Business Quotations..

• I love this game, I love this sport, I love this league. Why don't I get my own team? (English Premiership football club)
  Roman Abramovich # Love, Passion, Idea, Business, Enjoyment Quotes
• For me, businesses are like buses. You stand on a corner and you don't like where the first bus is going? Wait ten minutes and take another. Don't like that one? They'll just keep coming. There's no end to buses or businesses.
  Sheldon Adelson # Opportunity, Options, Business Quotes
• If I were to retire, I would keep my family's interest in the company the same and say, Don't sell.
  Sheldon Adelson # Bank, Company, Smart, Advice, Business Quotes
• I was sitting with the Prime Minister, and he was making reference to the Mice market. I said: 'Is that the little things that go across the closet and squeak?
  Sheldon Adelson # Business, Attention Quotes
• I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?
  Sheldon Adelson # Changes, Information, Questions, Learning, Business Quotes
• Start out with an ideal and end up with a deal.
  Karl Albrecht # Ideas, Deals, Business Quotes
• No matter what your product is, you are ultimately in the education business. Your customers need to be constantly educated about the many advantages of doing business with you, trained to use your products more effectively, and taught how to make never-ending improvement in their lives.
  Robert G Allen # Improvement, Smart, Business, Education, Products, Customer Quotes
• If you look at the top 20 companies of the world, 19 of them are still brick-and-mortar companies. I have nothing against tech companies. What I am saying is that if you have a car manufacturer or an oil and gas manufacturer, you won’t get the supply over the Net.
  Anil Ambani # Company, Technology, Oil, Limiting, Business Quotes
• My view is to give everyone the space to grow in his own way. When you see restructuring or separations in a family [firm], value has almost always been destroyed. This is the first case where value has been enhanced. In that way it has been a win-win ending.
  Mukesh Ambani # Problems, Challenging, Employee, Business, Value Quotes
• Today I see a billion people as a billion potential consumers, an opportunity to generate value for them and to make a return for myself.
  Mukesh Ambani # Customers, Opportunity, Value, Profit, Business Quotes
• Our strategy is to have some stars—and there are not many stars in the luxury business. What is a star? It's a name that is the very best. It's a name that is very profitable. But the number of true stars is less than I can count on both of my hands.
  Bernard Arnault # Business, Strategy, Profit, Important, Marketing Quotes
• I like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There's vision, patience, and execution.
  Steve Ballmer # Products, Business, Success Quotes
• The lifeblood of our business is that R&D spend. There's nothing that flows through a pipe or down a wire or anything else. We have to continuously create new innovation that lets people do something they didn't think they could do the day before.
  Steve Ballmer # Business, Research, Growth, Innovative, Changes, Strategy Quotes
• I am very excited about where we are as a company today and our growth prospects going forward. Over the last five years, we have put in place a strong mission and values that guide our business approach and culture.
  Steve Ballmer # Company, Growth, Value, Business Quotes
• I wanted to be more of a business woman. I wanted to take this name I had made for myself and take to the next level.
  Tyra Banks # Business, Woman, Entrepreneur, Commitment, Ambition Quotes
• There has never been a lot of money for black models in that world, because all the money was in advertising, in the campaigns and black models rarely got those so my wages would be... I’d be getting so much less than the other girls and I thought that was just so wrong.
  Tyra Banks # Money, Business, Advertising, Challenging, Difficult, Career Quotes
• We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines ... Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.
  Jeff Bezos # Company, Business, Profit, Positive Quotes
• I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.
  Michael Bloomberg # Government, Business, Thinking, Change, Loss Quotes
• We have computers now that let us do 400 million shares a day or whatever the equivalent number of transactions in the bond business is, compared to the old days. But it's the same process. We still have salesmen selling to people.
  Michael Bloomberg # Business, Stocks, Selling, Technology Quotes
• We need advertising vehicles, because the biggest component cost of a consumer product is advertising. It doesn't cost very much to make a can of soup. It's the distribution and advertising that's expensive.
