Business Person Quotes

I challenge every business person in America who has ever complained about the failure of the welfare system to try to hire somebody off welfare. And try hard. ~ William J. Clinton

When a New York attorney general brings a lawsuit against a prominent business person, there are two things you can count on out of that office - lots of political bluster and little accountability. ~ Kenneth Langone

Every small business will give you an entrepreneurial way of looking at things. I guarantee you that for every plant that closes, if you gave it to one small-business person in that community, he or she would find a way to make it work. The small-business attitude is you always find a way to make it work. ~ Hamdi Ulukaya

Any good business person applies financial discipline to everything they do. The movie business is and should be no different; I don't believe you have to sacrifice creativity to have business success. To the contrary, great art requires discipline. ~ Paula Wagner

It's been an extraordinary journey. I have learned so much along the way. I entered the modeling industry as a business person already. I always knew I belonged on the other side of the camera. ~ Kathy Ireland

When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone. ~ Magic Johnson

While my father was a diplomat rather than a business person, I count him as a critically important formative role model. He was comfortable living and working all around the world, wherever he was assigned. ~ Muhtar Kent

The fears you do not face become your walls. Most people in business, and in their personal lives, design everything so they can avoid doing what makes them feel uncomfortable. Yet any good business person knows we are not only paid to work, but also we are paid to be scared. ~ Robin S. Sharma

A business person is all about solving problems. ~ Ehab Atalla

I sense that striving for wholeness is, increasingly, a countercultural goal, as fragmented people make for better consumers, buying more bits and pieces - two or more cars, two homes and all that fills them - and outfitting one's body for a wide variety of identities: business person, homebody, amateur athlete, traveler, theater or sports fan. ~ Kathleen Norris

Washington is like playing the Super Bowl, only there are no timeouts, no potty breaks, and the arena is filled with the media. In government, you have to learn to put yourself second in a big way. But I am a business person at heart. I like to be in charge. ~ Desiree Rogers

The only way out was to go back the next year and buy his sheep and pay over the odds to make up for it, so he did. Neither of these men cared remotely about "maximizing profit" in the short-term in the way a modern business person in a city would; they both valued their good names and their reputations for integrity far more highly than making a quick buck. If you said you would do a thing, you'd better do it. ~ James Rebanks

I'm probably not your typical business person in many ways. I don't wear a suit. I don't carry a briefcase. I don't wear a tie. I'm fairly casual. I haven't got a big office, and it's in a very ordinary part of town. I'd much prefer to downplay than impress. ~ Gerry Harvey

Life will hit you hard, regardless of what you do - adventurer, business person, king. ~ Robert J. Crane

Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth. ~ James Randolph Adams

That image of the common drunk is a myth. There is a thing called a maintenance drinker which may very well be a mother of four, a welder or a distinguished business person. These people build up a tolerance and manage to still maintain their daily lifestyles while constantly struggling with this disease, because it is a recognized disease by the American Medical Association. ~ Lisa Anderson

I give Bill Gates an A for vision because, as a business person and a strategist, he's brilliant. His flaw is that his view is not informed by a humanistic or compassionate vision of how to make computers work for people. ~ Mitch Kapor

You have a career, and you start as a business person. And you work your way, you reach this peak, and you know the time's going to come when you go back down. ~ Miranda Lambert

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

It is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who you are writing songs for and what your goals are as a songwriter. So believe me, if you think I've got it down I don't it is a constant struggle. ~ Christine Lavin

You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'? ~ Dick Gregory

One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person. ~ Alan Cooper

Nothing's worse than a business person who sells out to the left, if you're a capitalist, stand up and be counted. ~ James Cook

We really have to, as a country, recognize that school is where people get their identity not just as a scholar, or a future business person, but as a citizen. And we need to make sure that schools set them up for success as citizens. ~ Benjamin Jealous

To be a great business person, you must be a great observer. ~ Ehab Atalla

When you have a programmer-founded company it often gets really techy, if you have a producer or a business-person, it all really sets the flavor of the company, just the priorities and the way you deal with everything. ~ Tim Schafer

I'm a business person at heart. ~ Desiree Rogers

The smart business person sees an opportunity to generate referrals by collaborating with their competitors. ~ Timothy M. Houston

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved. ~ Barbara Johnson

People bustled around me, in a Manhattan hurry, but I stopped walking. I stared at my reflection. It was hard not to rip off the hat right there, not to strip down on Broadway to the person I sensed waiting below. A voice, stronger than I knew I had, whispered in my head: This is not who you are. ~ Tova Mirvis

There is only two kind of #books .First one is by some #famous person and Second one makes a person #famous . ~ Tushar Upreti

You cannot have a great love relationship with an extraordinary person if you behave in a stereotypical way. ~ Sahara Sanders

We would pay the bills. We would pretend to be high-class. This was compromise. This, I guessed, was business. ~ Aryn Kyle

