Business Quotes · Page 565

The most important thing in business is honesty, integrity, hard work familynever forgetting where we came from,

— Frank Lucas

“I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, to life itself, than this incessant business.”

— Henry David Thoreau

The obligation of every ethical management is to make sure we optimize the long-term value of the company.

— Jeff Bewkes

Our commercial bank [JPMorgan] is only in the U.S. We are serving what you call SMEs - small businesses, private companies.

— Jamie Dimon

“The irony of advertising, a communications business, is that we treat words with little respect, devaluing their meaning.”

— John Kenney

You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's…

— William Hague

Politics is a messy business, but campaigning prepares you for governing. It prepares you to get hit, stand strong, and, if necessary,…

— James Carville

“it's no one's business whether two people are meant for each other except for those two people.”

— Sean Develin

The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just…

— Denise Morrison

We never sat down and said, 'We're going to use social media to do X, Y and Z and achieve this for…

— Ben Francis

In the commercial world, you have this problem that the amount of research you can do in a company is based on…

— Alan Kay

I think from the business point of view, Taiwan and China tied together brings mutual benefit. And we don't see any reason…

— Stan Shih

Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure…

— John Abizaid

I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be…

— Nathan Myhrvold

Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they…

— Meg Whitman

Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education…

— Janet Napolitano

The risk of working with people you don't respect; the risk of working for a company whose values are incosistent with your…

— Randy Komisar

Outside the firm, price movements direct production, which is co-ordinated through a series of exchange transactions on the market. Within a firm,…

— Ronald Coase

See, the music business is d*ck riders for the better part. I understand that it's logic, I accept it but they're d*ck…

— Irv Gotti

At the end of the day, the differential, I believe, on the airline space has got to be about the product and…

— Oscar Munoz

American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the…

— Aubrey McClendon

I didn't really do many business ventures throughout my career because I would have an idea and then before I'd have a…

— Nas

“Pain has an odd way of expressing itself in the acts of business. No matter how many setbacks a leader might experience,…

— Ken Goldstein

I think there's an element to this business that writers especially are overlooked in many ways and this made everybody kind of…

— Edward Allen Bernero

When your boss and colleagues care enough to invest in your health, it is good for you and the business.

— Tom Rath

As a company, we believe in free and open borders. We feel this best facilitates the exchange of cultural values and ideas.

— Gillian Tans

I was raised in this business not to make myself part of the story. I have never wanted to be part of…

— Jim Acosta

Happiness is the secret ingredient for successful businesses. If you have a happy company it will be invincible.

— Richard Branson

I dont have anything to prove anymore, What other people think of me is not my business.

— Jessica Simpson

Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am…

— Anonymous

I have important business to get to. I plan to sulk all afternoon, followed, perhaps, by an evening of Byronic brooding and…

— Cassandra Clare

I like a good mascara and a little foundation, blush, and lip gloss, then I go about my business.

— Tabitha Brown

If you're flying everyone Business and First Class to meet customers, it's a pretty substantial expense, and none of that benefits customers.

— Andy Jassy

I tell my employees that we're in the service business, and it's incidental that we fly airplanes.

— Herb Kelleher

The secrets to happiness include enterprise, exploration of one's interests and the overcoming of obstacles.

— Bertrand Russell

Business is a sprint until you find an opportunity, then it's the patience of a marathon runner.

— Robert Herjavec

Allocating coal linkage to a generating company rather than to a specific plant gives companies the freedom to use the fuel in…

— Piyush Goyal

Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of…

— William Graham Sumner

Strong copyright protection is not only compatible with future digital business models: it is an essential pre-condition of their success.

— Mick Hucknall

Cowboy boots with a suit? You're a rough, tough businessman. Chaps with a bow tie? You're in the rough, tough man business.

— Dana Gould