Business Quotes · Page 469

The typical large company has a compensation committee, They don't look for Dobermans on that committee, they look for chihuahuas.

— Warren Buffett

“The primary aim of business is not to earn profit but to serve people--the customers and society at large--to fulfill their needs!”

— Business Plus service life inspiration ethics

I've got a friend who has a juice business and he brings boxes round and fills up my fridge with fruit and…

— Phil Taylor

I still believe that the mission of Business 2.0 is very strong, very fundamental, and we're really at the beginning of where…

— James Daly

“Be stern in the council-chamber, [Show no weakness, and insist on your plans being ratified by the sovereign.] so that you may…

— Sun Tzu

I have heard from the phone company, the water company, the electric company, but haven't heard from you. Too bad, it's your…

— Mrthrill

Private enterprise cannot rebuild the nation's infrastructure or keep our research institutions vibrant. Government must do what only it can do.

— Richard Cohen

It is fun to work with different products and companies, as long as I'm working with products I use in my day-to-day…

— George Kittle

We were making 'Tragic Kingdom,' and we were kind of battling with the record company. It was just being drawn-out, in the…

— Tony Kanal

Whenever I leave my apartment, especially if I go on a head-cleansing walk, I always have three things in my pocket: my…

— Jonathan Capehart

Today, if someone showed me a five-year plan, I'd toss out the pages detailing Years Three, Four and Five as pure fantasy…

— Mark McCormack

High-performing companies from all over the world have discovered that they can find all the competitive advantages they need to succeed with…

— Kay Ivey

Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a…

— Peter Coyote

Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in…

— Ayn Rand

…goal directed self-imposed delay of gratification is perhaps the essence of emotional self-regulation: the ability to deny impulse in the service of…

— Daniel Goleman

People in business understand paying money to be more efficient. You can bootstrap markets where the devices are too expensive at first…

— Bill Gates

“Yet despite...accommodations with commerce, Möser regarded the market as primarily a threat--to the artisanal citizens of the town, to the traditional wants…

— Jerry Z. Muller

I have very deep concern about the legacy of the Rehnquist court and its efforts to restrict congressional authority to enact legislation…

— Dianne Feinstein

If the Government gets into business on any large scale, we soon find that the beneficiaries attempt to play a large part…

— Calvin Coolidge

What makes Samsung so mysterious is that it's not altogether clear who leads the company or what its leaders do. The company…

— Adam Lashinsky

If you work at an insurance company that sells premiums you wouldn't even sell to your mother, how happy would you feel…

— Paul Polman

“Would you like some company?" I say, moving over and sitting next to Blair. She doesn't like that, giving me a look…

— C.M. Stunich

“The effects of the division of labour, in the general business of society, will be more easily understood by considering in what…

— Adam Smith

Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic…

— Ida Tarbell

“Some say the Earth is angry Because he wants no company; I say the Earth is angry Because he lives alone.”

— N.K. Jemisin

What many single male 23-year-old entrepreneurs don't realize is that family tech is a 'big freaking business'. As in, trillions of dollars.

— Christine Tsai

Even though people do not traditionally think of being empathetic as a business skill, it can create enormous value.

— Daniel Lubetzky

We need to get rid of all remnants of bureaucracy and bureaucratic thinking, and start thinking like entrepreneurs again.

— Larry Sanger

Brock has always been the smartest guy in this business at self promotion, knowing what he's worth, knowing what he wants and…

— Arn Anderson

We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.

— Aaron Brown

There are certain skills that business people have that are - that are, in fact, helpful in - when it comes to…

— Rick Santorum

I tried to look presentable for a show, but not for sexual attraction. It was strictly for show business.

— Little Richard

Build your own business team. Survival in business requires a synergy of skills.

— Richard Branson

Shondaland is my company. I run that mother. I am in charge. I am the leader. It's fantastic. It's also really hard.…

— Shonda Rhimes

I know I can hold two, maybe even three belts. So I have business to take care of back in and around…

— Conor McGregor

I don't believe in traditional company structures because the best ideas do not always come from the top.

— Anonymous

No individual or company, no matter how large or how profitable, is above the law.

— Eric Holder

Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you.

— Tommy Steele

“He came to ultimately put the kingdom of the world out of business by establishing a counterkingdom of radical love that would…

— Gregory A. Boyd

I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me… I milk the sky and the…

— Henry David Thoreau