosophy, amazing transformation can happen.

— Reid Hoffman

Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it's show business. You know, we all got rhythm.

— Diana Ross

No matter what the role, you're trying to do the impossible - make a living in show business.

— Peter Gallagher

We could be like a lot of consumer brands that start blogs after they start their business. But in our case, I…

— Emily Weiss

Nowadays it seems more and more like the 'business' in 'show business' is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it's all part…

— Jeff Bridges

I want to know if I look up a whole lot of books about some form of cancer that that's not going…

— Tim Berners-Lee

When you are doing music videos through the '90s, which I did, and the 2000s, you were put in the position, really,…

— David Slade

An important priority for me is a business must get their own house in order. Be or become an agent of positive…

— Richard Branson

The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the…

— John Dos Passos

I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about…

— David Antin

There is always something to worry about. Avoid weekend thinking and ignoring the latest dire predictions of the newscasters. Sell a stock…

— Peter Lynch

“Nowhere do “politicians” form a more separate and powerful section of the nation than precisely in North America. There, each of the…

— Frederick Engels

Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather's, the National Restaurant Association, in each one of those situations, I had a…

— Herman Cain

Silicon Valley, "the largest legal creation of wealth in history," was built largely by unprofessional amateurs using math, sand, and the institutions…

— Michael Strong

I set up this magazine called Student when I was 16, and I didn't do it to make money - I did…

— Richard Branson

This is our moment of reckoning as a society and as a civilization itself. I didn't need to do this [run for…

— Donald Trump

“What a pleasure it is to be in the company of a writer with enthusiasm for his subject! It doesn't matter what…

— William Zinsser

“The most effective leaders of companies in transition are the quiet, unassuming people whose inner wiring is such that the worst circumstances…

— Anonymous

Now it's a hard time in every business with the current economic situation, so being an actor where you're seen in different…

— Justin Chatwin

How exciting is it to come to work if the best you can do is trounce some other company that does roughly…

— Larry Page

Thanks to their decreased brainpower, people aren't diverted from the main business of life by the hobgoblins of opinion anymore.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I'd rather invest in an entrepreneur who has failed before than one who assumes success from day one.

— Kevin O'Leary

In our business, things look like a failure until they're not. It's pretty binary transitions.

— Satya Nadella

Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.

— Mark Kingwell

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

— Washington Irving

I think there is certainly luck and fate involved in any career of any kind. In show business, maybe it's even more…

— Gary Cole

The more entrepreneurs in the world that are getting their ideas financed, the more great companies there are going to be that…

— Fred Wilson

In a free enterprise, the community is not just another stakeholder, but is in fact the very purpose of its existence,

— Jamsetji Tata

By 2003, every fool was getting into real estate. The checkout girl at my local supermarket handed me her newly printed real…

— Robert Kiyosaki

If you're looking to become an entrepreneur then don't waste your time going to university or business school - just get on…

— Richard Branson

“These stewards of the company way are the intellectual and emotional foundation of the organization.”

— Reid Hoffman

I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it…

— Lee H. Hamilton

The trouble with not being into social networking is that people think you're anti-social when you're only anti-networking.

— Robert Breault

It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service.

— Albert Einstein

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake's important.

— Frank Ocean