Top 998 Business Quotes & Sayings

School taught me how to do a 9-5 job rather than be a person who wants to start a business.

People want to start their own business or become financially independent. But you don't end up a successful entrepreneur unless you find a way to love the risk, the uncertainty, the repeated failures, and working insane hours on something you have no idea whether will be successful or not.

If someone asks me what cloud computing is, I try not to get bogged down with definitions. I tell them that, simply put, cloud computing is a better way to run your business.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.

I'm in this business for too long to be halfhearted about anything.

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

Personal relationships are always the key to good business. You can buy networking; you can't buy friendships.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

When you see corruption, when you see injustice, you speak up. You don't just shut up and say it's none of my business.

Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Four or five frigates will do the business without any military force.

If Satan wasn't around, churches would go out of business.

If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing business at all.

In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.

Judges should be in the business of declaring what the law is using the traditional tools of interpretation, rather than pronouncing the law as they might wish it to be in light of their own political views.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

Indian business women like Indra Nooyi, Chanda Kochhar, Naina Lal Kidwai, Shikha Sharma, Swati Piramal, Anu Agha, Swati Piramal, Sulajja Firodia Motwani and Zia Mody have put India on the global firmament.

I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, 'You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit.' As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.

I feel that I am in a business that is a credit to the womanhood of our race.

I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations.

Everybody told me I was making a mistake by going into this business, but I know how to grow hair as well as I know how to grow cotton.

I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.

The concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has long been used as an effective lens through which to examine the actions business can take toward ensuring mutual long-term well-being and sustainability.

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

Rome is magic, it's like being in Hollywood. But the difference between Hollywood and Rome is that here you don't have just the movie business. The movie business is so little, so you also have the choice to hang out with people who do different kinds of business.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.

So much of life is a negotiation - so even if you're not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you.

My real baby is renewable energy. I feel like whoever starts to crack this nut is going to have a pretty clear shot at the White House. It's a $2 trillion business that America's being left out of.

Pakistan is keen to promote its trade with India, we want economic ties getting stronger with India. Our business community is keen to reach out to their Indian counterparts. And of course, we want to resolve the issue of Kashmir, which is a flash point in our relations.

The most important thing you can do when starting a business is surround yourself with smart people who know a lot more than you do in certain realms.

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.

In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.

I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers.

I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.

I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling.

If I had been thinking business since I was 21, I'd be a rich man right now.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.

My advice to every one expecting to go into business is to hit often and hit hard; in other words, strike with all your might.

The only reason to do business is to make money; that's the only reason for doing business.

I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera.

Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network.

Business news is sexy.

The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.

If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.

I did a business in a box called College Pro Painters. They taught you how to paint houses, how to hire and fire, how to sell, how to deal with customers. You got a one-year franchise. It was the hardest year of my life in terms of hard work. I won manager of the year. It was very successful.

Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

I strongly believe the business of a business is to improve the world.

I dismiss personal profit and focus exclusively on people and planet. That's what I call social business: a nondividend company dedicated to solving human problems. You can go all the way, forgetting about personal profit, being single-minded about solving problems. The company makes profit, but profit stays with the company.

Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Know your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. Love what you do or don't do it.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.