Business Quotes · Page 543

I'm an optimist. You can't be an entrepreneur if you're not essentially an optimist, so I'm an optimist by nature.

— John Sculley

You cannot possibly be reaching the needs of your consumers when the makeup of your company is not reflective of the community…

— Kimberly Bryant

“what possesses you to have to do with railways and Jews?... Take it as you will, it’s a low business." Stepan”

— Anton Chekhov

I expect that our associates will walk with a little more bounce in their step and understand that this company is behind…

— Lee Scott

Content is the currency of the social web and sharing that content is the catalyst to new relationships and business benefits.

— Mark Schaefer

As one grows their company and brand, you have to learn to be a leader, and there's no formula.

— Zac Posen

Cybersecurity continues to be a significant threat to public and private enterprises, governments and individuals.

— Phil Scott

The only big companies that succeed will be those that obsolete their own products before somebody else does.

— Bill Gates

In order to help small businesses gain access to the credit and capital they need to run their business successfully, Congress must…

— Sam Graves

letters are venerable; and the telephone valiant, for the journey is a lonely one, and if bound together by notes and telephones…

— Virginia Woolf

American parents, on the whole, do not want their sons to be artisans or craftsmen, but business or professional people. As a…

— Sydney J. Harris

In business a reputation for keeping absolutely to the letter and spirit of an agreement, even when it is unfavorable, is the…

— Anonymous

What does it mean to say that government might have a responsibility? Government can't have a responsibility any more than the business…

— Milton Friedman

“Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason for that: and yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together…

— William Shakespeare

You can't feel the need to be liked in public life, because if you do you will compromise the principles that are…

— Graeme Samuel

I think our path to the Olympics is a good metaphor for how you build a company. Our skill and commitment grew…

— Tyler Winklevoss

A Christian anarchist has no business belonging to such a reactionary organization [the Catholic Church]. I do not believe in original sin,…

— Ammon Hennacy

“Business art is the step that comes after art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a…

— Andy Warhol

“And this is one of the first things one learns from Musk’s example—he is relentless in his pursuit of the bold and,…

— Peter H. Diamandis

“It doesn’t matter if you work at a fast food joint or if you are the CEO of a Fortune 500 company.…

— The Angel Affect

Nearly every business collects metrics on inventory, sales, and workplace process. Health care has been slow to measure these kinds of outcomes.…

— Thomas R. Insel

I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting.…

— William Shatner

There are guys who have no business being in school, but they're here because this is the path to the NFL. There's…

— Josh Rosen

The great challenge of the 21st century is to provide good standards of living for 7 billion people without depleting the earth's…

— Paul Polman

When I look at my body, I'm like, 'I'm a lead of a TV show?' To have a man in the business…

— Rachel Keller

It's understood in Minnesota that we're going to start losing businesses if we can't find more workers.

— Amy Klobuchar

“[T]he definition of 'crazy' in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to fuck her anymore.”

— Tina Fey

“Hiring based solely on qualifications may fill a position, but hiring based on passion and potential can transform a company.”

— Dax Bamania

The thing that's wrong with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur

— George W. Bush

“Whiskey would do better to charge the conversation, but we’ll be wanting our wits about us. We have strange business to discuss.”…

— David Bain

Ooh. Top secret angel business, huh? What’re you going to do? Dance on a pinhead? Lobby for National Cute Puppy Day?

— Richelle Mead

As China's retailing champion, Alibaba makes Amazon look like a company that carefully picks its spots. Sure, Amazon does e-tailing. So does…

— Adam Lashinsky

“There are two sets of business capabilities: Competitive necessity and competitive uniqueness.”

— Pearl Zhu

Starting a business is like riding a wave between life and death. If you can hang on long enough, you're bound to…

— Sam Altman

I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.

— Robert Wyatt

“His father owned warehouses, a construction company, a chain of stores, and three restaurants.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

I've had my best times when trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always loved high style in low…

— Anita Loos

The chief business of the nation, as a nation, is the setting up of heroes, mainly bogus.

— H. L. Mencken

For small businesses, you need less taxes, less federal spending, and you need less regulation that blocks their growth.

— David Malpass

Hank Williams was my idol. He was the first real, wonderful outlaw individual in the business.

— Johnny Paycheck