Quotes About Business

Fatigue could be the dealmaker's friend.

John D Rockefeller read his Bible religiously, but kept his ledger in a different drawer.

I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife.

And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.

When a young woman tells me that she wants to become and actor, I say, 'No, be a writer. Or go to business school and learn how to run a studio.' The only real change will come from behind the scenes.

It used to be the players were here (lowering his arm) and owners were here (raising his arm). Now, it's the other way. There's so much money.

We were losers. We were baseball players. [Baseball executives] were businessmen. When you went into talk about a contract, they always had the upper hand. No matter if you hit 350 or 250, you were going to get what they wanted you to have.

I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry.

Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

This was the beginning. The end is easily foreseen; for, given a young man of Dick's temperament, longing for companionship, and another young man of Charlie's make?up, with a legitimate business to bring the two together, and only a friendship of the David and Jonathan order could result.

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises but only performance is reality.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

Crises, especially severe crises, have a purgative effect. In the business world, insolvent businesses that adopted a bad strategy close down, and bad loans are written off. Then lenders can lend with a new confidence again. This is the process that Joseph Schumpeter celebrated as creative destruction.

People are not like a business. You can't buy and sell them like so much property. You can't lock them up in a vault and expect them to appreciate it.

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

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

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality.

You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.

What poor, mean trash this whole business of human virtue is! A mere matter, for the most part, of latitude and longitude, and geographical position, acting with natural temperament. The greater part is nothing but an accident.

Change is an anxiety-arousing business because whenever you make a change, you can't make only one. There is no guarantee where it will stop.

We view Big Business as business but equate small business with art; we call it entrepreneurship.

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