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.”
“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