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Quotes About Business

There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather that compels the stranger's admiration—and regret. The weather is always doing something there; always attending strictly to business; always getting up new designs and trying them on the people to see how they will go…. Yes, one of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it.
~ Mark Twain
When I was a kid, my goodness, corporate America was a bunch of stolid white guys in gray suits trying to be serious, and now it's stolid white guys in gray suits trying to be funny.
~ Emo Philips
Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
~ Robert Metcalfe
Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.
~ Dave Barry
I travel a lot to promote the perfumes and to do the commercials.
~ Gabriela Sabatini
Being serious is serious business in fiction. It's commercial or hoi polloi in fiction to be funny. It's too accessible to the great unwashed.
~ Joshua Ferris
If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.
~ Kirk Kirkpatrick
If you don't follow the stock market, you are missing some amazing drama.
~ Mark Cuban
I would say I know nothing about the music business, in a nice sort of way. I totally forgot I was in that music video. That's so funny.
~ Zooey Deschanel
Marry me, he says. I got all my own teeth, I wash twice a year an I'll cut you in fer half the business here.
~ Moira Young, Blood Red Road
Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
~ Unknown
. . . you worked for Harry King, they said, because a broken leg was bad for business, and Harry King was all about business.
~ Terry Pratchett, Making Money
If I had to pick another career, I'd be an optometrist for potatoes. That's where the money is.
~ Unknown
The future lies with those companies who see the poor as their customers.
~ C. K. Prahalad
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
~ Henry R. Luce
The value of a business is the cash it's going to produce in the future.
~ Warren Buffett
If you want a solid future, you need to create it. You can take charge of your future only when you take control of your income source. You need your own business.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
~ Akio Morita
Network marketing is the big wave of the future. It's taking the place of franchising, which now requires too much capital for the average person.
~ Jim Rohn
The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis.
~ Theodor Herzl
It's a rare business that doesn't have a way worse future than it has a past.
~ Charlie Munger
Those who are going to be in business tomorrow are those who understand that the future, as always, belongs to the brave.
~ William Bernbach
You just never know with contract situations and the whole business side of it. I'm here now and I'm happy to be here now. The future will take care of itself.
~ Darrelle Revis
I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture, so perhaps I would pursue a degree in that or business.
~ James Maslow