Business Quotes · Page 594

This business can be isolating, so having other people show me how to handle it has been so helpful.

— Molly Gordon

I've never commented much about my experience at Enron except to say, when I was there, it was a much more pipeline…

— Richard Kinder

The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise.

— Herbert Hoover

We filed suit against YouTube before the Google purchase. At the time I went after YouTube, I thought it was a small…

— Zoey Tur

Sometimes, when you're building a company, out of necessity there's just a gazillion things you have to learn and figure out.

— Tobias Lutke

A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.

— Saadi

“Today the masses will be forced to understand that corporate companies provide opportunities for millions of people to have jobs.”

— Christopher Dines

There's a lot of ignorance in our business... Everybody's an authority. To have your own vision is rewarding.

— Robert Duvall

You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and…

— Sam Walton

We see Google experimenting in so many places outside of its core search and advertising business, whether that's bringing broadband Internet to…

— Brad Stone

It's fantastic that Microsoft in the cloud space is one of very few companies that's got the critical mass, the particular emphasis…

— Bill Gates

We were building a - what I thought was a fantastic company. We had great people. We were changing - we were…

— Jeffrey Skilling

Private enterprise is not as spectacular nor as easy to see as the socialist way of temporarily diffusing poverty by eating up…

— Raymond C. Hoiles

“Oracle 12c Enterprise or Standard Edition – building on Oracle’s unique ability to deliver Grid Computing, 12c gives Oracle customers the agility…

— Croyanttech

There is a business here first of all, as a company and secondly, the ability to make films that audiences want to…

— Courtney Solomon

I realize now that it is a serious business requiring honest, hard work. The first time Hollywood was served up to me…

— Sterling Hayden

When you buy enough stocks to give you control of a target company, that's called mergers and acquisitions or corporate raiding. Hedge…

— Michael Hudson

“On a recent business trip, I reunited with a friend I had not seen in twenty years. After having a lovely lunch…

— Susan C. Young

Whence all this passion towards conformity anyway? Diversity is the word. Let man keep his many parts and you will have no…

— Ralph Ellison

“Fundamentally, there are only two ways of co-ordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion—the…

— Milton Friedman

“Can I see it?" He blinked, still scowling, "See what?" "Your scar." His expression darkened like a sudden eclipse and I let…

— Rachel Vincent

[Tomas] Jefferson is more out of fashion, both because of his views on race, where he's properly questioned, that part of his…

— Jeffrey Rosen

For no matter what we achieve, if we don't spend the vast majority of our time with people we love and respect,…

— James C. Collins

“Having a great narrator is like having a great friend whose company you love, whose mind you love to pick, whose running…

— Anne Lamott

Successful enterprises are built from the ground up. You can't assemble them with a bunch of acquisitions.

— Louis V. Gerstner, Jr

I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.

— Dick Bruna

A great opportunity is often hard to be explained clearly; things that can be explained clearly are often not the best opportunities.

— Jack Ma

“An individual can donate money to help support a cause, but an ambitious company can actually cause a shift in the global…

— Blake J. Harris

If you want to get into a good entrepreneurial business, guillotines may be in fashion.

— Gerald Celente

Historically, software for business was seen as unsexy because the products were seen as so poor - they provided such a poor…

— Justin Rosenstein

I've kept my sanity in this business by trying out for a role and then going home and trying to forget about…

— Blythe Danner

The amount of time people waste dwelling on failures rather than putting that energy into another project, always amazes me

— Richard Branson

Everyone's had an interesting life. Unless they're interested in business or something.

— Leonora Carrington

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

— Gaston Bachelard

There's something about these steps [in Oval Office] and thinking about everybody who's walked here and all the business that's been done…

— Barack Obama

Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.

— Jonathan Swift

We expect our employees to care about the community, the company, their teammates, customers, and themselves.

— Eric Yuan

Mexico has shelters, which care for children trying to cross the border, who have no company with them.

— Enrique Pena Nieto

You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business.

— Jim Cantalupo

Do what's best for you, and do it to the best of your ability - go after your goals like nobody's business.

— Michael Oher