Business Quotes
“I'd get kicked out of buildings all day long, people would rip up my business card in my face. It's a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it.”
“The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.”
-- Honore de Balzac
“'Handsome' means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business.”
-- Richard Chamberlain
“It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.”
-- Isaac Asimov
“An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.”
-- Jack Welch
“Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.”
-- Peter Drucker
“The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.”
-- Thomas Carlyle
“People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.”
-- Tori Amos