Quotes about Business

“Our commitment to integrity, our commitment to diversity and inclusion, to respecting our teammates - that's what makes this business work.”

“All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.”

“You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.”

“I started in the restaurant business at the age of 19 as a waitress. I loved the atmosphere and the camaraderie of the restaurant business. I loved not having to go to an office. I loved making people happy.”

“Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.”

“When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.”

“Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.”

“If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.”

“The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions.”

“I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap.”

“One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it's making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it's the people who already have strong trust relationships with you, who know you're dedicated, smart, a team player, who can help you.”

“All you have in business is your reputation - so it's very important that you keep your word.”

“I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years.”

“You can't run a business based on sympathies; otherwise our business would be hampered.”

“People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'”

“Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.”

“I laugh all the time - at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don't laugh onstage because then it's serious business.”

“Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”

“I went to art school in Chicago for a year at Columbia College. I had this whole master plan of getting into sustainable development and green architecture and construction, so I wanted to go to business school and then get my masters in construction and development.”

“There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.”

“Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.”