Business Quotes · Page 714

The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

— Foster Friess

Luck is earned. Luck is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you get a break.

— Paul Hawken

Success in any field, but especially in business is about working with people, not against them.

— Keith Ferrazzi

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

— Blackie

A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there.

— Walt Disney

I'm really inspired to build a billion-dollar company. The hardest part is building the vehicle to get you there.

— Robert Herjavec

“The secret of his success is that he never went to business school. Imagina all the lessons he never had to unlearn.”

— Peter Lynch

Comedy is a very lucrative business now, but when everyone first went into it, it didn't make sense from a financial standpoint.

— Jim Gaffigan

Every home should have a room, or at least a nook with two chairs, where it is a sin punishable by immediate…

— Robert Grudin

America is a nation of 270 million people: 100 million of them are gangsters, another 100 million are hustlers, 50 million are…

— Tom Robbins

I believe strongly that most people in this country U.S. don't want a totalitarian state...And when conservatives say, "Get the government out…

— Whoopi Goldberg

Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more…

— Vince Lombardi

Elon Musk is an incredibly prolific entrepreneur, having come up with, or been at the founding team of Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity, PayPal,…

— Steve Jurvetson

I love working, and I love this business. I love what I do, and I dont think Im the guy who can…

— Terry Crews

“My idea of good company, Mr Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that…

— Jane Austen

When beginning your entrepreneurial journey, acknowledge that you become a product of the five people you spend the most time with. So…

— Lewis Howes

I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone.

— Charlie Chaplin

“We like the dark,” said all the dwarves. “Dark for dark business! There are many hours before dawn.” “Of”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

The time has come when advertising has in some hands reached the status of a science.

— Claude C. Hopkins

I think the legacy is really the company that we built. That's what makes me happy. I'm a very simple person, so…

— Parker Harris

I'm just trying to survive and stay relevant! That's all anyone in the music business can ask for.

— Christopher Tin

Broadcasting is a brutal, often unfair business, where looks are valued more than skill.

— Joe Buck

As a professor of marketing, I have a professional interest in examining how companies create integrated messages when communicating a corporate image.

— Gad Saad

One of the demonetization benefits, in some markets like used cars, is that organized, transparent businesses are gaining at the cost of…

— Anand Mahindra

When everybody starts a company, they are so energized and passionate about it. And what happens is that a lot of times…

— Tobin Heath

No. 1 thing is that life is just not as interrupt-driven as when you're running a company.

— Steve Ballmer

I started a shoe-shine business, worked at the grain elevator, and as a chimney sweep, paid my way through college and then…

— Doug Burgum

“In the company of what-is, man is neither privileged nor detached, but rather merely exists among other things.”

— Barbara Bolt

“Most of the time, you’ll concentrate just on your website but when you take your focus off of it, you’ll realize that…

— Pooja Agnihotri

Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does.

— Frank Dane

I challenge those who are in business and other professions to see that there are copies of the Book of Mormon in…

— Ezra Taft Benson

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

— Honore de Balzac

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let's go!

— George E. M. Kelly

The challenge of any business owner is not only to keep the saw sharp, but also to know if you even have…

— Michael Gerber

There's often a big difference between business considerations as opposed to the business of the heart.

— Suzanne de Passe

Starting a company is like going to war. You can't do anything else but be fully engaged. You have to be insanely,…

— Audrey MacLean

Regardless of if I'm a size 6 or 26 it's nobody's business and nobody has the right to body shame me or anyone else.

— Vogue Williams

“The unfinished business will always come after you. Whatever you fail to kill will hunt your children, or the next generation.”

— Samuel T. Padmore

I want my performance to be at the highest level of anybody in the company. I want to make everybody step up…

— Dean Ambrose

After making a lot more films, I realized that the movie and TV business is, for all its inefficiencies, one of the…

— Steven Soderbergh