Business Quotes

I've been interested in the idea of forgiveness and the necessity of it. I think of it as the most critical piece of any relationship, whether that be business, or romantic, or familial. We fail each other. We make mistakes. If we contract to go on after those mistakes, forgiveness is involved. Forgiveness is required.

~ Bill Clegg

My second business would have succeeded but for competitors' jealousy. I was selling motorbike gear cheap, but the people I was undercutting complained to the manufacturer and cut off my supply. It showed me how corrupt business can be. When I sold phones, the same thing happened, but this time I was ready.

~ John Caudwell

All of the development I do is with the help of business advisors who are more like my best friends than just business people. They helped me as I created Ipsy back in 2011, which is a beauty community that ships out sampling bags to subscribers.

~ Michelle Phan

When you're eight years old nothing is your business.

~ Lenny Bruce

Being effective at social media, whether for business or personal use, means capturing people who have short attention spans. They're only a click away from a picture of a funny cat, so you have to make your thing more compelling than that cat. And that can be a high bar.

~ Alexis Ohanian

I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it.

~ Gene Wilder

It's a funny business. I kind of compare it to baseball. I'm always looking for a home run.

~ Billy Mays

It's a grim business, this being funny. Every time you come up with a strong, satiric idea, the world tops it.

~ Del Close

A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. A man can cultivate this faculty only by an appreciation of the finer things in life.

~ Charles M. Schwab

Businessmen are not in business to lose customers, and schools do not exist to free their clients from the agencies of mass persuasion. School and media possess a productive monopoly upon the imagination of a child.

~ Jonathan Kozol

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

~ Charles M. Schwab

Writers to some extent are childish, and it's at the childish level that one really engages with any experience. What really moves you is at the very personal, childish level of the imagination. My business is the imagination, and my imagination is engaged by Asia.

~ Christopher Koch

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

~ D. H. Lawrence

One of biggest lies in politics is the lie that Republicans are the party of big business. Big business does great with big government. Big business is very happy to climb in bed with big government. Republicans are and should be the party of small business and of entrepreneurs.

~ Ted Cruz

The typical American citizen is the business man. The typical business man is a bad citizen; he is busy. If he is a 'big business man' and very busy, he does not neglect; he is busy with politics, oh, very busy and very businesslike.

~ Lincoln Steffens

The Kingdom is the love of God prevailing in politics, in business, in government, in media. It is all the impact of the laws of God creating a social environment where the strong help the weak, where those who have give to those who don't. It's a society where relationships are built on love.

~ Myles Munroe

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

~ Walt Whitman

Adroit geo-strategists take new realities into account as they try to imagine how global politics will unfold. In the foreign policy business, however, inertia is a powerful force and 'adroit' a little-known concept.

~ Stephen Kinzer

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

~ Sydney Pollack

If China's expansion into Africa and Russia's into Latin America and the former Soviet Union are any indication, Silicon Valley's ability to expand globally will be severely limited, if only because Beijing and Moscow have no qualms about blending politics and business.

~ Evgeny Morozov

Don't get married until you're certain that you're marrying the right girl. How did I know my wife was the one? I'd seen her for a couple of months. I liked her. She was a very creative person and she had a very good grip on politics and business.

~ Brian Wilson

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

~ Malcolm Forbes

Korea can't become a 'first-class' nation unless regulation and 'a sense of power' disappear. The nation's politics is the fourth-class, bureaucratic are the third-class, and business is the second-class.

~ Lee Kun-Hee

I've learned from my dealings with Johnny Carson that no matter what kind of friendship you think you have with people you're working with, when the chips are down, it's all about business.

~ Joan Rivers

The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.

~ Steven Pinker

I've learned that friendship does not equate business, business does not equate friendship.

~ Jill Scott

During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.

~ J. Paul Getty

I am aloof by nature. I mind my own business. I'm good with everyone, and I get along fine with people. But work is work, and friendship is friendship. I never mix the two.

~ Sonakshi Sinha

I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry.

~ Hank Haney

I am co-writing a screenplay now and I'm working on the rights to another story I want to do. So I plan to produce and direct. So, for me, I don't really feel that I am vulnerable to that sad baggage that comes with the business of filmmaking.

~ Kerry Washington

This is a sick business. It's so sad.

~ Sia

The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.

~ Henry Louis Gates

I'm always sad to see a relationship not work, but what happens between two people is not my business.

~ Debbie Reynolds

The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you're always asked to do what you've already done.

~ Jeremy Irons

With the other fellow actors who have gone astray, I think it's sad that society wants to label the business as doing this to people. It's really not true.

~ Tina Yothers

Our philosophy is that we want to be an ecosystem. Our philosophy is to empower others to sell, empower others to service, making sure the other people are more powerful than us. With our technology, our innovation, our partners - 10 million small business sellers - they can compete with Microsoft and IBM.

~ Jack Ma

No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.

~ Pat Gillick

The Web and new technology offer more opportunities to reach a world market at a lower price. Today, a person can start a business at home and reach the world market.

~ Robert Kiyosaki

We need a wireless mobile device ecosystem that mirrors the PC/Internet ecosystem, one where the consumers' purchase of network capacity is separate from their purchase of the hardware and software they use on that network. It will take government action, or some disruptive technology or business innovation, to get us there.

~ Walt Mossberg

Not since the digital revolution in the early '90s has technology placed such a comprehensive burden on business, employees and individuals to reinvent their business plans, services and products, and themselves to keep pace with the changing marketplace.

~ Simon Mainwaring