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Business Quotes



"Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people."


"If we want to secure the best jobs in the future, we must make America the best place in the world to do business."


"If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion."


"Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut it down."


"It's the No.1 issue with people I talk to, whether Republican, Democrat or independent. They want to see the way business is done in Washington change."



"I want business to prosper and make a profit caused by business expansion and prosperity."


"In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry."


"It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business."


"The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context."


"Walk a mile in your customers' stilettos or loafers. Try to understand where they are in the moment."


"It's against type in the sense of my background, but it's with type in the sense that I am a loner who's new to this business and sceptical about a lot of it."


"There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills."


"Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives."


"I'm not a kid. You don't get in this business for anonymity. It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall, but at the same time, I'm kind of ready for a little bit of it, but I worry for my little one, and my family - their privacy. That's what I'm more protective of."


"There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch."


"The State of Virginia is similar to a great business corporation... and should be conducted with the same efficiency and economy as any private business."


"Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money."



"I went into show business because I love to work with people, and what I enjoy most about acting is rehearsing and getting to know people and their talents, forming relationships. Working in this business, barriers drop and you get into people real quickly."


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


"My business is not to show anybody anything; my job is just to do it."


"The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative."


"My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business."


"A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all."


"In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner."


"In the business world and the volunteer world, each job has certain requirements that must be met in order for that job to be done properly and for that organization to survive and prosper."


"No one on his deathbed ever said, I wish I had spent more time on my business."


"Films are hard to make and I think the word indulge really leads one to believe that it's an easy sort of business and it's really extremely difficult."


"For all salespeople - Driving around and talking to people for a living, with no recognisable return for the time or money spent by your employer - is a job description that belongs in the past."


"Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."



"A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets."
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