Quotes About Business

I think any opportunity you have to be green, whether it's in business or in everyday life, you should take it.

Free enterprise is essentially a formula not just for wealth creation, but for life satisfaction.

Many business leaders are asking fundamental questions about what business they're in, why they are doing it and how it can be used as a means of healing human and natural communities.

Advertising is the life of trade.

We have found in a long life that one competitor is frequently enough to ruin a business.

If you don't have a positive attitude in business and in life, you will never, ever be successful.

In business, I've discovered that my purpose is to do my best to my utmost ability every day. That's my standard. I learned early in my life that I had high standards.

Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.

Only one thing counts in this life - get them to sign on the line that is dotted.

We have done some of these in Bangladesh. Whenever I see a problem, I immediately go and create a company. That's what I did all my life.

What is a business? It's simply an idea that makes someone else's life better

My wife has a line of fine Indian foods, that's kind of a very successful business. It's an interesting way to see life.

The end of pleasure is to support the offices of life, to relieve the fatigues of business, to reward a regular action, and to encourage the continuance.

It's not about the money. Its about creating a business out of your life's purpose and mission.

It's time to place the market within a moral framework - even if that means standing up to companies who make life harder for parents and families.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade and sell it to all of those who get thirsty from complaining.

No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.

Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together.

Don't open a shop unless you know how to smile.

George Westinghouse, like Edison, thought money was important only as a form of "stored energy" to use as he wished in his work and expand his businesses. He was interested not in being rich, but in helping the world. He strove incessantly to deliver better, more reliable products.

If you're struggling to get into big companies, you probably have a weak value proposition. Pure and simple.

After all, it's the future of business communication that we're looking toward.

In my column series 'The Main Thing ' I often talk about how Internet technology can improve the way people communicate - both within a business and between a business and its customers and partners.

Whether we like it or not, it really is a jungle out there in the world of business, and it's crawling with predators. In my work I often use the image "dance with the tiger," because the tiger is viewed or even worshiped around the world as the ultimate predator. To dance well—to negotiate well—we must hear the music, we must feel the music, we must be tuned in to our partner—our "adversary"—at all times,