Business Quotes · Page 453

I wish we could be private with Tesla. It actually makes us less efficient to be a public company.

— Elon Musk

Continuing economic growth requires both recruitment of new companies and expansion of existing businesses.

— Phil Bredesen

I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's…

— Waylon Jennings

The big value of the founder running the company is really two things: the knowledge and the commitment.

— Ben Horowitz

If you're running businesses anywhere in the world, people who really do well are the people who have mental toughness.

— Robert Kraft

In the U.S. Senate, in the short term we need to reduce the tax burden on hard working individuals, families, and small…

— Joni Ernst

Choose your relationships wisely. Its better to be alone than to be in bad company.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

I don't know if the idea of a career in show business or in the arts in general was looked down upon…

— Jason Sudeikis

What I'd tell any kid in high school is, 'Take business classes.' I don't care what else you're gonna do; if you're…

— Axl Rose

There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you…

— Bill Bryson

It ends all things: birds, trees, flowers, mountain tops, and business; it grinds stones to sand, and as terrible as it is,…

— Brandon Webb

I tell people all of the time that they would make any show in this business - whether it's black, white, Hispanic,…

— Kirk Acevedo

Engineers and entrepreneurs are fundamentally dissatisfied with the way the world is and want to make it better. There are so many…

— Martin Cooper

Where I've been able to be successful in our company's path is the fact that people think that we kill it, because…

— Scooter Braun

You don't have to wait for a record company to tell you that you're good or to sign you. You can put…

— Shanice

There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of…

— Ian Mckellen

don't think I should be in the business of making big pronouncements about where we are now, but I would say that…

— Christine Jennings

“No doubt she was wondering how to fight him off. That made him feel like some sordid roué, thinking of nothing but…

— Courtney Milan

I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance… Unless you have a…

— Steve Jobs

Between the Great Depression and the 1970s, private business was viewed with suspicion even in most capitalist economies. Businesses were, so the…

— Ha-Joon Chang

Now, I don't mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. What we do know is, if…

— Ken Robinson

I find on songwriting, I really have to work at making sure I'm not imitating myself. You know? Which happens to all…

— Andy Wilkinson

As for Christianity's alleged concern with truth, Christian faith is to free inquiry what the Mafia is to free enterprise. Christianity may…

— George H. Smith

“Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of everyone of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.

— Oscar De La Hoya

My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The next horizon will be deep integration of the physical and interactive worlds. The future of online is offline.

— Cyriac Roeding

Brains are far more important than money or connections. Everyone and anyone can create a business out of their bedroom.

— Mark Cuban

Sustainability includes how you run your business, and my bottom line includes how you treat your people. Sustainability starts with your staff.

— Tom Douglas

My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.

— Marion Cotillard

Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.

— Anonymous

Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

When in company, put not your hands to any part of the body, not usually discovered.

— George Washington

People are grateful when you make a difference in their lives. That is the essence of any successful business

— Stelios Haji-Ioannou

I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.

— Barry Diller

Entrepreneurs are never satisfied. They want to do things better. They strive for perfection and use all the ingenuity to their command…

— J. Willard Marriott

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.

— John Cheever

I left my business to run for the Senate because I believe the government needs to run more like a business.

— Mike Braun

I've got enough people hoping I'll fail that I need to be smart with my business.

— Giggs

I think, social business is the most logical thing to do. If we had done that, we could reduce all the problems…

— Muhammad Yunus