  Michael Bloomberg # Advertising, Products, Business Quotes
• Everybody makes business mistakes. I mean, I take the responsibility, and I did. I was the captain of the ship and I took that responsibility.
  Alan Bond # Business, Mistakes, Responsibility Quotes
• If I'm setting up a new business I’ll spend three or four months learning everything there is about that business, everything there is about that subject and then I will find good people to run it on a day-to-day basis, but whilst they’re running it at least I know what they’re talking about when they come back to me.
  Richard Branson # Learning, Good, Business Quotes
• By nature I am curious about life, and this extends to my business.
  Richard Branson # Entrepreneur, Life, Business Quotes
• Virgin's policy has always been to reinvest our surplus cash back into the business, our profit and loss accounts understate the underlying value of the businesses.
  Richard Branson # Investing, Business, Value Quotes
• I have always believed that personal relationships are vital in business and that people should be directly accountable for their actions.
  Richard Branson # Belief, Business, Action, Relationships Quotes
• Throughout my business life I have always tried to keep on top of costs and protect the downside risk as much as possible.
  Richard Branson # Business, Life, Risk Quotes
• It became apparent to me that business could be a creative enterprise in itself. Above all, you want to create something you are proud of.
  Richard Branson # Creative, Business Quotes
• Can you really explain to a fish what it's like to walk on land? One day on land is worth a thousand years of talking about it, and one day running a business has exactly the same kind of value.
  Warren Buffett # Business, Experience, Value Quotes
• Time is the enemy of the poor business and the friend of the great business.
  Warren Buffett # Business, Time Management Quotes
• Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.
  Warren Buffett # Business, Brands Quotes
• If you don't know jewelry, know the jeweller.
  Warren Buffett # Business, Knowledge Quotes
• The speed at which a business success is recognized, furthermore, is not that important as long as the company's intrinsic value is increasing at a satisfactory rate.
  Warren Buffett # Business, Success, Company, Value, Important Quotes
• If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
  Warren Buffett # Business, Stocks Quotes
• I just feel very honored and very happy, ... I just feel very happy to have achieved something in my career that I wanted -- and I'm sure every girl that started in this business always wanted.
  Gisele Bundchen # Feelings, Appreciation, Happy, Achievement, Career, Business Quotes
• Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face, especially if you are in business. Yes, and that is also true if you are a housewife, architect or engineer.
  Dale Carnegie # Deals, Problems, Business Quotes
• You can dramatize your ideas in business or in any other aspect of your life. It's easy.
  Dale Carnegie # Idea, Business, Life Quotes
• I enjoyed high school and college, and I think I learned a lot, but that was not really my focus. My focus was on trying to figure out what businesses to start.
  Steve Case # Education, Learning, Focus, Business, Smart Quotes
• I'm not sure I knew what an entrepreneur was when I was ten, but I knew that starting little businesses and trying to sell greeting cards or newspapers door-to-door or just vending machine kind of thing is.. there's just something very intriguing to me about that.
  Steve Case # Business, Entrepreneur, Enjoyment, Interesting, Compassion Quotes
• One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren't that many people to sell to, and it was hard to identify them.
  Steve Case # Customers, Challenging, Selling, Business Quotes
• I'm sympathetic to the Americans incapacity to comprehend my thought process. After all, their nation has yet to spawn any genuine philosophers or legitimate literature. All their finest minds are devoted to developing ways to make hamburgers faster and cheaper.
  Jacques Chirac # America, Business, Improvement, Strategy Quotes
• To make a small business work you need considerable knowledge, skill, management, experience, as well as a high level of commitment, plenty of hard work, access to finance, and some good luck.
  Paul Clitheroe # Knowledge, Business, Work, Skill, Management, Experience, Finance, Commitment Quotes
• A successful business is a good way to create significant wealth, but not every business will grow into a News Corporation or a McDonalds.
