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Quotes About Business

If Congress allows the USPS to collapse and private companies take over the mail business, we can expect what we have seen with private internet providers: thorough service in urban areas that will turn a healthy profit, either none or very expensive service in rural areas.
~ Heather Cox Richardson
Music and women I cannot but give way to whatever my business is.
~ Samuel Pepys
Everyone in the dating business wants to know what women want - it's the billion-dollar question. But it's simple: put one in charge, and you find out.
~ Whitney Wolfe
My mission in life is to assist women in social and political empowerment through business and education.
~ Joyce Banda
Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
~ Hermann Hesse
The most important thing in business is honesty, integrity, hard work familynever forgetting where we came from.
~ Frank Lucas
The other part of outsourcing is this: it simply says where the work can be done outside better than it can be done inside, we should do it.
~ Alphonso Jackson
There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work.
~ Lewis Hine
The #1 guideline to success is you must be in business for yourself. When you work for someone else, you sell your time at wholesale to your employer, who then re-sells it at retail to the customer.
~ J. Paul Getty
If you begin to think business whether you own it or work for it like you would a well managed sports team you will learn a lot of very interesting lessons
~ Strive Masiyiwa
Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one enters again. They own it all.
~ Don Bluth
My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever business acumen I have just got gleaned over the years.
~ Donna Mills
I would like to work with anyone in the business who wants to give respect back to the Jamaican vibe.
~ Sean Paul
You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.
~ Stephen Fry
The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) was asked what type of earning was best, and he replied: " A man's work with his hands and every (lawful) business transaction."
~ Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi
Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.
~ David Rockefeller
An entrepreneur is someone that steals office supplies from home and brings them to work.
~ Auren Hoffman
I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody.
~ Glenn Frey
We designers, we don't work in a vacuum. We need business people. We are not the fine artists we are often confused with.
~ Dieter Rams
The fact is, everyone is in sales. Whatever area you work in, you do have clients and you do need to sell.
~ Jay Abraham
You know, you don't have to have money to be a successful businessperson. You don't need a college degree. You just need a lot of common sense backed up by a willingness to work hard.
~ Farrah Gray
I am a businessman. This is what I do each and every day. I love it. I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.
~ Magic Johnson
Get back to work all of you! I'm not running a happy factory here.
~ Mr. Krabs
The misuse of extrinsic rewards, so common in business, impedes creativity, stifles personal satisfaction and turns play into work.
~ Daniel H. Pink