Business Quotes · Page 533

We need more people to go into business and fewer wasting our lives becoming bureaucrats and civil servants.

— Michael O'Leary

Acquiring customers at the start is one of the hardest things you'll ever experiences as an entrepreneur.

— Julia Hartz

I've always thought of myself as a businesswoman. I have the creative side, but I also have this business sense.

— Catherine Bell

There is never a bad time to start a business - unless you want to start a mediocre one.

— Gary Vaynerchuk

Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.

— Gary Hamel

Three days of uninterrupted company in a vehicle will make you better acquainted with another, than one hour's conversation with him every…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.

— Jack Kilby

My mum is very political - left wing - and my dad was in the advertising business. They were both from the…

— Joan Cusack

I have long-range plans, but you always have to wait for business to catch up with you. It's a matter of contracts…

— Rex Smith

I've done about everything in show business except to play on Broadway. I always hoped that I would one day. It's the…

— Cyd Charisse

So if we're going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing - today that doesn't…

— Miguel de Icaza

We knew that the largest consumers of infrastructure would be large enterprise because they spend more absolute dollars. But we also had…

— Andy Jassy

I ended up switching over to journalism in college. A few weeks into freshman year, I realized that business school wasn't for…

— C. J. McCollum

A cynic might conclude that the real purpose of the $500 million-a-year implant business is the implantation of fat in the bellies…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business…

— Aaron Levie

When I made 'A Few Small Repairs' and it did well, I followed that up with having a baby, and that was…

— Shawn Colvin

How anybody expects a man to stay in business with every two-bit wowser in the country claiming a veto over what we…

— Robert A. Heinlein

I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my…

— Andy Gibb

“The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man, Help us…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

They that examine into the Nature of Man, abstract from Art and Education, may observe, that what renders him a Sociable Animal,…

— Bernard de Mandeville

“Don’t think that Ether is only used within the Ethereum network. It is now actively traded in many places. It will be…

— Mark Fisher

“1. The Will to Truth, which is to tempt us to many a hazardous enterprise, the famous Truthfulness of which all philosophers…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I love actors. I enjoy their company, and I get excited each and every time they bring a character I've written to…

— Christopher Durang

“When World War II began, the high-octane fuel was used in bombing raids by German pilots. Like Davis, the Koch family benefited…

— Jane Mayer

We have an amazing engineering team in the company pushing the limits of device physics and some great partners in manufacturing.

— Jensen Huang

That's very rude," Myrnin said. "I haven't brought my fangs our for some time. Not in mixed company, anyway.

— Rachel Caine

Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that…

— Hans Eysenck

While strides are being made in the social-media space, the newspaper and news business should continue to embrace social media,

— Amy Jo Martin

Amateurs look for challenges; professionals look for easy trades. Losers get high from the action; the pros look for the best odds.

— Alexander Elder

Most of us never recognize opportunity until it goes to work in our competitors business.

— Anonymous

Don't look to people in show business as role models... There's something inherently wrong with people who want this kind of attention.

— Cole Escola

Colleges [have] forfeited the responsibilities of in loco parentis and have gone into the pimping and brothel business.

— Vigen Guroian

Not everybody will understand you. But there will always be someone who does and you should find them enough for the company…

— Terry Mark

On the approach of spring, I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without…

— Edward Gibbon

“She tried to kill us, Keane." "You can't take attempted murder personally in this business, Fowler.”

— Robert Kroese

Sales is the most important aspect of a company, which in turn is about how well you treat your customer and stay…

— Mark Cuban

Your brand is formed primarily, not by what your company says about itself, but what the company does.

— Jeff Bezos

Don’t start a business. Find a problem, Solve a problem, The business comes second.

— Robert Herjavec

The idea of an entrepreneur is really thinking out of the box and taking risks and stepping up to major challenges.

— Steve Case

Grand business plans are all very well, but nothing beats dipping your toe in the water.

— Baron Bilimoria Karan Bilimoria