Business Quotes · Page 476

I also know, as an entrepreneur myself, you face new obstacles every day and you need to have the perseverance to see…

— Richard Branson

Our philosophy is we call it as we see it. Sometimes you agree, sometimes you don't. Robust debate is good.

— Bill O'Reilly

Marketing strategy is a series of integrated actions leading to a sustainable competitive advantage.

— John Sculley

I feel like it's never too early to start planning your future and learning about business off the court.

— Spencer Dinwiddie

We've got a low turnover management group and executive group who've grown up in the business.

— Fred L. Turner

No one could ever argue with me about people in show business being kind of nice.

— Desi Arnaz

Later, you should learn to hire fast and scale up the company, but in the early days the goal should be not…

— Sam Altman

I do not own a single security anywhere that doesn't pay a dividend, and I formed a mutual-fund company with that very…

— Kevin O'Leary

Business is a battlefield. You need to be able to go to battle with your team members. Like the military. Know them,…

— Pamela Meyer

When I was first introduced to the music business, I learned how to make beats. All my friends rapped, but nobody made…

— Kid Ink

Tell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a man. What…

— Toni Morrison

Business executives need to start by spelling out and communicating their values. Then they need to lead by example. This means getting…

— Vivek Wadhwa

“People will buy bogus quick-fix solutions all day long, but few want to hear that the way to build a business or…

— Sean Platt

How to get rid of the mind? Is it the mind that wants to kill itself? The mind cannot kill itself. So…

— Ramana Maharshi

Don't get married until you're certain that you're marrying the right girl. How did I know my wife was the one? I'd…

— Brian Wilson

In 1970, there was a single telephone company in the United States called AT&T, and its technology was called circuit switching, and…

— Vint Cerf

Atari always was a technology-driven company, and we were very keen on keeping the technological edge on everything. There's a whole bunch…

— Nolan Bushnell

“Is the competition really some mythical beast? No, not really. Knowing how to play your group of salespeople as a team, to…

— Michael Delaware

..there is need for a person to be generally educated. Otherwise you shrivel up much too soon. Whether this means reading the…

— Peter Drucker

“But increasing the amount of equity finance in an economy is easier said than done: it is a project that would take…

— Jonathan Haskel

as a lobbyist he had long ago concluded there was no difference in how Democrats and Republicans conducted the business of government.…

— Carl Hiaasen

“My success with customers on the telephone wasn’t by using pushy sales methods, but by engaging people in meaningful conversations which could…

— Susan C. Young

“Insurance is about spreading the risk - because you have no clue who will run into problems. If you are running a…

— Tapan Singhel

Think, for a moment, about our educational ladder. We've strengthened the steps lifting students from elementary school to junior high, and those…

— Melinda Gates

“High-performing companies have leaders who are self-aware and possess certain qualities that enable them to connect with others.”

— Jerry Colonna Marie R. Miyashiro

Drug company payments to doctors are a small part of a much larger strategy by Big Pharma to clean our pockets.

— Robert Reich

I said, 'Who said African American founders can't build a billion dollar company?'

— Troy Carter

For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.

— Dawn Powell

All one needs is a computer, a network connection, and a bright spark of initiative and creativity to join the economy.

— Don Tapscott

People forget we've got awesome entrepreneurs all over the country, especially in the North East.

— Sara Davies

I shall make it my chief business to see that the [royal] executive power has its place in the constitution.

— Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

“Every person is a project, God's project, I want to be the most profitable one.”

— Amit Kalantri

Marketing's job is never done. It's about perpetual motion. We must continue to innovate every day.

— Beth Comstock

Even though I was in close proximity to everything, it never really dawned on me to pursue a career in show business.

— Vicki Lawrence

My best business decision is always to have been unembarrassed about negotiating a decent deal. Not being coy or shy about money…

— Anne Robinson

Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior', for by living up to it there is no such word as fail.

— P. T. Barnum

There is truly no other business in the world like making movies. It's unique, it's extremely demanding and difficult, but it's also…

— Gabriel Campisi

The state is a vast enterprise for declaring all sorts of things legal for itself that would be illegal for us.

— Llewellyn Rockwell

What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies.

— Gerry Spence