Great Business Quotes

Wrigley is a great business, but that doesn't solve the problem. Buying great businesses at advantageous prices is very tough. ~ Charlie Munger

Great business leaders of our time stand above the crowd not because of what they do, but what they don't do. ~ Shawn Casemore

It can't be that difficult to build a great thermostat. So I decided to figure out: What would the thermostat for the iPhone generation look like? I got this bug. It really infected my brain. I kept thinking about it. This could be a cool product that matters and a cool product that has a great business. ~ Tony Fadell

Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate. ~ Christie Hefner

I don't know where we should take this company, but I do know that if I start with the right people, ask them the right questions, and engage them in vigorous debate, we will find a way to make this company great. ~ James C. Collins

You're serious."
"As serious as an accountant at an IRS audit."
His face closed off, reminding her of the ruthlessness she had first noticed about him on the front steps. "You have no business opening a restaurant."
"Says who?"
"Says the guy who watched you try to extricate yourself from a burger suit with a knife."
Her mouth fell open. "Burger suits and restaurants are two different kettles of fish."
"Kettles of fish? Now there's great business terminology."
"Yep, Texas style."
"You're in New York, sweetheart."
"I am not your sweetheart, thank my lucky stars."
"Another of your quaint Texas sayings? What was the last one I heard you use? 'Bless your heart'?"
She sliced him a tooth-grinding smile. "While you might not like them, you can bet your backside that a cafe that serves the kind of fare we create in Texas would have people lined up around the corner. Or, as we say in Texas, till the cows come home. ~ Linda Francis Lee

It's always bittersweet when you have a show that you own, that's against you. It's against one of our favorite comedies for NBC. And yes, that's part of the business model. House was on the Fox network for a number of years and was such a great business for the NBC-owned studio. That's part of what we're also trying to build. Hopefully, Mindy will help do that for us. ~ Robert Greenblatt

Most of what we've done at SurveyMonkey is create a market, which I would say is much harder than trying to enter a market that already exists. But if you get it right, it can become a great business. ~ Dave Goldberg

Of Congress, "party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day whilst the momentous concerns of an empire ... are but secondary considerations," that "business of a trifling nature and personal concernment withdraws their attention from matters of great national moment. ~ George Washington

The primary reason in starting a business part-time is not so much to make a product great. The real reason for starting a part-time business is to make you a great businessperson. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

I have come to realise that customers love companies that make them feel good about themselves - companies that reflect what they, the customers, believe about themselves. Customers fall in love with the company that says to them, "You are unique. You are great. We are the only ones who can make you feel that way. Fall in love with us and we will continue to make you feel great. ~ J. N. HALM

I still run into people in the business who skip over any other credits I have and say, 'I loved 'Hey, Dude!' This was back in '88, '89, '90. It was a goofy show about kids working at a dude ranch in Arizona. We did 65 episodes; I wrote 13 of them. We didn't know what we were doing, but it was writers' boot camp. It was great. ~ Graham Yost

Technology and technology-driven change has virtually nothing to do with igniting a transformation from good to great ~ James C. Collins

Realize in your daily life that 'matter' is merely an aggregation of protons and electrons subject entirely to the control of Mind; that your environment, your success, your happiness, are all of your own making ... All wealth depends upon a clear understanding of the fact that mind- thought - is the only creator. The great business of life is thinking. Control your thoughts and you control circumstance. ~ Robert Collier

How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they've got that great business idea. ~ Mark Burnett

The State of Virginia is similar to a great business corporation ... and should be conducted with the same efficiency and economy as any private business. ~ Harry F. Byrd

The best entrepreneurs know this: every great business is built around a secret that's hidden from the outside. A great company is a conspiracy to change the world; when you share your secret, the recipient becomes a fellow conspirator. ~ Peter Thiel

Every great business is built on friendship. ~ James Cash Penney

I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses. ~ Tamara Mellon

Google has a great product. They've built a great business. ~ Chad Hurley

A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping ... may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities? ~ Jane Addams

The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great. ~ Foster Friess

A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the dollar, but is due to pride in one's work, the pride that makes business an art. ~ Henry Latham Doherty

