Business Quotes

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

What other people think of me is none of my business. Sometimes, it hurts my feelings, but I have to just keep going.

The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music.

Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

Advertising is legalized lying.

It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they’ll turn out to be right.

Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That's not just a catchy slogan. It's the very essence of successful investing.

What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.

Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

The business is so upside down now. It's not just about the bling-bling.

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.

The Church says: the body is a sin. Science says: the body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The Body says: I am a fiesta.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.

Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake. You can't learn anything from being perfect.

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Music is life, and life is not a business.

Most processes leave out the stuff no one wants to talk about: magic, intuition and leaps of faith.

There is no amount of money in the world that will make you comfortable if you are not comfortable with yourself.

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

I would like to be the first man in the gym business to throw out my scale. If you don't like what you see in the mirror, what difference does it make what the scale says?

It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong

It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.

I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

The purpose of a business is to get and keep a customer. Without customers, no amount of engineering wizardry, clever financing, or operations expertise can keep a company going.

Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it...only business people think it isn't necessary to train.

It doesn't matter if you are a musician, a business leader, a president or a student. We all have a responsibility to give back.

Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.

Actually, if my business was legitimate, I would deduct a substantial percentage for depreciation of my body.

The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed

We haven't got the money, so we've got to think.

In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to.

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular gift in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.

The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.

There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

Sell the benefit, not your company or the product. People buy results, not features.

Never invest in a business you can't understand

Good fences make good neighbors.

The true purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer, not to make you money.

The subject of pain is the business I am in - to give meaning and shape to frustration and suffering. The existence of pain cannot be denied. I propose no remedies or excuses.

The advertising man is a liaison between the products of business and the mind of the nation. He must know both before he can serve either.

You sign an agreement; you make a contract, you live up to it. You never get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate. You got a right to say yay or nay.