Business Quotes · Page 584

Big businesses can help by engaging aspiring entrepreneurs and promoting initiatives which support small businesses from within.

— Tory Burch

We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end.

— Roger L'Estrange

“Let yourself go with the disease, be with it, keep company with it—this is the way to be rid of it.”

— Bruce Lee

“When you’re in another country, remember to do as the locals do, since it is your ways that may seem strange of…

— Tracey Wilen

And there's doctors and lawyers, And business executives, And they're all made out of ticky tacky And they all look just the…

— Malvina Reynolds

[We in Microsoft] are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work.

— Bill Gates

SoftBank has had a lot of businesses, but they've always ranked, say, third in Japan or fourth in the U.S.

— Masayoshi Son

If you want a successful business, your people must feel that you are working for them - not that they are working…

— Sam Walton

Sabanci has many years of experience in the tire reinforcement industry, and we are committed to the success of this business through…

— Guler Sabanci

“People who run companies are faced with important choices every day. How they make those choices determines the character of the company,…

— Ray Dalio

There are multiple ways to be externally focused that are very successful. You can be customer-focused or competitor-focused. Some people are internally…

— Jeff Bezos

I would have to honestly say that my biggest regret is even starting this sport. I think I would've lived a different…

— Quinton Jackson

No one has yet convinced me a dollar stranded overseas is better than a dollar brought back home here to America for…

— Kevin Brady

“I told him I didn’t want to hurt him, or anyone else. I just feel that sometimes I am better company only…

— Jennifer Lynch

I believe Facebook is going all the way. They're going to reach a billion members and will be the biggest company in…

— Ben Mezrich

Our company has only been active in Beijing and Shanghai, two very market-dominated cities. This was an advantage. Land is purchased here…

— Zhang Xin

“Companies with strong product-driven or engineering cultures tend to be the ones that develop feature shocks. Firms with a culture of playing…

— Madhavan Ramanujam

“It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong. And whoever attempts it,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You have to understand who you are and figure out a way to communicate it. It might be in a different industry,…

— Andre Agassi

“Shy South comes home to her farm to find a blackened shell, her brother and sister stolen, and knows she’ll have to…

— Joe Abercrombie

“richest experiences in our lives aren’t when we’re clamoring for validation from others, but when we’re listening to our own voice—doing something…

— Daniel H. Pink

“One moment you’re cruising along effortlessly at thirty thousand feet while the cabin crew slosh the whisky around in business class, the…

— Charles Stross

I have always been very open and honest about this part of my life with my friends, my family, and my colleagues.…

— Anderson Cooper

All this business of a labour to accomplish, before I can end, of words to say, a truth to recover, in order…

— Samuel Beckett

I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't…

— Lionel Richie

In the end, the public has the right to know about any undertakings top public officials engage in that may influence how…

— Mike Quigley

Banks and investors don't usually view a high-ranking executive in the company selling off massive amounts of stock as a good thing.

— Marc Randolph

When priorities are in place, one can more patiently tolerate unfinished business.

— Russell M. Nelson

I've come to a real understanding of the enormity of what owner entrepreneurs do in founding great businesses. They are rare and…

— Steve Young

A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.

— John Lancaster Spalding

If you pour your heart into your work, or into any worthy enterprise, you can achieve dreams others may think impossible.

— Howard Schultz

In show business, generally you don't retire. If you love it, that is, you're in it forever anyway.

— Jimmy Scott

In real business, there's spiritual success and then there's facts and just hard work and making sure you're on point with the…

— Ray J

Burger King's business model was broken. But it was like sex in the '50s. Everyone knew it, but no one would talk…

— Greg Brenneman

The end of the [geographical] exploration is the beginning of the [missionary] enterprise.

— David Livingstone

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

— Gore Vidal

When employees unite, they form a union but when business owners unite, they form a team.

— Robert Kiyosaki

You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again.

— Henry Ford

When I was a teenager, the most valuable American companies were in finance and manufacturing.

— Brianna Wu

We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never…

— Suzy Welch