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

But with Naseem and me, it was like we had never known each other at all. It's a cruel, skewered ecosystem in which a high school student exists. I'm not trying to justify it. Things that at the time seem entirely logical, defensible even, can make a person years later ashamed. Not necessarily of acts one has perpetrated, but omissions of basic decency. Averted eyes, abruptly ended conversations, unextended offers to include. Such things are scythes across the backs of even the most normal teens. And Naseem, it was generally acknowledged, was not your most normal teen. ~ Ron Parsons

Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch. ~ Michael Arrington

The rocket that goes up next March will not only lift a payload, it will launch what I believe will ultimately be the most significant commercial space facility in the country, ... This launch will be a brilliant signal flare that will let the nation and the world know New Mexico's spaceport is open for business. We can now say with certainty that the dream of this spaceport launching a new era in New Mexico's aerospace industry will become reality. ~ Bill Richardson

For as long as I could remember, I'd been making vague and confident assurances that any day I would finish the thing [my book]. If and when I ever did, they would probably feel an almost physical sense of relief. I was like a massively incompetent handyman who'd been up on their roof now for years, trying to take down a gnarled old lightning-struck tree trunk that had fallen against the house, haunting every gathering, all discussions of family business, any attempt they made to sit down together and plan for the future, with the remote but ceaseless whining of my saw. ~ Michael Chabon

Bob Beaudine challenges you to think differently. His unique approach to life and business has helped elevate many careers. ~ Roger Goodell

An intelligent person should put money in the beginning, but not in heart ~ Jonathan Swift

I now have 10-year-olds asking me about how to become successful, how to become a business owner, which is crazy - at 10 I was trying to figure out which Barbie I wanted. ~ Michelle Phan

Every day gives you an opportunity to improve. With every run, you can try to be better. Not just a better runner, but a better person. ~ John Bingham

One thing I know, darlin'," he'd said gently when we were talking about Justine. "You ain't ever gonna change a person. Stand by their side or be at their back. But do not push change or expect it. Just be there for them while they sort their shit out. But do it knowin' you might have to cut ties if their shit starts leakin' and becomin' yours. ~ Kristen Ashley

Everybody in the world has to compromise. I don't know one person that gets everything they want, so the politicians are going to have to figure that out and stop pointing out, "He shook hands with a Democrat in 1989. He ate with a Republican last week." It's petty high school, even junior high stuff going on. It's junior high politics going on, so it's a shame. ~ Ice Cube

Of course I still love my grandma even after all the awful stuff she did to me, which is scary that you can love someone who is not nice. I guess that is what getting better will do to a person: make you forgive people who have been mean to you. ~ Jack Gantos

We must speak first about the division of land and about those who cultivate it: who should they be and what kind of person? We do not agree with those who have said that property should be communally owned, but we do believe that there should be a friendly arrangement for its common use, and that none of the citizens should be without means of support. ~ Aristotle.

I'm a really spiritual person and I've never experienced anything. In fact I'm thinking of taking this ghost tour in Philly. ~ Hugh Panaro

I'm an introspective person. I'm not an extrovert. ~ John Thaw

The music business is like any other business, y'know? When sales are going well, everything's hunky-f**king-dory. But the second something goes wrong, it's all blood and law-suits. ~ Ozzy Osbourne

Every person must stand up and be accountable, but be responsible for their actions. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

What's both fascinating and challenging about investing is that the changing nature of business and finance means you can never have it all figured out. ~ Whitney Tilson

The Value of a Smile at Christmas It costs nothing, but creates much. It enriches those who receive, without impoverishing those who give. It happens in a flash and the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None are so rich they can get along without it, and none so poor but are richer for its benefits. It creates happiness in the home, fosters good will in a business, and is the countersign of friends. ~ Dale Carnegie

A great ruler, a great court, a great kingdom, these texts suggest never exist unto themselves, as stable, fully actualized entities, and, therefore, are never experienced in their plenitude in the present. Instead, they are always remembered as something that occured in the past or anticipated as something will reoccur in the future. Insofar as they are experienced in the current time, it is only for a brief and evanescent moment, overshadowed by the knowledge that it will soon vanish.
For a realist, the fact that the excellence of a person, a place, or a time is not appreciated in its own time proves that it was never actually as excellent as it seemed.
For a Romantic, however, there exist a people, places, and times whose excellence can only be appreciated Arthur always has to be - to quote the Alliterative Morte Arthure (ca.1400) - "the once and future king ~ Karen Sullivan

The more we see ourselves as a vibrant, successful, inspiring person who boldly declares and manifests her vision, the more we become just that. ~ Kristi Bowman

[On writing biography:] If you wish to see a person you must not start by seeing through him. ~ Iris Origo

