Business Quotes

When I was young, I watched my mom and dad build everything that matters: a family, a business and a good name. I was raised to believe in hard work, in faith and family. My dad, Ed Pence, was a combat veteran in Korea.

~ Mike Pence

There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.

~ Wentworth Miller

For Christian faith not to be idle in the world, the work of doctors and garbage collectors, business executives and artists, stay-at-home moms or dads and scientists needs to be inserted into God's story with the world. That story needs to provide the most basic rules by which the game in all these spheres is played.

~ Miroslav Volf

Business owners should not have to choose between violating their faith and violating the law.

~ David Green

The best design work is really done when you spend more time with people, when you have the opportunity to be of the same mindset and the same incentives as the founder of the business.

~ Yves Behar

A business woman needs a successful mix of design and practicality.

~ Donatella Versace

All those lessons that I've learned on the court, I have applied them to my life outside of the court in business, my company, called V Starr interiors, an interior design company, and EleVen, which I wear on court.

~ Venus Williams

I love to paint. And I have another profession - an interior design business.

~ Mary Steenburgen

I think the fact that my parents weren't conventional - especially considering their position - had a big influence on the way that I conduct myself now in design and business. It had a huge impact on my wanting to do something a bit more than just designing a pretty dress and putting it on a runway and making it glamorous.

~ Stella Mccartney

I love design in general, the creativity. Whether it is golf courses, my apparel line, ads we do or our business with AriZona, design is fun.

~ Jack Nicklaus

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

With increasing fervor since the 1980s, sustainability has been the watchword of scientists, environmental activists, and indeed all those concerned about the complex, fragile systems on the sphere we inhabit. It has shaped debates about business, design, and our lifestyles.

~ Jamais Cascio

I find, in merchandising and design and creative, a business school degree isn't particularly helpful.

~ Mickey Drexler

McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.

~ Dave Eggers

What I learned from my years in Silicon Valley is that design can have a primary role in how a business is shaped, how a company can be design-driven. In my experience of large industry in Europe, that knowledge has been lost.

~ Yves Behar

I think every business, really, has a unique reason for being, unique assets, unique attributes, a unique history. And that can be turned into a very attractive design story, essentially, that consumers can relate to.

~ Yves Behar

I am passionate about what design can do - how far it can support the new ideas and the new ways of living of this 21st Century. Good design accelerates this exciting future where manufacturing is local, materials and processes are cradle to cradle, business models are both socially and financially driven.

~ Yves Behar

I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side.

~ Tommy Hilfiger

My strengths as a businessman lie in the design and sale of women's shoes, and I have never been comfortable with complicated or technical legal or business documents.

~ Steve Madden

In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.

~ Miroslav Volf

I'm totally against straight marriage - even though I'm married. I don't think heterosexual marriage is any of the government's business.

~ Penn Jillette

The romantic person instinctively sees marriage in terms of emotions, but what a couple actually gets up to together over a lifetime has much more in common with the workings of a small business. They must draw up work rosters, clean, chauffeur, cook, fix, throw away, mind, hire, fire, reconcile, and budget.

~ Alain De Botton

I think the government should be out of the marriage business and leave marriage to the churches.

~ Gary Johnson

I support gay unions. I think the government should get out of the marriage business completely - leave marriages to the churches. And grant civil unions to gay couples, grant civil unions to a man and woman.

~ Gary Johnson

A marriage ends up being a business deal: no matter how long or short it is, somebody owes somebody money.

~ Goldie Hawn

A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.

~ J. Paul Getty

Business is a battlefield. You need to be able to go to battle with your team members. Like the military. Know them, trust them, and know who you're working with.

~ Pamela Meyer

I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.

~ Sam Walton

Don't ever break someone's trust. Once you do, then nobody wants to do business with you.

~ Robert Budi Hartono

I understood it's a business as far as when you're drafting someone, and you want a guy you can trust. But there were no questions on my ability or character.

~ Stefon Diggs

When a salesperson truly cares about you, trust forms, and you're more likely to buy, come back for repeat business, and refer new customers.

~ Adam Grant

It can be hard in this business, especially when you're very young, to figure out who you can and can't trust.

~ Christina Aguilera

The trust institutions have in the marketplace, the confidence customers and suppliers and workers and employees have, are very important to a business's effectiveness.

~ Janet Yellen

Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't.

~ Marc Andreessen

The best of the best understand that people do business with people they like. People do business with people they trust, and people do business with those who make them feel special.

~ Robin S. Sharma

The restaurant business is something that you have to treat like a baby. You have to constantly be there. You can't trust it to anybody else, because no one's going to love it like you do.

~ Action Bronson

eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system.

~ Pierre Omidyar

I work in a strange business, and 'trust' is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

~ Kim Basinger

Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?

~ Sydney Madwed

The blood of Christ covers all of our sins, but each of us must do personal business with God in order to experience his forgiveness.

~ Lewis B. Smedes