All Quotes

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.
‐‐ Richard Branson

Business owners have made a strong case to me that they need guest workers. But none has suggested that these workers should be placed on a path to citizenship.
‐‐ John Shadegg

Business owners should not have to choose between violating their faith and violating the law.
‐‐ David Green

Business owners should think of designers as architects, not decorators.
‐‐ Jeffrey Zeldman

Business people across the world are seeing the possibility of Donald Trump being president, and this is a big thing that I believe is inspiring people to put money here in America instead of Germany or other places where we have lot of things going on.
‐‐ Harold Hamm

Business people do two things with their time fundamentally. The first is that they try to create sales, right? Revenue, key to business. But the other thing they devote their time to equally is cost containment. That is to say, how to not create jobs. Because the fewer jobs you can create for the revenue you create, the more profit you make.
‐‐ Nick Hanauer

Business people get many undeserved prizes - golden parachutes and bonuses even when companies fail. I don't think people should get rewarded for screwing up.
‐‐ Mo Ibrahim

Business people have been made into these rock stars because they've made a lot of money.
‐‐ James Daly

Business practices and how we treat the planet are also in desperate need of re-humanization.
‐‐ Simon Mainwaring

Business principles are only as good as the practices that back them up.
‐‐ Chip Conley

'Business,' properly understood, is so central to every aspect of our civilization that Republicans should proudly announce that they are indeed 'the party of business.'
‐‐ Jacob K. Javits

Business reporting is not dealing with objects, it is dealing with relationships between objects.
‐‐ Hasso Plattner

Business requires understanding financial matters, but management is different from running the financial aspects of the business - it requires understanding complex systems, how they operate, the nature of organisations, what happens when people interact in groups and how to motivate and guide people.
‐‐ Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Business schools need to address students on a human being level, not as cogs in the machine to supply fresh talent to big companies.
‐‐ Srikumar Rao

Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.
‐‐ Ralph Steadman

Business students are very oriented to playing a role in the real world and accomplishing something, not training themselves to be scholars and contribute to the literature. Teaching in that kind of environment has focused me much more on the real world, how pieces of the theory I know can be applied to real-world situations.
‐‐ Janet Yellen

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.
‐‐ Peter Drucker

Business today consists in persuading crowds.
‐‐ T. S. Eliot

Business, unfortunately, isn't all sunshine and lollipops.
‐‐ Eric Trump

Business was bound to come; light industries were already shopping for land. The quiet country farms were already going, and developments would take over... Eventually, of course, we will have to have some sort of plan to guide future development.
‐‐ Gladys Taber

Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.
‐‐ Maria Edgeworth

'Business Week' is guilty of very shoddy reporting.
‐‐ Jerry Della Femina

Business wise, I have always learned valuable lessons so I don't regret any decisions I have made.
‐‐ Kiana Tom

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
‐‐ Jane Austen

Businesses and users are going to use technology only if they can trust it.
‐‐ Satya Nadella

Businesses are going to innovate in how they bring prices down so people can shop the way they want.
‐‐ John Gerzema

Businesses are no longer receiving the cost savings from outsourcing that they once did.
‐‐ Gerald Chertavian

Businesses are not just local or even national anymore - good ideas are immediately global. So the market opportunities are much larger than we've ever imagined or seen.
‐‐ Alfred Lin

Businesses can lead with their values and make money, too. You don't have to simply be purely profit-driven. You can integrate social and environmental concerns into a business, be a caring business, be a generous business and still do very well financially.
‐‐ Jerry Greenfield

Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
‐‐ Gary Hamel

Businesses have come and gone at Homeboy Industries. We have had starts and stops, but anything worth doing is worth failing at. We started Homeboy Plumbing. That didn't go so well. Who knew? People didn't want gang members in their homes. I just didn't see that coming.
‐‐ Greg Boyle

Businesses have to make gestures that go beyond words. Persuasion no longer works.
‐‐ John Gerzema

Businesses large and small shouldn't have to check the expiration date of a tax provision to see if it's still good.
‐‐ Michael Enzi

Businesses make decisions based on what they are seeing in their order books.
‐‐ Jacob Lew

Businesses must invest in products and people in order to create new wealth.
‐‐ John Hoeven

Businesses need certainty, to see clearly the rules of engagement for investing in South Africa.
‐‐ Nicky Oppenheimer

Businesses need to define what they need so training providers can offer up the right training.
‐‐ Penny Pritzker

Businesses need to proactively create models that make a difference in society and let everyone else use them, talk about them, emulate them - and build on them.
‐‐ Muhtar Kent

Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can't deliver good service from unhappy employees.
‐‐ Tony Hsieh

Businesses should absolutely set aside funding in their budgets for security consultants. Unless there is an expert on staff, and there usually is not, it needs to be outsourced.
‐‐ Kevin Mitnick

Businesses should be assured that law enforcement will operate with the utmost sensitivity toward victims of cyber attacks.
‐‐ Preet Bharara

Businesses should be focused on business, and social responsibility should be government responsibility.
‐‐ Terry Gou

Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely claim that Americans don't want to do the jobs.
‐‐ Dana Rohrabacher

Businesses succeed when societies themselves succeed. When countries are affected by violence and the absence of the rule of law, business can and must be a messenger of peace.
‐‐ Ban Ki-moon

Businesses that decide to be reality based and identify where they're vulnerable to climate impact, that start thinking about how to buffer against it, are going to be able to take advantage of shortages. When the water runs out, not everyone is in the same pickle.
‐‐ Paolo Bacigalupi

Businesses that distribute information and news are in the business of training and teaching people.
‐‐ Clayton Christensen

Businesses that fail to develop their staff are twice as likely to collapse. Firms seeking to reposition themselves for the economic upturn need to invest in their staff's flexibility, responsiveness and skills.
‐‐ David Blunkett

Businesses that have gone through an episode of hyperinflation become understandably alert to the threat of it: at the first hint of inflation, they're likely to increase prices, since they've learned that if they don't, and inflation hits, their businesses will be wrecked.
‐‐ James Surowiecki

Businesses that run well are almost like marriages. Everything has to be up for discussion, or there will be real problems.
‐‐ Nobu Matsuhisa

Businesses, the State, and the third sector should join forces for a fairer society around the theme of diversity and inclusion in the supply chain, diverse suppliers in general, and work and procurement with women in particular.
‐‐ Ofra Strauss