Business Quotes - Page 70

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

I look at my annual budgets for everything and anything, and I look to see where I can save the most money on those items. Saving 30% to 50% buying in bulk - replenishable items from toothpaste to soup, or whatever I use a lot of - is the best guaranteed return on investment you can get anywhere.

The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community.

I think that the Middle East is the largest piece of unfinished business that we all have. I happen to believe in the democratization process.

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

We don't pay taxes. The little people pay taxes.

In business, I loved cars. I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning. Only in America can you decide to get a good education and pursue what you like.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.

No one wants advice - only corroboration.

Marketing strategy is a series of integrated actions leading to a sustainable competitive advantage.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.

Take every gain without showing remorse about missed profits, because an eel may escape sooner than you think.

Always let your employees come to work with a smile.

Constraints inspire us in how we approach the press, how we approach business relationships, how we do everything.

There are only two words that will always lead you to success. Those words are yes and no. Undoubtedly, you've mastered saying yes. So start practicing saying no. Your goals depend on it!

I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too.

I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

There's no business like show business.

When the business man who fights to secure special privileges, to crowd his competitor off the track by other than fair competitive methods, receives the same summary disdainful ostracism by his fellows that the doctor or lawyer who is 'unprofessional,' the athlete who abuses the rules, receives, we shall have gone a long way toward making commerce a fit pursuit for our young men.

After being on the road so much I want to spend more time with my family, who I hear are wonderful people.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.