Business Quotes · Page 480

It's a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur's metric for success. It's not, and nor should it be.

— Richard Branson

“[On Obama Administration] "I've never heard any administration or any business or anybody ever claim incompetence more than this group of people,”

— Glenn Beck

Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business.

— Richard Branson

“Your brand is what your customers and potential customers think about you; your culture is who you say you are and how…

— Amber Hurdle

The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders.

— Leo Burnett

My motto has always been: Only first class business and that in a first class way

— David Ogilvy

The most dangerous thing for an entrepreneur to do is to actually go into a business that he does not understand fully.

— Aliko Dangote

For a number of major companies, if you can't access the commercial markets, you can't fund your business. That's a big problem.…

— Kenneth Chenault

When I first started doing sketch comedy, I promised myself that if I were ever to have any success in this business,…

— Will Ferrell

God is still in the business of coming down to earth: to this cubicle, this email, this room, this house, this job,…

— John Ortberg

First, we will focus on the privatization of small and medium sized enterprises, followed by the medium size industry and then we…

— Ibrahim Rugova

It's a false choice to say we either have job safety or job growth. It's a false choice to suggest that the…

— Tom Perez

My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there's a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop…

— Eric Stonestreet

The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play…

— Jeremy Renner

“The Tanakh teaches that, “The diligent will rule, while the lazy will be put to forced labor”. Most Jews work for themselves…

— H.W. Charles

When I moved to London, you could park your motorcycle in the pavement, on the sidewalk. We would stay here and just…

— Ewan McGregor

In general, an asset should be sold when it has greater value to a buyer. This happens when a buyer has a…

— Charles Koch

You cannot do a goal. Long-term planning and goal-setting must therefore be complemented by short-term planning. This kind of planning requires specifying…

— Alan Lakein

The truth is that business is simple: create great products, merchandise them at the point of sale, continuously innovate and surprise, reward…

— Michael J. Silverstein

Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations…

— Margaret Mead

“The sky pulsed with stars. Some people say it makes them lonesome when they stare up at the night sky. I can't…

— Kenneth Oppel

Our company is geared toward making the lives of women run more efficiently. Every single day, day in and day out, we're…

— Brooklyn Decker

What an investor needs is the ability to correctly evaluate selected businesses. Note that word “selected”: You don't have to be an…

— Warren Buffett

My biggest goal was - I thought, God, if I could just be a rep company member at the Arena Stage in…

— Lauren Graham

Can a label group by itself scale to make a sensible business? I don't think so.

— Scott Borchetta

“The way a man drinks in company tells you nothing about him, but the way he drinks when alone reveals, without his…

— Irène Némirovsky

“There are no nonsmokers in this business. Just people trying to quit, and people who haven’t started yet.”

— P.J. Tracy

“The future-driven IT organizations step out of the traditional IT box, to understand the business and customers better via longer time frame.”

— Pearl Zhu

Breaking the rules and challenging convention is in the DNA of every successful entrepreneur.

— Richard Branson

I know that this is sport first and business second, and people have to do what's right for them.

— Shaquille O'Neal

Every company has to identify what I call its strategic resources, and make sure that it grabs as much of its strategic…

— N. R. Narayana Murthy

The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we…

— Samuel Johnson

We're probably one of the few Internet dot-com B2Bs business-to-business companies that have improved their bottom line.

— David Steward

“Create enterprise, live on your own terms, and you’ll find the key to happiness.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

— Oprah Winfrey

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

— Arthur Helps

No one in my family is in show business, unless you count dog shows as show business.

— Rebel Wilson

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

As I see it, most major philanthropists have been bullied into giving. They feel social pressure to give. It has become a…

— Steven Levitt

I don't have the inclinations that other people seem to have as far as the business is concerned.

— Kristin Hersh