  Paul Clitheroe # Success, Business, Rich, Growth Quotes
• For many people buying an existing business sounds like a good way to get started. But this may not always be the best option.
  Paul Clitheroe # Business, Buying Quotes
• Study the business you think you might like. Satisfy yourself that they will suit your needs. There are so many alternatives available - don't be too quick to choose. Just about any business can fail and any can succeed.
  Paul Clitheroe # Business, Education, Failure, Success Quotes
• The best thing about starting your own business is the freedom it gives you to do your own thing.
  Paul Clitheroe # Business, Freedom Quotes
• Learn as much as you can about your proposed business. Ask questions. Join industry associations. Study successful competitors carefully.
  Paul Clitheroe # Learning, Business, Questions, Success, Competition Quotes
• You are solely responsible for the business, which means there is no one to take over if you need a break.
  Paul Clitheroe # Business, Responsibility Quotes
• Success on any level begins when you accept responsibility for creating life what you want. You are the only person who can truly make it happen. Not your boss, your business partner, your financial planner, your spouse of life-partner. Just you.
  Paul Clitheroe # Responsibility, Business, Success, Life, Finance Quotes
• Don't go into business with the sole objective of making lot of money. If you put service, quality, and customer satisfaction first - the money will follow.
  Paul Clitheroe # Business, Money, Customers, Motivational Quotes
• Business leaders cannot begin to foster a climate of positive order if their sole concern is making a profit. They must also have a vision that gives life meaning, that offers people hope for their own future and those of their children.
  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi # Business, Leadership, Profit, Life, Ethics Quotes
• There will be no good business unless the majority comes to agree that we should demand more from business than large quarterly returns.
  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi # Profit, Business, Good Quotes
• In today's world it is primarily businesses that have the power and the responsibility to make our lives comfortable and secure. But how many firms are actually taking up this challenge?
  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi # World, Business, Power, Responsibility, Life, Challenging Quotes
• A business organization whose employees are happy is more productive, has a higher morale, and has a lower turnover.
  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi # Business, Happy, Employee Quotes
• Whatever the composition of a firm, if it is to do good business it should be a place where everyone is encouraged to progress toward complexity- or at the very least a place that does not make it more difficult to achieve personal growth.
  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi # Business, Company, Good, Encouragement, Achievement, Growth Quotes
• It is impossible to survive as a leader in business without enjoying what one does. The job would become too stressful, the hours too long, and the temptation to spend more and more time on diversions too strong.
  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi # Leadership, Business, Enjoyment, Job, Stress Quotes
• Trust is such a central requirement for doing business that unless one believes in the fundamental decency of humanity it would be difficult to operate without becoming paranoid.
  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi # Trust, Business, Belief, Difficult Quotes
• Most people think it's all about the idea. It's not. EVERYONE has ideas. The hard part is doing the homework to know if the idea could work in an industry, then doing the preparation to be able to execute on the idea.
  Mark Cuban # Thinking, Idea, Difficult, Challenging, Business Quotes
• All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.
  Mark Cuban # Business, Luck Quotes
• In business, one of the challenges is making sure that your product is the easiest to experience and complete a sale.
  Mark Cuban # Business, Challenging, Products, Smart Quotes
• The NBA (National Basketball Association) is never just a business. It’s always business. It’s always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.
  Mark Cuban # Business Quotes
• There are no shortcuts. You have to work hard, and try to put yourself in a position where if luck strikes, you can see the opportunity and take advantage of it.
  Mark Cuban # Difficult, Opportunity, Work, Smart, Business Quotes
• Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.
  Michael Dell # Business, Technology, Conception, Customers, Relationship Quotes
• The important thing is the family. If you can keep the family together — and that’s the backbone of our whole business, catering to families — that’s what we hope to do.
  Walt Disney # Family, Important, Business, Passion Quotes
• You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
  Walt Disney # Death, Business, Strategy Quotes
• The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
  Walt Disney # Action, Business, Encouragement Quotes
• Different people in business take social leadership differently.