Character is the result of hundreds and hundreds of choices you make that gradually turn who you are, at any given moment, into who you want to be. ~ Jim Rohn

Governor Romney has a great business background. He is extremely well educated. He has several degrees from Harvard, including, you know, business and including a law degree. ~ Clint Eastwood

Good businesses generate missions to drive their profits. Great businesses generate profits to drive their missions. ~ Tony Hsieh

The education of the intellect is a great business; but an unconsecd intellect is the saddest sight on which the sun looks down. ~ Edwin Chadwick

We've been in the Mac software business for more than 20 years. And it's been a great business for us. ~ Scott Erickson

If you have a great business, if you're great at your craft people should be coming in there. It shouldn't be this secret. ~ Andrew Mason

Several years ago, I realized that I didn't want to spend all my life in medicine. It had me in a sort of spiritual box, like a plant whose roots are getting crowded. I felt I wasn't growing. So I promised myself that I would quit while I still had the energy to get involved in something new. There's nothing wrong with medicine. There's more paperwork, more lawsuits, less understanding between doctors and patients. But it's still a great business. But not for me - not any longer. ~ Richard S. Weeder

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart. ~ John Morley

Gradually, they learned that politics is fundamentally a great business, a struggling and a haggling for advantages, over whose lap collects the most rewards cast by the legislation-machine. ~ Friedrich Naumann

Soul winning for Christ Jesus is a great business everyone must endeavor to start and keep it diligently ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price. ~ Charlie Munger

As a kid, I saw that Dad lost a lot of money in casinos, and I didn't understand that. I thought this must be a great business. At the same time, I saw when I was with him - and I was with him a lot of the time - that this was a really cool business, and it was fun and glamorous. ~ James Packer

A lot of things seem to be worth almost no money. but if you do them very well, and they help people fill a need, there's a great business you can build around that. ~ Steve Wozniak

It depends as there's many different types of chefs, some who cook for awards and others who cook to make their restaurant a great business. There are those who cook for a lifestyle, they'll have come through pubs and they like to have the connection to the farmers and the chickens and the natural produce. So for each chef it'll be slightly different. ~ Paul Rankin

We have outlived this embryo, this human cradle, and now it's time to be up and about the great business of becoming citizens of the galaxy and at home with our own heart. ~ Terence McKenna

Let's execute along this strategy, but know that we'll probably get some of this wrong, so be open to changing it. ~ Alan G. Lafley

People who instinctively establish a strong network of relationships have always created great businesses. ~ Keith Ferrazzi

I think Buffett is a better investor than me because he has a better eye toward what makes a great business. And when I find a great business I'm happy to buy it and hold it. Most businesses don't look so great to me. ~ Seth Klarman

Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model. ~ Dan Rosensweig

Next week we have a bunch of horror writers coming from all over the world. That'll be one whole week, fully catered, and pre-paid bar. Those horror writers drink like fshes. Just their beer bill's gonna pay for the upkeep of this place for six months. Motel business is a great business to be in, my boy. ~ Richard Laymon

The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements. ~ Pliny The Elder

A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not. ~ Howard Schultz

For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life. ~ Leland Ryken

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

I'm sure there are writers who are great businessmen, but I
never met any. ~ Arthur Miller

Posting dramatic charts or funny pictures is good and giving people smart reasons to believe what they already think is great. ~ Derek Thompson

When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun! ~ Paul Prudhomme

The States separately have very inadequate ideas of the present danger. Party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day, whilst the concerns of the nation are secondary. ~ George Washington

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do. ~ Michael E. Porter

I thought a company that provides mutual-fund information could be a great business, because you could construct an effective moat by building large financial databases and customer lists and a strong brand name. ~ Joe Mansueto

Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, man consumed with earnestness of purpose, with confidence in his powers, with faith in the worthwhileness of his endeavors. ~ B.C. Forbes

Those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises. ~ Booker T. Washington

Don't invest in pieces of papers (stocks), invest in great businesses underlying them ~ Warren Buffett

