Business Quotes · Page 706

The most important adage and the only adage is, the customer comes first, whatever the business, the customer comes first.

— Kerry Stokes

If you can take something you are passionate about and turn it into a business, there's nothing better.

— Michael G. Rubin

If you don’t aim for the best prospects, you’re likely to do business with any prospect.

— Todd Duncan

It's heartbreaking to see theater people be forced to accept the business side of show business.

— Alice Ripley

You don't know this when you're young, but over time, you see that great companies are usually built at a special point…

— David Duffield

The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.

— Garet Garrett

If somebody's offering you a $400 million company at the age of 29, I've got the ego to say, 'I'd like a…

— Stanley R. Jaffe

“After growing rapidly in their youth, almost all companies with sales over about $10 million end up floating on top of the…

— Geoffrey West

I used to think that elder love, if it even existed, was confined to rocking chairs or golf carts, that it had…

— Nora Johnson

We are fortunate to have collectively built a culture that matters, a brand that matters, a business that matters. It is impossible…

— Jason Kilar

If you run your business fairly; if you treat people well; if you try to move your business into areas that are…

— Richard Branson

If we can just take a few companies, and use those as models, as examples, to show the rest of corporate America…

— Henry Kravis

“The precept that location is key to the success of a business applies to art, and even to life itself: we thrive…

— Yann Martel

Designful companies are those that weave design thinking into the fabric of the company. In a designful company, innovation is rewarded instead…

— Marty Neumeier

Eliminate the clutter and all the things that are going on outside and focus on the things that you can control with…

— Nick Saban

Be willing to use yourself to get out there and put the company on the market. If you have to make a…

— Richard Branson

For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.

— Leland Ryken

Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you're just a middleman.

— Seth Godin

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

— Thomas Carlyle

No business is non-essential to those who rely on its paycheck for food, for supplies and for shelter.

— Tate Reeves

Tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age, Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unburdened crawl…

— William Shakespeare

Avoid the company of the wicked, those who would do injury to you or to others. Like a disease their energy is…

— Frederick Lenz

“Humans are like an ever flowing river of fresh water. We stagnate if we stop progressing.”

— Arshad Wahedna

You become highly skilled at whatever you do over again and over again. Every moment offers the opportunity to develop a habit…

— George 48

I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to…

— Anita Roddick

Hurricane Sandy will cost billions of dollars in lost business along the storm's expected path.

— Chris Isidore

I once invested in a risky business. Quite a few people warned me not to do so, but I still went ahead…

— Gautam Rode

Lack of trust is an enormous transaction cost, and I underestimated this when I first got into business.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

Britain and the United States have an enduring and special relationship based on the values of freedom, democracy and enterprise.

— Theresa May

The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.

— Helen Keller

You've got to be very cognizant of the correlation between social media links and business because they don't always correlate as highly…

— Mark Cuban

Incarceration has become a business. It is in the interest of the police and the prisons to keep locking people up.

— Sam Branson

America is successful because of the hard work and creativity and enterprise of our people.

— George W. Bush

We have a lot of people who are Republicans, a lot of people who are Democrats, and it's not just because of…

— Jamie Dimon

What other people think of me is not my business. What I do is what I do. How people see me doesn’t…

— RuPaul

My vision is to build an e-commerce ecosystem that allows consumers and businesses to do all aspects of business online.

— Jack Ma

I think there's huge room for a personality who can create a following, and that personality can be a person or a…

— Norman Pearlstine

I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot…

— Anthony Kiedis

I think everyone should sell other people's stuff and their own stuff. I think everyone, almost everyone should mix those two business…

— Jeffrey Walker

I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.

— Stephen Rea