Top business Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of business quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Miroslav Volf
In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.
- Miroslav Volf
Collection: Business
Image of Ron Paul
I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.
- Ron Paul
Collection: Business
Image of Alexandra Fuller
I have heard over and over again that the drilling business is a dangerous business, and death is an expected part of the game, but I've also heard of the way that safety violations, human and environmental laws, and a concern for the local culture are flaunted in pursuit of money.
- Alexandra Fuller
Collection: Business
Image of Christine Lagarde
You know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their ego, I sometimes think to myself, 'Come on, you know, there's life and there's death and there is love.' And all of that ego business is nonsense compared to that.
- Christine Lagarde
Collection: Business
Image of Paulo Coelho
When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business whether people like or dislike it.
- Paulo Coelho
Collection: Business
Image of George Mason
I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice.
- George Mason
Collection: Business
Image of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Collection: Business
Image of Barry Goldwater
I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.
- Barry Goldwater
Collection: Business
Image of Steve Harvey
You've got to quit lowering your standards. Set your requirements up front so when a guy hooks you, he has to know this is business.
- Steve Harvey
Collection: Business
Image of Marcus Samuelsson
Finding creative and effective ways to simultaneously give back and economically empower people is something that is increasingly important. Not everyone can open a business and directly create jobs in the way that we have at Red Rooster Harlem.
- Marcus Samuelsson
Collection: Business
Image of Roger Maris
It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc.
- Roger Maris
Collection: Business
Image of Florence Scovel Shinn
No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.
- Florence Scovel Shinn
Collection: Business
Image of Cynthia Ozick
Novelists go about the strenuous business of marrying and burying their people, or else they send them to sea, or to Africa, or at the least, out of town. Essayists in their stillness ponder love and death.
- Cynthia Ozick
Collection: Business
Image of Guy Kawasaki
A large social-media presence is important because it's one of the last ways to conduct cost-effective marketing. Everything else involves buying eyeballs and ears. Social media enables a small business to earn eyeballs and ears.
- Guy Kawasaki
Collection: Business
Image of Gerald Chertavian
The saying in business is that, 'You hire for skills and you fire for behavior.' And one would argue that in order to move up in career, to be promoted, to take on additional responsibility, in many ways that's linked more to the attitudes and behaviors that you carry rather than what you know technically about a given subject.
- Gerald Chertavian
Collection: Business
Image of William Wilberforce
I would suggest that faith is everyone's business. The advance or decline of faith is so intimately connected to the welfare of a society that it should be of particular interest to a politician.
- William Wilberforce
Collection: Business
Image of Leo Sayer
I felt quite an affinity with 'Rocky' in my career. It's been like 'fight the business' all the way up.
- Leo Sayer
Collection: Business
Image of Mel Brooks
I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
- Mel Brooks
Collection: Business
Image of Freeman Dyson
Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people.
- Freeman Dyson
Collection: Business
Image of Billy Joel
In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.
- Billy Joel
Collection: Business
Image of Peter Finch
If you have 50 years in the business, you can probably count on only five good movies.
- Peter Finch
Collection: Business
Image of Jenni Rivera
I had no choice but to work hard. I was a straight-A student, went to college, and I loved business. I never thought I was going to be a singer myself.
- Jenni Rivera
Collection: Business
Image of Jon Huntsman, Jr.
We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility that we can come up, we can pursue our dreams and our aspirations and we won't be blocked by government regulation, by the inability to get a loan as a small business to make our dreams come true.
- Jon Huntsman, Jr.
Collection: Business
Image of Alain de Botton
When work is not going well, it's useful to remember that our identities stretch beyond what is on the business card, that we were people long before we became workers - and will continue to be human once we have put our tools down forever.
- Alain de Botton
Collection: Business
Image of Viola Davis
I'm in the business of creating human beings.
- Viola Davis
Collection: Business
Image of Masayoshi Son
Money is available from investors as long as you have a great business model and a talented leader.
- Masayoshi Son
Collection: Business
Image of Washington Irving
Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.