You will need to create a discipline where head and heart can both
be involved in the decisions that you make. Taking the emotion out of something you feel very passionate about is far from easy. But easy don't build great. ~ David Hieatt

America is a country of entrepreneurship and great business leaders. ~ Nicky Oppenheimer

Design can successfully bind the ancient nomadic cultures with today's global marketplace, ensuring the preservation of traditions and knowledge for further generations. This aspect of research is obviously rich in its business potential as well. ~ Yelena Baturina

I've long been a fan of Chiwetel Ejiofor. I think he's a great actor. He's my kind of guy. He does what I aspire to do. ~ Garret Dillahunt

It takes a great man to be a good listener. ~ Calvin Coolidge

There is something about this process, and about the whole 8 x 10 [camera] business, that takes it out of the arena of the snapshot, even though, of course, I'm always desperate for that feeling. I wanted those family pictures to look effortless. I wanted them to look like snapshots. And some of them did. ~ Sally Mann

This family knew that Dresden was gone. Those with eyes had seen it burn and burn, understood that they were on the edge of a desert now. Still-they had opened for business, had polished the glass and wound the clocks and stirred the fires, and waited and waited to see who would come. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

Nothing great comes into being all at once, for that is not the case even with a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me now, 'I want a fig,' I'll reply, 'That takes time. ~ Epictetus

In D.C., I've passed amendments to allocate $6.3 million to keep our waterways open for business, $1 million as a down payment on our wetland restoration - our natural storm protection - and $5 million to ensure that drilling permits are reviewed thoroughly and efficiently. ~ Cedric Richmond

I had paid for my folly and, as a reward, was invited to take part in the nest builder's performance piece. The script was great.

'When I bleat here, do you want me to just bleat or to really let go and "bleat, bleat"?' I asked. 'I feel like "bleat, bleating," but if Mother/Destroyer is going to be crawling through the birth canal of concertina wire, I don't want to steal focus, you know what I mean? ~ David Sedaris

That's okay, I'm still the Greatest. ~ Muhammad Ali

So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, - What is truth? and of the affections, - What is good? by yielding itself passive to the educated Will ... Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

He led them around the base of a great fallen tree whose exposed roots resembled more than anything else a huge broom - a broom that would have fired the imagination of Rachel the Dragon toward heroic, legendary feats of sweeping. ~ Tad Williams

'Captain America' was probably the most universally positive experience I've had in this mad business. ~ Joe Johnston

Actually I'm reminded of a time when I smuggled myself into Sydney Opera House to see Faust. Sydney Opera House is very beautiful at night, its grand interiors and lights beaming out over the water and into the night sky. Afterwards I came out and I heard three women talking together, leaning on the railing overlooking the darkened bay. The older woman was describing how she was having problems with her job, which turned out to be working for the CIA as an intelligence agent, and she had previously complained to the Senate Select Committee for Intelligence and so on, and she was telling this in hushed tones to her niece and another woman. I thought, "So it is true then. CIA agents really do hang out at the Sydney opera!" And then I looked inside the Opera House through the massive glass panels at the front, and there in all this lonely palatial refinement was a water rat that had crawled up in to the Opera House interior, and was scurrying back and forth, leaping on to the fine linen-covered tables and eating the Opera House food, jumping on to the counter with all the tickets and having a really great time. And actually I think that is the most probable scenario for the future: an extremely confining, homogenized, postmodern transnational totalitarian structure with incredible complexity, absurdities and debasements, and within that incredible complexity a space where only the smart rats can go. ~ Julian Assange

If a student takes a Stanford computer class and a Princeton business class, it shows they are motivated and have skills. We know it has helped employees get better jobs. ~ Daphne Koller

I can see why we need fellows who know how to light fires," Bluth said. "But I don't see why we need people to use fancy words."
"Shhhh," Shallan said. "Don't say that so loudly. If the lighteyes hear, they might stop wasting their time making up new words, and instead start interfering with the business of honest men. ~ Brandon Sanderson

I can't see any hope but a second front. The psychological effect would be great, even if they could not wade all the way to Berlin in 15 to 20 minutes. ~ Bess Truman

Therefore Flora said, though still not without a certain boastfulness and triumph in her legacy, that Mr F.'s Aunt was 'very lively to-day, and she thought they had better go.' But Mr F.'s Aunt proved so lively as to take the suggestion in unexpected dudgeon and declare that she would not go; adding, with several injurious expressions, that if 'He'--too evidently meaning Clennam--wanted to get rid of her, 'let him chuck her out of winder;' and urgently expressing her desire to see 'Him' perform that ceremony.

