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Quotes About Business

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren't proud of what you're doing, why should anybody else be?
~ Richard Branson
The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it suggests a fundamental lack of faith in American business and American ingenuity.
~ Barack Obama
I have faith in the market when we get the rules right.
~ Kenneth Lay
America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable.
~ Robert Reich
Everyone in business is trying to make sure there business model works. They spend money for this. Sometimes what works is being kind,
~ Unknown
There is no question that knowing someone in business will get you in the door, but it is your skill that will keep you in the room.
~ Vic Mignogna
In this business, my business, I get to meet all kinds of incredible people, fascinating people, glamorous people and sexy people and highly intellectual people. And you meet them and you go 'interesting, interesting, interesting'. They're interesting, but not very many people stop you in your tracks.
~ Madonna Ciccone
Barrack told him that if he continued on this path he would create problems for a post–White House life, in which he was going to face existing investigations without the institution of the presidency behind him. Barrack asked him to think about his business, about everything he had built over the decades and the support he still needed.
~ Maggie Haberman
Trump is to business what professional wrestling is to sports: part of it, certainly, but also a cartoonish parody of it.
~ Maggie Haberman
Stephen Covey's sixth habit of highly successful people, "Seek first to understand—then to be understood," applies to highly successful business developers.
~ Unknown
In order to see him it is necessary to meet him in seclusion, far from the main activity of the business scene.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellowman, either by a considerable gift, or a sum of money, or by teaching him a trade, or by putting him in the way of business, so that he may earn an honest livelihood, and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding out his hand for charity. This is the highest step and the summit of charity's golden ladder.
~ Maimonides
All I have to do is say the word and no record label will ever touch Bad Luck. You'll be out of business faster than the fat one from N'Sync.
~ Unknown
It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Only a handful of companies understand that all successful business operations come down to three basic principles: People, Product, Profit. Without TOP people, you cannot do much with the others.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
~ Unknown
CEOS who are neurotic impostors are also likely to become addicted to consulting companies.
~ Unknown
I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
~ Manuel Puig
Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon.
~ Marc Andreessen
Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world.
~ Marc Andreessen
Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't.
~ Marc Andreessen
There is a Japanese belief that business is temporal, whereas relationships are eternal.
~ Marc Benioff