Business Quotes · Page 497

And the greeter is what sets the tone for this company and I've been on TV a little bit this morning.

— Lee Scott

After being on the road so much I want to spend more time with my family, who I hear are wonderful people.

— Howie Mandel

Empathy is the bridge to understand those who you may be lucky to one day lead, and it is - in my…

— Andy Dunn

I've never been good in the financial and business arenas. I handle the creative side of things

— Daryl Hannah

People will pay for content ... Everybody is going to have to start charging. They'd be crazy not to.

— Lloyd Braun

The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years.

— Rupert Murdoch

If there's something bothering me in the business end of things with people I work with, I just say it right out.

— Dolly Parton

You know, I've always wanted to be a young Charles Kuralt. I started in this business with just a Winnebago and a…

— Jon Stewart

In companies, there are three activities that should be labeled better. First there is the "CORE" which is the thing the company…

— Lewis Schiff

As Starbucks' CEO Howard Shultz explains, the high-quality customer service that makes it possible for his company to charge a premium for…

— James O'Toole

The Hollywood actor business can be a little shallow and can be a little more of a facade, and Nashville and the…

— Sam Palladio

“Everything you do matters. Every move you make, every action you take...matters. Not just to you, or your family, or your business…

— Andy Andrews

The industry does have some influence on who gets other awards. With the Mercury Prize, they don't. Jon comes from the business,…

— Peter Gabriel

Certainly, to have a woman who waits at home for you, who will sleep with you, gives a warm feeling like having…

— Cesare Pavese

If you want to be in the automotive business, you go to Detroit, and you figure it out. If you want to…

— Nick Cannon

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started…

— Marc Andreessen

“But if lifestyle ads work by the third-person effect, then there will be some products for which it makes good business sense…

— Kevin Simler

“It takes just one, he says over and over. You hear that all the time in this business. One big case, and…

— John Grisham

What is the single most important thing for a company? Is it the building? Is it the stock? Is it the turnover?…

— Ricky Gervais

The company that employed me strived only to serve up the cheapest fare that the customer would tolerate, churn it out as…

— Thomas Ligotti

Today, no one would dispute that information technology has become the backbone of commerce. It underpins the operations of individual companies, ties…

— Nicholas G. Carr

And at that moment a wind came out of the northwest, and entered the woods and bared the golden branches, and danced…

— Lord Dunsany

I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research,…

— David Ogilvy

I'm pleased that I've balanced budgets. I was on the world of business for 25 years. If you didn't balance your budget,…

— Mitt Romney

I am a basic social activist with small-business experience, and you go where you need to go.

— Fred Eychaner

The company of good and true people is like entering a perfume shop. Whether you buy anything or not, you are bound…

— Punkinhead Abhishek

Government has learned a lot from the business world - and I hope that some companies will recognise they can learn from…

— David Lidington

Even though I was in close proximity to everything, it never really dawned on me to pursue a career in show business.

— Vicki Lawrence

My best business decision is always to have been unembarrassed about negotiating a decent deal. Not being coy or shy about money…

— Anne Robinson

The state is a vast enterprise for declaring all sorts of things legal for itself that would be illegal for us.

— Llewellyn Rockwell

Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior', for by living up to it there is no such word as fail.

— P. T. Barnum

There is truly no other business in the world like making movies. It's unique, it's extremely demanding and difficult, but it's also…

— Gabriel Campisi

What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies.

— Gerry Spence

Sometimes women entrepreneurs are their own challenge, [in terms of] believing in themselves. There is no need to apologise for being ambitious.

— Tory Burch

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business…

— Karen Mills

“I've got a business to run. Elmo's bringing over a new bed frame. Dora broke her's last night. That girl should be…

— Ruta Sepetys

If you are competing at a high level, you have to accept that there are going to be ups and downs, because…

— Carlos Condit

Marketing strategy is a series of integrated actions leading to a sustainable competitive advantage.

— John Sculley

I feel like it's never too early to start planning your future and learning about business off the court.

— Spencer Dinwiddie