100 Motivational Quotes about business
- A well-maintained physique is a great business card. Ideas and intelligence are what matters, but if you have a well-maintained physique, it's better. Giorgio Armani
- To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business. J. Paul Getty
- The business of feeding people is the most amazing business in the world. Jose Andres
- My first album was mainly dealing with street issues, and it was 'coded': it was called 'Reasonable Doubt.' So the things I was talking about... I was talking about in slang, and it was something that people in the music business was not really privy to. They didn't understand totally what I was saying or what I was talking about. Jay-Z
- While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business. Barry Silbert
- Everybody told me I was making a mistake by going into this business, but I know how to grow hair as well as I know how to grow cotton. Madam C. J. Walker
- Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants. P. J. O'Rourke
- When you think about it, Airbnb is a great solution if your family is traveling with you on business and you need more space, if you're going for an extended stay, like a week plus. It's a great solution if you want close proximity to the work site and maybe there isn't a hotel across the street or whatnot. Nathan Blecharczyk
- My vision is to build an e-commerce ecosystem that allows consumers and businesses to do all aspects of business online. Jack Ma
- Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work! Robin Williams
- I want 'Vogue' to be pacy, sharp, and sexy - I'm not interested in the super-rich or infinitely leisured. I want our readers to be energetic executive women, with money of their own and a wide range of interests. There is a new kind of woman out there. She's interested in business and money. Anna Wintour
- No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience. P. T. Barnum
- If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business. Ray Kroc
- Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand. Lord Northcliffe
- The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart. John Morley
- When you are just starting out with an online business, there's a good chance that you'll be making several mistakes. Because of the mistakes that can be made with starting an online business, many people decide to quit or think that online businesses are just a scam. Fabrizio Moreira
- Trying to do business without advertising is like winking at a pretty girl through a pair of green goggles. You may know what you are doing, but no one else does. Cyrus McCormick
- It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality. Harold S. Geneen
- Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. Thomas Paine
- If a business does well, the stock eventually follows. Warren Buffett
- Ever since I was a child, I was fascinated by show business, the theater. Milos Forman
- I still have a lot to learn - about the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting. Britney Spears
- My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. Anthony Hopkins
- The best in business have boundless curiosity and open minds. Robin S. Sharma
- Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood. Warren Bennis
- Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company. Samuel Pepys
- The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: do more of what you do. David Joseph Schwartz
- I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap. Snoop Dogg
- My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts. Steve Jobs
- Many business leaders are seeing the relationship between long term success and sustainability, and that's very heartening. Jacqueline Novogratz
- If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. Abraham Lincoln
- The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home. D. H. Lawrence
- We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business? Will Rogers
- Put a love note in his shaving kit before he leaves on a business trip. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business. Peter Lynch
- The building up of a new, far-reaching system of inspection on the question of equal pay, with power to investigate every business in the United States, administered by a colossal new government agency with vast enforcement powers, would not be helpful to women, as far as I can see. Alice Paul
- Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships. Ross Perot
- Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles. Freeman Dyson
- Just like football, business is a game of inches, where the smallest advancement or advantage can mean the difference between winning and losing. Lewis Howes
- I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It's that simple. Betty White
- 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
- It doesn't matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline. Harvey Mackay
- Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs. Henry Ford
- I love to compete. To me, business is the ultimate sport. It's always on. There is always someone trying to beat me. Mark Cuban
- The purpose of a business is to create a customer. Peter Drucker
- In business, I think the most important thing is to position yourself for long-term and not be too impatient, which I am by nature, and I have to control myself. Bernard Arnault
- Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close. Ronald Reagan
- I learned the life of business, commerce - it's an art. Emmanuel Macron
- Thought, not money, is the real business capital. Harvey S. Firestone
- Business today consists in persuading crowds. T. S. Eliot
- We're in business to relieve human suffering, to help feed the poor, to provide education and culture - but above all else, we're concerned with the relief of human suffering. Jon Huntsman, Sr.
- Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas. Tom Peters
- 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 win-win situation is the basis for America's entire business world. Instead of wasting our time attempting to defeat each other, let's find a way that will make both of us gain and go home satisfied. In Israel, it doesn't work because the only meaning of victory is seeing your rival's body lying trampled on the floor. Yair Lapid
- If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger. Brian Tracy
- Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships. Michael Dell
- In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone. Bill Gates
- Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business. Warren Buffett
- You may earn whatever money you earn as a cricketer, but you want to play for your country. At the end of the day, you want to do something special. There are plenty of people who earn 50 crores or 100 crores as businessmen or big professionals or who are really doing well in business. But what gives pleasure to your mom and dad is the fame. MS Dhoni
- I spent most of my career in business not saying the word 'woman.' Because if you say the word 'woman' in a business context, and often in a political context, the person on the other side of the table thinks you're about to sue them or ask for special treatment, right? Sheryl Sandberg
- When someone takes their existing business and tries to transform it into something else - they fail. In technology that is often the case. Look at Kodak: it was the dominant imaging company in the world. They did fabulously during the great depression, but then wiped out the shareholders because of technological change. Charlie Munger
- After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world. Calvin Coolidge
- I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company. Elon Musk
- My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles. Benjamin Disraeli
- By reading, you learn through others' experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men. Jim Mattis
- From my experience in working with bureaucrats and politicians, if you are a credible business group, they will definitely help you. At the end of the day, they, too, want development of their constituency, state or country. Gautam Adani
- Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future. Satya Nadella
- Every good business story has a conflict and triumph at the core and a turning point where a transformation takes place. Dinesh Paliwal
- The advent of the Internet exposed the fact that the old business model for newspapers was broken. The world wide web fundamentally changed the media eco-system, challenging established journalistic practice in what is known as the mainstream media: radio, television, newspapers and magazines. Lionel Barber
- If you want to be more productive, then start at the start: get there on time. Whether it is a meeting, a flight, an appointment or a date, it's important to ensure you are there when you say you will be there. This may feel like an old-fashioned tip to give, but it has served me well for five decades in business. Richard Branson
- There are peaks and valleys in anything and that is especially true for the music business. It is very inconsistent. But if you are wise, you can let those downs really bring you to another level of your personality. Bryan White
- I would never diminish the quality of Hermes. Hermes can be an even rarer and greater quality business, if they ever wanted to work with us. Bernard Arnault
- Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions. Charles Dicken
- Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs. Herbert Hoover
- That's what the Affordable Care Act is all about. It's about filling the gaps in employer-based care so that when we lose a job, or go back to school, or start that new business, we'll still have coverage. Barack Obama
- Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop. Adlai Stevenson I
- When the business really works is when we hear clients say, 'I've never had jeans that fit me until I got a pair from Stitch Fix.' We'll also hear, 'I would never have tried this dress on in a store.' It's not just about convenience. They're happier in their clothes. Katrina Lake
- I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful. John Wooden
- I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them. Sam Walton
- Taking bold action on climate change simply makes good business sense. It's also the right thing to do for people and the planet. Setting a net-zero GHG emissions target by 2050 will drive innovation, grow jobs, build prosperity, and secure a better world for what will soon be 9 billion people. Richard Branson
- When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me. Ice Cube
- I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then. Mark Zuckerberg
- 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
- What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Being a Navy SEAL and sniper taught me all about risk management. Take away all the risk variables under your control and reduce it to an acceptable level. The same fundamentals apply in business. Brandon Webb
- But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record. Adam Duritz
- The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two. Tony Snow
- Bitcoin is very ideologically fulfilling, it's my form of political activism, but it's also a huge business opportunity. Erik Voorhees
- Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope. Hunter S. Thompson
- You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything. James Cameron
- That's what show business is, sincere insincerity. Benny Hill
- Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward! Thomas A. Edison
- You definitely get the answer 'no' more times in this business than you do 'yes.' It's what you do with those 'nos' that makes your success either great or not. Thomas Rhett
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