“Like other factory owners of the time, he was as much in the business of manufacturing energy as manufacturing goods. But” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
I think for larger-scale entrepreneurship, it's true - for men and women - that people who already have capital tend to do… — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share Image
You can't have success without trust... especially in businesses that deal with the public. — Jim Burke Copy Share Image
Leaders must always put their people before themselves. If you do that, your business will take care of itself. — Sam Walton Copy Share Image
The merchants will manage [commerce] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I didn't go into this business to do action because I'm a classically trained actor. But I'm good at kicking and punching. — Wesley Snipes Copy Share Image
British Beatitudes! ... Beer, beef, business, bibles, bulldogs, battleships, buggery and bishops. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The best business decision I've made was to become a songwriter. I can't say that I have a worst, because I don't… — Christina Milian Copy Share Image
People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have… — Don Johnson Copy Share Image
If you can follow only one bit of data, follow the earnings - assuming the company in question has earnings. I subscribe… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
I danced in a company of 'West Side Story' when I was very young. It was most of the original cast -… — Teri Garr Copy Share Image
In addition to being a nurse, I'm also a small business owner and I taught at a local community college. I'm also… — Diane Black Copy Share Image
“You're boring me, M'Ordant. Go away." V'Aidan "You can't be bored." M'Ordant "And a good thing, too, since I'd no doubt perish… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
In the media business and as a creative executive, if you don't take risks, you're dead in the water. Calculated risk taking… — Nancy Dubuc Copy Share Image
Football, that's just athletics. But in the business world - doing everything - people are competing. So you need good work ethics,… — Herschel Walker Copy Share Image
You can't pick up a business magazine ever without seeing the word 'collaborate' splashed all over it. I think people are probably… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
The problem with the finance sector is not that it has crashed (though that has done enormous damage around the world) but… — Doreen Massey Copy Share Image
Our investments continue to be few in number and simple in concept: The truly big investment idea can usually be explained in… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“Since we know people like to do business with people who are most like themselves, consider this: Excellent sales people understand that… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
“Today, everybody expects to be entertained, and they expect to be entertained all the time. Business meetings must be snappy, with bullet… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“O Divine Poesy, goddess, daughter of Zeus, sustain for me this song of the various-minded man who, after he had plundered the… — Homer Copy Share Image
“We need a moderately-priced stock market… The market, like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But, unlike the Lord, the market… — Warren Buffet Copy Share Image
“Entrepreneurship is when an individual retrieves a red hot idea from the creativity furnace without the constraint of the heat of lean… — Amah Lambert Copy Share Image
That is something I try to stress to the wrestlers nowadays - there is an epidemic of spot monkeys in the business.… — Matt Hardy Copy Share Image
My mentor said, 'Let's go do it', not 'You go do it'. How powerful when someone says, 'Let's!' — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
The returns from investing in poor people are just as great as the returns from investing in the business world... and have… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine my life without horses. They have been my teachers, my friends, my business partners and my entertainment. — Monty Roberts Copy Share Image
I ran a profitable boostrapped company for five years, then raised $40 million from Andreessen Horowitz. — Alan Schaaf Copy Share Image
The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth. — Lily Tomlin Copy Share Image
Especially when you have a lot of technology you're developing as a small company, trying to protect that technology is a real… — Lonnie Johnson Copy Share Image
“A Scott, having got his bride pregnant, was apt to file her as completed business for eight months at a time.” — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
If you want to find out how strong a company's ethics are, don't listen to what its people say, watch what they… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
The last thing we need is yet another makeup company. Even I have a nervous breakdown when I go through the department… — Lauren Hutton Copy Share Image
I like the company of guys. I have a lot of good girlfriends that I really love, but you know, most of… — Aisha Tyler Copy Share Image
My job is to listen to ideas, maybe cook up a few of my own, and make decisions based on what's good… — Phil Knight Copy Share Image
When creatively passionate people get together to start a company, the energy and camaraderie is really pretty stimulating. — Lee Clow Copy Share Image
“An entrepreneur’s challenge is to design and successfully implement a new business model.” — Alexander Osterwalder Copy Share Image
I am the owner of my prosthetic manufacturing business, BioDapt, which manufactures lower-limb prosthetics for sports. — Mike Schultz Copy Share Image
Microsoft is no longer thought of as the company where the smartest people want to work. — Stephen Manes Copy Share Image
I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image