962 private quotes tagged business

“Many iOS developers model App Store pricing after mass-market superhits. Would you enter the restaurant business by mimicking McDonalds?” — Daniel Jalkut

Source:https://twitter.com/danielpunkass/status/427105052852244480

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

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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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“Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!” — Thomas A. Edison

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“Business is the salt of life.” — Voltaire

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

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

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

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

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“The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.” — Henry Ford

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

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

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

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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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