Quotes About Business

One doesn't win by chance. One doesn't lead a business to make a €1 billion or €500 million if he is a moron.

We all know the mortality of companies is less than human beings.

I'm a businessman. I build things, create jobs - jobs that allow people to pay their mortgage, put food on the table, put their kids through college.

I've worked in the business world and, as a futurist, the whole 20 years that I've led at Mosaic.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

You know, art is very emotional business. But mostly it becomes not emotional, the fabric of commodity. It becomes business. It becomes so many different things. Because we forgot there was emotions involved.

Craigslist is not only gigantic in scale and totally resistant to business cooperation, it is also mostly free.

My father is a businessman, and my mother is a schoolteacher.

Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business.

I do remember feeling, 'I don't ever want to feel impotent in terms of what I can control in a business in which you can have very little control.' And that motivated me to go to law school - that, and my parents saying, 'Go to law school before you do anything.'

We need people to be motivated, know what good looks like and why it makes sense for their businesses, services and products to cater for disabled people's needs and wants.

When you're C.E.O., you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job. And today, they are reunited.

My motivation at the moment is around knowing how it feels to turn a business around, and I can't wait to have that feeling again.

American business needs more conscience, not less, whether from religious motivation like Hobby Lobby or from secular intentions.

A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.

Now, if most Americans want to go out and buy a car, they don't say, you know, 'I think I'll call the chairman of the board of Ford Motor Company and see what kind of deal we can make here.'

My goal in the beginning was to build a lifestyle brand around what I love to do, which is motorcycles and cars. That was our main goal from the very beginning.

En una economía coordinada por los precios, los empleados y los acreedores insisten en que se les pague, independientemente de si los administradores o los propietarios hayan cometido errores. Esto significa que las empresas capitalistas pueden cometer muy pocos errores y durante muy poco tiempo, bajo el riesgo de detener su actividad, o de ser obligadas a ello, ya sea por la incapacidad de conseguir el trabajo y los insumos que necesitan, o por quiebra.

Mientras que el capitalismo tiene un coste visible —la ganancia— que no existe bajo el socialismo, el socialismo tiene un coste invisible —la ineficiencia— que es erradicado en el capitalismo a través de las pérdidas y la quiebra

At age thirty, Engels accepted his father's offer to work in the family business in Manchester. This became the source of Engels' livelihood —and much of Marx's. The young Engels called it forced labor — a painfully ironic term in view of what the phrase was to come to mean in twentieth-century Communist societies. Engels complained, for example, that I've now got to be at the office no later than 10 in the morning.

financial transactions that produced both wealth and unpopularity.

While capitalism has a visible cost - profit - that does not exist under socialism, socialism has an invisible cost - inefficiency - that is eradicated under capitalism through losses and bankruptcy.

The prevention of competition is essential to exploitation.

nothing happens until somebody sells something to someone.