Business Quotes - Page 3

The same products, services or technologies can fail or succeed depending on the business model you choose. Exploring the possibilities is critical to finding a successful business model. Settling on first ideas risks the possibility of missing potential that can only be discovered by prototyping and testing different alternatives.

I wouldn't wish any specific thing for any specific person - it's none of my business. But the idea that a four-year degree is the only path to worthwhile knowledge is insane. It's insane.

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.

In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.

I've wrestled some of the strongest, most athletic guys this business has ever seen. Brock Lesnar, John Cena, Mark Henry, Kane. These guys are phenomenal, phenomenal athletes and powerhouses.

I promise you... nobody cares about your business except for you. Nobody.

Venture capital is a dynamic and people-driven business.

In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.

We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.

Companies that raise capital do it on the basis of past performance and unique competencies of the business. We cannot raise capital if we are not creating sustained value.

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.

You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.

You've got to quit lowering your standards. Set your requirements up front so when a guy hooks you, he has to know this is business.

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.

Regrets are something you can't really have as an actor, because ultimately you'll end up destroying yourself... there's a lot of disappointment in this business.

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

For me, the winning strategy in any start-up business is, 'Think big but start small.'

My husband Farhan Azmi is a restaurateur and owns three restaurants in Mumbai. After we got married, we started planning a cafe, Chai Cofi, and got busy in executing it. It is not easy to open a restaurant. I always wanted to get into the business of restaurants and was fortunate enough that Farhan's knowledge taught me a lot of things.

At the end of the day, we're all brothers and sisters in God. What people do is none of my business.

In spite of what are unprecedented measures in scale and scope, I can't stand here and say I can save every single job, protect every single business or indeed every single charity. That's just simply not possible.

You have to be just as mistrustful of straightforward rationality in business as you do of a uniquely gut approach.

Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.

California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible.

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.