Business Quotes

Business is a basketball game. The more tricks you know, the more points you score.

~ Ehab Atalla

More important than your skills is picking the right business.

~ Ehab Atalla

Forget perfect. Be quick. Quickness kills.

~ Ehab Atalla

You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle…Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

~ Steve Jobs

We need a moderately-priced stock market… The market, like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But, unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do. For the investor, a too-high purchase price for the stock of an excellent company can undo the effects of a subsequent decade of favorable business developments.

~ Warren Buffett

...while extraordinary products and unique services still afford a competitive advantage, the one advantage that stands the test of time...is people.

~ Mark Salsbury

Service is not something you do. It is something you are.

~ Stella Payton

In business, if you want to make money, you have to spend money. If you want to have a result, you have to make an investment.

~ Sophie Kinsella

Are engineers better at business than business people? It’s debatable. Business people certainly seems to have bigger houses, drive fancier cars, wear nicer clothes and have better looking mates. Engineers lack the time management skills to spend that kind of money. They waste all their time inventing ways to make the most money in the quickest, most efficient way possible. And then when they figure it out, they optimize the process.

~ Raul Perez

People leave companies for two reasons. One, they don't feel appreciated. And two, they don't get along with their boss.

~ Adam Bryant

Your money habits and investment strategy is not all about what you do, but much about who you are. Become the person it takes to do, succeed, and innovate.

~ Amah Lambert

Lesson learned - in doing business, do not COMPETE but be COMPETITIVE.

~ Diana Valerio

Business Fights Poverty Better Than Charity Does

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

Vision without an Action is Illusion. Action without a Vision is Confusion.

~ Sunny John

100 trillion is 100 followed by 12 zeroes

~ Andrew Ashwin

You don't need to chase wealth, just become a real entrepreneur and the world is your oyster.

~ Amah Lambert

You have the power to choose the words you write, so choose the right ones. And yes, this applies to the workplace too. Make a difference!

~ Sudakshina Bhattacharjee

David Stern might be the smartest executive in the history of professional sports. His obsession with the Vagrant Kings is one of the strangest stories.

~ R.e. Graswich

The real axis of evil in America is the genius of our marketing and the gullibility of our people.

~ Bill Maher

Reliability investing requires finding companies trading below their inherent worth--stocks with strong fundamentals including earnings, dividends, book value, and cash flow selling at bargain prices give their quality.

~ Amah Lambert

Business is about profit, yes – and it is about more than profit: at its best, it is about expanding the possibilities of humanity.

~ Jon Miller

We can't all be bakers or chefs. Many of us have modest ambitions. But we can all buy a piece of the pie.

~ Amah Lambert

Allocate your resources wisely for all men have been endowed with abilities that are more than sufficient to accomplish even the greatest of their dreams.

~ Stella Payton

Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind them.

~ Michelle M. Pillow

As it is for a person, so it is for a company: having a sense of purpose is invigorating and motivating.

~ Jon Miller

To an extent, we get the big businesses we deserve. No conversation about the role of business in society is complete without considering the role of the public. Ultimately it is the public – as consumers, as citizens – who create the environment in which business operates.

~ Jon Miller

Government should protect people and regulate corporations, not protect corporations and regulate people.

~ Anthony Sloan

If you don’t plan to have someone work for you, you will work for someone else. There is no in-between.

~ Ehab Atalla

Just as we leave the effects of our work behind in results, we leave the effects of our interactions with people in their hearts, minds, and souls.

~ Henry Cloud

There is power born of humility . . . Humility, in business and in life, is a powerful asset and does not denote lowliness, unimportance, or self-deprecation.

~ Richie Norton

While others were dreaming about it - I was getting it done.

~ Nathan W. Morris

Don't wait to be compelled to do great work.

~ Richie Norton

When a person travels through a few years with an organization, or with a partnership, or any other kind of working association, he leaves a 'wake' behind in these two areas, task and relationship: what did he accomplish and how did he deal with people?

~ Henry Cloud

Who a person is will ultimately determine if their brains, talents, competencies, energy, effort, deal-making abilities, and opportunities will succeed.

~ Henry Cloud

Every person has the inherent right to self-proclaim--to announce, at any time he chooses, that he is on any level he chooses to be on.

~ Robert J. Ringer

The way to be irreplaceable is to become a social innovator. Start projects that motivate you to save the world and simultaneously make you money (and create mindshare) for your company. Social innovation makes magic happen.

~ Richie Norton

When it comes to getting a job or client, congruent value is aligning the employer's need with your value add.

~ Richie Norton

Don't work for something in Exchange, Work on something for a Change.

~ Kevin Awad

A plan that is not written is just an idea.

~ Dwain Siady

A National Government cannot create good times. It cannot make the rain to fall, the sun to shine, or the crops to grow, but it can, by pursuing a meddlesome policy, attempting to change economic conditions, and frightening the investment of capital, prevent a prosperity and a revival of business which might otherwise have taken place.

~ William Howard Taft