Quotes about Business

“I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!”

“I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling.”

“Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.”

“A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.”

“We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.”

“We want to help U.S. entrepreneurs, small business owners, and brands and companies of all sizes sell their goods to the growing Chinese consumer class. Chinese consumers will get to buy the American products they want. This, in turn, will help create American jobs and increase U.S. exports.”

“I just want to be master of my own time. It is ironic that someone in the watch business should not be in control of his time.”

“The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships. The quality of your business is no different.”

“Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people.”

“Starting a business is not for everyone. Starting a business - I'd say, number one is have a high pain threshold.”

“What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.”

“Reality TV is flat with the anti-cultural imperatives of business: cheap to make, it does ideological work even when it is not giving guru status to dull business people. It fits in with capitalism's anti-mythic myth: the idea that we have liberated ourselves from the dangerous illusions allegedly propagated by art and politics.”

“It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.”

“I think global warming is the gravest threat. With global warming, it's the product of a war between old energy - between the carbon cronies, who, by the way, could not stay in business in a true free market capitalism.”

“Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable.”

“Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.”

“Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.”

“I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant.”

“It is none of anyone's business how I make my films or my creative partnerships.”

“There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.”

“My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.”