Business famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
-- A. C. Benson -
Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.
-- A. P. Herbert -
Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.
-- A. Y. Jackson -
Of course, the advantage is that, being in this business, you get to learn a lot, experience a lot of new things, and you can become real successful. The disadvantage is, of course the negative media. People may try to manipulate you and control you, and those are the things you have to avoid. But if you maintain strong family values and you believe in God, you can be successful. So, it's been tough, but I've gotten through it because I stuck with my family and my deep belief in God.
-- Aaliyah -
When you get into this business you have to grow up quickly. But I wouldn't say I've lost any of my childhood, I've always been a mature child. My Mom says I've been like that since I was little kid. I make time for my friends and I make time for things that other kids do. This is a business and I knew what I was getting into. I make time for being a kid, but I also know when to put on my business hat and go for the business.
-- Aaliyah -
You know we're in a business where things are just unpredictable. You don't know what's going to happen...we were lucky Blessed, I think is a better way to put it.
-- Aaliyah -
It's okay to doubt yourself, it's okay to feel down; just never give up.
-- Aaron Patzer -
People do make judgments of trust on appearance - in the real world and online.
-- Aaron Patzer -
If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
If you are looking for a kindly, well-to-do older gentleman who is no longer interested in sex, take out an ad in The Wall Street Journal.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.
-- Abraham Maslow -
Ethics and religion must not stay at home when we go to work.
-- Achille Silvestrini -
The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
-- Ad Reinhardt -
We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders ... In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force for harm than individual greed or error.
-- Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell -
Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
-- Adam Ant -
Artists don't like the business side. None of us were born understanding money. We all had to learn how to do it. So it's just something creative people need to get familiar with... not really so scary.
-- Adam Leipzig -
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
-- Adam Smith -
Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.
-- Adam Smith -
The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
-- Adam Smith -
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
Advertising in the final analysis should be news. If it is not news it is worthless.
-- Adolph Ochs -
We wish that all countries around the world honor our wishes and our Jihad, and we avoid interfering in their business.
-- Ahmed Yassin -
The first law of economics is that when the price goes up, consumption comes down. This is a divine law.
-- Ahmed Zaki Yamani -
An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
-- Akio Morita -
The public does not know what is possible. We do.
-- Akio Morita -
The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
-- Akio Morita -
Today the strategies of many companies in the real estate industry are premised on low interest rates, an assumption that has resulted in the rapid expansion of the real estate securitization business. This trend could be regarded as a risk factor, as it exposes the real estate sector to at least three potential problems: first, interest rate hikes; second, revisions to securitization business accounting standards; and third, overheating in the real estate market.
-- Akira Mori -
We intend to conduct our business in a way that not only meets but exceeds the expectations of our customers, business partners, shareholders, and creditors, as well as the communities in which we operate and society at large.
-- Akira Mori -
It's better to be first in the mind than to be first in the marketplace.
-- Al Ries -
Customers want brands that are narrow in scope and distinguishable by a single word, the shorter the better.
-- Al Ries -
You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
-- Alan Alda -
I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
-- Alan Bennett -
I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
-- Alan Greenspan -
Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
-- Alan Greenspan -
I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives. But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.
-- Alan Greenspan -
What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn't be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
-- Alan Greenspan -
It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.
-- Alan Greenspan -
It is decidedly not true that "nice guys finish last," as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
-- Alan Greenspan -
I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
-- Alan Greenspan -
Hard work does not go unnoticed, and someday the rewards will follow.
-- Alan Rufus -
Unless we take that first step into the unknown, we will never know our own potential.
-- Alan Rufus -
The boring side of business is what makes it work.
-- Alan Sugar -
During negotiations nothing is gained by attacking people's comfort zones.
-- Alan Sugar -
Market leaders inevitably slip into decline when they tell the people what they want instead of giving the people what they want.
-- Alan Sugar -
True cultural connection is the Holy Grail for brands if they want to create an enduring emotional relationship with people.
-- Albert Chmielowski -
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein -
Imagination is the highest form of research.
-- Albert Einstein -
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein -
It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service.
-- Albert Einstein -
All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-- Albert Einstein -
Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.
-- Albert Einstein -
That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.
-- Albert Einstein -
If I had my life to live over again, I would elect to be a trader of goods rather than a student of science. I think barter is a noble thing.
-- Albert Einstein -
The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price has faded from memory.
-- Aldo Gucci -
Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.
-- Aldus Manutius -
The old paradigm was pay to play. Now you get back what you authentically put in. You've got to be willing to play to play.
-- Alex Bogusky -
The older I get, the more interesting I find lawyers and accountants.
-- Alex James -
The need to engage businesses and decision makers with customers can only increase in importance, and as it does, the market research industry must recognise that engagement is a facet of what we do.
-- Alex Johnston -
Amateurs look for challenges; professionals look for easy trades. Losers get high from the action; the pros look for the best odds.
-- Alexander Elder -
A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.
-- Alexander Herzen -
If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
-- Alexander Pope -
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
-- Alexander the Great -
There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.
-- Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin -
In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
If you want to succeed, you've got to be okay to just lose control.
-- Alexis Ohanian -
All lasting business is built on friendship.
-- Alfred Armand Montapert -
We should never be allowed to forget that it is the customer who, in the end, determines how many people are employed and what sort of wages companies can afford.
-- Alfred Robens, Baron Robens of Woldingham -
We know that pumping oil out of the ground does not create many jobs. It does not foster an entrepreneurial spirit, nor does it sharpen critical faculties.
-- Ali al-Naimi -
Greenhouse gas emissions and global warming are among humanity's most pressing concerns. Societal expectations on climate change are real, and our industry is expected to take a leadership role.
-- Ali al-Naimi -
The efficient use of energy is as much an issue for Saudi Arabia, with its huge natural resources, as it is for all countries. Increased efficiency makes sense environmentally, but also economically.
-- Ali al-Naimi -
We can't be in the business of carting fresh air around the country.
-- Alistair Darling -
I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business.
-- Allen West -
To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.
-- Alvin Toffler -
I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress.
-- Amber Tamblyn -
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything.
-- Anais Nin -
To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
-- Anatole France -
Business as usual is dead. Green growth is the answer to both our climate and economic problems
-- Anders Fogh Rasmussen -
You have to understand who you are and figure out a way to communicate it. It might be in a different industry, but it's about what pumps the blood through your veins, what makes you excited, what pushes your buttons. And then discovering the best way to communicate that, no matter how big or small; it's what you stand for, what you believe in, and what reflects who you are.
-- Andre Agassi -
Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
-- Andre Malraux -
The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-- Andre Maurois -
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
-- Andre Maurois -
Business is a combination of war and sport.
-- Andre Maurois -
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
The man of business knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is the result, not of chance, but of well-devised means for the attainment of ends.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
Do not think a man has done his full duty when he has performed the work assigned him. A man will never rise if he does only this. Promotion comes from exceptional work.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
People talk about the businesses of the future needing to be more agile and more responsive if they are to be successful. But this requires a deep change in the way organisations work.
-- Andrew Curry -
People are more willing to buy branded goods provided they are persuaded that they are getting value from them. And they need to be convinced of those benefits, in authentic everyday language, without being confronted by corporate-speak. Get it right, and you create a virtuous circle. Get it wrong, and you get punished for it.
-- Andrew Curry
