Entrepreneurship & Business: Business Quotes

"To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke"

Alvin Toffler, Author

"You cannot run a business or anything else on a theory"

Harold S. Geneen, Businessman

"In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality"

Harold S. Geneen, Businessman

"In business, you have to be able to adapt and change your approach if something isn't working"

Øystein Stray Spetalen, Businessman

"The WTO has one of the most impressive records in global economic governance, by promoting trade liberalisation and economic development"

Anna Lindh, Politician

"I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremost we're part of the global economy"

Stephen Harper, Politician

"The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit"

Samuel Gompers, Activist

"It breaks even. We lose ten, twenty grand every year. But then the people who are working say, Look, I'll kick this back in, I don't need to take this profit share. It's very cooperative"

John Zorn, Composer

"In the business world, an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something, and the switchboard operator knows everything"

Harold Coffin, Writer

"A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts"

Richard Branson, Businessman

"Thought, not money, is the real business capital"

Harvey S. Firestone, Businessman

"They can't do without electricity. They can do with less electricity"

Kenneth Lay, Businessman

"Warren Spector is amazing, and his team is as good as any in the business. Shame to see all the revenues from their game entangled with all the madness of the Dallas office"

Mike Wilson, Writer

"Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations"

Thomas Gray, Poet

"Our economy is creating jobs and giving businesses the conditions they need to invest and succeed"

Dennis Hastert, Politician

"Christmas is over and Business is Business"

Franklin P. Adams, Journalist

"There is no such thing as free regulation"

John Hutton, Educator

"But effective regulation at the European Union level can make a massive contribution to achieving our shared goals of improving competitiveness, jobs and growth"

John Hutton, Educator

"Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like DuPont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities"

Maurice Strong, Businessman

"We're building a great company, and we're very excited about the future of the company"

Jim Barksdale, Businessman

"To make more money, you've gotta grow your business. You can only grow your business in two ways: (i) Get more customers; (ii) Make them worth more. That's it"

Alex Hormozi, Entrepreneur

"Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

"Business is in itself a power"

Garet Garrett, Journalist

"It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc"

Roger Maris, Athlete

"According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third"

Kit Bond, Politician

"It doesn't do Costco any good if nobody can afford to buy anything"

James Sinegal, Businessman

"Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially"

Vicente Fox, Statesman

"I don't believe we're the party of big business"

Ed Gillespie, Politician

"It's show business. No show, no business"

Dick Wolf, Producer

"Estimates show that small businesses contribute 60-80 percent of the net new jobs annually"

Michael K. Simpson, Politician

"There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses"

David Cameron, Politician

"Our trade opens to all the world"

Ezra Stiles, Clergyman

"Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy"

Ludwig Borne, Writer

"Climate change is the greatest commercial opportunity of our time"

Mark Carney, Economist

"When a business group tells us there is nothing wrong with the environment, naturally they may have good arguments, but we are also sceptical, because we know that they have an interest in these things"

Bjorn Lomborg, Scientist

"Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change"

An Wang, Businessman

"The only problem we've had is the amount of time it's taking people to develop titles"

Trip Hawkins, Businessman

"You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart"

An Wang, Businessman

"Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment"

Peter Coyote, Actor

"And initially, a lot of companies avoid trying to make a really radical new kind of title for a new system, because that would involve learning a new machine and learning how to make the new title at the same time"

Trip Hawkins, Businessman

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