Business Quotes · Page 539

When someone's wounded, the first order of business is to stop the bleeding. You can figure out later how best to help…

— Jeannette Walls

“After each customer interaction, notice if you gave them a “happy to see you” kind of experience.”

— Marilyn Suttle

If you're going into music, work on your music and do it as well as you can. And look at it as…

— Johnny Van Zant

A company may be the de jure owner, but customers are the de facto owers of the brand.

— David Wolfe

The more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us…

— Steven Pressfield

I want to make films that make people laugh hard, and I am not afraid to walk away from this business tomorrow.

— Rob Schneider

Any business you go into, you have to think about how much money you are willing to put into it, and how…

— Dolly Parton

“Boards need to master risk intelligence to identify both business risks and opportunities.”

— Pearl Zhu

I had some business with the police that was blown up by the media in Europe. Normally when a matter goes on…

— Serge Aurier

In liberal societies we don't typically require citizens to rearrange their activities, their lives, the way they go about their business, to…

— Edward Snowden

Businesses cannot be extricated or disintermediated from the communities they serve. Businesses who do that will do that at their own peril.…

— Marc Benioff

Besides my work doing NFL analysis and commentary for ESPN, I'm also involved in trying to get new products launched, and I…

— Mark Schlereth

When a record company looks at me I'm very hard to market, I don't really fit anywhere, It's hard to get me…

— Leo Kottke

When I was 13, I used to go to a jazz club. The owner of the club became my first business manager.…

— Johnny Mathis

I don't have any great ambition to go out and make money. But I am still fascinated in starting up businesses and…

— Michael Birch

Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; making money is the by-product of our guiding purpose. If you're doing something…

— Warren Buffett

Value investors will not invest in businesses that they cannot readily understand or ones they find excessively risky. Hence few value investors…

— Seth Klarman

It is not competition, but monopoly, that deprives labor of its product. Destroy the banking monopoly, establish freedom in finance, and down…

— Benjamin Tucker

Dealing with those personalities and the people who run this music thing has been most challenging. It's hard to really communicate things…

— Q-Tip

“if consumer demand should increase for the goods or services of any private business, the private firm is delighted; it woos and…

— Murray N. Rothbard

I got my ticket for the long way round Two bottle a whiskey for the way And I sure would like some…

— DevilgirlLovesU

The first thing I did was commit to my success and playing to win. I swore I would focus and not even…

— T. Harv Eker

People deal with grief in many different ways. And some people in show business parade their relationships around like an accessory, and…

— RuPaul

What I'd like to see is a private [healthcare] system without the artificial lines around every state. I have a big company…

— Donald Trump

It’s not about revenues: the fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line.

— Yuri Milner

The starship Enterprise was a metaphor starship Earth, and the vision was that the strength of this starship lay in its diversity.

— George Takei

Players have each other's backs in this league because it's a business at the end of the day.

— Nick Bosa

“Small steps lead to big achievements. Your success relies on your daily agenda and the commitment to move forward, one step at…

— Ahmed Zakaria Mami

“Residents tended to consider it a God-given right to gossip and nose into people’s business, and no one was exempt. -Lucky Harbor”

— Jill Shalvis

I am very bullish and I have been bullish on India for a very long time, and I see our own business…

— John L. Flannery

“Bezos insisted the company needed to master anything that touched the hallowed customer experience, and he resisted any efforts to project profitability.”

— Brad Stone

The biggest disappointment has been seeing the number of people in this business with very shortsighted views.

— Greg Ginn

“Don’t just play the number game, but connect the contextual dots and focus on the overall business objectives.”

— Pearl Zhu

Learn as much as you can about your proposed business. Ask questions. Join industry associations. Study successful competitors carefully.

— Paul Clitheroe

Hulk Hogan was my reason for getting into the business. He was this larger-than-life entity.

— Edge

I tend to have great chemistry with whomever I step in the ring with because of the way I train and came…

— Cesaro

We stand for the maintenance of private property... We shall protect free enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible…

— Adolf Hitler

“All business opportunities stem from someone else's inability to resolve a simple and inevitable problem.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

When you incorporate giving into your business, you attract the most amazing partners.

— Blake Mycoskie

“The key to success for Sony, and to everything in business, science and technology for that matter, is never to follow the…

— Masaru Ibuka