Business Quotes
“Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.”
“The chances of a bank going out of business are extremely slim, but it's always a good idea to spread around major sums so every penny is backed by insurance.”
-- Suze Orman
“The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.”
-- Andy Rooney
“The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like there's this one set of rules to follow to be a pop star and I think, 'Well, you say I'm a pop star, so maybe that's not true.'”
-- Kelly Clarkson
“Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.”
-- Jack Welch
“The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.”
-- Andrew Jackson
“If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.”
-- Barack Obama
“I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.”
-- David Byrne