- Washington Irving
Collection: Business
Image of Jerry Jeff Walker
There seems to be a great propensity in this business to write tear-jerkers, 'You-left-me' songs. I thought, 'Why don't I count my blessings by looking at what I have?' I'm pretty much an optimistic guy.
- Jerry Jeff Walker
Collection: Business
Image of Andrew Yang
In most every business, you learn by doing. The apprenticeship model is much more effective than the classroom for cultivating entrepreneurs.
- Andrew Yang
Collection: Business
Image of Edmund Burke
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
- Edmund Burke
Collection: Business
Image of Harvey Mackay
To me, job titles don't matter. Everyone is in sales. It's the only way we stay in business.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Business
Image of Heidi Hayes Jacobs
Education is a business - the growth business. It cultivates the growth of our learners, translates the growth of new knowledge, and builds professional growth.
- Heidi Hayes Jacobs
Collection: Business
Image of Lori Greiner
In business it is most often all about getting your foot in the door and once you do, everything opens up and things start to naturally progress into bigger and more opportunities.
- Lori Greiner
Collection: Business
Image of Muhammad Yunus
What we are trying to do is to create a social business in Bangladesh, a joint venture to create restaurants for common people. Good, healthy food at affordable prices so that people don't have to opt for food that is unhealthy and unhygienic.
- Muhammad Yunus
Collection: Business
Image of Mark Cuban
If you can't admit a failure, you're not an entrepreneur. You are not a good business person. There's nothing brilliant about what you are doing.
- Mark Cuban
Collection: Business
Image of Hosea Ballou
No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
- Hosea Ballou
Collection: Business
Image of Gary Vaynerchuk
My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He's my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Collection: Business
Image of Edith Bowman
Mum and Dad ran a seaside hotel in Anstruther in Fife. It was a family run business, so I worked in the kitchen and helped out as a chambermaid and waitress.
- Edith Bowman
Collection: Business
Image of Robin S. Sharma
The fears you do not face become your walls. Most people in business, and in their personal lives, design everything so they can avoid doing what makes them feel uncomfortable. Yet any good business person knows we are not only paid to work, but also we are paid to be scared.
- Robin S. Sharma
Collection: Business
Image of Nicki Minaj
My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, okay, if I really focus and become a key player in business, then I can build an empire.
- Nicki Minaj
Collection: Business
Image of Waylon Jennings
Because Ritchie Valens WAS the real deal. He was only starting, but in the time he spent in the business, he made big impact. I don't know if anybody could have made a bigger one.
- Waylon Jennings
Collection: Business
Image of Billy Beane
The idea that you can create a template that will work forever doesn't happen in any business. There's some really, really bright people in this business. You can't do the same thing the same way and be successful for a long period of time.
- Billy Beane
Collection: Business
Image of James Rouse
Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable.
- James Rouse
Collection: Business
Image of Billy West
It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes.
- Billy West
Collection: Business
Image of Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
I've had many failures in terms of technological... business... and even research failures. I really believe that entrepreneurship is about being able to face failure, manage failure and succeed after failing.
- Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Collection: Business
Image of Celine Dion
I love performing, but I never really liked show business. My success is my family. I want to be more successful as a mother.
- Celine Dion
Collection: Business
Image of Burt Reynolds
To be successful in business, you have to be ruthless.
- Burt Reynolds
Collection: Business
Image of Howard Graham Buffett
The whole concept behind 'Forty Chances' is really a mindset: If everybody thought they had to put themselves out of business in 40 years, you had 40 chances to succeed in what your primary goals are, you would probably be more urgent and you would be forced to change quicker.
- Howard Graham Buffett
Collection: Business
Image of Lisa Su
Everyone in the semiconductor industry, everyone in the technology industry, would benefit from more diversity in the business.
- Lisa Su
Collection: Business
Image of Mary Hart
Many have been with the show for years, and they have sources in the business, so we do know things, but until it is verified, we don't run with the story.
- Mary Hart
Collection: Business