Business Quotes
“A couple of months ago, I was down in Florida for the Food and Wine Festival. And this journalist grabbed me and said, 'How does it feel to be a TV guy? You're no longer in the restaurant business.' And I laughed. I asked him, 'How long do you think it takes me to do a season?' He said, 'Well, 200 days.' And I was like, '200 days? Try 20!'”
“The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.”
-- Harold S. Geneen
“It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.”
-- Dolley Madison
“We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.”
-- Hubert H. Humphrey
“I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.”
-- Jack Kilby
“Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”
-- Thomas Carlyle