Business Quotes · Page 586

“My approach has never been to conduct business as usual. Instead it’s been to focus on culture and imagine what’s possible.”

— Satya Nadella

Entrepreneurs don't believe the future is predictable - but they do believe that they can create the future themselves.

— Max McKeown

I see it happen in uniracial congregations all the time. But people - when they're in mixed company, we speak differently.

— Michael Emerson

If Roman Abramovich helped me out in training we would be bottom of the league and if I had to work in…

— Jose Mourinho

“...with the company of just myself, my thoughts presented themselves like unwelcome houseguests.”

— Denise Grover Swank

I was a musician for years before I started doing this stuff. Show business was the only thing I ever considered.

— Miguel Ferrer

Seek out people to work with who are brimming with talent, energy, integrity, optimism, and generosity.

— Martha Stewart

If the last hundred years of market cycles teaches anything, it's that one can't be a great equity investor without also being…

— Joel Litman

The big businesses are less willing to take risks. I talked to some young people in Hong Kong, and they said they…

— Jack Ma

I ask people what they do in sales, how much money they made last year, what their cost of sales is, and…

— Tilman J. Fertitta

Representing a company with the largest and one of the most diverse groups of associates in the U.S., and an even more…

— Doug McMillon

I wanted to go into this fight business, and I wanted to go into it full force. So when you do something…

— Bobby Lashley

I often find the smaller, independent films are much more rewarding than the bigger stuff, but you do the bigger stuff because…

— Jamie Bell

Many businesses find their culture organized around a dangerous fault line known as 'us and them,' with executives on one side and…

— Punit Renjen

My goal in coming to General Motors was to help restore profitability, build a strong market position and position this iconic company…

— Edward Whitacre, Jr

Television is quite a fickle business - you don't know when you'll go out of fashion, so I have to save for…

— Angela Rippon

“Speaking of Jobs, Moritz writes: “He was unwilling to let product planning become burdened with analysis, focus groups, decision trees, the shifts…

— Adam Lashinsky

Never hesitate to show your own staff that you need help. They need to be reminded how important they are to the…

— Georgette Mosbacher

Politicians, bureaucrats, editors, new commentators, 'economists' teachers,' and other word artists who denounce private enterprise and praise socialism are their own worst…

— Leonard Read

“The slave trade was not controlled by any state or government. It was a purely economic enterprise, organised and financed by the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

I hate solitude, but I'm afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn…

— Iris Murdoch

I'm never gonna owe money because every time I get a dollar, I put it into another business, whether it's to buy…

— Damon Dash

The whole difficulty I think that that we're facing now is the question of who is going to ensure that corporations are…

— Joel Bakan

A company is a multidimensional system capable of growth, expansion, and self-regulation. It is, therefore, not a thing but a set of…

— Albert Low

Any successful company in the valley gets acquisition offers and has to decide whether or not to take them.

— Marc Andreessen

I think that because we have these big female pop stars, people forget that women and marginalized people are so underrepresented in…

— Justin Tranter

I took the same pride in my dishwashing job as a child as I take in running my company today.

— Yolanda Hadid

We want a direct relationship with our customers. To build a business and sell products to them.

— Tim Sweeney

We should scrub all of our federal regulations to find responsible ways to make life easier to small businesses, i want to…

— William J. Clinton

“Never make a sales pitch as the way you introduce yourself. What you CAN say is how you help people and businesses.”

— Beth Ramsay

If I depended on the critics' judgment and recognition, I'd never have gone into the motion-picture business.

— John Wayne

Companies that continue to innovate and invest in research and development are the kinds of high-tech job creators we want working with…

— Roy Cooper

Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay…

— Tom Schulman

I've found that in business opportunities will constantly emerge or situations develop that make you revise your plans along the way.

— Benjamin Cohen

When You Tell Everybody Your Business Expect Your Business To Get Told To Everybody.

— Vanity

“Bolise Co.,Ltd. is an Australian company, has been in business for over 20 years.

— Anonymous

I hope to get my name out there more in the Spanish-language business side of the world.

— Julie Gonzalo

You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with…

— Tom Peters

But nature did not deem it her business to make the discovery of her laws easy for us.

— Albert Einstein

Open platforms encourage innovation. Whenever you have a closed platform, a monopoly on commerce, and all these platform rules, it stifles innovation.

— Tim Sweeney