Quotes about Business

“Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”

“The basic principle which I believe has contributed more than any other to the building of our business as it is today, is the ownership of our company by the people employed in it.”

“Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.”

“To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.”

“When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.”

“What kind of business world are we living in?”

“I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.”

“Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me.”

“I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.”

“Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.”

“Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.”

“I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.”

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

“Networking has been cited as the number one unwritten rule of success in business. Who you know really impacts what you know.”

“Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.”

“There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.”

“Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.”

“Sustainability makes good business sense, and we're all on the same team at the end of the day. That's the truth about the human condition.”

“The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States. Occasionally we have to operate in places where, all considered, one would not normally choose to go. But we go where the business is.”

“In 'The General Strike,' we celebrate those who bring a new vision for the world to the table. People who stand for workers rights, human rights, a just representative political system, and a new mode of doing business where sustainability is the norm not the exception.”

“The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.”