Business Quotes
“Sometimes I think our problems are made worse by the kind of business we're in. Playing these road shows is a weird experience.”
-- Loretta Lynn
“Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.”
-- James Buchan
“I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office.”
-- John Boehner
“A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.”
-- Norman Ralph Augustine
“I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.”
-- Liev Schreiber
“Not since the digital revolution in the early '90s has technology placed such a comprehensive burden on business, employees and individuals to reinvent their business plans, services and products, and themselves to keep pace with the changing marketplace.”
-- Simon Mainwaring
“The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control.”
-- Margaret J. Wheatley
“Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.”
-- Bruce Barton
“Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult - it's the beast that must be fed. There's this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.”
-- Julia Roberts
“The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.”
-- Henry Louis Gates
“My business is the enforcement of the tax laws and the integrity of the tax code and making sure that trustees of charitable giving are true trustees.”
-- Chuck Grassley
“I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business. You're merchandised, you're a product. You're sold and it's based on sex. But that's okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded.”
-- Megan Fox
“The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.”
-- V. S. Naipaul
“A strategy is something like, an innovative new product globalization, taking your products around the world be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch you can motivate people with be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.”
-- Jack Welch
“We've got to lift our game tremendously. We'll sell our business news and information in print, we'll sell it to anyone who's got a cable system, and we'll sell it on the Web.”
-- Rupert Murdoch
“In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.”
-- Lee Iacocca
“I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.”
-- Debbi Fields
“I think the fact that I was raised in show business, in New York City, in the '50s, that's affected my personality to the point that I'm a little different.”
-- Christopher Walken