Business Quotes - Page 129

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

It's better to be first in the mind than to be first in the marketplace.

Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.

We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders ... In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force for harm than individual greed or error.

Ethics and religion must not stay at home when we go to work.

Selling is essentially transference of feeling.

Excuses are useless. Results are priceless.

Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.

The meek shall inherit the earth, but they'll never increase market share.

It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.

The Whole Business of Man is The Arts, & All Things Common.

I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.

I have been in the entertainment business some forty-three years, and I have never said anything detrimental or anything that might be construed as belittling any race or religion. I would be a sucker to do so because you can't insult the customers.

You should think of your customers as partners, or better still, family.

My only "business plan" was to get lucky.

Retail is selling things that don't come back to customers who do.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Like it or not - and often we don't - power is a pervasive phenomenon. From midnight decisions in the Oval Office that risk the lives of young Americans to quarrels over the kitchen table, power is part of every human equation. Yes, it can be - and often is - abused, in business as in all arenas of endeavor. But it can also be used to do great good for great numbers. And as a career-building tool, the slow and steady (and subtle) amassing of power is the surest road to success.

Anybody who is an entrepreneur is a person who essentially has impaired judgment. The odds of success are zilch. This valley is loaded to the gills with a whole lot of totally insane people who honest to God believe that they can be the next Bill Gates or the next Scott McNealy. And that is genuinely stupid.

Many of us would probably not be in the music business - or never would have been in the music business - had The Beatles not demonstrated that this kind of music, or this kind of performance, was actually viable as a career alternative.

I do not apologize for advertising. I think it is as vital to the preservation of freedom in my country as the free exercise of publishing a newspaper or the free exercise of building a church or the free exercise of the right of trial by jury.

You can have a worldwide shop from your bedroom. You can do things that weren't even dreamed of when I started off in business. It's why technology is the most wonderful thing for small businesses.

One honest relationship can be more productive than fistfuls of business cards.

With ruin staring you in the face, there is nothing worse to live through than a siege of waiting and hoping. If you manage to live through it, nothing can ever jar your nerves after that.

Life is a very serious business for the simple reason that nobody dies laughing.