Business Quotes - Page 40

• What I’ve learned in these 11 years is you just got to stay focused and believe in yourself and trust your own ability and judgment.

  Mark Cuban

  Believe, Years, Stay Focused

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• I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Art, Thinking, Actors

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• The thing about being an actor is that you're in the business of not growing up

  Luke Wilson

  Growing Up, Actors, Growing

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• A hotel is a place that keeps the manufacturers of 25-watt bulbs in business.

  Shelley Berman

  Funny, Humor, Bulbs

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• This is the welfare generation, and that is incredibly sad. That will be judged in history as being far worse, I believe, than the stolen generation, because we are literally losing thousands and thousands of our indigenous brothers and sisters to the effects of welfare – drugs, gunja, low morale, alcoholism. I see it everyday and it can stop. The solution is education, training and a guaranteed opportunity.

  Andrew Forrest

  Brother, Believe, Opportunity

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• You can buy attention (advertising). You can beg for attention from the media (PR). You can bug people one at a time to get attention (sales). Or you can earn attention by creating something interesting and valuable and then publishing it online for free.

  David Meerman Scott

  Media, Creating, People

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• The urgent can drown out the important.

  David Meerman Scott

  Marketing, Important, Marketers

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• Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do

  Bob Geldof

  Needs, Music Is

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• I believe that I was lucky to have suffered.
  Some people don't realize that in suffering there is great potential, because if you are deprived for any reason.
  Politically, financially, socially or otherwise and if you set your mind in the right direction, you will find that the only way to survive is for you to excel, by being better so you can be treated better.

  Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

  Inspirational, Pain, Believe

  "The Grass is Greener ... On Both Sides". Jordan Business magazine, December 2006.

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• We all need a story. It just turns out that the story we have been told for years - that people are naturally and primarily competitive and self-interested and that life is best shaped around that bleak fact - is bunkum

  Ed Mayo

  Self, Years, People

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• Regulation is strangling businesses of all sizes in California, and we've got to streamline regulation so it's easy, not hard. to do business.

  Meg Whitman

  California, Regulation, Size

  "The Kudlow Report", www.cnbc.com. July 16, 2010.

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• An ounce of doing things is worth a pound of theorizing.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Inspirational, Pounds, Action

  Wallace D. Wattles, General Press (2016). “The Science of Getting Rich”, p.33, GENERAL PRESS

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• Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left

  George Burns

  Retirement, Aging, Retiring

  George Burns (1986). “Dr. Burns' Prescription for happiness”, G K Hall & Co

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• Everything can be improved.

  Clarence W. Barron

  Service Culture, Quality

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• Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Hate, Stress, Believe

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• Funny, but after trading for more than 15 years, I still am capable of forgetting a cardinal rule: The paper you own, in the end, will be intertwined with the fate of the 30-year bond.

  Jim Cramer

  Birthday, Fate, Years

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• Companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time.

  Jamie Dimon

  Benefits, Succeed, Scales

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• A true business opportunity is the that an entrepreneur invents to grow him or herself. Not to work in, but to work on.

  Michael Gerber

  Opportunity, Entrepreneur, Grows

  Michael E. Gerber (2009). “Awakening the Entrepreneur Within: How Ordinary People Can Create Extraordinary Companies”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• A good businessman must have nose for business the same way a journalist has nose for news.

  Orji Uzor Kalu

  News, Noses, Way

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• A good businessman sees where others don't see.

  Orji Uzor Kalu

  Good Business, Businessman

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• Fun is at the core of the way I like to do business and it has been key to everything I've done from the outset.

  Richard Branson

  Fun, Keys, Done

  Richard Branson (2005). “Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography”, Virgin Pub

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• We have little choice but to move beyond quality and seek remarkable, connected, and new. Remarkable, as you've already figured out, demands initiative.

  Seth Godin

  Moving, Choices, Quality

  Seth Godin (2015). “Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.18, Penguin

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• Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind, the aggregate nature of man more continuously, and more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.

  Walter Bagehot

  Men, Mind, Doe

  Walter Bagehot (1867). “The English Constitution”, p.149

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• Businesspeople are like sharks, not just because we're gray and slightly oily, or because our teeth trail the innards of those we have eviscerated, but because we must move forward or die.

  Stanley Bing

  Moving, Sharks, Teeth

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• All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.

  Charles William Eliot

  Judgement, Belief, Certainty

  "American Contributions to Civilization: And Other Essays and Addresses".

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