  Peter Drucker # Business, Society, Leadership Quotes
• It is the opportunity for business to develop managers far more effectively than any company or university can.
  Peter Drucker # Opportunity, Business, Company, Management Quotes
• Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.
  Peter Drucker # Business, Money Quotes
• If you're soft and fuzzy, like our little characters, you become the skinny kid on the beach, and people in this business don't mind kicking sand in your face.
  Michael Eisner # Competition, Challenging, Business, Smart Quotes
• It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.
  Michael Eisner # Business, Partnership, Selfish, Luck, Difficult Quotes
  
• It has been a fantastic ride for the past 20 years. Ups and downs, to be sure, but filled with great satisfaction in building this wonderful creator of classic American culture into one of the premier entertainment-orientated companies in the world.
  Michael Eisner # Experience, Business, Satisfaction, America, Company Quotes
• You find a lot of people who are envious and jealous. They do not accept you as a foreigner, or an Egyptian in the UK or to own the greatest department store in the world. In business normally this is the nature of life.
  Mohamed Al-Fayed # Business Quotes
• I will continue to distribute blankets, sleeping bags, warm clothing and food on a regular basis, in the hope that my modest efforts will give some comfort to those people we are able help.
  Mohamed Al-Fayed # Products, Growth, Hope, Business, Help Quotes
• We operate in many countries, in many jurisdictions in the world. As part of that, for the sake of the employees working in those areas, we have to abide by the laws.
  David Filo # Business, World, Employee, Work Quotes
• Even when you look at your existing business, it's not always clear where the next growth opportunity is.
  Bill Gates # Business, Opportunity, Growth Quotes
• A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event.
  Bill Gates # Good, Company, Crisis, Business Quotes
• You need to think about your company's fundamental business issues and develop a long-term business strategy to solve problems and take advantage of the opportunities your analysis unearths.
  Bill Gates # Thinking, Company, Strategy, Solutions, Problems, Opportunity, Business Quotes
• You can be a business thinker.
  Bill Gates # Encouragement, Thinking, Business Quotes
• Only a few businesses will succeed by having the lowest price, so most will need a strategy that includes customer service.
  Bill Gates # Customers, Success, Strategy, Business Quotes
• Change the boundaries of business.
  Bill Gates # Business, Encouragement, Change Quotes
• If we go out of business, it won't be because we're not focused on the Internet. It'll be because we're too focused on the Internet.
  Bill Gates # Business, Internet, Focus Quotes
• If you're in business it's both a promise and a warning. It says that sometimes little things can cause some little guy to have an overnight success.
  Malcolm Gladwell # Business, Success, Luck, Smart Quotes
• I hope I have encouraged people in business to expand the way they make sense of human behavior.
  Malcolm Gladwell # Business, Encouragement, Hope Quotes
• The message from Wal-Mart today to the rest of the business community is there need not be any conflict between the environment and the economy. We will find the way not only to reconcile (those), but to find new profits and new opportunities as we do the right thing.
  Al Gore # Business, Economic, Environment, Profit, Success, Opportunity, Smart Quotes
• There are many who still do not believe that global warming is a problem at all. And it's no wonder: because they are the targets of a massive and well-organized campaign of disinformation lavishly funded by polluters who are determined to prevent any action to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming out of a fear that their profits might be affected if they had to stop dumping so much pollution into the atmosphere.
  Al Gore # Problems, Environment, Business Quotes
• The stock market resembles a huge laundry in which institutions take in large blocks of each other's washing--nowadays to the tune of 30 million shares a day--without true rhyme or reason. But technologically it is remarkably well-organized.
  Ben Graham # Stocks, Investing, Stock Market, Business, Intelligent, Technology Quotes
• Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?
  Andrew Grove # Technology, Bad, Positive, Negative, Questions, Business Quotes
• I think one of the big errors people are making right now is thinking that old-style businesses will be obsolete, when actually they will be an important part of this new civilization. Some retail groups are introducing e-commerce and think that the "bricks" are no longer useful. But they will continue to be important.
