Business Quotes

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Peter Rena

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Adam Smith

The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.

Twyla Tharp

Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.

Michael Sheen

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

Willie Mays

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

H. Ross Perot

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

H. Ross Perot

Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me.

Justin Bieber

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Sir Edward Coke

The 80/20 Principle exists in your business, then the most profitable 1/5 of your business is 16 times more profitable than the remaining 4/5.

Lee J. Colan, Sticking to It

I'd get kicked out of buildings all day long, people would rip up my business card in my face. It's a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it.

Sara Blakely

I want to tell my jokes. I want to have time with my children. I want to entertain people. And at one point, I'll walk away from show business. But I don't want to walk away empty-handed.

Dave Chappelle

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.

Igor Sikorsky

Living the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

Edna Ferber

I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong. I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this.

Steve Jobs

Come to West Virginia and we'll show you how to live... how to treat people. We're open for business. West Virginia is truly on the move.

Joe Manchin

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

Jack Welch

It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.

Barack Obama

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Lee Iacocca

People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Lee Iacocca