Top 1200 Successful Business Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Although I don't like the way the Chinese do business, I continue to do business in China. I have to. They're the next world power.

The best of the best understand that people do business with people they like. People do business with people they trust, and people do business with those who make them feel special.

A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others. By John Maxwell

children are an embarrassment to a business civilization. A business society needs children for the same reason that a nomadic or a pastoral society needs them - to perpetuate itself. Unfortunately, however, children are of no use to a business society until they have almost reached physical maturity.

I know I have a successful career, a successful life. If I sit and say, 'Look, I have a comfortable life,' and I... just think about myself, I don't think that would be fair. That would be very selfish. Because everything I do in my life is to benefit my people.

I'm not in the business of satisfying everybody. I'm in the business of trying to satisfy the people who elected me governor.

I've often felt there might be more to be gained by studying business failures than business successes.

Always do business as if the person you're doing business with is trying to screw you, because he probably is. And if he's not, you can be pleasantly surprised.

The steel business is a local business. We do believe in the U.S. economy and would like to have a strong, balanced presence here.

Business enterprise is an organ of society. There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.

The business that leaders are in today, is the business of transforming awareness... There is deep longing for more meaning, for connections.

I brought my sons into the business to extend my working life, so I could keep my hand in the business.

It's critical to simplify and run the business in such a way that resources are released to invest in your main business.

As a small business owner myself, I understand what it is like to scale up a business in the early years.

If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business.

We have a series of regular meetings with South African business. Big business. Black business. Agriculture. As well, of course, with the trade unions. A whole series of meetings like that which engage issues that these South African social partners need to address.

If you're going to get into big time religion, these are the games you have to play. You go into it as a business and you work it as a business.

I'm supposed to be on top of a lot of people who are past me, but their business is better than my business. It ain't the raps.

While I find that I can keep my nose out of other people's business, I do have a curiosity as to their non-business activities.

'Sicario' was successful, but it was successful because Denis and the producers were, you know, they were very lean. It was very lean filmmaking.

He was good in business, but there was business left to do. He never said he loved me, guess he thought I knew.

I'm pro-business! But business ought to make its own money.

As an entrepreneur, you love your business like a child, and you're taught to be laser-focused on the business.

The digital revolution is almost as disruptive to the traditional media business as electricity was to the candle business.

What makes small business develop into big business is not spending, but saving and capital accumulation.

It was a culture that business is something bad - it was a leftist-oriented psychology. We have to break this. We are pro-business.

We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!

You don't have to be the smartest person to become successful and wealthy. Many of the most successful and wealthy people in society are not the most educated people.

Don't worry about your individual numbers. Worry about the team. If the team is successful, each of you will be successful, too.

Coffee is cheap, drinks are an audition, lunch is an interview, but dinner means business; the business of romance.

...." I was rather discouraged when I discovered that Paul and Hotch had no marketing survey, no business plan, no budget, no organized strategy for the introduction of the sauce. When asked about this lack of preparation, the haphazard nature of their business, Paul said, 'Me in this business is just part of life's great folly. Stay loose, men, keep 'em off balance.'"

Business must be run at a profit, else it will die. But when anyone tries to run a business solely for profit, then also the business must die, for it no longer has a reason for existence.

The big thing for me is, I never think about myself as a female in business. I'm a person in business.

Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force, and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character.

The Lean Startup isn't just about how to create a more successful entrepreneurial business, it's about what we can learn from those businesses to improve virtually everything we do. I imagine Lean Startup principles applied to government programs, to healthcare, and to solving the world's great problems. It's ultimately an answer to the question: How can we learn more quickly what works, and discard what doesn't?

We don't think at all about how the AWS business complements the Amazon business from a financial overview perspective.

Youth soccer is big business. If I don't win, it doesn't matter if I'm developing players, my business is going to hell.

This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.

The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.

If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you need very little in the way of a margin of safety.

We never have business meals at El Bulli. If it's about business, you're probably not paying much attention to the food.

A smart entrepreneur knows they cannot run a business on their own. They know that business is a team sport.

One of the great business virtues of high publishing was that it was a difficult business to enter. You had to stand for something.

One of the first things to be noted in business life is its imperialism. Business is exacting, engrossing, and inelastic.

Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many.

I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.

I am not bound by material things. It's being successful that drives me forward. I love success. I don't wake up in the morning thinking 'Great - I've got one million pounds in the bank'. I wake up happy because I am a successful part of a successful team. It's that success that brings all the media coverage, the first-night parties, the endorsements. I will never lose sight of that. It has come very quickly - sooner than even I expected. But it's great to know that if I continue in the same vein, then I can do exactly what I want with the rest of my life. I will be financially secure.

I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.

These are the rules of big business...Get a monopoly; let society work for you; and remember that the best of all business is politics.

If you're in a successful play and the play is working well - I mean successful because the audiences like it, the audiences respond well - it's a pleasure.

I did realize more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.

I hated being a junior investment banker. I loved the research business, the wealth management business.

I did realise more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.

Do you want a successful career or a close relationship with your family? Both! Do you want a focus on business or have fun and play? Both! Do you want money or meaning in your life? Both! Do you want to earn a fortune or do the work you love? Both! Poor people always choose one, rich people choose both.

I had a major in business, and I graduated with a business degree, but I was perhaps the worst student to graduate from that program.

I have been a business builder all of my life and I am thrilled to bring my enthusiasm for business to Kynetic.

The law of cause and effect: If you do what other successful people do, you will eventually get the results that other successful people get.

I decided to combine my musical background, business education and creative abilities - and go into the record business.

Throughout my whole racing career, I was always asked about being a woman in a man's world. Interestingly when you are in that world, there's no reason for it to be a man's world, there are successful women and I didn't find there to be any barriers to stop me from being successful.

Believe me when I say that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business. My business.