Business Quotes · Page 700

The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster.

— George Chapman

I called my business manager in California and said, 'Sell all of my stock' - what little of it I had -…

— Lauren Bacall

I never want to be in the business of predicting what the U.S. Supreme Court will do.

— Neal Katyal

I never thought much about success early on. I only thought about being a comedian - or just being in show business,…

— Steve Martin

“Therein is the whole business of one’s life; to seek out and save in the soul that which is perishing.”

— Leo Tolstoy

In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I've tended to work at fast-growing companies that improve the way business gets done.

— Anonymous

As our company has grown, how we configure and design our offices has been a crucial part of how we foster connection…

— Joe Gebbia

You have to learn to overcome those feelings when somebody is negative about a production you love or if that production doesn't…

— Jill Paice

World events do not occur by accident. They are made to happen, whether it is to do with national issues or commerce;…

— Denis Healey

What [companies] are doing is they're leaving our country, and they're, believe it or not, leaving because taxes are too high and…

— Donald Trump

It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If…

— Leo Tolstoy

I've met a lot of people and happened to inspire a lot of people who I'm in conversation with about business. It's…

— Nas

We asked ourselves what we wanted this company to stand for. We didn't want to just sell shoes. I wasn't even into…

— Tony Hsieh

There's a difference between business acquaintances and friends. I consider a friend any time we eat together at the same restaurant, or…

— Roy Nelson

“Deception, you see, lies at the heart of business, politics and war. Even pleasure, wouldn’t you say? Everyone practises it, from the…

— Michael Wreford

Look Back in forgiveness, forward in hope, down in compassion and up in gratitude.

— Zig Ziglar

“In any business transaction, resist the urge to do 'B' without completing 'A'. Strive to do a well-rounded work.”

— Utibe Samuel Mbom

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

— Robert H. Schuller

Like the Internet, Bitcoin will change the way people interact and do business around the world.

— Erik Voorhees

“In today's business/social world... if people aren't talking about you, you're not relevant.”

— Ted Rubin

It's the lack of ambition that cripples most people, and makes them so pedestrian in the advertising/creative business

— David Ogilvy

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

— Mark Twain

We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.

— Ice Cube

I acted with Albie at Stratford-on-Avon in the 1959 season. We in the acting company tended to hang out at the pub…

— Vanessa Redgrave

We understand how to build and manage businesses that involve technology, engineering, and people at a large scale on a global platform.

— Azim Premji

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark..

— Jack Anderson

The vocation of pastor(s) has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.

— Eugene H. Peterson

Let it be a settled principle in our minds that the first and chief business of the Church of Christ is to…

— J. C. Ryle

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly…

— Andre Maurois

That 'who's the sexiest' business is a crock that the media cooked up to sell magazines, so while I say thank you…

— Jimmy Smits

Brands and branding are the most significant gifts that commerce has ever made to popular culture.

— Wally Olins

I don't feel like a hero - just another person involved in the space business. I'm hoping to encourage young folks to…

— Sunita Williams

I have learnt so much over my 40 years of business which would have been valuable to me when I was younger.

— Richard Branson

Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin…

— Emile M. Cioran

Filmmaking, at the end of the day, is a business and a balance must be struck between that and emotional ties.

— Arjun Kapoor

“If the management has not performed well in their bad times in the past, chances are they will not perform well in…

— Vijay Kedia

Managing a business, small or large, today requires an extremely disciplined, thoughtful approach with regard to the pressure that people are under.

— Howard Schultz

I've got a bad back from being in the business for more than 20 years, but if I did have that opportunity,…

— Ricky Steamboat

“There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can' t do any business from there.”

— Colonel Harland D. Sanders