Business Quotes

"Certainly it's a business and you've got to have a salesman, but in my mind, when you've got two guys doing the same thing, you don't need one of them"

Jerry Lawler, Entertainer

"Friends don't necessarily made good business or creative partners"

Joseph Barbera, Cartoonist

"It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it's a - very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so well to finally get it done"

Dick Cheney, Vice President

"Obamacare has got everyone on edge. I mean, small business - men and women or big business are sitting out there saying we have no idea what this is going to cost, but we know it's going to cost us and cost us a lot"

Rick Perry, Politician

"Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business"

Martin Lewis Perl, Physicist

"It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community"

Thorstein Veblen, Economist

"All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage"

Thorstein Veblen, Economist

"Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer"

Anita Roddick, Businessman

"Over the past decade... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda"

Anita Roddick, Businessman

"Look at the Quakers - they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole; they cared for their employees and the community which gave them the wealth. They never took more money out than they put back in"

Anita Roddick, Businessman

"If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management"

Anita Roddick, Businessman

"I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market"

Anita Roddick, Businessman

"I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten"

Anita Roddick, Businessman

"That which is everybody's business is nobody's business"

Izaak Walton, Writer

"I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing"

Izaak Walton, Writer

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

W. Edwards Deming, Scientist

"What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do"

Arnold Palmer, Athlete

"The preppy lifestyle has gone global. We feel that our business has grown so well because preppy travels so well. It's all-American classic"

Tommy Hilfiger, Designer

"The people that are running the bulk of the comic shops in North America aren't business people and they don't understand sales. They don't understand good product"

Rob Walton, Athlete

"On the whole, and this comment can get me in a lot of trouble, I find that retailers in the comic book business are not business people. They're fans who've gotten themselves shops"

Rob Walton, Athlete

"Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism"

John Guare, Playwright

"Politics is a people business. I like people"

Laura Bush, First Lady

"When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun"

Anita Roddick, Businessman

"What is more important is that Foreign Service Officers understand business, about the needs of U.S. business and how to help U.S. companies make the right connections abroad"

Lawrence Eagleburger, Diplomat

"We must advertise to U.S. business that we are there, that our attitude has changed, and that we care. When we are asked to help, we have to perform and provide the right advice"

Lawrence Eagleburger, Diplomat

"We have to spend a lot more time training people to be good advocates of U.S. business"

Lawrence Eagleburger, Diplomat

"There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to work together to educate the United States about marketing overseas"

Lawrence Eagleburger, Diplomat

"It's time for the IRA to go out of business"

Mitchell Reiss, Diplomat

"The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago"

Julian Clary, Comedian

"I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera"

Leonardo DiCaprio, Actor

"It's wherever business rules, business is going to get the politicians they want because they control the money and money controls the power"

Rob Walton, Athlete

"The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs"

Nassau William Senior, Economist

"Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure environment, always looking over your shoulder, knowing that some day somebody's going to knock on your door and it's going to be your last"

John Abizaid, Soldier

"All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good"

Anita Roddick, Businessman

"You say he's childish, but he's very professional about business transactions"

Martin Bashir, Journalist

"I personally felt that his ad hominen attacks on British architects were not the sort of thing a Prince of Wales should be doing because, apart from anything else, they put various people out of business"

Anthony Holden, Journalist

"The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix"

Lawrence Eagleburger, Diplomat

"I feel lazy when I'm not working. I learned all my business sense from my dad. He always believed in me, and I think the last thing he said to me before he passed away was, 'I know you're gonna be OK. I'm not worried about you'"

Kim Kardashian, Celebrity

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