Business Quotes - Page 2

I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.

You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.

Don't ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, accounting, accounting. Know your numbers.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business.

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

There's a saying in my business that there are two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired and those who haven't been fired yet. That's kind of like prostate cancer. Every man will have it if he lives long enough.

Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.

After finishing my business administration course, I had gone to look for a job in a multinational bank, but the interviewee said that I should become an actor.

Coca-Cola is the only business in the world where no matter which country or town or village you are in, if someone asks what do you do, and you say you work for Coca-Cola, you never have to answer the question, 'What is that?'

We've got to start making people realise that it's a proud thing to run a business, to export your goods around the country.

My father told me, never have partners.

If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative.

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Infrastructure is the backbone of economic growth. It improves access to basic services such as clean water and electricity, creates jobs and boosts business.

Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.

People who achieve the highest levels of success - whether in business or in raising families or simply in discovering fulfillment and satisfaction and purpose in life - are those who place their focus on other people rather than themselves.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.

We're against hypocrisy, lies, bigotry, show business, insincerity, phonies, and fakers.

Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

Profit or loss is not guaranteed. That depends on the consumer and depends on the product. That's a risk that business people take.

Great investors need to have the right combination of intuition, business sense and investment talent.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

There are some very real areas where working together is critical, whether it's talking about public policy issues, enforcement, or how to work together to facilitate new business opportunities. The RIAA has gotten much more involved in that.

Being able to make sure we have exactly what the fan wants at any time, that's what really drives our business. And having a supply chain that's vertical, and can get that merchandise to the fan, is incredibly important.

Reliance has built a refinery-led energy business and a materials business. In the energy business, we give 2% of the world's petrol, diesel, and aviation fuel.

The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits - ah! that is another matter - twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent - the sky is the limit.