In this dilemma, Mr Pancks, whose resources appeared equal to any emergency in the Patriarchal waters, slipped on his hat, slipped out at the counting-house door, and slipped in again a moment afterwards with an artificial freshness upon him, as if he had been in the country for some weeks. 'Why, bless my heart, ma'am!' said Mr Pancks, rubbing up his hair in great astonishment, 'is that you?

How do you do, ma'am? You are looking charming to-day! I am delighted to see you. Favour me with your arm, ma'am; we'll have a little walk together, you and me, if you'll honour me with your company.' And so escorted Mr F.'s Aunt down the private staircase of the counting-house with great gallantry and success.

- Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens ~ Charles Dickens

Riches do not come by crossing your fingers and walking through the day hoping. Riches and wealth comes from well-laid plans. ~ Jim Rohn

-Hey, neighbor, is your wife free for a date today?

-No, I'm taking her out this afternoon?

-Great! Then you won't mind if I come over and mow your lawn. Sucker! ~ Jarod Kintz

You must feel a certain lack of excitement in these accouncements. No garish posters, no bright lights, none of the paraphernalia with which the entertainment industry whips up a jaded public. But in a day or so these simple notices will begin to take on all the excitement of the shimmering marquee. When there are no signs ten feet high, five feet will do. When there are none five feet high, one foot serves well enough. It isn't the color or brightness or size of a poster which makes it exciting. It's the experiences which have accompanied similar posters in the past. The excitement is a conditioned reflex. Our bulletin board is our Great White Way, and we're dazzled by it. ~ B.F. Skinner

I want my great-granddaughter to have a fairly good understanding of the world in which I lived for 81 years and also the world before I came into it - all the way back a hundred thousand years, to the beginning of our species. ~ Sidney Poitier

...but there was never enough time to read. The great irony of working in a library. ~ Jan Louch

Robert Pattinson reads all of the time and he refers so many great books. ~ Kellan Lutz

I'm a business man and I'm a grown man. I spend a lot of time thinking about how to restructure my life, support my family with this music ... I don't have time to deal with the repercussions of breaking somebody's jaw or breaking their nose. ~ Immortal Technique

We all have certain desires and undesired outcomes related to whatever possible course and attitude we take in life, whether it be at the larger macro scale (what shall I do with the rest of my life?) or at the micro level (as in, what route shall I take to work this morning). These include all the myriad choices we make each hour and each day. These choices determine our karma and our destiny. It's no accident, nor any great mystery, how this evolves; although one would have to utterly omniscient to understand all the many gross and subtle interconnections and causative links that determine happenings and outcomes. ~ Lama Surya Das

Decision-making is a solid business capability to improve business responsiveness, agility, and competency. ~ Pearl Zhu

When you talk about presidents, loyalty is a great thing until it becomes a bad thing. Witness once again Watergate. ~ Monica Crowley

Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit. ~ Sojourner Truth

Darwin paid particular attention to disconfirming evidence. Objectivity maintenance routines are totally required in life if you're going to be a great thinker. ~ Charlie Munger

Have patience and be faithful unto death. Do not fight among yourselves. Be perfectly pure in money dealings ... We will do great things yet ... So long as you have faith and honesty and devotion, everything will prosper. ~ Swami Vivekananda

Every man stamps his value on himself ... man is made great or small by his own will. ~ Friedrich Schiller

When you ask people what it is like being part of a great team, what is most striking is the meaningfulness of the experience. People talk about being part of something larger than themselves, of being connected, of being generative. It becomes quite clear that, for many, their experiences as part of truly great teams stand out as singular periods of life lived to the fullest. ~ Peter Senge

You don't know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two bucks in your pocket. ~ Lee Trevino