Business Quotes
“Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.”
“I suppose that by being absent from the music business, it appeared that I just dropped out, but really I never did. I was continuously working and doing various things.”
-- Cat Stevens
“I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.”
-- Curt Schilling
“Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.”
-- Walt Disney
“Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”
-- Bill Gates
“Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.”
-- Jeff Goodell
“The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.”
-- Jimmy Buffett