Quotes About Business

People think actors are self-obsessed. I think it's not necessarily an egocentricity...it's just YOU are your business, your product.

For business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

Move from selling to serving and you, your business and your whole world will shift.

When advertising your business on the side of your car it's a good idea not to drive like a complete asshole.

Never give advice - sell it.

It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.

No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.

A lawyer's time and advice are his stock in trade.

Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.

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The best kind of mind is that which minds its own business.

There are two reasons why some people don't mind their own business. One is that they have no mind, and the other is that they have no business.

Time spent in minding other people's business is about the greatest waste of time there is.

In the first place, it pleased me enormously that Theo and Mr. Tersteeg have entered into business relations in order to make the work of the painters here who are called impressionists known in Holland too.

Understand that the more clear-cut we are about this, the sooner they will come to you to see them. You yourself do not sell my work, so you are not doing business outside the firm of Boussod V. & Co. by showing it. So you will be acting quite correctly, which is always decent. However, should someone or other want to buy, very good, then they have only to apply directly to me. But be sure of this, if we can stand the siege, my time will come.

The German banker, Moritz von Bethmann, believed that the main reason for the Rothschilds' success was 'the harmony between the brothers'.

As early as 1817 the Prussian ambassador was reporting to Berlin that Rothschild was 'easily the most enterprising business man in the country. He is, moreover, a man upon whom one can rely and with whom the Government here does considerable business. He is also … honest and intelligent.'[

But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.

Focus on innovating at value, not positioning against competitors

Value innovation is the cornerstone of blue ocean strategy. We call it value innovation because instead of focusing on beating the competition, you focus on making the competition irrelevant by creating a leap in value for buyers and your company, thereby opening up new and uncontested market space.

innovative ideas will be profitable only if they are linked to what buyers are willing to pay for.

Value innovation is the cornerstone of blue ocean strategy

Salespeople on commission, for example, are seldom sensitive to the costs of the sales they produce.

As companies compete to embrace customer preferences through finer segmentation, they often risk creating too-small target markets.