962 private quotes tagged business

“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

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“I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.” — Brian Clough

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“Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.” — Leo Burnett

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“Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.” — Colin Powell

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“Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.” — David Ogilvy

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“An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.” — Laurence J. Peter

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“Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.” — Tim Berners Lee

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“High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.” — Charles Kettering

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“All lasting business is built on friendship.” — Alfred A. Montapert

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“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” — Colin Powell

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“There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.” — Sam Walton

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“No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.” — Niccolo Machiavelli

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“People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'” — Sinclair Lewis

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“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.” — Colin Powell

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“Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.” — Robert H. Schuller

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“The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.” — Aristotle Onassis

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“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

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“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

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“A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.” — Stephen Covey

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“If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.” — Robert H. Schuller

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“Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.” — Peter Drucker

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“About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.” — Herbert Hoover

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“As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.” — John Greenleaf Whittier

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“Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.” — Robert Orben

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“Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.” — Henry R. Luce

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