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.”
“White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.”
-- Robert Browning
“One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.”
-- A. C. Benson
“I couldn't be an ingenue today, because the business has changed. I remember when you could dress for a premiere just by putting on a cute top. Now you have to be perfect and fabulous in every way, or you're ridiculed.”
-- Julia Roberts
“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.”
-- Theodore Isaac Rubin
“Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.”
-- Ambrose Bierce
“And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.”
-- Shaquille O'Neal