  Carlos Slim Helu # Mistakes, Thinking, Business, Important Quotes
• All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.
  William Hewlett # Business, Belief, Truth Quotes
• In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words; people, product and profits. Unless you've got a good team, you can't do much with the other two.
  Lee Iacocca # Business, Customers, Profit, Products, Teamwork Quotes
• There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
  Lee Iacocca # Knowledge, Self, Business, Employee Quotes
• We're not about liquidating companies, but if you do that, why is that terrible? We're not blowing up the factories. The person who buys it should be able to make the asset more productive.
  Carl Icahn # Business, Company Quotes
• In life and business, there are two cardinal sins.. The first is to act precipitously without thought and the second is to not act at all.
  Carl Icahn # Life, Business, Sin, Thinking, Action Quotes
• You learn in this business.. If you want a friend, get a dog.
  Carl Icahn # Business, Learning, Friendship, Smart Quotes
• I am the business side, I am the marketing and promotion side. I'm the straight man who plays off of the wild man. I'm Jane, he's Tarzan. It's always been like that. But I think that that is the spice of life. That is what's so exciting, and that's why people tune in.
  Terri Irwin # Business, Marketing, Life, Teamwork, Promotion Quotes
• I think decision makers, in business and elsewhere, just reject the metaphor altogether. Managers think of themselves as captains of a ship on a stormy sea. Risk for them is danger, but they are fighting it, very controlled.
  Daniel Kahneman # Business, Decisions, Thinking, Risk, Fighting, Control Quotes
• Businesses are not investing in trying to figure out what they’ve done wrong. That’s not an accident. They don’t want to know.
  Daniel Kahneman # Business, Investing, Wrong, Smart Quotes
• As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
  Paul Keating # Business, Truth Quotes
• You'll either build that business or you'll go back to finding a job-forever.
  Robert Kiyosaki # Job, Business Quotes
• Think about educating people to be owners of businesses, not employees of business.
  Robert Kiyosaki # Education, Thinking, Business, Employee Quotes
• If you do not like real estate, all you have to do is make hamburgers, build a business around that hamburger, and franchise it.
  Robert Kiyosaki # Business, Inspirational, Real Estate Quotes
• One of the hardest things a person who is new to the way of business thinking has to go through is the countless number of people who will say to you: "You can't do that."
  Robert Kiyosaki # Thinking, Business, Encouragement, Challenging Quotes
• My career has developed where I get to do an interesting range - television commercials, campaigns for big companies such as Victoria's Secret, designing shoes, jewellery, even my own candy, and I'm working on a television show that debuts this fall, so I get to do a lot of different projects.
  Heidi Klum # Career, Different, Growth, Business Quotes
• For me, my business is my business and my house is my house. I don't want the public in my house.
  Heidi Klum # Private, Business Quotes
• Our business practices are no different than those of our competitors, but we are bigger, and thus more visible, so we get more flack.
  Phil Knight # Business, Experience, Competition, Attention Quotes
• We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.
  Ray Kroc # Products, Business, Focus, Passion Quotes
• If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.
  Ray Kroc # Risk, Business Quotes
• We're not in the hamburger business, we're in show business.
  Ray Kroc # Business, Marketing Quotes
• Look after the customer, and the business will take care of itself.
  Ray Kroc # Customers, Business Quotes
• Our aim was to insure repeat business based on the system's reputation rather than on the quality of a single store or operator.
  Ray Kroc # Business, Quality, Management Quotes
• Speculation is a hard and trying business, and a speculator must be on the job all the time or he’ll soon have no job to be on.
  Jesse Livermore # Business, Buying, Selling, Job, Risk Quotes
• In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.
  Peter Lynch # Business, Good, Investing Quotes
• My business education started at the shallow end of a swimming pool and sometimes seemed like it was stuck in the deep end of a shark tank. But you keep going, and pretty soon you're on dry land.
