Quotes about Business

“Word of mouth is the best medium of all.”

“Now everybody's got a crazy notion of their own. Some like to mix up with a crowd, some like to be alone. It's no one elses' business as far as I can see, but every time that I go out the people stare at me, with me little ukulele in me hand.”

“Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.”

“I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.”

“No one escapes the long arm of the law, they are a business, they are very good at what they do and eventually they will catch up with you.”

“The most important decision I've made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought everybody with me, my homies from the neighborhood, criminals. I just said, 'Come on everybody, we made it.' Then I had to realize we didn't make it. I made it.”

“There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.”

“I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.”

“I studied everyone in the business of entertainment: Dr. Dre, Diddy, everyone. Rob Dyrdek was big for me. He would get 2 million views a week on 'Rob and Big,' and from that sprung everything: DC shoes, Monster Energy, 'Fantasy Factory,' everything.”

“The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.”

“People want to start their own business or become financially independent. But you don't end up a successful entrepreneur unless you find a way to love the risk, the uncertainty, the repeated failures, and working insane hours on something you have no idea whether will be successful or not.”

“When work is not going well, it's useful to remember that our identities stretch beyond what is on the business card, that we were people long before we became workers - and will continue to be human once we have put our tools down forever.”

“The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.”

“I've learned after so many years in this business that nothing is set in stone until you're on set. I've been told I was the choice for years and never got hired. So I never go there in my mind.”

“After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.”

“Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.”

“More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.”

“Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone.”

“The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.”

“If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.”

“The world is divided into three types of people in business: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.”