Business Quotes · Page 475

“I was counting my toes" Stebbins said companionably. "They are fabulously good company because they always add up the same way".”

— Stephen King

Hollywood is a tough business and repeat rejection is very much part of the process.

— Sean Murray

Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing but nobody else…

— Steuart Henderson Britt

Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times.

— Llewellyn Rockwell

People work hard and companies make big profits, but employees don't see that they share in the wealth they help to create.

— Mariana Mazzucato

Our commercial bank [JPMorgan] is only in the U.S. We are serving what you call SMEs - small businesses, private companies.

— Jamie Dimon

“The irony of advertising, a communications business, is that we treat words with little respect, devaluing their meaning.”

— John Kenney

The obligation of every ethical management is to make sure we optimize the long-term value of the company.

— Jeff Bewkes

The issue of access to growth capital is common to all entrepreneurs. Any entrepreneur who can demonstrate a credible business model and…

— Chanda Kochhar

I got my break in the business with the now-defunct Bill Watts' TWF, the old Mid-South. Which was really, in many ways,…

— Shane Douglas

“We prefer to be around others who bring out the best in us and make us feel good, don’t we? Customers want…

— Susan C. Young

The 'copy, paste' mentality of some investors and entrepreneurs - be careful of that. Do something that is unique to you, not…

— Shervin Pishevar

There are always going to be people who are experts in security or end-user devices or collaboration or databases. That's not going…

— Satya Nadella

“a perfect customer is one whose needs are a perfect fit for a company’s mission. When the relationship between need and service…

— Stacey Hall

I don't think piracy is going to kill the music industry. But digital technology and the ability to download will change the…

— Richard Parsons

“The R6 Resilience Change Management Framework's underlying assumptions are more aligned with the complexities of the 21st-century business environment, ancient wisdom, and…

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

Time is the friend of the wonderful business. It's the enemy of the lousy business. If you're in a lousy business for…

— Warren Buffett

A Minneapolis company has come out with a credit card size shotgun that fits in your wallet. The inventor says he invented…

— Jay Leno

“Dawn is such a private hour, don’t you think? Such a solitary hour. One always hears that said of midnight, but I…

— Eleanor Catton

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines…

— Lewis H. Lapham

“Medicine is becoming a business, and if people choose medicine as a way to make money, they should go to the States…

— Tilda Shalof

Of the seven days God gave to us in a week, He said to take six, and use them for our business.…

— Charles Spurgeon

“Agnes could not count on the fingers of one hand the times she had entered the Blanchards' business premises. Usually she had…

— Janet Gleeson

I've been seeing the change. It's been steady. It's been more controlled than people think. And my own belief is that China…

— Jeffrey R. Immelt

“I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, to life itself, than this incessant business.”

— Henry David Thoreau

The most important thing in business is honesty, integrity, hard work familynever forgetting where we came from,

— Frank Lucas

Consumers fare best when the barriers to business entry are low, which helps ensure that the market - any market - becomes…

— Ajit Pai

We're going to do the right thing for the company and our customers, all things considered.

— Jamie Dimon

This is a business and everything happens for a reason. I'm going to just to play hard, try to play hard and…

— James Harden

“I am an expert swordsman. And I am skilled in the business of death. I take no pleasure in my skill. Simply,…

— Oliver Bowden

Basically, our approach to branding is to take the Marley image and just be ourselves as business people, so we can let…

— Cedella Marley

Sometimes - and I don't mean it disrespectfully - the easiest people to work in the wrestling business are the people in…

— Shawn Michaels

The bond company comes in if you exceed your costs; they're the insurers of the film. In the worst-case scenario, they take…

— Todd Haynes

Australians always want everyone to be average, as if the best thing you can do is fit in.

— Poppy King

It's all about commerce. Movies are not made like paintings, where you can make them for free and put them at the…

— Steve Guttenberg

“If you don’t plan to have someone work for you, you will work for someone else. There is no in-between.”

— Ehab Atalla

It sounds to me like selling a car with faulty brakes, and then buying an insurance policy on those cars.

— Phil Angelides

“I hate the word ‘simple’. Nobody has any business to live in the world and know nothing about its ways.”

— Manju Kapur

“He looked cheerful, as though he was with an imaginary friend whose company he enjoyed.”

— Arundhati Roy

Financial struggle is often the direct result of people working all their lives for someone else.

— Robert Kiyosaki