  Max Markson # Business, Education, Encouragement Quotes
• The three pillars on which I believe any business success is based are: Persistence, Enthusiasm and Focus.
  Max Markson # Belief, Business, Success, Focus, Determined Quotes
• That's what business is like. If someone comes to you and says they've got a great idea, you've got to come back at them and say: "That's a great idea, but my idea to promote it is even better".
  Max Markson # Business, Marketing, Idea Quotes
• The cornerstone of all business is the deal. That's the way it is, the way it has always been.
  Max Markson # Business, Deals Quotes
• In my business, supply and demand works this way: someone wants me to supply something, and I demand as much as I can.
  Max Markson # Business, Work Quotes
• In business your can never learn anything more important than successful communication skills.
  Max Markson # Business, Success, Learning, Communication, Skill Quotes
• Through books and experience I have learned not to worry about business problems, not to let them overwhelm me. I prefer to compartmentalize - to mentally isolate the problems and put each into its own imaginary folder, just like a filing cabinet or computer program.
  Max Markson # Experience, Learning, Business, Worry, Problem Quotes
• Employees want to progress. Businesses need to provide a growth path, which becomes increasingly difficult in a shrinking economy.
  Chuck Martin # Employee, Progress, Business, Difficult, Economic, Growth Quotes
• Trust is the key issue! The growing gap between executive compensation and what the "poles" receive does little to increase this.
  Chuck Martin # Truth, Growth, Business, Organization Quotes
• Tough management is a way to approach work. It is a practical, reasonable, and organized way to get to decisions more easily, make the numbers on a consistent basis, have those around you understand where you stand, and increase the business.
  Chuck Martin # Knowledge, Work, Decisions, Management, Business Quotes
• In today's business climate, it is only rational for the top brass to be highly demanding of results.
  Chuck Martin # Business, Result Quotes
• Businesspeople will be responsible if they are truly given responsibiliy without second-guessing.
  Chuck Martin # Business, Employees, Responsibility Quotes
• It's time for people in business to take steps to recharge the workplace.
  Chuck Martin # Business, Encouragement Quotes
• To be serious, if we were only interested in earning big money then a politician would have to go and work in industry.
  Angela Merkel # Politics, Money, Business Quotes
• I've always been more interested in the content of our newspapers, political positions day to day, the thrill of communicating with people through words that I am in the pure business aspects.
  Rupert Murdoch # Interesting, Business, Communication, Politics Quotes
• As long as it's (business) making money I don't care.
  Rupert Murdoch # Business, Money, Profit Quotes
• There are three rules for running a business; fortunately, we don't know any of them.
  Paul Newman # Business, Wisdom, Funny, Knowledge Quotes
• The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.
  Paul Newman # Funny, Business, Company, Growth, Progress Quotes
• Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.
  Richard Nixon # Politics, Business Quotes
• eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system.
  Pierre Omidyar # Brands, Business, Idea, Concept Quotes
• We just have to go at 100 miles an hour in all our businesses, be they television broadcasting, be they magazine publishing, be they subscription television, be they online, be they gaming. We just have to go at one hundred miles an hour.
  James Packer # Growth, Business, Improvement, Smart Quotes
• The fact that I have entered into IT-related business is proof that businesses have to evolve and keep with time. One has to re-invent continuously.
  Kerry Packer # Technology, Business, Improvement, Innovative Quotes
• My interests in India are driven by the fact that the telecom, information technology and entertainment sectors are converging.
  Kerry Packer # Business, Information, Entertainment, Technology Quotes
• We think we’re an important company, and we’re dedicated to doing this (business) over the long term. We like being independent.
  Larry Page # Important, Thinking, Company, Business Quotes
• It's always too early to quit.
  Norman Vincent Peale # Quitting, Business, Improvement Quotes
• When this business was founded, it sought to win public confidence through service, for it was my conviction then, as it is now, that nothing else than right service to the public results in mutual understanding and satisfaction between customer and merchant.
