Business - Quotes & Sayings

That's what the Affordable Care Act is all about. It's about filling the gaps in employer-based care so that when we lose a job, or go back to school, or start that new business, we'll still have coverage.

Barack Obama

Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.

Wietse Venema

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

Coco Chanel

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

Plato

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.

Lee Iacocca

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

Don Marquis

In business, you have to be strong. If you are weak, people are going to take advantage.

Ivana Trump

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

Jack Welch

By making a company successful, you can provide more employment, and, if you treat your staff well, then your business itself becomes a charity.

Guo Guangchang

I laugh all the time - at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don't laugh onstage because then it's serious business.

Steven Wright

Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

Warren Bennis

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

T. S. Eliot

So we really need jobs now. We have to take jobs away from other countries because other countries are taking our jobs. There is practically not a country that does business with the United States that isn't making - let's call it a very big profit. I mean China is going to make $300 billion on us at least this year.

Donald Trump

If I don't get along with Democrats, I'm sort of, like, out of business.

Donald Trump

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Charles Baudelaire

There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.

Bob Woodward

It stands to reason: Higher wages means higher loyalty and morale, which means higher productivity, which means a more profitable business.

Thomas Perez

The basic principle which I believe has contributed more than any other to the building of our business as it is today, is the ownership of our company by the people employed in it.

James E. Casey

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

George Michael

Anything can change in show business; you know how it goes, everything changes from one day to the other.

Ricky Martin

Sustainability makes good business sense, and we're all on the same team at the end of the day. That's the truth about the human condition.

Paul Polman

The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.

Chris Chocola

You can get too close as a team. You need time away from each other. You change in the same dressing room, you play on the same cricket field, you stay in the same hotel, you travel in the same planes and buses. C'mon - this business of everyone holding hands and being pally is nonsense.

Glenn Turner

Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do.

Richard Nelson Bolles

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Henry Ford

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.

Scott Adams

The way I run my business seems to be easier than the way I run my life.

Donald Trump

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

Will Rogers

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

Will Rogers

Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

Ayrton Senna

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

Ronald Reagan

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Elbert Hubbard

Quality for me is key, and this stands true in every facet of my business from real estate, hotels, and fashion.

Ivanka Trump

If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors.

Noel Gallagher

If we all act together - business, governments, NGOs and citizens and, especially, the young - just imagine the good we could create.

Paul Polman

Just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also drops the cost of dissent, of rebellion, and even insurrection.

Don Tapscott

I've found that in business opportunities will constantly emerge or situations develop that make you revise your plans along the way.

Benjamin Cohen

The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.

Zig Ziglar

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.

Zig Ziglar

We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.

Stephen Covey

For many my behavior has been a major disappointment, my behavior has caused considerable worry to my business partners, and everyone involved in my business, but most importantly to the young people we influence, I apologize.

Tiger Woods

If you're a single man and you happen to be in this business, you're deemed a player. But I don't see myself as a ladies' man.

Bradley Cooper

The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: do more of what you do.

David Joseph Schwartz

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

Benjamin Jowett

So little done, so much to do.

Cecil Rhodes

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Aristotle Onassis

You need to have camaraderie in the clubhouse. Wherever you're working, be it a baseball team or at a business, you want to walk in there and say, 'Geez, it's great to be at work. Let's go get 'em,' as opposed to walking in there knowing there's going to be a commotion.

Pat Gillick

Luckily, my husband is my business partner as well as my life partner, so I never had to do the heavy lifting alone, literally or figuratively.

Josie Maran

I feel a lot of unfinished business and loyalty and responsibility to get the Raiders going again.

Jon Gruden

I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.

Tiger Woods