962 private quotes tagged business

“If the service is free, the product being sold is you.”

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“The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.” — Lee Iacocca

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“Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.” — W. Edwards Deming

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“Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.” — Warren Buffett

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“I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.” — Winston Churchill

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“Business is the salt of life.” — Voltaire

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“If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“I think the fact that I was raised in show business, in New York City, in the '50s, that's affected my personality to the point that I'm a little different.” — Christopher Walken

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“Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.” — Winston Churchill

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“After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.” — Walt Whitman

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“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

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“If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.” — Ray Bradbury

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“The first mistake in public business is the going into it.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.” — Thomas Fuller

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“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

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“The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.” — Henry Ford

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“It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.” — Edward Hopper

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“I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.” — Richard Branson

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“Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.” — Richard Branson

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“The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.” — Peter Drucker

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“If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.” — Alexander Pope

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“Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.” — George Washington

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