Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.

Starting your own business isn't just a job - it's a way of life.

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

Politics is show business for ugly people.

Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.

Punctuality is the soul of business.

I wouldn't wish any specific thing for any specific person - it's none of my business. But the idea that a four-year degree is the only path to worthwhile knowledge is insane. It's insane.

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

Technology in renewable energy has already led to many innovations in business models, products, and solutions.

No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized.

The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.

Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.

The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.

But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it's virtually impossible. It's very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms.

I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales.

All you have in business is your reputation - so it's very important that you keep your word.

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Success in business today requires real-time, mobile access to business opportunities.

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

Dad always said, 'Get a degree and do something on your own before you start movies.' He always kept me grounded, telling me the realities of the business and the struggles even the legends had to go through.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

The more you drive positive change, the more enhanced your business model.

Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

Business leaders cannot be bystanders.

One of the risks for anybody in the lending business is that being conservative can harm your competitiveness.

The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

We're trying to find a tourism model that allows communities to thrive while business prospers.

Smart CEOs should be thinking about AI and its impact on their respective business.

If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

In the luxury business, you have to build on heritage.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

If you're not learning, then you're stagnant. If you're stagnant, then you're not evolving and the business isn't progressing.

I wear two hats. The one is business and increasing my shareholders' value; the other is social responsibility.

The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.

If Satan wasn't around, churches would go out of business.