Top 1200 Retail Business Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

I started with shoes, and with hard work and discipline, the business prospered. I moved to the department store business and again, things went well.

If you have so much business to attend to that you have no time to pray, depend upon it that you have more business on hand than God ever intended you should have.

Rest in this - it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call... It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond.

There will be no good business unless the majority comes to agree that we should demand more from business than large quarterly returns.

This is the hardest thing I've ever done, being in fashion business, because that's what it is at the end of the day, a business, and you have to make sure it works.

If small business goes, big business does not have any future except to become the economic arm of a totalitarian state.

War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil.

What's so wonderful about football and business and show business is that every time I start thinking I'm special, I get knocked on my ass.

Organize around business functions, not people. Build systems within each business function. Let systems run the business and people run the systems. People come and go but the systems remain constant.

Social media can work to a CEO's advantage. Someone with a great product in a small town in the middle of nowhere can compete in the world marketplace. In 1962, Sam Walton changed the face of retailing with Wal-Mart. As we speak, Amazon is again changing the face of retail with on-line buying.

When you enter a casino, remember that you are entering a place of business run by very shrewd business people who understand human emotions.

I love spreadsheets. I do all the finances. I pay the publicists. I have to compartmentalize the creative and the business, so there are sacrifices. But ultimately, I get to be the CEO of my own business.

Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it's integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards. And it's much easier to do business with someone when you look them in the eye and say, "This is what we're going to do," and you understand what you each mean, and you can go away and get it done.

An investor should ordinarily hold a small piece of an outstanding business with the same tenacity that an owner would exhibit if he owned all of that business.

I am personally interested in more than just business schools. However, life has been good to me, and it's been good to me through a business career. I think the chance to help strengthen the foundation of young people going into business, as I did, just appeals to me.

Remember,the press is a business: Newspapers and magazines are in business to make money - sometimes at the expense of accuracy, fairness and even the truth.

I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And when a good business partner supports them from the side, it creates great synergy. When someone's trying to do both, I think the music gets bad and the business gets bad, too.

When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.

I believe Business Objects is on the cusp of becoming a multi-billion-dollar sales company. There is tremendous growth potential for business intelligence.

I believe the auto business is a highly comprehensive and complicated business. It's not that easy for people simply to enter and ruin the whole thing.

If you are planning to start a business, and if you want that business to have a hope of succeeding, be sure you are approaching your venture from a true Entrepreneurial Perspective.

Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.

After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.

I manage my business; politicians are doing their business. I can only work within their rules and regulations. I can't pick up a political fight.

The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.

Immersing yourself in the environment of a real record store where music is celebrated and cherished adds real value to the experience of buying music. In some ways, that retail experience is as important as the music.

In business, you can have one massive success that earns $50 million overnight, and that's it. You're successful. End of story. But in the music business, you have to keep on doing it.

You're not supposed to go into business with the sole purpose of putting your neighbor out of business. This is not the United States of Corporate America.

At some point, practicality requires that you reach out to people in the business. You have to take care of business if you value your work.

The venture business is a bit of an apprenticeship business, so the firm I worked for didn't let me make an investment until I was 30. That was probably a very smart thing.

I would encourage someone to go to Brazil and try to do business there. BRIC countries get a lot of hype, but business there is brutal.

One thing I know in baseball is you should never be comfortable where you are. It doesn't matter who you are. It's a business. If I got traded tomorrow, no hard feelings; it's a business.

There's no difference in dealing with the music business with the majors than any other competition. The music business is way more cutthroat than any other business.

I know enough about the business to look after myself now. I don't trust anyone else to take care of business.

I couldn't join my husband's business as, according to my father-in-law's unwritten convention, women of the house aren't allowed to meddle in the family business.

I think probably my main advice to new artists is if you want to be in the music business, you need to be dang serious about it because it's a rough business.

I feel incredibly fortunate I walked away, took care of other business, and then came back to show business.

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

At age 28, I had no retail experience, no consumer marketing experience and no real Internet experience. But I decided I wanted to work for myself. I felt starting a company would enable me to get the responsibility I deserved and that I couldn't do that within the confines of a bigger company.

We did not enter the search business. Google entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won't let them.

The denigration of business hurts America, because the secret sauce for our economy is confidence. I don't want to hear that nonsense that all business is bad.

For Central Virginia small business owners, their business is more than a building, a sign out front, or an income - it's their lifelong dream.

Almost every business is regulated by the state. So if you're going to say, 'If you own any business, you shouldn't run for public office,' I don't think that's what we want.

The State of Virginia is similar to a great business corporation... and should be conducted with the same efficiency and economy as any private business.

A successful business is a good way to create significant wealth, but not every business will grow into a News Corporation or a McDonalds.

ICG wasn't an index fund so much as a collection of venture-capital investments focused on so-called business-to-business Internet companies.

A well-trained workforce is critical to small-business success. What I hear from business is that it's hard to find help that meets their needs.

I did work at a mall in college - I think retail/customer service is just one of the most hideous jobs in the world. So I always try to be extra nice when I go into a store. But malls are part of our culture, if you watched any teen comedy in the '80s. it's clear that malls are where we live!

In business, you don't necessarily need heart, whereas here, in government, almost everything affects people. So if you're talking about health care - you have health care in business but you're trying to just negotiate a good price on health care, et cetera, et cetera. You're providing health. Here, everything, pretty much everything you do in government, involves heart, whereas in business, most things don't involve heart. In fact, in business you're actually better off without it.

I know that the podcast is typically something I can do forever, because it's mine; it's just me and my producer and business partner, so it's our business.

I'm a committed Christian. I worship in my own way. That's my business. That's not the business of the pharisees who are going to preach to me about what I do and then do something else.

To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'

We now understand the distinction between startups - who search for a business model - versus existing companies - that execute a business plan.

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.

University is sheltered from the business world and they think they should not have any connection with the businesses because maybe the business is dirty or not very good.

In Peru, awareness of fake currency is so high that retail shops regularly provide cashiers with hole punchers. When a fake bill is received, the cashier quickly pops out a few holes before curtly returning the bill to an oft-surprised client.

I am a big believer that you can have a successful business and give back; it's just about the intention behind starting your business.

No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.

I don't want to be partisan here. But please, tell me how you get out of a business recession by raising business taxes and regulations?

I like loud music. I like music that fills my ears. I'm just going to pull out my iPod and see what we got here. We're always interested in new bands because we have a retail store in northern California. I think it's got to be happy.