Best 5548 quotes in «business quotes» category

Be methodical if you would succeed in business, or in anything. Have a work for every moment, and mind the moment's work. Whatever your calling, master all its bearings and details, its principles, instruments and applications. Method is essential if you would get through your work easily and with economy of time.

Be not too presumptuously sure in any business; for things of this world depend on such a train of unseen chances that if it were in man's hands to set the tables, still he would not be certain to win the game.

Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the one with the most attractive exterior will win.

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.

Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything.

Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.

Big ideas come from the unconscious. This is true in art, in science, and in advertising. But your unconscious has to be well informed, or your idea will be irrelevant. Stuff your conscious mind with information, then unhook your rational thought process. You can help this process by going for a long walk, or taking a hot bath, or drinking half a pint of claret. Suddenly, if the telephone line from your unconscious is open, a big idea wells up within you.

"(Big name research firm) says our market will be $50 billion in 2010." Every entrepreneur has a few slides about how the market potential for his segment is tens of billions. It doesn't matter if the product is bar mitzah planning software or 802.11 chip sets. Venture capitalists don't believe this type of forecast because it's the fifth one of this magnitude that they've heard that day. Entrepreneurs would do themselves a favor by simply removing any reference to market size estimates from consulting firms.

Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in court against those who put products on the market that are dangerous to their buyers.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Both my mother and I were determined that we weren't going to stay on welfare. We always worked toward doing better, toward having a better life. We never had any doubts that we would.

Borrowing money on what's called 'easy terms,' is a one-way ticket to the Poor House. If you think it ain't a Sucker Game, why is your Banker the richest man in your Town? Why is your Bank the biggest and finest building in your Town? Instead of passing Bills to make borrowing easy, if Congress had passed a Bill that no Person could borrow a cent of Money from any other person, they would have gone down in History as committing the greatest bit of Legislation in the World.

Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.

Brand equity doesn't change based on economic considerations.

Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.

Brand planning must continue to paint a vivid description of the consumer today. The challenge is that it can feel like this picture changes daily. Planning's job is to help separate the temporary shifts from foundational understanding that underpins overall behaviour.

Briefcases, like CEOs, should never look new and unused.

Britney's a really cool girl, We were really close back when we were on the Mickey Mouse Club, and even watching her in interviews I find myself missing her lately. I'm really proud of her, how far she's come and what she's been able to accomplish. And to keep it together: It's so crazy out on the road. I gotta give her credit for not just going berserk and letting everybody get to her. I just passed on my number to her through somebody. It's good to have friends in the business who know what you're going through.

Building a business is like building a home. If the foundation rests on an unstable setting or is constructed with subpar materials, it doesn't matter if the rest of the home is perfect. It will never be a joy to its owner

Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them.

Building a business and becoming a billionaire is it's not championship. It's the competence; the competence in your sector with other companies not looking to have some kind of records in this issue.

Building a business is not rocket science, it's about having a great idea and seeing it through with integrity.

Business and the environment: Wasting resources costs the earth - and lowers your competitive edge

Business as usual is dead. Green growth is the answer to both our climate and economic problems

Business is all about solving people's problems - at a profit.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Business is never as healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.

Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind, the aggregate nature of man more continuously, and more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.

Business people have been made into these rock stars because they've made a lot of money.

Business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important cause of business frustration and failure.

Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.

Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth.

Business is always a struggle. There are always obstacles and competitors. There is never an open road, except the wide road that leads to failure. Every great success has always been achieved by fight. Every winner has scars.The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will-power to develop themselves. So choose to be among the few today.

Business is business, no child's play.

Business is in itself a power.

Business is like sex. When it's good, it's very, very good; when it's not so good, it's still good.

Business 2.0 was hugely profitable last year, and will be profitable this year.

Businesses are successful because someone makes the sacrifices other are unwilling to.

Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die.

Business in a certain sort of men is a mark of understanding, and they are honored for it. Their souls seek repose in agitation, as children do by being rocked in a cradle. They may pronounce themselves as serviceable to their friends as troublesome to themselves. No one distributes his money to others, but every one therein distributes his time and his life. There is nothing of which we are so prodigal as of those two things, of which to be thrifty would be both commendable and useful.

Business is many things, the least of which is the balance sheet. It is a fluid, ever changing, living thing, sometimes building to great peaks, sometimes falling to crumbled lumps.

Business is not financial science, it's about trading.. buying and selling. It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it.

Business is so much lower a thing than learning that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first.

Businessmen are notable for a peculiarly stalwart character, which enables them to enjoy without loss of self-reliance the benefits of tariffs, franchises, and even outright government subsidies.

Business wise, I have always learned valuable lessons so I don't regret any decisions I have made.

Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city.