962 private quotes tagged business

“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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“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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“Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll always have some clean air to breathe.” — Julia Child

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“Our favorite holding period is forever.” — Warren Buffett

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

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

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

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“Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.” — Steve Jobs

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“Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.” — Thomas Carlyle

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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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“Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.” — Elbert Hubbard

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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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“When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.” — Warren Buffett

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“But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.” — Steve Jobs

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“It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.” — Mark Twain

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“If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.” — Khalil Gibran

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

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“An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.” — Will Rogers

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

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“When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.” — Steve Jobs

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“I want to put a ding in the universe.” — Steve Jobs

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“The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.” — Warren Buffett

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“How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they've got that great business idea.” — Mark Burnett

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“I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.” — Jeff Bezos

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