Quotes with business

  • In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
  • I feel like I almost didn't grow up in the business, because my parents worked so hard at sheltering us from that. I was raised in Connecticut. And I honestly wasn't aware that my dad was a celebrity until I moved to Los Angeles a year ago.
  • Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.
  • The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.
  • It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.
  • I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.
  • Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
  • If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
  • I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.
  • When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.
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  • Henry Ford A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
    News Journal (3 August 1965)
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Benjamin Franklin If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • H. Ross Perot Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.
    H. Ross Perot
    American businessman & politician, founder EDS (1930 - 2019)
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  • Harold S. Geneen I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality.
    Harold S. Geneen
    American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT (1910 - 1997)
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  • Anita Roddick If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • H. Ross Perot If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.
    H. Ross Perot
    American businessman & politician, founder EDS (1930 - 2019)
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  • Jacques Barzun In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal.
    Jacques Barzun
    French-American historian (1907 - 2012)
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  • Harold S. Geneen In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.
    Harold S. Geneen
    American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT (1910 - 1997)
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  • Harold S. Geneen In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
    Harold S. Geneen
    American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT (1910 - 1997)
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  • Harold S. Geneen It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
    Harold S. Geneen
    American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT (1910 - 1997)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Donald Trump Picasso obviously viewed his art as a business, which it was. I view my business as an art, which it is.
    Think Like a Champion: An Informal Education In Business and Life (2017) 74
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Thomas C. Haliburton Punctuality is the soul of business.
    Thomas C. Haliburton
    Canadian jurist, writer (1796 - 1865)
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  • John A. Hannah The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an island in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • William Hazlitt The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Booker T. Washington There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
    My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience (1911)
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Joseph Addison There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Harold S. Geneen You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
    Harold S. Geneen
    American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT (1910 - 1997)
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