Business Quotes · Page 659

Small business is the backbone of our economy. I'm for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs are generated.

— Michele Bachmann

If you're not competitive, if you're not out to make a mark, you shouldn't be in the news business.

— Katy Tur

I think, as I've gotten older I have realized what a huge privilege it is to even be in this business. I,…

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Read a lot when you're on vacation, but nothing that has to do with your business.

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale.

— C. K. Prahalad

For male and female entrepreneurs alike, having a woman investor can bring credibility when discussing product positioning and expansion opportunities.

— Emily Weiss

When employees join executives in truly owning the responsibility for business success, an exciting new sense of teamwork takes hold.

— Punit Renjen

The enemy will not see you vanish into God's company without an effort to reclaim you.

— C. S. Lewis

Any company faces big challenges during transformation. People are accustomed to going ahead on the existing track. Even when they know there…

— Li Ning

Never stop asking yourself whether you can do things better. Keep testing every aspect of your business to the nth degree, and…

— James Caan

“In business since 1948 and claiming to serve 10,000 meals a day, the Rendezvous lies in a busy cellar down an alley…

— Patricia Schultz

When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just…

— Bette Midler

Don't get caught up in how many hours you work. Judge success based on having goals and measuring your results. Hard work,…

— Mark Cuban

In the Washington soft money game, big business and big labor are accomplices working together to protect the mushy middle of big…

— John McCain

“The most important thing that a company can do for society is to produce and sell products and services that create real…

— Lars Kolind

If the English want a king, it is their business. If the Russians want communism, it is their business. If the Americans…

— Anonymous

“Writing was the solution to every problem—financial, emotional, intellectual. It had kept me company when I was a lonely child. It gave…

— Ariel Levy

We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility…

— Jon Huntsman, Jr

The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to…

— Aaron Levie

“Share and Enjoy' is the company motto of the hugely successful Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Complaints Division, which now covers the major land…

— Douglas Adams

“In all my experience in both startups and large companies, including and especially at Facebook, I would always prefer - a hundred…

— Antonio Garcia Martinez

It applies in any business. Shoemakers should be run by shoe guys, and software firms by software guys, and supermarkets by supermarket…

— Bob Lutz

Over the long term, it's hard for a stock to earn a much better return that the business which underlies it earns.…

— Charlie Munger

I believe 3D is inevitable because it's about aligning our entertainment systems to our sensory system. We all have two eyes; we…

— James Cameron

When the representatives of "Big Business" think of the people, they do not include themselves.

— Woodrow Wilson

I'm trying to be the best dad ever. And being a husband is a whole other business itself.

— Martellus Bennett

I think a lot of entrepreneurs think they need money to build the business faster when they actually haven't figured out the…

— Greg Gianforte

The conditions for harassment are built into the very structure of the trucking business, beginning with the training process.

— Mary Pilon

You need to change your mind from sell sell sell to help help help and if you can do that as a…

— Mark Schaefer

I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

You stayed up on the record business by knowing who was doing what. You watched the Phil Spectors. That's what told you…

— George Clinton

There are not more than five primary colors (blue, yellow, red, white, and black), yet in combination they produce more hues than…

— Anonymous

“Every person has the inherent right to "self-proclaim"--to announce, at any time he chooses, that he is on any level he chooses…

— Robert Ringer

Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual.' That is why it is effective.

— Naomi Wolf

I would like people to say that Merck continues to be a company that makes a difference in the world.

— Kenneth Frazier

“To paraphrase Einstein, insanity is expecting employees to do one thing while rewarding them for doing something else.”

— Robert G. Thompson

The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble…

— Adam Smith

My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.

— Rachel Zoe

I've never been in the enterprise where your customers are your partners. It was always, you had customers, and you had partners.

— Diane Greene

Watch, listen and learn. You can't know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.

— Donald Trump