Business Quotes - Page 32

• All the things I love is what my business is all about.

  Martha Stewart

  Love Is, Things I Love, Blogging

  “CNN Larry King Live”, www.cnn.com. July 19, 2004.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• A great brand is a story that’s never completely told. A brand is a metaphorical story that connects with something very deep – a fundamental appreciation of mythology. Stories create the emotional context people need to locate themselves in a larger experience.

  Scott Bedbury

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Emotional

  "If the name fits ....", www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2001.

  62 Copy quote

  Show source

• One finds limits by pushing them.

  Herbert Simon

  Motivational, Inspiring, Life Changing

  65 Copy quote
• 

  I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  471 Copy quote

• When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

  Ezra Pound

  Men, Two, Unnecessary

  14 Copy quote

• The NBA is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.

  Mark Cuban

  Nba, Good Week, Motivational Business

  7 Copy quote

• My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

  Ted Turner

  Success, Jobs, Son

  29 Copy quote

• You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.

  Joseph E. Levine

  Stupid, People, Budgeting

  58 Copy quote

• Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.

  Andy Warhol

  Dating, Employee, Taxes

  Andy Warhol, Bob Colacello (1979). “Andy Warhol's exposures”

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

  Ross Perot

  Leadership, Engineering, Self Improvement

  62 Copy quote

• Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

  Anita Roddick

  Success, Thinking, Entrepreneur

  34 Copy quote

• During difficult economic times, consumers gravitate toward the brands they know, the brands they love and trust.

  Muhtar Kent

  Love And Trust, Economic, Difficult

  50 Copy quote

• The only companies that innovate are those who believe that innovation is vital for their future.

  John Harvey-Jones

  Believe, Innovation, Company

  30 Copy quote

• Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That's not just a catchy slogan. It's the very essence of successful investing.

  J. Paul Getty

  Money, Successful, Rainy Day

  78 Copy quote

• I think that today, more so than ever, corporate responsibility is the best strategic as well as financial path that most businesses can follow. For most businesses there are both compelling reasons to be responsible and compelling statistics that validate that responsible businesses do better according to traditional financial metrics. Of course, how you define "responsible" is somewhat of a conundrum.

  Jeffrey Hollender

  Responsibility, Thinking, Compelling Reason

  8 Copy quote

• ...it's always been difficult for us to lead an examined life as a corporation. I've always felt like a company has the responsibility to not wait for the government to tell it what to do, or to wait for the consumer to tell it what to do, but as soon as it finds out it's doing something wrong, stop doing it.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Responsibility, Government, Waiting

  "The TH Interview: Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia (Part One)". Interview with Jacob Gordon, www.treehugger.com. February 7, 2008.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular gift in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Jobs, Responsibility, Government

  71 Copy quote

• The person who writes the bank's commercials is not the person who makes the loans.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Management, Loan

  4 Copy quote

• You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

  Irv Robbins

  Mean, Ideas, Biggie

  19 Copy quote

• You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Strength, Strong, Decision

  11 Copy quote

• All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Responsibility, Men, Fulfilling

  16 Copy quote

• The dilemma of our age is the combination of unprecedented material progress and systematic spiritual decline. The decline in public and private morality can be witnessed in the marketplace as well as the forums of international diplomacy. In the past, a man's honor and reputation were his most valuable assets. Business agreements were made with a handshake. Today one might be well advised to check the "bottom line" and read the "small print."

  King Hussein I

  Spiritual, Past, Men

  9 Copy quote

• Decisions are a way of defining ourselves. There comes a time in life when there is nothing else to do but go your own way. Where you are headed there are no trails, no paths, just your own instincts.

  Sergio Bambaren

  Life, Encouraging, Time

  66 Copy quote

• The E Myth. Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.

  Michael Gerber

  Mistake, Decision, Entrepreneur

  23 Copy quote

• In a truly great company profits and cash flow become like blood and water to a healthy body: They are absolutely essential for life but they are not the very point of life

  James C. Collins

  Responsibility, Blood, Cash Flow

  10 Copy quote