Quotes About Business

A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express a precise meaning.

Organizations are successful because of good implementation,not good business plans.

If we want people on the front lines of companies to be responsible for making good business decisions, they must have the same information that managers use to make good business decisions.

America's corporations learned long ago that equality is just good business and is the right thing to do.

Carl Icahn told me to stay away from airlines. In good times, the unions take away the profits, and in bad times, the cost of oil kills you.

I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

And I really believe good journalism is good business.

I found that competition was supposed to be a menace and that a good manager circumvented his competitors by getting a monopoly by artificial means.

Good journalism is good business practice; good business supports great journalism.

I was a very good cook, and I knew I could build a business.

Banking is very good business if you don't do anything dumb.

I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.

I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.

Wal-Mart is the sewer pipe through which good jobs are being flushed.

Our bilateral relations are very good, they're very close. In the areas of business, of the economy, the United States of America last year were our most important trading partner.

I come from a family of traders; my grandmother and my mother were very good at making money.

Making money and doing good in the world are not mutually exclusive.

I'm not a good businessman and I don't promote myself particularly well. It's best I don't talk to anybody lest I alienate myself.

Despite their good intentions, today's businesses are missing an opportunity to integrate social responsibility and day-to-day business objectives - to do good and make money simultaneously.

This is one of the innovator's dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal mistake.

I'm just going about my business. Am I going to bend over backwards to assure everybody that I'm a good guy? No, I'm not going to do it.

I had a good political career, and I have a good business career. I didn't get the brass ring. But I did very well.

There are so many startups out there raising money. I don't think this is a bad thing. It's a good thing. Entrepreneurship is in vogue. Innovators are innovating. Makers are making.