Business - Quotes

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. - Richard Branson

A business man's conversation should be regulated by fewer and simpler rules than any other function of the human animal. They are: Have something to say. Say it. Stop talking. - George Horace Lorimer

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. - Henry Ford

A business-person’s mission is to overcome uncertainty in his business, help others benefit from the products he sells and make a profit at the end of the day. - Unknown

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. - Charles M. Schwab

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want. - Gerald Stanley Lee

Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated. - B. C. Forbes

Business has only two basic functions – marketing and innovation. - Peter F. Drucker

Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you’re in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game. - Sidney Sheldon

Business is but a means. To forget this, and to live for it and in it, as an end, is a cardinal and pernicious mistake, to which much of the want of elevation in the mercantile character is to be ascribed. - Christian Nestell Bovee

Business is the art of extracting money from another man's pocket without resorting to violence. - Max Amsterdam

Business without profit is not business any more than a pickle is candy. - Charles F. Abbott

Businesses are successful because someone makes the sacrifices others are unwilling to. - Ki-Jung Kim 

Companies fail when they continue doing for too long that which made them successful in the past. - John Young

Companies, as they grow to become multi-billion-dollar entities, somehow lose their vision. They insert lots of layers of middle management between the people running the company and the people doing the work. They no longer have an inherent feel or a passion about the products. The creative people, who are the ones who care passionately, have to persuade five layers of management to do what they know is the right thing to do. - Steve Jobs

Competition should not be for a share of the market - but to expand the market. - W. Edwards Deming

Hurried business is bad business. - Patrick Dewitt

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow. - Nelson Jackson

I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life. - Warren Buffett

If business owners and their employees listened to their customers on a daily basis, there would be no need for expensive formalized surveys and suggestion programs. - Unknown

If you’re too focused on your current business, it’s hard to change and concentrate on innovating. - Bill Gates

In business – every business – the bottom line is understanding the process. If you don't understand the process, you'll never reap the rewards of the process. - Donald Trump

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognise a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman. - David Ogilvy

It is your professional obligation to know your business and know it well, so that you can better serve your customer. - Unknown

Many blunder in business through inability or an unwillingness to adopt new ideas. I have seen many a success turn to failure also, because the thought which should be trained on big things is cluttered up with the burden - some detail of little things. - Philip S. Delaney

Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues. - Larry Page

No legitimate businessman ever got started on the road to permanent success by any other means than that of hard, intelligent work, coupled with an earned credit, plus character. - F. D. Van Amburgh

No scheme pays as well as legitimate business. - Edgar Watson Howe

People go into business principally for money and freedom. They can lose both without proper discipline of mind. - Unknown

Put yourself in the shoes of a seller when you are buying; and the shoes of a buyer when you are selling. This is the essence of good business insight. - Unknown

Restructuring the company will come to naught in terms of increased productivity when the employees do not share the company’s goals and vision. - Unknown

Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us. - Louisa May Alcott

The customer’s interests always come first because we are in the business of building long-term relationship – and not in the business of selling to suckers. - Unknown

The majority of business men are not capable of an original thought, simply because they cannot escape the tyranny of reason. - David Ogilvy

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. - Aristotle Onassis

There’s no business like show business. - Irving Berlin

There’s no luck in business. There’s only drive, determination, and more drive. - Sophie Kinsella

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. - Thomas Watson, Sr.

To those men and women in business, remember the ultimate end of your work: to make a better product, to create better lives. I ask you to plan for the longer term and avoid that temptation of quick and easy paper profits. - George W. Bush

Whatever made you successful in the past won’t in the future. - Lew Platt

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge. - Robert Kiyosaki

Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. - Unknown

With marketing skill, you are like a powerful tiger in the business. When knowledge is added, you are like a winged-tiger. - Unknown