Best Business Quotes

The affairs of America I shall ever look upon as my first business whilst I am in Europe. Any confidence from the king and ministers, any popularity I may have among my own countrymen, any means in my power, shall be, to the best of my skill, and till the end of my life, exerted in behalf of an interest I have so much at heart. ~ Marquis De Lafayette

The best business returns are usually achieved by companies that are doing something quite similar today to what they were doing five or ten years ago. ~ Warren Buffett

I had a wonderful and very successful career in New York and had the privilege of working with some of the best editors and publishers in the business. ~ Teresa Medeiros

The best business models become role models for others. ~ David Hieatt

Those who say "it's not personal, it's just business" are lying. All business is personal, and the best business is very personal. ~ Rick Lenz

You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south. ~ Dana Brunetti

I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap. ~ Snoop Dogg

Whether people want to do business or sell things online, reach new people and be found, showcase their achievements, or communicate with their friends or family, Weebly is the best way for them to create a high-quality site that meets their goals. ~ David Rusenko

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one. ~ Brian Clough

Entrepreneurship isn't for everyone, and not everyone is going to be an entrepreneur, but women who turn to business, turn to economics, because there are people depending on them, I think that their creativity, their resilience, their spirit, embody what's best about entrepreneurship. ~ Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Sir Richard Branson is probably the best communicator ever. He was an inspiration for me - contrary to some reports, we've never done business together, although we did discuss an aviation venture very early on. I don't think easyJet competes with Virgin - we're in different areas. ~ Stelios Haji-Ioannou

Mark Hopkins was one of the truest and best men that ever lived. He had a keen analytical mind; was thoroughly accurate, and took general supervision of the books, contracts, etc. He was strictly the office man, and never bought or sold anything. I always felt when I was in the East that our business in his hands was entirely safe. ~ Collis Potter Huntington

There are people I've met in L.A. who kind of only talk about the business. Because maybe they think that's the best move. ~ Timothy Simons

How important is failure - yes, failure - to the health of a thriving, innovative business? So important that Ratan Tata, chairman of India's largest corporation, gives an annual award to the employee who comes up with the best idea that failed. ~ Naveen Jain

The nation will benefit in the long term if it continues to be open to foreign expertise. This will help the country to establish its business culture and environment faster, based on international best practice. ~ Hassanal Bolkiah

I didn't want to wait around for some business entity to come around and give me money and tell me what to do. We just started releasing records as best we could. ~ Greg Ginn

In sports and in business, the greatest leaders are those who make the best decisions in the most crucial of situations. They are the ones who focus their energy on turning tough decisions into winning decisions. ~ Don Yaeger

I have made some of the best friends that I've got in this business. ~ Kate Moss

a great publicity is a high way to remote customers and a universal key to the gate of ignorance ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If we're going to create the best business climate to create higher paying jobs and retain our young people, we're going to have to build a workforce prepared for the opportunities of the future. ~ John Hoeven

My financial service business is the absolute best thing I have done to empower the poor. I run many charities and fight many political causes, but my financial service company is the greatest gift I've given. ~ Russell Simmons

Sing your song; don't let the bastards get you down. ~ Garrison Keillor

For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business. He excites me when I watch him. He moves me. He's the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more. ~ Frank Sinatra

My only loyalty is to what's best for business, not to any set of constituents. ~ Ram Shriram

Good intentions are the best business. ~ Debasish Mridha

He has a very extensive public relations apparatus that is paid for by the taxpayers of this state. They are some of the best in the business. and he is a master at getting not only television but other media exposure on the basis of confrontation and chaos. ~ Bill Scott

There can be no one best way of organizing a business. ~ Joanne Woodward

Technology is something we buy to sell to the customers. Ericsson, Nokia and IBM do technology for a living, so let's give it to them because they know best. It has made the business model of Bharti very, very sustainable. ~ Sunil Mittal

I know what's best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody. ~ Claudette Colbert

You find that you can have the best business in the most exciting industry, but if the execution, if the torch-holder, if the value-creator isn't there, then we don't make it happen. ~ Dan Levitan

The last thing I think I am is perfect. I'm just trying to do the best job I can. I'm trying to be the best father I can to my kids. I'm trying to do the best job I can running my business. ~ James Packer

The best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company. ~ John D. Rockefeller

I'd love to do situation comedy - it's the best job in show business. ~ Patti LuPone

I run a business and go all over the world doing things for that business, things that are fairly orthogonal. But my job is to run my company, not to be the best Instagrammer. I'll let other people be awesome at it. ~ Kevin Systrom

