Quotes about Business

“Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.”

“It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.”

“If the gay community thinks you're doing a good job, you're in. I don't think anything gets done in this business without the gay community - at least not anything good.”

“Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people.”

“Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.”

“Hartford had the Mark Twain Masquers, which was fantastic. They had been in business I don't know how many years. They knew how to build sets and sell tickets and put on a play. My day started at night. When I left the office, that's when my day began.”

“I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.”

“The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business.”

“I was raised by the last of the Gorgeous George era. You don't let somebody come from some other business, walk in your business, make a fool of ya and go back into his business and laugh at ya. So if you watch Wrestlemania the very first one, I was the general and here was the rule: don't let Mr. T throw a punch; keep it strictly amateur with him.”

“If you're as honest and fair as you can be, not only in business but in life, things will work out.”

“Your mission is to find a product or service that can positively impact the lives of 1 billion people because that's the game we're playing today.”

“I enjoy moving. I like to be in a new place. Settling down doesn't appeal to me much. I like the whole business of it. And I love the first night in the new place.”

“Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.”

“I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.”

“The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife.”

“I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.”

“Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.”

“Constantine 'Costa' Gratsos had made his fortune as a lifelong associate of shipping icon Aristotle Onassis. He took a liking to me, became my first mentor, and showed me how to swim in the deep, dangerous waters of business.”

“When I was 9 or 10, I had a ten-cent business: I would walk your dog for a dime, go to the store for a dime, empty your garbage for a dime - and then I could use the money to buy tricks at the magic store.”

“If you run a business, and I see F1 as a business, if you have to go back every five weeks saying 'oh, I need another two million', it gets old pretty quick. Then the trust is lost.”

“If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative.”