Business Quotes

Everyone is ambition. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or to do.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.

Invest in yourself. your career is the engine of your wealth.

A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.

When you're out of quality, you're out of business.

If you see a bandwagon, it's too late.

The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business.

Leadership produces change. That is its primary function

There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness...we would be pursuing not piety,but profit.

Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving.

For businesses, biomimicry is about bringing a new discipline - biology - to the design table. It's not to write an environmental impact statement, as most biologists in business do right now.

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

I believe in the Golden Rule - The Man with the Gold... Rules.

The Millennium Development Goals can be met by 2015, but only if all involved break with business as usual and dramatically accelerate and scale up action now.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

Being tiny has been difficult for me in a business that regarded physicality as the most important part of your life.

I made a fortune getting out too soon.

We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is closed to terrorists and drug pushers and smugglers and others who seek to break the law.

There is no such thing as business ethics. There is only one kind -- you have to adhere to the highest standards.

A bigger business is like a cruise ship: There are lots of amenities and you can go a lot further, but it's harder to turn quickly.

Without a plan, even the most brilliant business can get lost. You need to have goals, create milestones and have a strategy in place to set yourself up for success.

Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.

When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by.

For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.

A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business - live concerts.

Simplification is one of the most difficult things to do.

How do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other way and when your people are visibly growing individually and as a group.

The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.

In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable 'moats'.

Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.

I came from an environment where if you see a snake, you kill it. At General motors, if you see a snake, the first thing you do is to hire a consultant on snakes.

A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

Business is never as healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.

One great cause of failure of young men in business is lack of concentration.

Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves.

People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.

I like making work in my studio day in and day out, but I'm not so interested in the business side

Money had never been the main thing for me. It's the legacy that was important.

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.