Business Quotes
“There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.”
“Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.”
-- Edward Norton
“The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.”
-- David Herbert Lawrence
“The superior man understands what is right the inferior man understands what will sell.”
-- Confucius
“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”
-- Jack Welch
“I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck.”
-- Ron Perlman