Quotes on business
Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face, especially if you are in business. Yes, and that is also true if you are a housewife, architect or engineer.
Carnegie, Dale
Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
Ward, William Arthur
Business is a combination of war and sport.
Maurois, André
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Gates, Bill
To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery. To take something from one person and then turn it over to another in exchange for as much money as you can get: that is business. Robbery is so much more stupid, since it is satisfied with a single, frequently dangerous profit; whereas in business it can be doubled without danger.
Mirbeau, Octave
It doesn't matter how many times you fail. It doesn't matter how many times you almost get it right. No one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you because... All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.
Cuban, Mark
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Gates, Bill
Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people.
Sarnoff, David
A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
Scott, Howard
A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practise it.
Pope, Alexander
People that pay for things never complain. It's the guy you give something to that you can't please.
Rogers, Will
In college, Yuppies major in business administration. If to meet certain requirements they have to take a liberal arts course, they take Business Poetry.
Barry, Dave
For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy.
O'Reilly, Bill
The NBA is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.
Cuban, Mark
Business is the art of extracting money from another man's pocket without resorting to violence.
Amsterdam, Max
Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home.
Blanton, Smiley