Quotes about Business

“Doing a residency in any particular city requires a large repertoire to ensure repeat business.”

“Building a successful business requires a combination of human capital, financial resources, market opportunity, persistence, community support, and even luck.”

“Our core values and business ethics will always be paramount in all that we do, and we are always looking to do the right thing and settle claims fairly and accurately.”

“When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.”

“Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.”

“Whenever you're sitting across from some important person, always picture him sitting there in a suit of long red underwear. That's the way I always operated in business.”

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

“Starting your own business isn't just a job - it's a way of life.”

“Generals aren't in the business of commenting on the correctness or incorrectness of the President's decisions. Anybody who thinks he should be able to do that ought to be fired on the spot.”

“It's important to think good, speak good, and do good. If we want to see positive change in the world, then we need to connect to goodness. I try in everything I do, both in business and philanthropy, to make a positive change and do that by doing good.”

“Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.”

“Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.”

“Companies and leaders are role models - not just with the business community - but in the broader world.”

“There is a huge business case for diversity. You will be making products for people you don't understand, you don't interact with. If you don't have an inclusive, diverse workforce, it makes you myopic.”

“Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.”

“You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.”

“You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.”

“Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.”

“The president has very little effect on the economy. If you want to put blame or credit, the main person who influences the business cycle is the head of the Federal Reserve Bank.”

“Punctuality is the soul of business.”

“The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.”