Business Quotes
“It's far too much to say that effective hoping is the only - or even the biggest - part of what it takes to succeed. If 14% of business productivity can be attributed to hope, that means 86% is dependent on raw talent, fickle business cycles, the quality of the product you're selling, and often pure, dumb luck.”
“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
“There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!”
-- Coco Chanel
“In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.”
-- Les Brown