Quotes for Business

Everywhere you turn, there are lists and statistics. Any business, any sport, any hobby - we will try to categorize who is the best at some component of that endeavor. It's part human nature and part technology, since we have been conditioned to have access to answers and trivial problems at our fingertips.

Michael Gerber

I initially wanted to be a teacher, and then I was going to become an engineer and build bridges and highways, but pretty soon I went into the business world. I never did get to be a teacher except in a different way.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

Be really picky with your hiring, and hire the absolute best people you possibly can. People are the most important component of almost every business, and attracting the best talent possible is going to make a huge difference.

Peter Berg

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Henry Ford

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

Zig Ziglar

The pace of change for entrepreneurs is rapidly accelerating, and the cost and risk of launching a new business and getting off the ground is just amazing. The ability to gain user feedback really quickly and adapt to what your consumers want is totally different with the web as it is now. But finding a new market, helping people and taking that original idea and turning it into a business is really exciting right now.

Matt Mickiewicz

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

A. A. Milne

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.

Thomas J. Watson

The key to our business, it's a lot of research.

Kenneth C. Griffin

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

E. Joseph Cossman

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

Thomas J. Watson

I’m not a businessman. I’m a business, man.

Jay-Z

The more I am in a position to be tried in faith with reference to my body, my family, my service for the Lord, my business, etc., the more shall I have opportunity of seeing God's help and deliverance; and every fresh instance, in which He helps and delivers me, will tend towards the increase of my faith.

George Muller

The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.

Steven Pinker

I treat business a bit like a computer game. I count money as points. I’m doing really well: making lots of money and lots of points.

Michael Dunlop

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

David Ogilvy

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.

Thomas J. Watson

Starting a new business will take its toll on your time and energy, and this can place strain on family and social relationships, depending on their expectations and how open you are in your communication with them.

Fabrizio Moreira

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

Douglas Adams

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