Quotes about business

With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights.

Richard Branson

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

Walt Disney

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job: it's a depression when you lose yours.

Harry S. Truman

Bad deals chase the money, while the money chases good ones.

Robert Kiyosaki

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Robert Schuller

I knew the real estate bubble was about to pop when my taxi driver handed me his real estate brokers business card.

Robert Kiyosaki

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Henry Ford

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

Orson Welles

Most retailers are busy putting out fires all day. They have to spend their time working in their business, rather than on their business.

Allan Katz

Put two things together which have never been put together before, and some schmuck will buy it.

George Carlin

No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

Florence Scovel Shinn

Let the buyer beware.

English Proverb

Who says auditors are human?

Arthur Hailey

Business before pleasure.

English Proverb

If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.

Henry Kissinger

Reliable office staff come in the shape of mature married women working from 9.30 to 3.30, inside school hours, during which they will do more than the 9-5ers.

Fay Weldon

There is a supply for every demand.

Florence Scovel Shinn

The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.

Havelock Ellis

We are always saying to ourself, we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough. In fact, the way software works, so long as you are using your existing software you don't pay us anything at all. So we're only paid for breakthroughs.

Bill Gates

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

Bill Gates

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

Bill Gates

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

Bill Gates

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

Bill Gates

A corporation's responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.

Ben Stein

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to the creditors.

Joey Adams

In order to be successful in the market, you don't need to own the market.

Hans Kast

A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee.

Arnold H. Glasgow

I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.

Arnold Toynbee

There is no silver bullet. You have to recognize you have the problem, and manage your business to address it. Nothing will eliminate fraud altogether.

Allen Jost

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards.

Steve Jobs

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it is written on.

Samuel Goldwyn

Corporations are great and appalling things. They take you and shape you in nearly nothing flat, twist and swivel you. And they do it without overt persuasion, they do it with smiles and nods, a collective inflection of the voice.

Don DeLillo

The point is that you can't be too greedy.

Donald Trump