Business Quotes · Page 439

In Las Vegas, people know that the odds are stacked against them. On Wall Street, they manipulate the odds while you are…

— John Ensign

We're all surrounded by what I call faux language, fake language of commerce, of news media.

— Toni Morrison

The sillier the market's behavior, the greater the opportunity for the business like investor.

— Benjamin Graham

I do have some unfinished business with Josh Thomson. I think that's a fight fans want to see, it's a fight Bellator…

— Michael Chandler

I intentionally built a business that has absolutely nothing to do with appearance.

— Kathy Ireland

The main thing that 99designs is about is choice. Its a fantastic model that eliminates risk for small business owners and puts…

— Matt Mickiewicz

Great companies make meaning. A company has a name, but its people give it meaning.

— Richard Pascale

To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not only good manners, but equally good business.

— Emily Post

I grew up in a nonprofit theater company in the heartland of central California, so I am very aware of the importance…

— Audra McDonald

At any moment, one company stands in the spotlight of the middle ring in the stock market's never-ending circus. It may not…

— Alex Berenson

Nirvana, to a value investor, is paying a cheap price for a company that is growing in value every year at a…

— Whitney Tilson

Companies are communities. Theres a spirit of working together. Communities are not a place where a few people allow themselves to be…

— Henry Mintzberg

“Let’s get down to business. What are you looking for? A hookup? Two men? Marriage, babies and picket fence? Are you looking…

— Milly Taiden

The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And, so they started…

— Richard Grimes

I knew I wanted to be a journalist ever since I was a teenager. While it is interesting and gratifying to be…

— David Talbot

A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people in the accounting department. And…

— John Lydon

“As Cochran recalls in a blog post he wrote about his experiment for the Harvard Business Review, these simple statistics got him…

— Cal Newport

You don't get a lot of life milestones in show business. It's really difficult to make things, and a lot of times…

— Scott Aukerman

“Business Plan Writers If you need a business plan in less than a week, our consulting service can help! Our business plan…

— Business Plan Writers

“Damn," Westcliff finally exclaimed. "I have occasional business dealings with their father. How am I supposed to face Thomas Bowman without remembering…

— Lisa Kleypas

while the executive should give every possible value to the information of the specialist, no executive should abdicate thinking on any subject…

— Mary Parker Follett

As we continue to drive the benefits of integrating our enterprise skills, capabilities, and experience - what we call operating as 'One…

— Dennis Muilenburg

One of the things I have learned over 26 years in the business is that the most productive place to focus new…

— Rochelle B Lazarus

Never compromise and sell yourself short. I've been in the music business, a girl group . . . I've been through so…

— Naturi Naughton

I have a stake in a company called Super Fight League, which is an MMA company in India, and we have a…

— Amir Khan

I think if the average person that uses AOL can't physically see the changes in the company, we've failed.

— Tim Armstrong

“Business is not about making friends! Identify favorable occasion and maximize its benefit.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

Homelessness is a really important topic, and the business climate is also important.

— Kevin Faulconer

Shah Rukh Khan's stardom always inspires me. His sensibilities, way of life and the way he does business, I love him for…

— Badshah

I think Rick Berman just called me and asked me if I wanted to do the show [Star Trek: Enterprise], and he…

— Brent Spiner

I have been the hugest HBO fan since I was 3, watching programming that I had no business watching as a child.

— Brian Tyree Henry

I have learned that trying to guess what the boss or the client wants is the most debilitating of all influences in…

— Leo Burnett

How do you build a successful organization or culture? It's the people. The people part, in business and basketball, is huge.

— Bob Myers

Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.

— Bill Gates

“I’m in this business for the defence of humanity,’ he explained. ‘You have to prepare for war to make peace.”

— Andrew Feinstein

In just a few years, I have turned my small company into a multi-million dollar makeup empire.

— Jeffree Star

Nothing keeps a company honest and efficient like the threat of other companies coming along and taking its business away.

— John Stossel

My business is not reading your messages. I don't have a business doing that. And it's against my values to do that.…

— Tim Cook

It is not possible to have a strong, functioning business in a world of increasing inequality, poverty, and climate change.

— Paul Polman

“To quote one company that makes beacon systems, “beacons are ushering in the indoor mobile marketing revolution.”

— Brian W. Kernighan