Business Quotes · Page 684

Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.

— Haruki Murakami

I think, you know, a lot of the business of comedy is taking your personal experiences and making them relatable to other…

— Kumail Nanjiani

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with…

— Andre Gide

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

— Anonymous

In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in concert.

— Samuel Johnson

I'm a big fan of having a team with different thoughts and backgrounds and experiences; that makes for a better enterprise and…

— Dennis Muilenburg

The company must be paying dividends. Preferably the dividend will have been increasing and have been paid for some time.

— Peter Cundill

We win more business, not because of pitching but because clients say, 'We like the work you're doing.'

— David Droga

While it is important to be aware of and sensitive to cultural differences when conducting business internationally, the principles of transparency, trust,…

— Dan Quayle

Your personal core values define who you are, and a company's core values ultimately define the company's character and brand. For individuals,…

— Tony Hsieh

Somewhere out there is a bullet with your company's name on it. Somewhere out there is a competitor, unborn and unknown, that…

— Gary Hamel

“tailor, if he did not drink and attended to his business, could earn more money than a clerk or a curate, while…

— Samuel Butler

I got into this business for one reason, and I stayed in this business for one reason: To be the World Heavyweight…

— Bobby Roode

I'm different from any other designer, businesswise, in that I've built this company up and I own it. I never had business…

— Vivienne Westwood

When I started going to business school, I started getting calls from my peers asking for my help. I thought, 'Well, there…

— Duff McKagan

“Your employers evince great faith in your talents, Mr Ewing, to entrust you with business neccessitating such a long & arduous voyage."…

— David Mitchell

The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of…

— C. S. Lewis

The business cannot ignore what customers are saying when the message is clear: We're not on our game.

— Steve Easterbrook

Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm…

— Meryl Streep

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Things have a tendency in the film business to fall apart more often than they come together.

— Brad Anderson

Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart.

— Brené Brown

I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.

— Vin Scully

A company's culture is the foundation for future innovation. An entrepreneurs job is to build the foundation

— Brian Chesky

When you expand a business as fast as McDonald's did, part of the strength you have is the process and the efficiency.

— Steve Easterbrook

Managing brands is going to be more and more about trying to manage everything that your company does.

— Lee Clow

Start step by step. I didn't start being a big company in the beginning. You go to the bank for loans when…

— Anastasia Soare

The most important thing I learned from Dad about show business was never take myself seriously and never stop having fun with…

— Lorenzo Lamas

If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.

— Tom Hanks

Once you're involved in a business, it's part of what you do. It's the way you are.

— Ben Elliot

“In one midsize European company, the first pass at a vision contained two-thirds of the basic ideas that were in the final…

— Harvard Business School Press

The most difficult of enterprises is to secure the cooperation of others in enterprises those others did not think of first.

— Murray Leinster

In all affairs, love, religion, politics, or business, it's a healthy idea, now and then, to hang a question mark on things…

— Bertrand Russell

Business has to give people enriching, rewarding lives...or it's simply not worth doing.

— Richard Branson

This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.

— Muhammad Yunus

Earnings can be pliable as putty when a charlatan heads the company reporting them.

— Warren Buffett

Business people have a a good view of what's happening internally in countries, and they can be a positive force.

— John Kasich

Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just…

— Anne Lamott

I'm a big advocate of the power of positive thinking, particularly for small businesses.

— Kevin Plank

“Visionary companies pursue a cluster of objectives, of which making money is only one—and not necessarily the primary one.”

— Jim Collins