Business Quotes · Page 420

All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]

— Tacitus

To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants.

— Peter Stuyvesant

I just always try to stay on point, take care of the business, and take care of the people around me.

— Montel Vontavious Porter

Most entrepreneurs fail because they are working IN their business rather than ON their business.

— Michael Gerber

Jobs are a priority for every country. Doing more to improve regulation and help entrepreneurs is the key to creating jobs -…

— Paul Wolfowitz

“the rest of the company would have preferred it if her husband had been the guest at the Beckhams”

— Leigh Michaels

In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete.

— Cher

“Everyday US Marines make possible the impossible and then go about their business like it's just the way things are supposed to…

— Mark W Boyer

I thought, 'I have ideas. I'm creative.' I just didn't see why I should be pigeon-holing myself in the business world or…

— Payal Kadakia

In D.C., I've passed amendments to allocate $6.3 million to keep our waterways open for business, $1 million as a down payment…

— Cedric Richmond

Employees are a company's greatest asset - they're your competitive advantage. You want to attract and retain the best; provide them with…

— Anne M. Mulcahy

Anybody who is an entrepreneur is a person who essentially has impaired judgment. The odds of success are zilch. This valley is…

— Tom Peters

When it comes to people I love and care about, I may condense the time, but I'm giving them every ounce of…

— Jay Shetty

That's a rule in the business. No tongue. You can't really get into it, otherwise, it's weird. I think that particular scene…

— Rachel Bilson

Open innovation is a paradigm that assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal…

— Henry Chesbrough

I think that, too many times, business has been seen as acting in its narrow self-interest rather than, essentially, contributing more broadly…

— Michael Porter

These proceedings may at first seem strange and difficult, but like all other steps which we have already passed over, will in…

— Thomas Paine

“Yes, it struck her now that this whole business of the bull was like a life; the important birth, the fair chance,…

— Malcolm Lowry

We need to put limits on how much an individual, group or business can spend on influencing an individual legislator or a…

— Philip Kotler

Every person - whether Greek or Barbarian - who is in training for wisdom, leading a blameless, irreproachable life, chooses neither to…

— Pierre Hadot

“Chloroplasts bear chlorophyll; they give the green world its color, and they carry out the business of photosynthesis. Around the inside perimeter…

— Annie Dillard

“The most successful entrepreneur that every lived (God) was and is successful because Jesus and the Holy Spirit showed they cared for…

— Delaine Robins

People don't understand what fighters at the top have to go through. You know what, even half the fighters don't understand what…

— Tito Ortiz

“It was unaccountable not to be obliged to go out to see her, not to have any occasion to be tormenting myself…

— Charles Dickens

My businesses are all related - retail, shopping centers, banking, real estate, and tourism development. Together they create synergy.

— Henry Sy

“We have facts,’ they say. But facts are not everything—at least half the business lies in how you interpret them!”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The term 'networking' is simply another way to think about how to start a relationship. Our relationships are our network.”

— Michelle Tillis Lederman

The key to success for everything in business, science and technology is never to follow the others.

— Masaru Ibuka

Getting attention is my business. My whole life's predicated on, 'Hey, look at me!'

— Jerry Lewis

I learned that focus is key. Not just in your running a company, but in your personal life as well.

— Tim Cook

The business of Mr. Bennett's life was to keep his daughters alive. The business of Mrs. Bennett's was to get them married.

— Seth Grahame-Smith

“If the business will not honestly accept uncertainty, then teams and individuals will always adjust their estimates to give themselves some buffer.”

— Anonymous

My father had the main barber- and beauty-supply business in the African-American community in Buffalo.

— Helene D. Gayle

When you are congruent in your personal life, you will be congruent in your business life.

— Brendon Burchard

Every employee can affect your company's brand, not just the front-line employees that are paid to talk to your customers.

— Tony Hsieh

As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the…

— John Dewey

Books are so cheap and easy to get that people don't bother stealing them, which is the essential rule of piracy that…

— Tucker Max

Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color.

— Anonymous

I was different. I wasn't like anyone else. The business has never seen the likes of me, ever, and probably never will.

— Enzo Amore

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don't eat. And I like to eat.

— Robert Kiyosaki