Business Quotes

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc.

Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

When you raise taxes on small business, from 35% to 40%, you will kill jobs.

Probably a mistake, you know, that people make in America, to think that all great chefs are a male... I'm still the only male in the family who went into that business.

Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.

The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.

We need comprehensive reform that will make America the best place in the world to invest and do business.

This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency and at an accelerated pace.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.

Foxes was a movie that didn't do a lot of business but it didn't do too badly critically and eventually they offered me other things. The interesting thing was that next I tried a film called Star Man, which Michael Douglas was producing.

To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels.

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

Oh, what a day-to-day business life is.

Inflation is lower and more stable and the real business cycle fluctuations are more modest.

The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

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.

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.

I'm not really in the excuse business.

You know, I'm just grateful to be in this business and to be able to stay in it.

Business 2.0 was hugely profitable last year, and will be profitable this year.

Interest in business ethics courses has surged, and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making business serve long-term social values.

The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I've had to learn a little bit about it. It's not rocket science: You get ratings, that's good.

The thing I really look for in this business is there are guys who are into football and there are guys who are in the profession for other reasons.

It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priority as unfinished business from the first Bush Administration. His agenda was clear: find a rationale to get rid of Saddam.

The Golden Rule finds no limit of application in business.

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

I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.