Business Quotes · Page 575

It wasn't until I'd turned 50 and had been in the business 25 years that I realized I might actually have a…

— James Garner

It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.

— Jack Kilby

Clear content, simple navigation and answers to customer questions have the biggest impact on business value. Advanced technology matters much less.

— Jakob Nielsen

It takes a lot more to run a good business than just trailing commissions or kickbacks otherwise everybody would succeed, wouldn't they?

— John Ilhan

Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Many assume my business success has brought me happiness. But the way I see it, I am successful because I am happy.

— Richard Branson

In the simplest terms, a fast-growing company can't keep growing at the same fast rate forever. It eventually has to slow down.

— Om Malik

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.

— Aristotle

“The numerous choices you have around yourself are often superficial; they don’t matter. The art lies in doing more with less. Minimal…

— Vishal Ostwal

Lies that do not hurt, which are different from lies that protect oneself or hurt another person. That is not my business.…

— Gunter Grass

“Your father owns a history company?" I say teasingly. Nick laughs. "No. Everyone on Wall Street has a history degree, though you'd…

— Beatriz Williams

Addressing the rate at which healthcare costs rise will yield the predictable, sustainable increases that provide across-the-board economic stability for residents, families,…

— Ned Lamont

Loyalty is earned with friendliness, responsiveness, ease of doing business, fair value, and the good feeling customers get when they call you,…

— Jeffrey Gitomer

Darren Young was looking for someone to train him and finally he came and asked me if I wouldn't mind to be…

— Bob Backlund

“A typical five-year-old consumes about 60 percent more ketchup than a typical forty-year-old, and the company realized that it needed to put…

— Malcolm Gladwell

I think, especially in our business we meet a lot of people, and sometimes you spend so much time being nice to…

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

“I see,” she said softly, nodding her head as though she really did. “Well, it’s your business, of course.” She turned her…

— Diane Setterfield

I assisted Bobby Houghton at Halmstads, and we were both just under 30. We'd say, 'Wouldn't it be great to do this…

— Roy Hodgson

“The unwinding brings freedom, more than the world has ever granted, and to more kinds of people than ever before—freedom to go…

— George Packer

Fifteen years ago, nobody thought that content would ever work as a business. It was impossible to raise any money, initial investments…

— Henry Blodget

Netbot was the first comparison shopping company. We realized comparison shopping can be quite tedious if you are driving from one furniture…

— Oren Etzioni

Remarks such as 'great Australian', 'larger than life' are sometimes used where they are not appropriate. But in the case of Kerry…

— John Howard

“I dislike this whole business of experimentation on animals, unless there's some very good and altogether exceptional reason to this very case.…

— Richard Adams

Something worth doing might take a while, so really flesh out the potential of the business and be honest about whether it's…

— Scott Heiferman

Boy you know you love it. How we're smart enough to make these millions. Strong enough to bare the children. Then get…

— Beyonce

What I've learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.

— Barry Diller

“To me everything in business boils down to this: do you genuinely care about your customers - or just their cash?”

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking up…

— Bill Bryson

Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.

— David Byrne

Social media is your opportunity to reach a massive number of people with transparency, honesty, and integrity.

— Anonymous

Chemists have always been in the business of taking atoms and putting them together with other atoms with precisely defined connections.

— George M. Whitesides

I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods.

— David Chipperfield

I don't think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard.

— Hillary Clinton

From an app point of view, if you looked at innovation on the PC, you'd be hard pressed to find companies innovating.…

— Tim Cook

Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.

— David Johansen

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

— Martin Luther

Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.

— Horace Greeley

We have to get away from the class warfare and recognize that we are growing jobs by helping small business.

— Norm Coleman

“Man is indisputably endowed with reason; the problem is only how he uses his reason in the company of others.”

— Robert Musil

Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being…

— John Adams