Business Quotes

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

B. C. Forbes

If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

B. C. Forbes

Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.

Dave Barry

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Henry R. Luce

The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.

Alton Brown

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Harold S. Geneen

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Harold S. Geneen

The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life.

Raymond Chandler

Throughout the history of commercial life nobody has ever quite liked the commission man. His function is too vague, his presence always seems one too many, his profit looks too easy, and even when you admit that he has a necessary function, you feel that this function is, as it were, a personification of something that in an ethical society would not need to exist. If people could deal with one another honestly, they would not need agents.

Raymond Chandler

This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.

Jacqueline Bisset

The movie business is a big gamble.

Jackie Chan

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

Woodrow Wilson

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

Steve Jobs

If you're an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job.

Guy Kawasaki

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

Tom Brokaw

What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.

Paul A. Volcker

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Andrew Grove

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Royal Little

Any work that's worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That's true if you're running a business, it's true if you're trying to help on a campaign.

Carly Fiorina

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Charles Revson