Quotes about Business

“Steve Jobs once asked me for some advice about retail, but I said, 'I am not sure at all we are in the same business.'”

“The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.”

“For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.”

“The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should have.”

“White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.”

“Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll always have some clean air to breathe.”

“You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone.”

“I thought, 'This is not going to drag me down, this is going to make me a better man.' So I came out of prison a man with a plan, determined to set up a business importing Italian ingredients.”

“One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.”

“I am a business owner. I'm a teacher. I think Justin's actually kind of plain, kind of nerdy. But when I morph into Alyssa, I'm like this... Well, this creature, everything that Justin couldn't be.”

“When I spent time with my father, it wasn't playing ball in the back yard. I came to his office and listened to him do business or sat in on meetings. I walked job sites. On Saturday, we'd see my grandfather in Queens for a couple hours, and then he'd say, 'Let's go collect rent!'”

“Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.”

“Helping doing business easier, we choose the name Alibaba because it is a global company. It is founded in China, but it was created for the world.”

“Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics, and there are no easy shortcuts to success. Ethics need to be carefully sown into the fabric of their companies.”

“What other people think about me is not my business.”

“Thought, not money, is the real business capital.”

“In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.”

“If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.”

“When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.”

“In the military, they give medals for people who are willing to sacrifice themselves so that others may survive. In business, we give bonuses to people who sacrifice others.”

“As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.”