Quotes about Business

“The hard part of running a business is that there are a hundred things that you could be doing, and only five of those actually matter, and only one of them matters more than all of the rest of them combined. So figuring out there is a critical path thing to focus on and ignoring everything else is really important.”

“Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.”

“The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.”

“I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.”

“Unfortunately, in our business, it's all about the tournament when you're a good team.”

“People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.”

“We have to have a business model that can be a sustainable and acceptable one to both regulators and the other stakeholders, clients, and investors.”

“Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good.”

“If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him.”

“We came from a small village and there is no music business there.”

“Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.”

“The arms business is an absolutely acceptable business.”

“Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.”

“Theoretically, an open-plan office is a great format for a changeable work environment, a place where employees have a say over how they work and a place that can adapt to their needs and to the needs of the business.”

“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.”

“I've been in journalism my entire adult life and have often defended it against fellow conservatives who claim the news business is fundamentally corrupt.”

“The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.”

“There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.”

“Broadcasting is a brutal, often unfair business, where looks are valued more than skill.”

“I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven - that's none of my business, ultimately. I won't lecture her on the philosophy of science.”

“If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.”