Quotes about Business

“Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.”

“I don't have any ego about it, but I find there's not a great work ethic in show business. A lot of people are in it to make money, and coming from stand-up, you have to work so hard because almost nothing works, and if you lose the audience for three minutes, you're dead.”

“In business, you have to be strong. If you are weak, people are going to take advantage.”

“In the case of Apple, they did originally do production internally, but then along came unbelievably good outsourced manufacturing from companies like Foxconn. We don't have that in the rocket business. There's no Foxconn in the rocket business.”

“When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.”

“I got an album concept called 'Exit Strategy,' that might be one of my last ones. It's a term they use in business when you build companies. You create an exit strategy as you make a company. You don't wait till you're five years in it; you create a exit strategy as you make the company.”

“You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.”

“Unfair and deceptive business practices have been illegal in most states for decades. Yet traffickers routinely use what appear to be legitimate businesses - massage parlors, bars, nail salons - as fronts for their illegal exploitation. It's the ultimate business scam.”

“No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized.”

“The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.”

“As a business person, I want the world to share the prosperity together.”

“There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.”

“I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.”

“The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.”

“Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.”

“Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.”

“A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.”

“It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.”

“Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather's, the National Restaurant Association, in each one of those situations, I had a daunting problem that I had to solve. And I used the same business principles to approach the problem and, more importantly, solve the problem in every one of the situations.”

“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”

“My private life is my own business.”