Top 1200 Best Business Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important cause of business frustration and failure.

The entrepreneur must be the best salesperson and marketer in his business.

I personally, only work with people in my business who show excellence. I have a business, the business of enlightenment.

As I've said, in 2007, we're free to go and we'll just have to do what's best for the business.

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

Friends don't always make the best of business partners.

Paying good wages is not charity at all-it is the best kind of business.

The worst thing about the music business is the business part of it. Business has nothing whatever to do with writing, playing and performing.

I've been really lucky to work with some of the best writers in the business.

The best of life is the exercise of ingenuity-in design, in finance, in flying, in business.

Yes, I love the movie business. In fact, there's no business like show business.

There are just two questions to ask to attain success in business: First, "What business am I in?" Second, "How's business?"

Growth does not always lead a business to build on success. All too often it converts a highly successful business into a mediocre large business.

My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.

The best decision I ever made, period, was to get into the music business.

The best way to look at any business is from the standpoint of the clients.

For a long time, the film business was a single-digit business on investment return. Now, because of home video, it's a low double-digit business, and the studios want to make sure it doesn't go back into the single-digit business.

My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.

Leaving my first agent was both my best business decision and my worst business decision. It depends on how I want to look at my career because of opportunities that may have come had I stayed with him and because of the opportunities that did come because I had to fight harder for roles.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10 percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

Trying your best not to get stressed out, the hardest part is not to get down, not to let the business get to you. I think the business is more mental than it is talent. I think you can have the talent, but if you don't have it up here, I think you can easily just break down.

The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.

Elections are a kind of business. I have to present myself: 'I can do this and that for this area so please give me your vote'. People vote for the politicians who can best understand and contribute to their region or country. In a business you can choose your clients, and the message is targeted to them only. But politics is universal; no matter what age the audience, you have to send the same message to everyone.

I put up with the music business because I understand that I'm in the tradition, I'm in a tradition that's of far greater importance than the business I seem to be in. Everywhere I go in the world, people ask me about the business that I seem to be in, but I'm not really in that business.

I've always studied business. Even when I was a ball player, I'd read business journals and the business sections of newspapers.

This is a commodities business, so the companies that do it best are the ones that do it more efficiently.

I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice' was a business book. I'm very surprised and gratified that the business world thought it was one.

Eliminating business taxes makes US best at manufacturing.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.

I have this saying. Quality is the best business plan. I believe so strongly in that.

I'm thrilled to be working with Goldline, the very best in the gold business.

I see top business schools working to bridge this gap [between academic research and business application] by respecting executive education, by having more mature students who proactively draw from faculty what they know they need, and by having faculty who are willing to leave their ivory towers for the murky world of business reality. Unfortunately, at other times, business professors have little or not interest or savvy about business issues.

Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business.

Blackstone is not really a business per se. It's a mission to be the best.

Meanwhile, the empty forms of social behavior survive inappropriately in business situations. We all know that when a business sends its customers 'friendly reminders,' it really means business.

The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn't happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.

This industry is a business - I'm a business myself, and I want to be able to run my own business.

For me, whenever I got into this business, I wanted to be the very best that I could be.

If you are going to survive in business, show business or any business, then you have to be bold.

My biggest fear is that we [Unilever company] at one point in time will not be able to attract the best and brightest [workers]. I don't worry so much about the business, the strategy. If we can continue to attract the best, I know they will ultimately figure out how to run the company in a very tough environment.

There can always be an 'Idol' without anybody. I believe that Seacrest is probably the best host in the business.

Business is not a science; it is not susceptible to experiments that can be controlled and replicated. Everything in business is too unpredictable for that - every business, employee, product, market is different and keeps changing.

I started my business with my best friend from high school.

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.

You always want to look your best at events like the Globes, Emmys, or Oscars. It's a part of the business that I am not particularly comfortable with. I would prefer to turn up in a pair of jeans and an old shirt, but it's all about image - the studio wants you to look your best.

Part of the business of being an artist is abetting talent. The best do that.

I only do business with the people I do business with. The people I do business with find out I do business with the people I don't do business with.... I can't do business with you.

Develop the business around the people; build it, don't buy it; and, then, be the best.

It is a business. I know we, as athletes and owners and people involved with the NBA, never want to say that it's a business and things like that. It is a business.

When you surround yourself with some of the best in the business you can only get better.

No matter what business you're in, business is business, and financing and money are critical. I would have made a lot fewer mistakes if I had more schooling in that area.

My only loyalty is to what's best for business, not to any set of constituents.

I've always prided myself on doing what really was best for business.

Jews are the best dressers in the world. They buy the best clothes, the best homes, the best cars. The best of everything. The only thing is, they get it for less.

Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.

In the restaurant business, if you break even, you're lucky. It's a really hard business, it's a survival business.

If the question is, how do we best produce business people who can succeed in the post-Great Recession era, then I think the MBA programs and their connection to large companies remains intact but it's not the path to a "Business Brilliant" life. It's a path to a middle-class existence marked by large stretches of security and comfort with occasional eruptions that you're probably ill-prepared to handle. Do I sound too cynical?

I'd love to do situation comedy - it's the best job in show business.

This is a business, the direct selling, that bizarrely works best when times are bad.