Business Quotes · Page 688

I work for a company that makes deceptively shallow serving dishes for Chinese restaurants.

— Woody Allen

The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.

— Edward Abbey

I already have a second career, running a property investment business with a friend.

— Kevin Clifton

I like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There's vision, patience, and execution.

— Steve Ballmer

Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats.

— Ronald Reagan

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

— Aristotle

Do not let any record company disturb your creative flow. You are not writing for the record company. You're writing for the…

— Grandmaster Flash

To me, the word profitable means sustainable - able to sustain a business that has a high degree of excellence.

— John W. Henry

A democratic Europe of nation states could be a force for liberty, enterprise and open trade. But, if creating a United States…

— Margaret Thatcher

“That offer paralyzed her for long moments, for now Meenakshi knew—whoever it was inside her, she meant business. And then, she shook…

— Neil D'Silva

The team was unbelievable, and Dropbox was a really easy, simple-to-use product. Both Aditya and I believe this is the technology company…

— Ruchi Sanghvi

There was a proposal in California that would keep out Wal-Mart but allow Costco. You opposed it. Are you nuts? That's true:…

— James Sinegal

I think the most important thing that a company can do, not just in the customer space but the employee space, is…

— Paul Saffo

“You must perfect every fundamental of your business if you expect it to perform well. We demonstrated this emphasis on details, and…

— Ray Kroc

If we go to work at 8 a.m. and go home at 5 p.m., this is not a high-tech company and Alibaba…

— Jack Ma

What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

For a company to be successful, it's not just about ideas. It's also about luck. And everything else coming together.

— Naveen Tewari

The best of life is the exercise of ingenuity-in design, in finance, in flying, in business.

— Bill Lear

We want to build colonies on the Moon, Mars, the Moons of other planets, and even nearby asteroids. We want to make…

— Daniel Goldin

In a knowledge economy, a good business is a community with a purpose, not a piece of property.

— Charles Handy

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the…

— Garry Shandling

“That’s the problem with any ‘simple truth’—it always takes a gaggle of complete idiots or a team of all-knowing geniuses to miss…

— Ali Sheikh

Everyone doesn't need to know your business... some things are meant to be kept to yourself.

— Anonymous

The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Back in the day, if you did any commercials or were affiliated with a company you were a sellout. Now it's kind…

— Jordan Knight

Satan has been the best friend the church has ever had, as he has kept it in business all these years!

— Anonymous

The way you scale that is you create notes for every meeting and send it to the entire company.

— Keith Rabois

God really is in the business of blessing his people in unusual ways so his goodness and his greatness will be declared…

— David Platt

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

— W. Clement Stone

I'm taking charge of my own business because I don't trust anyone else to do it.

— George Groves

Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.

— Gerald Brenan

For a long time I was free. I didn't belong to any type of studio, or any company. I kept a sort…

— Takashi Miike

Basic income is not a utopia, it's a practical business plan for the next step of the human journey.

— Jeremy Rifkin

“Jones was Michael Jones, and he owned a reasonably successful construction company along with his brother Francis and their business partner”

— Michael Bray

This world is a bitter tree, it has only two sweet nectar like fruits - one is soft voice and the other…

— Chanakya

My own aunt was Merle Oberon, so movie stardom was not a faraway mystery to me as a child: it was part…

— Michael Korda

“Opportunities are everywhere. The question is who is going to take advantage of them.”

— Ehab Atalla

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

— Kevin Hart

I know in the past Republicans have agreed to minimum-wage increases that there's built-in protections for small and midsize businesses.

— Marco Rubio

More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture…

— Marc Andreessen