  James Cash Penney # Confidence, Goals, Customers, Business, Satisfaction, Understanding Quotes
• Business is no longer a matter of profits alone. Profits must come through public confidence, and public confidence is given to any merchant in proportion to the service which he gives to the public.
  James Cash Penney # Business, Profit, Satisfaction, Client Quotes
• Listening to customers must become everyone's business. With most competitors moving ever faster, the race will go to those who listen (and respond) most intently.
  Tom Peters # Customers, Competition, Improvement, Change, Business Quotes
• The challenge is to view every element of every operation through the customer's lens, to constantly attempt to redefine each element of the business in terms of the customer's perceptions.
  Tom Peters # Challenging, Customers, Business, Change Quotes
• Character is one factor that will guide all our actions and decisions. We invested in uncompromising integrity that helped us take difficult stands in some of the most difficult business situations.
  Azim Premji # Action, Investing, Difficult, Solutions, Business Quotes
• We hire on requirement basis and not on anticipation.
  Azim Premji # Strategy, Business Quotes
• I have been intensely lucky in business all my life. The more I practice, the luckier I get.
  Rene Rivkin # Luck, Business, Life Quotes
• Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
  John Rockefeller # Money, Business, Enjoyment Quotes
• I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.
  John Rockefeller # Failure, Business, Success Quotes
• A friendship founded on business is a good deal better than a business founded on friendship.
  John Rockefeller # Good, Business, Friendship Quotes
• With us, people are responding to a redefinition of business, where the human spirit comes into play.
  Anita Roddick # Business, Change, Ethics Quotes
• Communication is the key for any global business.
  Anita Roddick # Communication, Business Quotes
• You can't stop business from going global, but you can make it listen to the responsibilities that go with jumping onto the globalization bandwagon.
  Anita Roddick # Business, Responsibility Quotes
• Ideals have to be share by everyone connected with the business. That includes staff, subsidiaries, franchisees, suppliers and customers.
  Anita Roddick # Business, Ethics, Employee, Customers Quotes
• We were vulnerable because we were so high profile. We were openly challenging the system, challenging the role of business.
  Anita Roddick # Business, Challenging, Criticism Quotes
• Running a company is rather like a marriage. When it's going well, it's fantastic. When it's not, it's absolutely miserable.
  Anita Roddick # Company, Management, Business, Challenging Quotes
• It was: "Let's open a shop! Let's have one here! My friend wants to open up a shop! Why not?" And it was like that all round the world.
  Anita Roddick # Business, Growth Quotes
• I have no interest in being the biggest, the most profitable or the largest retailer. I just want The Body Shop to be the best, most breathlessly exciting company - and one that changes the way business is carried out.
  Anita Roddick # Business, Profit, Brands, Company, Change, Ambition Quotes
• Never be seduced into believing it isn't the role of business to tackle the big issues, because it absolutely is.
  Anita Roddick # Belief, Encouragement, Business, Ethics Quotes
• A partnership is really just another way of buying in joint names.
  Annette Sampson # Partnership, Buying, Business Quotes
• With more than half the female population now working, and a growing number of small businesses being set up by women, we've had to learn to manage our money.
  Annette Sampson # Business, Work, Woman, Learning, Money, Management Quotes
• A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.
  Charles M. Schwab # Motivational, Business, Success Quotes
• I started with identifying within the fluidity of Chinese philosophical thinking and the science of western management, the co-ordinates upon which we could format a seamless management structure. Building on this foundation, the company structure becomes a life-force that supports the development of each division of business.
  Li Ka Shing # Thinking, Life, Management, Company, Business Quotes
• I used to be opposed to the idea of social entrepreneurship. I said let business be business, and philanthropy be philanthropy. Keep the two separate, don't mix it up, and this is what I did, and I did that rather successfully, but I now recognize that actually you do need to mix it up and I think there is room for social entrepreneurship.