Now farming became industry, and the owners followed Rome, although they did not know it. They imported slaves, although they did not call them slaves: Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans, Filipinos. They live on rice and beans, the business men said. They don't need much. ~ John Steinbeck

I'm a creature of the night." Slitted eyes peered at her suspiciously. "Good God, you're not a morning person, are you? ~ Tiffany Allee

No wonder you're so successful in your business. You're a scoundrel." "Why thank you, sweetheart. That's so nice of you to say." "Only you would take being called a scoundrel and a tempting devil as compliments." "Coming from you, they're the best compliments I've ever received. ~ Marie Force

Just the minute another person is drawn into some one's life, there begin to arise undreamed-of complexities, and from such a simple beginning as sexual desire we find built up such alarming yet familiar phenomena as fetes, divertissements, telephone conversations, arrangements, plans, sacrifices, train arrivals, meetings, appointments, tardiness, delays, marriages, dinners, small pets and animals, calumny, children, music lessons, yellow shades for the windows, evasions, lethargy, cigarettes, candies, repetition of stories and anecdotes, infidelity, ineptitude, incompatibility, bronchial trouble, and many others, all of which are entirely foreign to the original urge and way off the subject. ~ E.B. White

Always remember, no matter how many problems you have, there is always someone who has more ~ Linda Poindexter

I have rarely talked to anyone about my mother, for I believe that I am capable of killing a person, without hesitation, who happened to make the wrong kind of remark about my mother. So I purposely don't make any opening for some fool to step into. ~ Malcolm X

The biggest lie in business is that it takes money to make money, remember that. You gotta be smart, have a plan, pay attention to what's going on around you. None of that costs a dime. ~ Ann Patchett

Christine Gray wrote in her remarkable 1986 PhD dissertation, Thailand: The Soteriological State in the 1970s: Any study of contemporary Thai society must account for the U.S. influence on that polity and the mutual denial of that influence. Thailand's relationship with the United States is complex, heavily disguised and, in many instances, actively denied by the leaders of both countries... In many cases, it is difficult if not impossible to determine the extent of American influence in Thailand. Thailand is a nation of secrets: of secret bombings and air bases during the Vietnam War, of secret military pacts and aid agreements, of secret business transactions and secret ownership of businesses and joint venture corporations. This is precisely the point; the American presence has taken on powerful cosmological, religious and even mythic overtones. The American influence on the Thai economy and polity has become a symbol of uncertainty, of men's inability to know the truth. ~ Andrew MacGregor Marshall

I will set aside the point that I see no special heroism in accumulating money, particularly if, in addition, the person is foolish enough to not even try to derive any tangible benefit from the wealth (aside from the pleasure of regularly counting the beans). ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Indeed, brain scans done by scientists at Washington University in St. Louis indicate that areas used to recall memories are the same as those involved in simulating the future. In particular, the link between the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the hippocampus lights up when a person is engaged in planning for the future and remembering the past. ~ Michio Kaku

It's a difficult business, finding out what's true about the world, the universe. ~ Richard Dawkins

I know everything I need to about a person by their hands. Eyes may be the window to ones soul but hands disclose the being. ~ Truth Devour

I knew what show business was, which was why I didn't want in on that action. I saw what happens! You get it, and then you lose it. ~ Carrie Fisher

A brick could be used to control whole populations of people. Just get a good looking person, like a news anchor, to give it out to the masses and say soothing things with a straight face and all will be OK and the system will continue on as centrally planned. ~ Jarod Kintz

In our view, derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction carrying dangers that, while latent, are potentially lethal. ~ Warren Buffett

She thought about Penny's stories. There was one about a man who had three wishes and married a swan. If I had three wishes, I know what I'd wish for, thought Is. I'd wish for those two boys to be found, and for us all to be back on Blackheath Edge. She thought about Penny teaching her to read. "What's the point of reading?" Is had grumbled at first. "You can allus tell me stories, that's better than reading." "I'll not always be here," Penny had said shortly. "Besides, once you can read, you can learn somebody else. Folk should teach each other what they know." "Why?" "If you don't learn anything, you don't grow. And someone's gotta learn you."
Well, thought Is, if I get outta here, I'll be able to learn some other person the best way to get free from a rolled-up rug. ~ Joan Aiken

Don't get too hung up on working with any one person, because it's like a game of checkers where dudes are hopping over one another all the time, shouting, "King me, motherfucker!" It's checkers, yo. But with a lot of money at stake. ~ Ice-T

If a person thinks continually about the purity and holiness of God, then that holiness will begin to show itself in that person's life. ~ Sunday Adelaja

In Houston, Texas, a man was born again in one of our meetings. He owned a liquor store. The next morning he had a sign on the front of his door saying, Out of business. ~ Billy Graham

You don't have to be a rich person to have a great life. You have to be a person of value to enjoy the beauty of life. ~ Debasish Mridha