Business Quotes

“There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?”

-- Andrea Jung

“Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.”

-- Robert Orben

“Business is a combination of war and sport.”

-- Andre Maurois

“When I started my last business, I didn't receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can't handle that pressure.”

-- Robert Kiyosaki

“Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.”

-- Blaise Pascal

“Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.”

-- Edgar R. Fiedler

“The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.”

-- David Herbert Lawrence

“Business can be a source of progressive change.”

-- Jerry Greenfield

“Suits are looked at more now as a business thing which is kind of a shame. If you're not wearing it just for work, you should try and trick it up a bit.”

-- Daniel Craig

“Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.”

-- Michael Porter