Business Quotes
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
“In terms of the technology I use the most, it's probably a tie between my Blackberry and my MacBook Pro laptop. That's how I communicate with the rest of the world and how I handle all the business I have to handle.”
-- John Legend
“I know what it's like to start a business. I know how extra ordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing. I know how government kills jobs and, yes, I know how it can help from time- to-time.”
-- Mitt Romney
“There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.”
-- Alexander McQueen
“We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.”
-- Jeff Bezos
“Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.”
-- Walter Scott
“Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.”
-- Dan Rather
“Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.”
-- Andy Warhol
“I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?”
-- Mick Jagger
“If you say, 'I'm going to cut this song because I know the teenagers are going to love it,' well, then you're going to alienate everybody else. When I cut my record, I'm just going to cut the things that I like, and whoever likes it, likes it. That's too much work to try to figure out the demographic. That's too much like a business.”
-- Jason Aldean