Business Quotes
“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.”
“The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.”
-- Honore de Balzac
“'Handsome' means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business.”
-- Richard Chamberlain
“It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.”
-- Isaac Asimov
“An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.”
-- Jack Welch
“Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.”
-- Peter Drucker
“The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.”
-- Thomas Carlyle
“People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.”
-- Tori Amos