Business Quotes - Page 33

• My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.

  David Geffen

  Mother, Work, Taught

  9 Copy quote

• I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really

  Andy Grove

  Believe, Internet, Company

  "Andy Grove's Rational Exuberance". Interview with John Heilemann, www.wired.com. June 1, 2001.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Basically we get confused a bit about what retail is. It is really just buying things, putting them on a floor and selling them.

  Gerry Harvey

  Confused, Buying Things, Retail

  7 Copy quote

• Elections are a kind of business. I have to present myself: 'I can do this and that for this area so please give me your vote'. People vote for the politicians who can best understand and contribute to their region or country. In a business you can choose your clients, and the message is targeted to them only. But politics is universal; no matter what age the audience, you have to send the same message to everyone.

  Takafumi Horie

  Country, People, Giving

  4 Copy quote

• It's not that I'm not interested in politics, but rather, I think that the people who become politicians in Japan are not very dynamic. Honestly, I find business much more interesting than politics.

  Takafumi Horie

  Thinking, Japan, People

  "Takafumi Horie Talkasia Transcript". "Talk Asia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. November 23, 2005.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• In business, you're trying to make a buck. God was good to me and blessed me. I made some money and started this foundation years ago, and it has grown in size. With the foundation it's a lot different, because the bottom line isn't how you can make more money or get a better return, it's helping the projects that you feel strongly about move forward.

  Lee Iacocca

  Money, Moving, Blessed

  7 Copy quote

• You learn in this business.. If you want a friend, get a dog.

  Carl Icahn

  Friendship, Dog, Investing

  36 Copy quote

• It takes a lot more to run a good business than just trailing commissions or kickbacks otherwise everybody would succeed, wouldn't they?

  John Ilhan

  Success, Running, Succeed

  4 Copy quote

• In business as in life, sometimes bad things happen to good people, and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But over time, if you play long enough, everybody gets what he deserves - good and bad.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Life, Karma, Play

  "The Fast Company Interview: Jeff Immelt". Interview with John A. Byrne, www.fastcompany.com. July 7, 2005.

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• I work with wonderful people who support me. And, my beliefs are that the business needs to serve the family rather than the family serve the business.

  Kathy Ireland

  Work, People, Support

  11 Copy quote

• With businesses, you go to the same places because you like the service, you like the people and they take care of you. They greet you with a smile. That's how people want to be treated, with respect. That's what I tell my employees - customer service is very important.

  Magic Johnson

  People, Important, Care

  "Making Magic". Interview with Janean Chun, www.entrepreneur.com. July 1, 1998.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've always studied business. Even when I was a ball player, I'd read business journals and the business sections of newspapers.

  Magic Johnson

  Player, Balls, Newspapers

  "Making Magic". Interview with Janean Chun, www.entrepreneur.com. July 1, 1998.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I viewed it as a business, but I always viewed it as a game. An opportunity to show my skills, my basketball skills, amongst the best in the world.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Opportunity, Games

  5 Copy quote

• Successful companies create value by providing products or services their customers value more highly than available alternatives. They do this while consuming fewer resources, leaving more resources available to satisfy other needs in society. Value creation involves making people's lives better. It is contributing to prosperity in society.

  Charles Koch

  Success, People, Leaving

  Charles G. Koch (2007). “The Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Built the World's Largest Private Company”, p.55, John Wiley & Sons

  46 Copy quote

  Show source

• Many businesses with unpopular products or inefficient production find it much easier to curry the favor of a few influential politicians or a government agency than to compete in the open market.

  Charles Koch

  Agency, Government, Favors

  5 Copy quote

• In general, an asset should be sold when it has greater value to a buyer. This happens when a buyer has a complimentary business or capability that would enable them to do more with that business. Many businesses we have exited were not failures, but had simply reached a point in their life cycle where they no longer provided a core capability or served as a platform for growth.

  Charles Koch

  Growth, Buyers, Assets

  5 Copy quote

• We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.

  Ray Kroc

  Success, Commitment, Mcdonalds

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

  Peter Lynch

  Running, Intelligent, Investing

  20 Copy quote

• If you stop building stars, which we never do, you wouldn't be in business.

  Vince McMahon

  Stars, Building, Ifs

  6 Copy quote

• Regardless of how well a studio is run, it's only as good as the product it produces.

  Vince McMahon

  Running, Management, Produce

  11 Copy quote

• We intend to conduct our business in a way that not only meets but exceeds the expectations of our customers, business partners, shareholders, and creditors, as well as the communities in which we operate and society at large.

  Akira Mori

  Expectations, Community, Way

  16 Copy quote

• Today the strategies of many companies in the real estate industry are premised on low interest rates, an assumption that has resulted in the rapid expansion of the real estate securitization business. This trend could be regarded as a risk factor, as it exposes the real estate sector to at least three potential problems: first, interest rate hikes; second, revisions to securitization business accounting standards; and third, overheating in the real estate market.

  Akira Mori

  Real, Risk, Trends

  45 Copy quote

• I believe my concepts are more than just business, they are about our culture.

  Minoru Mori

  Believe, Culture, Management

  7 Copy quote

• You have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization. I've heard it came to civilization through Venice which of course was once the great commercial power in the Mediterranean. However, double entry bookkeeping was a hell of an invention.

  Charlie Munger

  Power, Civilization, Venice

  107 Copy quote

• Good journalism is good business practice; good business supports great journalism.

  Lachlan Murdoch

  Practice, Support, Journalism

  4 Copy quote