Best 5548 quotes in «business quotes» category

There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.

There is empirical evidence that leading brands that keep investing during recessions gain share.

There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.

There is little that can be said about most economic goods. A toothbrush does little but clean teeth. Aspirin does little but dull pain. Alcohol is important mostly for making people more or less drunk ... There being so little to be said, much is to be invented.

There is no amount of money in the world that will make you comfortable if you are not comfortable with yourself.

..there is need for a person to be generally educated. Otherwise you shrivel up much too soon. Whether this means reading the bible (I read the New Testament every few years) or reading the great 19th century novelists (the greatest and shrewdest judge of people and of society who ever lived), or classical philosophy (which I cannot read-it puts me to sleep immediately), or history (which is secondary). What matters is that the knowledge worker, by the time he or she reaches middle age, has developed and nourished a human being rather than a tax accountant or a hydraulic engineer.

There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.

There is no business to be done on a dead planet.

There is no business on a dead planet

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

There is no excellence anywhere without labor. We would think a man foolish indeed who would say, "I am willing that my business should prosper, or that my farm should yield plentifully, but I'll not stir a peg." But he is no more foolish than the man who says, "I am willing that God should bless me abundantly, but I shall not do anything toward that end myself." We must consistently rely upon the help of the Lord, but we will not make any progress or meet with any success unless we put forth an earnest effort.

There is no gaming table in the world where loaded dice are tolerated, no athletic field where men must not start fair. Yet Mr. Rockefeller has systematically played with loaded dice, and it is doubtful if there has ever been a time since 1872 when he has run a race with a competitor and started fair.

There is no human feeling to the US securities markets and sometimes no discernible evidence of human intelligence either. But they work.

There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.

There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent more readers.

...there is no more strategic issue for a company, or any organization, than its ultimate purpose. For those who think business exists to make a profit, I suggest they think again. Business makes a profit to exist. Surely it must exist for some higher, nobler purpose than that.

There is no point in retaining a brand equity if it has no traction with consumers, or has no likelihood of doing so.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.

There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.

There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

There is no such thing as a good tax.

There is no such thing as business ethics. There is only one kind -- you have to adhere to the highest standards.

There is nothing as easy as denouncing. It don't take much to see that something is wrong, but it does take some eyesight to see what will put it right again

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.

There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

There is only one way to make a great deal of money; and that is in a business of your own.

There is too great a tendency (perhaps encouraged by popular journalism) to deal with the dramatic moments, forgetting that these are not always the most significant moments. ... To find the significant rather than the dramatic features of industrial controversy, of a disagreement in regard to policy on board of directors or between managers, is essential to integrative business policies.

There is only one boss. The customer.

There is time to go long, time to go short and time to go fishing.

The religion of the corporate world is novelty. What is new is always right.

There ought to be more scrupulous honesty in big business men than in any other human relation. For big business requires teamwork on a gigantic scale.

There’s a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

There's an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

There's a lot of symbolism to your return. Is that going to be enough to reinvigorate the company with a sense of magic?

There's an entrepreneur right now, scared to death, making excuses, saying, 'It's not the right time just yet.' There's no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance, and start your business.

There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.

There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses again.

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

There's no such thing as business ethics; there's just ethics. And ethics makes no concessions for the real or imagined necessities of making a profit.

There's no business like show business.

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

There's no shortage of remarkable ideas, what's missing is the will to execute them.

There was a proposal in California that would keep out Wal-Mart but allow Costco. You opposed it. Are you nuts? That's true: I always oppose these kinds of things. Competition makes us better. Some of our best stores have a Sam's Club next door.

There's this thing called being so open-minded your brains drop out.

There's usually some process by which a potentially great idea gets prostituted into something lacklustre, or by which the wrong idea gets put forward.

There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.