Business Quotes · Page 532

Enterprise Washington is economic development in areas of high unemployment around the state of Washington.

— Mike Lowry

“This is an essential element of the business of being a man: to flood everyone around you in a great radiant arc…

— Michael Chabon

At home, we don't listen to our music-we listen to other people's music. It keeps you attached to the show business world.

— Celine Dion

I'm in a business that invites narcissism, self-involvement, and egos being blown out of proportion.

— Michael Keaton

“Every small business has to become a publisher—a publisher of marketing messages and customer resources, and a publisher of stories.”

— Jim Blasingame

What today's business reality makes clear is that brands cannot survive in a society that is failing economically, socially, ethically, and morally.

— Simon Mainwaring

We did anything possible just to get revenues so that we could grow and be a real business.

— Mark Pincus

You just don't turn your back on a going business and strike out in a new one if you don't think it…

— George Mikan

That's what my objective was, to reinvent myself from a console designer to starting a new business and embracing multi-platform, relearning the…

— Peter Molyneux

“Not knowing what you have means not having it (at all). Not knowing where you have what you have means not having…

— VIRGIL PROFEANU

Our investments in data, Internet and international have been particularly timely and have positioned the company to post industry-leading incremental revenue gains.

— Bernard Ebbers

Knowing your customer inside and out is mission-critical, and it takes time. It's impossible to hit on the insights that will ultimately…

— Sallie Krawcheck

“So how, one wonders, does Lean,[i] the hot business methodology of the past two decades, continue to thrive when companies that sign…

— Employee X

“So, is this to be a business arrangement?” “No! Of course not. I want to share my meals and my bed and…

— Cat Sebastian

In the media business, the lines are getting blurred between telecom, voice, data, and video, as all are merging into one single…

— Subhash Chandra

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“…[T]he whole thing is really a dazzling illusion empty of all perception, an astonishing farce of misperception. And yet what are we…

— Philip Roth

Without the book business it would be difficult or impossible for true books to find their true readers and without that solitary…

— John McGahern

“I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, or how lonely the room which it adorns. Close the door of that…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“She peeked inside the box,then slapped the top back down and glared at me. For a second I wondered if I'd broken…

— Melissa Jensen

Rather take that moral sense and apply it to the particulars of a job that is going to test those ethical and…

— Barack Obama

“Chris: For me! Where do you live, where have you come from? For me!-- I was dying every day and you were…

— Arthur Miller

“They failed to appreciate how the network would funnel the energies of the people into a centrally administered, tightly monitored information system…

— Nicholas Carr

Well, one time some attractive woman sat next to Charlie and asked him what he owed his success to, and, unfortunately, she…

— Warren Buffett

[Hillary Clinton] talks about solar panels. We invested in a solar company, our country. That was a disaster. They lost plenty of…

— Donald Trump

The premium single-cup segment is the fastest-growing business within the global coffee industry.

— Howard Schultz

We spend as much time looking at companies that are smaller than we are as we do at those that are bigger.

— Ted Waitt

In all of my years in this business, I've always been part of either a progressive band or a metal band.

— Mike Portnoy

Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.

— James C. Collins

Solar growth will support landowners to derive income and solar industry to build their business.

— Piyush Goyal

“You’re going to shoot the messenger?” “Yeah, Dad, if the messenger can’t learn to keep his interfering ass out of my business.”

— Lisa Kleypas

I've always been a multi-passionate woman, so my passion for business existed right alongside my passion for dance.

— Marie Forleo

Dreaming is great, but thinking big thoughts alone will not build a business, pay your bills or make you into the person…

— Robin Sharma

“Love’s a terrible price to pay for company, ain’t it, Matty?” Caleb said. “I won’t pay it, myself. I’d rather do without…

— Larry McMurtry

I started standup at age nineteen. I decided that the only way I was going to try show business as a career…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

“I write down the three measurements which Lou and I agreed are central to knowing if the company is making money: net…

— Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Dont waste your precious time talking about things which are none of your business and believe me 90 % of the people do this.

— Vikrant Parsai

It is not the function of the leader of government business to discipline members of the executive.

— Cyril Ramaphosa

Bottom line, we will continue to innovate and grow our fan base with Xbox while also creating additive business value for Microsoft.

— Satya Nadella

Congratulation s to Rahm Emanuel on being elected mayor of Chicago. His first order of business after taking office will be to…

— Jay Leno