Haven't I? - he thought. Haven't I thought of it since the first time I saw you? Haven't I thought of nothing else for two years? ...He sat motionless, looking at her. He heard the words he had never allowed himself to form, the words he had felt, known, yet had not faced, had hoped to destroy by never letting them be said within his own mind. Now it was as sudden and shocking as if he were saying it to her ...Since the first time I saw you ...Nothing but your body, that mouth of yours, and the way your eyes would look at me, if ...Through every sentence I ever said to you, through every conference you thought so safe, through the importance of all the issues we discussed ...You trusted me, didn't you? To recognize your greatness? To think of you as you deserved - as if you were a man? ...Don't you suppose I know how much I've betrayed? The only bright encounter of my life - the only person I respected - the best business man I know - my ally - my partner in a desperate battle ...The lowest of all desires - as my answer to the highest I've met ...Do you know what I am? I thought of it, because it should have been unthinkable. For that degrading need, which would never touch you, I have never wanted anyone but you ...I hadn't known what it was like, to want it, until I saw you for the first time. I had thought : Not I, I couldn't be broken by it ...Since then ...For two years ...With not a moments respite ...Do you know what it's like, to want it? Would you wish to hear what I ~ Ayn Rand

The best thing I can say is professional football is a business. When they are recruiting football players, they are not recruiting model citizens. Everybody has to be aware of this. What's being selected for the NFL is the ability to play and perform on Sunday afternoons. Everything else is secondary. ~ Jackson Katz

Actually, everything has been said in print ... it's a battle of giants and it's something that Walt would say is none of your business - go right on and create the best you can. ~ Joe Grant

In an ideal world, I'd be able to do my shows in my pajamas. Luckily I've got one of the best stylists in the business, Rebecca Allen - she knows what looks good on camera and gives it a sexy kick. ~ Anne Robinson

Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period. ~ John Lasseter

Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business. ~ Alan Shepard

When the people who support and are a part of your community, the community you have the pleasure and power and opportunity to serve, that's where all the best business happens. ~ Chris Brogan

Of course I want to be a best seller because I'm in the business and I want to be read, but there is no money in the world that can compensate for writing badly. ~ David Lagercrantz

I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset. ~ Curt Schilling

Being in the consumer business helps us groom talent in areas like marketing, finance and logistics. We can benchmark our outsourcing business to our consumer business and its best practices. ~ Azim Premji

I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement. ~ Donald Trump

Being a fan of the business for years and wanting to be an actor for years, I knew, if ever the opportunity came for me, I would already know what to expect. I know what comes along with it. The best thing I can do is take it all in and go with the flow. ~ Quinton Aaron

No hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. ~ Colonel Sanders

Quality is the best business plan. ~ John Lasseter

My dad knows the business, and he tells me I've got to do what's best for me. ~ Jamie Redknapp

Providing all Latin-American children with the education and early childhood development that they need is in the best interest of all, so it has to be a priority for all of us, not only the government and civil society, but also the business sector. ~ Shakira

We at Sun Cellular will definitely continue our consistent business policy of offering the best value for consumers' money. Yes, we shall offer the most affordable but reliable service. ~ John Gokongwei

We need comprehensive reform that will make America the best place in the world to invest and do business. ~ Jim DeMint

To be sure, boxing has always been, at best, a shady and sometimes cutthroat business, buttressed by hype and tomfoolery rivalling, at times, that of carnival circuses. ~ Dan Hill

I've got lots of great friends in show business, and that's all they are. Great friends. I'll never marry again - what's the point? I had the best. I've got friends all over the world, and that's enough for me. ~ Cilla Black

The period from 2002 to 2007 was probably our best period. We created a strategy to build global scale, footprints in each of the geographies and dramatically built our international business. ~ Baba Kalyani

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. ~ Aristotle Onassis

Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to play straight, if the children in our audience were the only audience. ~ Burt Ward

The best wrestlers, whether it's a Hulk Hogan or a Rey Mysterio, are the ones who have psychology and can understand this business. ~ Hulk Hogan

In seeking to serve social needs because it makes good business sense to do so, a corporation is doing what it knows how to do best. ~ Henry Ford II

Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him. ~ P.T. Barnum

There's no formula for success in this business. You just do the best you can. ~ Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.