  George Soros # Idea, Success, Entrepreneur, Philanthropy, Business Quotes
• I was a human being before I became a businessman.
  George Soros # Fun, Business Quotes
• In China they say, 'The thinner the chopsticks, the higher the social status.' Of course, I got the thinnest I could find.....that's why people hate me.
  Martha Stewart # Business, Rich Quotes
• I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell, or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won't be here in ten years.
  Martha Stewart # Bad, Important, Business, Products, Quality Quotes
• I have set a standard, and I'm going to stick to the standard. I may have been able to grow faster and maybe my business could have been bigger, but because I really feel very serious about my subject, I really want to be hands-on.
  Martha Stewart # Business, Serious, Organization, Success, Achievement Quotes
• All the things I love is what my business is all about.
  Martha Stewart # Love, Business Quotes
• No matter how smart you are, no matter how comprehensive your education, no matter how wide-ranging your experience, there's simply no way to acquire all the wisdom you need to make your business thrive.
  Donald Trump # Education, Smart, Wisdom, Business, Experience Quotes
• I don't do it for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it.
  Donald Trump # Business, Money Quotes
• It never stops, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
  Donald Trump # Business Quotes
• I run my operation like a family business. I sign every check, every receipt, I’m not tough, but I’m strong.
  Ivana Trump # Business, Organization, Strong, Challenging Quotes
• There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
  Sam Walton # Customers, Fired, Company, Money, Business Quotes
• Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.
  Sam Walton # Appretiation, Business Quotes
• There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.
  Sam Walton # Business, America, Dream Quotes
• Be number 1 or 2 in your business or get out.
  Jack Welch # Business, Best, Competition Quotes
• The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
  Jack Welch # Internet, Business Quotes
• A business leader has to keep their organization focused on the mission. That sounds easy, but it can be tremendously challenging in today's competitive and ever-changing business environment. A leader also has to motivate potential partners to join.
  Meg Whitman # Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership, Focus, Challenging, Competition, Business, Organization Quotes
• We are extremely pleased with the strength of our business and with the tremendous momentum we have going into the new year.
  Meg Whitman # Appretiation, Strong, Business, Achievement Quotes
• Communications is at the heart of e-commerce and community.
  Meg Whitman # Business, Internet, Communication Quotes
• In a world where everything is so ordinary and dull and things are churned out the same way, year in and year out, if you come from a place of originality and invest energy in things, people respond.
  Stuart Wilde # Selling, World, Products, Spiritual Quotes
• Money making is not a serious business. It is a game that you play.
  Stuart Wilde # Money, Business Quotes
• Manufacturing, creating, selling, P.R., and shipping are not business; collecting and counting the money is the business.
  Stuart Wilde # Rich, Creative, Selling, Business, Money Quotes
• This is a business that thrives on competition (Casino Resorts). For 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the strip hosts the most violent competition in business in America.
  Steve Wynn # Business, Competition, American Quotes
• It helps a ton when you learn people's names and don't butcher them when trying to pronounce them.
  Jerry Yang # Learning, Help, Customers, Business Quotes
• I think that it's always possible to have a great company if you have great ideas. I will say that since the web has become more commercialized, it also takes some good financial resources to build a great business, but as I always say, you have to have the idea first.
  Jerry Yang # Company, Great, Idea, Finance, Business, Encouragement Quotes
• David and I and the rest of the Yahoos here really believe that the internet should remain as free as possible. At the same time we are a business and have fiscal responsibilities.
  Jerry Yang # Belief, Internet, Finance, Responsibility, Business Quotes
• We hope that the internet becomes even more affordable and more ubiquitous over time, and our mission at Yahoo! is to continue to keep our services available AND useful on all these platforms.
  Jerry Yang # Business, Belief, Internet, Hope Quotes
• When we celebrated our first million-hit day in the autumn, we realised maybe we had a potential business.
  Jerry Yang # Interesting, Serious, Success, Business Quotes </