Business Quotes · Page 510

Impact investment is an important business driver, and more importantly, it is a business driver because clients want it.

— Sergio Ermotti

I am a student of a business school in Delhi and went back for my final semester exams.

— Hina Khan

First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.

— Leo Rosten

Associate yourself with good people...Because its better to be alone than surrounded by bad company.

— Anonymous

It's a weird business. You're trying to write something that's built on magic, which is pretty stressful.

— Andy Grammer

I try to be optimistic, but in this business it's so hard. The craziest stuff can happen.

— Eliza Coupe

John Deere's manure spreader is the only equipment the company won't stand behind.

— Nikhil Saluja

So much of writing is done alone in a room in sweatpants, with only the Internet for company.

— Lauren Weisberger

Nowadays, it's not more about the sport; it's about the business. All the boxers became businessmen, not boxers. They look just to…

— Vasyl Lomachenko

All that was clear that the profits to be had from smart people making complicated bets overwhelmed anything that could be had…

— Michael Lewis

I couldn't be happier with where my life's at right now. I have great partners, I have great stimulating relationships on the…

— Bode Miller

“Happiness comes in many forms — in the company of good friends, in the feeling you get when you make someone else’s…

— Lucas Scott

In AirAsia, we consider ourselves basically a dream factory. We deliberately decided that we wanted a company where people can pursue their…

— Tony Fernandes

Artists are in the imagining/ prototyping business. Society needs people to be out there thinking of what might be. That cannot be…

— Mohsin Hamid

Hillary Clinton used a private email account to conduct official state business. Experts say that if this violates any federal rules, then…

— Jimmy Fallon

There are lots of ways to make money in venture capital, and there are even more ways to be mediocre. The industry…

— Dan Levitan

“People who live at subsistence level want first things to be put first. They are not particularly interested in freedom of religion,…

— Sebastian Marshall

“In case you haven't noticed,rodeos are a serious business.Careless cowboys tend to break bones,or even their skulls,as hard as that may be…

— R.C. Ryan

Is it a good hot dog? That’s all I want to know … I don’t think the personal health and purity of…

— Anthony Bourdain

There are many who subscribe to the convention that service is a business cost, but our data demonstrates that superior service is…

— Jim Bush

I never went into it [the business] thinking 'I'm a female sports reporter'. I just went into it thinking 'I'm a sports…

— Michele Tafoya

“Deep work should be a priority in today’s business climate. But it’s not. I’ve just summarized various explanations for this paradox. Among…

— Cal Newport

Basically, the UBR is a relic of an earlier vision for UDDI. The original vision for UDDI was as a standard that…

— Michael Bloomberg

I remember coming up in the business and seeing how the grind turned some executives into grizzled cynics. And I vowed to…

— Kevin Reilly

We're diversified, we're stable and consistent. Our businesses benefit from each other.

— Jamie Dimon

If my boss and my company loves working with me, we're gonna have a lot of success together.

— Cris Cyborg

“the exercise of authority was not an easy business, especially if those who exercised it no longer felt they had heaven on…

— Paul Scott

I said, to hell with the whole thing, to hell with show business. I'm gonna make a new life for myself, and…

— Tommy Kirk

I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand.

— Jason Patric

Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.

— J. M. W. Turner

“Having goals improves performance.113 Spending hours cascading goals up and down the company, however, does not.114”

— Laszlo Bock

How do you create jobs? Our companies have generated about 350,000 jobs and that's good.

— John Doerr

Our customers call and e-mail us to say that's how it feels when a Zappos box arrives. And that's how we view…

— Tony Hsieh

I decided I couldn't ever again deal with the megabusiness end of the music business.

— John Waite

If you don't hire at least one or two people that are smarter than you are, then you're a terrible manager and…

— Nolan Bushnell

Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer.

— Charles Spurgeon

There should be a policy on whether Chinese companies should be allowed to do business in the country.

— Uddhav Thackeray

I got out of the business because I went from being the biggest artist on my record label to someone they didn't…

— Billy Squier

“But maybe this is what happens when you hate someone for so long: the person you hate dies, but the hate stays…

— Brock Clarke

It's a great feeling to be a part of something - see it from beginning to end - and it's a rare…

— Ralph Strangis