Business Inspiration Quotes

Our place of birth is not so much as important as our place of berth, yet we can't moore. If we do we know our birthplace for the first time. ~ Amah Lambert

Do an evening review at the end of the day to reflect on what went well, and what you'd do differently next time. ~ Marilyn Suttle

Ideas ... [are] like babies - everything about their environment [says] they shouldn't exist. But they do. You can't dwell on problems too early, or they will swamp the virtues and you will decide not to do the project.
(Attributed to Mike Jones) ~ Steven Levy

If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there'd be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan. ~ Bill Rancic

If you're looking where everybody else is looking, you're looking in the wrong spot. ~ Mark Cuban

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

There's an entrepreneur right now, scared to death, making excuses, saying, 'It's not the right time just yet.' There's no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance, and start your business. ~ Kevin Plank

Look at each failure as a deposit made into the account that will help you write the check for your next significant success. ~ Bobby Darnell

Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration! ~ Thomas A. Edison

People who work in an environment where doing their best is recognized have a better chance of feeling good about their work. ~ Marilyn Suttle

Simply thinking creatively is not the same as being innovative, and only those who risk breaking out of their comfort zone by putting thought into action will discover the profusion of opportunity that exists. ~ Michael Lum

Don't let your 'bad pride' prevent you from moving forward on an opportunity that will allow you to showcase your 'good pride'. ~ Bobby Darnell

It was left for the present age to endow Covetousness with glamour on a big scale, and to give it a title which it could carry like a flag. It occurred to somebody to call it Enterprise. From the moment of that happy inspiration, Covetousness has gone forward and never looked back. ~ Dorothy L. Sayers

Its easier to start a global business than a local one, make your business one where you can work from anywhere in the world ~ Roger James Hamilton

Piracy is not so much organized crime as it is a business, characterized by extremely efficient capital flows, low start-up costs, and few entry barriers. ~ Jay Bahadur

These days he was like a zombie, all grim business, just another jerk with an erection. ~ Tom Perrotta

'Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst accusation you could make. All that has gone now. The whole mindset has changed. ~ P. Chidambaram

I walked along to the double doors and stood in front of them. They were motionless now. It wasn't any of my business. So I pushed them open and looked in. ~ Raymond Chandler

I think it's always hard to find great roles, no matter what age you are. So I always say to people, 'You have to remember that Hollywood is in the business of making movies that they can sell tickets to; they're not in the business of finding great roles for actors.' ~ Julianne Moore

So I got on with the business of lawyering away at the evidence. Minimizing it. Defending Jacob. ~ William Landay

The very heart of worship, as the Bible makes clear, is the business of expressing, from the depths of our spirits, the highest possible honor we can offer before God. ~ R.C. Sproul

The FairTax takes current individual taxpayers out of the tax collection and payment business altogether. Just how many people would that be? Try 165 million. That's 165 million people who at present need to be watched, and perhaps audited, by the IRS to ensure compliance. With the FairTax, we'll have about 25 million businesses to watch instead of 165 million taxpayers… Further, the states and the feds - at least in the forty-five states that have sales taxes - will be looking at the same companies. ~ Neal Boortz

Although we human adults are really good at understanding other minds, we weren't always that way. It takes children a long time to break into the system. ~ Rebecca Saxe

"Echo and I have class together."
Ashley brightened and pressed a hand to her belly. "Really? Which one?"
"Calculus."
"Physics," I added. "And business technology."
"Español." Had he purposely made his voice all deep and sexy? His hand moved up a fraction of an inch and squeezed my leg, exerting delicious pressure on my inner thigh. I twisted my hair away from my neck to release some of the heat. Noah either choked on his own spit or stifled a laugh.
Thankfully, my father missed the show. ~ Katie McGarry

Life is full of beauty, when we focus on the bliss of being. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. ~ Arundhati Roy

Authenticity and honesty
can be awkward and uncomfortable. ~ Kim Ha Campbell

The creative process is a very collaborative process. I know it might seem that way because so much ink is spilled and the media is obsessed with business and numbers and studios ... but filmmakers don't think of it that way. We just go off and we tell our stories. It's the same torture that we adore, it's the same torture that our forefathers endured making movies in the golden era of Hollywood. So, from my perspective it's no different, I'm sure, from the men and women who I admire so much who made the earliest movies. ~ Steven Spielberg

Church and State, Soul and Body, God and Man, are all one at Mont Saint Michel, and the business of all is to fight, each in his own way, or to stand guard for each other. ~ Henry Adams

In this age, telling the truth is tough business and not for the fainthearted. ~ R. Albert Mohler Jr.

