Business Quotes

I know I did the right thing by taking time off to raise my son. But it also came at a price. I turned down many opportunities over the years because I didn't want to leave him for long periods of time. And in Hollywood, as in any business, the calls stop coming when you don't answer.

Arsenio Hall

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Carpe per diem - seize the check.

Robin Williams

Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network.

Mitchell Kapor

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Andre Maurois

Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers.

Ross Perot

Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.

Jack Welch

Freedom of enterprise was from the beginning not altogether a blessing. As the liberty to work or to starve, it spelled toil, insecurity, and fear for the vast majority of the population. If the individual were no longer compelled to prove himself on the market, as a free economic subject, the disappearance of this freedom would be one of the greatest achievements of civilization.

Herbert Marcuse

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

John Ruskin

An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.

George Bernard Shaw

You know, I think the film business is its own worst enemy because it sells movies on DVD footage and 'behind the scenes,' and now it's a real struggle trying to keep storylines and plotlines a secret.

Daniel Craig

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Nikita Khrushchev

If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Charles Franklin Kettering

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb

A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Alexander Herzen

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Fred A. Allen

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Harvey S. Firestone

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Alan Bond

Business is the salt of life.

Voltaire