Business Quotes · Page 686

The most important adage and the only adage is, the customer comes first, whatever the business, the customer comes first.

— Kerry Stokes

of the world and drudgery of business , seeks a pretense of reason to give itself a full and uncontrolled indulgence.

— David Hume

Dont buy into the 20-hours-a-day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind.

— James Altucher

Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.

— Jonathan Swift

Finance that only talks to itself & deals with each other becomes socially useless

— Mark Carney

“You don't need to chase wealth, just become a real entrepreneur and the world is your oyster.”

— Amah Lambert

When I was setting up my own business in my early 20s I'd get up early and work every hour I could…

— Grant Shapps

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

— Brian Lumley

I have a few business ideas (that I'm going to advertise in High Times, amongst other places), and one of them is…

— David Cross

I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier,…

— Christopher Walken

Now, the causes being four, it is the business of the student of nature to know about them all, and if he…

— Aristotle

I felt that even when they were polite they hardly saw me, that they would have begged the pardon of Jack the…

— Ralph Ellison

It is still harder all around for women to get funding in business and film. There are only a very small group…

— Julie Smolyansky

After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics; as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator,…

— Dee Dee Myers

I just like to talk to people. I don't know how to bridge the gap between getting to know someone and then…

— Michael Rady

For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Change is not a threat, it's an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.

— Seth Godin

Each close you use should be an educational process by which you are able to raise the value in the prospect's mind.

— Zig Ziglar

Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Even when in the company of others, I struggle to direct my attention outward, rather than toward the constant murmuring and shouting…

— Anonymous

I've always loved what I do and I've always done what I wanted to do... in this business you have got to…

— Leo Sayer

When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.

— Lin Yutang

I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.

— Stephen Rea

I think everyone should sell other people's stuff and their own stuff. I think everyone, almost everyone should mix those two business…

— Jeffrey Walker

No one disputes that online businesses offer much more variety than their analog counterparts.

— Anita Elberse

What any manager will try to bring to a company first and foremost is an energy and commitment to the business. To…

— James Murdoch

I think there's huge room for a personality who can create a following, and that personality can be a person or a…

— Norman Pearlstine

My vision is to build an e-commerce ecosystem that allows consumers and businesses to do all aspects of business online.

— Jack Ma

I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot…

— Anthony Kiedis

What other people think of me is not my business. What I do is what I do. How people see me doesn’t…

— RuPaul

We have a lot of people who are Republicans, a lot of people who are Democrats, and it's not just because of…

— Jamie Dimon

America is successful because of the hard work and creativity and enterprise of our people.

— George W. Bush

Incarceration has become a business. It is in the interest of the police and the prisons to keep locking people up.

— Sam Branson

You've got to be very cognizant of the correlation between social media links and business because they don't always correlate as highly…

— Mark Cuban

“Courage, dear miss! Courage! Business! The worst will be over in a moment; it is but passing the room-door, and the worst”

— Charles Dickens

The more followers you have, the more you can promote your movie. You know? It's all, like, a business thing.

— Lele Pons

To be a real entrepreneur you always have to be looking forward. The moment you rest on your laurels is the moment…

— Richard Branson

There's always a conversation about business when it comes to the entertainment industry.

— Omarion

I've learned so much between Atlantic, Slip-N-Slide and EMI to know how to control and do my own business.

— Trina

Absence of defects does not necessarily build business... Something more is required.

— W. Edwards Deming