Vision is your first creation of the future. ~ Tobi Delly

Translations
A literary translation is like a spouse who thinks they can cheat on you because business has brought them to a foreign city. ~ Beryl Dov

International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood. ~ Eric Ambler

A rule without exceptions is an instrument capable of doing mischief to the innocent and bringing grief
as well as injustice
to those who should gain exemptions from the rule's functioning. ~ Derrick A. Bell

Each day begins a new journey of life, for if we awake, there is a reason. ~ Bethanie Armstrong

Traditional Sufi wisdom teaches that we are the creation and manifestation of Infinite Love, and that every event and circumstance of our lives serves to awaken us and remind us that true happiness and security is to be found in the deepest center of ourselves where we are closest to that Infinite Love, where our true needs will be met.
~Shaikh Kabir Helminski ~ Kabir Helminski

Moscow is a huge inspiration for me. I love what I find here, I love being here. ~ Natalia Vodianova

Sometimes you have to search for inspiration with characters, and other times, they just drop out of the sky and arrive. ~ Dylan McDermott

Let's say you went to Harvard or Oxford or Cambridge, and you said, 'I've come here because I'm in search of morality, guidance and consolation; I want to know how to live,' - they would show you the way to the insane asylum. ~ Alain De Botton

There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal and graceful arabesques; second, those who, by concentrating their minds, lead the body into the rhythm of a desired emotion, expressing a remembered feeling or experience. And finally, there are those who convert the body into a luminous fluidity, surrendering it to the inspiration of the soul. ~ Isadora Duncan

From my experience in working with bureaucrats and politicians, if you are a credible business group, they will definitely help you. At the end of the day, they, too, want development of their constituency, state or country. ~ Gautam Adani

It is absurd to think that the scientific views of a Muslim scientist are necessarily connected with his religious belief, or that he necessarily derives inspiration for his scientific work from faith. This was as true a thousand years ago as it is now. Alchemy provides an excellent example. Developed extensively by Jabir Ibn Hayyan and AI-Razi, and based on certain myths going back to Arius and Pythagoras, it was one of the most important Muslim contributions. Of course, today everyone knows that alchemy was scientific nonsense: there cannot be anything like the Philosopher's Stone, and the transformation of base metals like copper or tin into silver or gold by chemical means is an impossibility ~ Pervez Hoodbhoy

The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business. ~ Wendell Phillips

I'm not in the torturing business, but I am in the monster-killing business. ~ Reyna Pryde

Its not what the universe gives us that matters, but what we give the universe ~ Lauren Myracle

No one beats The Legend Killer.. Thats why I'm the greatest in this business! ~ Randy Orton

I have heard stories from the depths of human lives where men and women were wrestling with the elemental problems of misery and sin--stories that put upon a man's heart a burden of vicarious sorrow, even though he does but listen to them. Here was real human need crying out after the living God revealed in Christ. Consider all the multitudes of men who so need God, and then think of Christian churches making of themselves a cockpit of controversy when there is not a single thing at stake in the business. So much of it does not matter! And there is one thing that does matter--more than anything else in all the world--that men in their personal lives and in their social relationships should know Jesus Christ. ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts. ~ Swami Sivananda

I wonder whether the gentlemen who make a business and a living out of writing books, ever find their own selves getting in the way of their subjects, like me? ~ Wilkie Collins

Being in a relationship with some people is like pushing a boat through sand. I used to have the time and energy for that kind of nonsense, but not anymore. Relationships should be a wonderful journey of exploration and love; not grinding resistance. ~ Steve Maraboli

Seek pleasure in work itself as in result you have no control. ~ Pravin Agarwal

I'm an artist. There are a lot of people in the business who aren't. It's like they've got a shoe repair shop. ~ Lyle Tuttle

What's the business case for ending life on earth? ~ Ray Anderson

I think I'm not uber into the comedy scene, but I love to laugh, especially in our business, where you're always front and center over an extremely, sometimes overly-critical live audience. I think it helps to laugh. ~ John Cena

When you begin to relinquish your ego, you will no longer feel compelled to prove to people how busy you are in an attempt to validate your sense of worth. ~ Miya Yamanouchi

We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform. ~ Pete Cashmore

Who says books aren't 'real' friends? We hug them, treasure them, relate to them, spend weekends with them, and bring them along on vacation! They give us escape, comfort, adventures, advice, hope, inspiration, role models, and something to look forward to after a hard day. What more could you ask for from a friend? ~ A.J. Sky

Those not favorable to the money trust could be squeezed out of business and the people frightened into demanding changes in the banking and currency laws which the Money Trust would frame. ~ Charles August Lindbergh