I have had the privilege of working with the best in the business, from photographers to designers to magazines. There's not much more to ask for but I'm still looking forward to one day working with photographers Mert and Marcus, Tim Walker and Nick Knight. ~ Chanel Iman

I have no doubt that my M.B.A. from New York University's Stern School of Business was one of the best investments I ever made. It helped me climb the corporate ladder and become an entrepreneur. ~ Vivek Wadhwa

The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that ... don't miss it. ~ Barbara Corcoran

I started my business with my best friend from high school. ~ Dave Goldberg

Most of my ex-girlfriends are still close friends. I guess when you are with someone that long, unless they did something really terrible to you, you remain friends. My real estate business is run by my best friend, who is an ex-girlfriend. ~ Ryan Kavanaugh

When you build a product, you make a lot of assumptions about the state of the art of technology, the best business practices, and potential customer usage/behavior. ~ Steven Sinofsky

I made the best business decision at 14 when I decided to get into acting. The worst was owning 2 homes at the same time. ~ Tamala Jones

Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names. ~ Charles Barkley

We've been working with the very best in the business. The studio really just let us alone to make the films. ~ David Heyman

We are currently not planning on conquering the world. ~ Sergey Brin

My best friend Jerry started a boat-washing business, and it was one of the most critical experiences of my life. I got to meet a lot of people who were entrepreneurs. My parents were schoolteachers, and I was now meeting people who owned companies. I realized that if this guy can do it, why can't I? ~ Bill Rancic

If business doesn't thrive, it hurts America. We need improved relations, more collaboration, more thought and more consistency as we go about trying to make sure we have the best country in the world. Not scapegoating and finger-pointing. ~ Jamie Dimon

I didn't plan on going into show business. Show business picked me. And it's been fun. One of the best things about being in show business is people think they know me, and they feel like they grew up with me. ~ Vicki Lawrence

Working on any show that works is the best job you can possibly have in any area of the business. You've got so much going for you, a good community, everybody's hanging together, and you get to do it every week. ~ James L. Brooks

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best. ~ Theodore Isaac Rubin

Movie-making is serious business. The director and the crew are already under a lot of pressure to give their best to the audience. Therefore, the best part for me as an actor is to act well in the movies and make a jolly atmosphere with the co-stars on the sets. ~ Abhishek Bachchan

If you have to fight a crowd of boys, it's best to go for the biggest one. That way you won't have to fight them all. The others will see that you mean business and you will win their respect. ~ Suzanne Vega

I have this saying. Quality is the best business plan. I believe so strongly in that. ~ John Lasseter

Asia can learn much from Europe. Trade could be made easier in Asia, and the conditions for doing business could be improved by reducing red tape. In this regard, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea have done better than the best in Europe. ~ Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Now I know that Wal-Mart's policies do not reflect the best way of doing business and the values that I think are important in America. ~ Hillary Clinton

The best businesses are really ones that can combine passion, profits, and purpose. ~ Tony Hsieh

If we want to secure the best jobs in the future, we must make America the best place in the world to do business. ~ Jim DeMint

PRAYER IS THE serious business of the Church, the first and best business it renders for the world. ~ Richard J. Foster

I think the opportunity to bring together the people in the world of politics, business and entertainment and have an opportunity to listen to their best learning and thinking is a great opportunity. ~ Erwin McManus

What do artists do? Artists give people something they didn't know they were missing: a dance, a piece of music, a painting, a piece of sculpture. Catering to that need is the best business strategy. ~ Daniel H. Pink

Poker is a game where you don't have to have the best hand to win. Poker is really reading other people and reading human emotion, which certainly comes into play in business. ~ Charlie Ergen

It's always interesting to be playing against some of my best friends and some of my longtime teammates. You get to see them before the game and after the game and it's always nice to catch up but when the whistle blows it's sort of all business on the field. ~ Heather O'Reilly

We can put our head in the sand and continue to lose jobs overseas and to other states, or we can say, 'You know what? We are not going to lose another job from California, and we're going to be the very best place to start and grow a business.' So I'll be the chief sales officer for California businesses. ~ Meg Whitman

A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all. ~ Michael LeBoeuf

I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business. ~ Becki Newton

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

The Arena League is the best thing that could have happened to me because I get to run the whole process. I'm seeing not only the football side but the business side. ~ John Elway

A true innovator does best, what he doesn't know best. ~ Haresh Sippy

To me, I would much rather be part of a healthy industry than being the only player in a dead industry. ~ John Lasseter

I'm thrilled to be working with Goldline, the very best in the gold business. ~ Monica Crowley

The bottom line is that any business should be a meritocracy. The best and brightest. Period. ~ Billy Beane

There can always be an 'Idol' without anybody. I believe that Seacrest is probably the best host in the business. ~ Nigel Lythgoe

Always believe what you see - with your own eyes, that is. Always believe what you see. That's the best way to go about this business. I've heard a lot of things about a lot of people, and it was never true. ~ R. Kelly

The Male Factor is the singularly best business book for women I've read in years. This well-researched yet thoroughly readable book is rich with rare insights into how men really see women in the workplace-and how with a few simple adjustments you can even the playing field. ~ Lois P Frankel