People Quotes

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

~ Dale Carnegie

I think that if people realize that with an mp3, you're only getting five percent of the sound that's there. But when you hear the entire thing... I think it would save the music business. It's such a drastic change.

~ Tom Petty

Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

~ Ayrton Senna

The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business.

~ Clayton M. Christensen

In business, you have to be strong. If you are weak, people are going to take advantage.

~ Ivana Trump

I started in the restaurant business at the age of 19 as a waitress. I loved the atmosphere and the camaraderie of the restaurant business. I loved not having to go to an office. I loved making people happy.

~ Anne Burrell

I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.

~ Eddie Huang

A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

~ Mary Kay Ash

I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal', the 'New York Times', constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.

~ Barbara Corcoran

Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll always have some clean air to breathe.

~ Julia Child

A government of, by and for the people is obligated to conduct the nation's business in a manner that respects dissent.

~ Jim Leach

I wanted to be a writer, to write these stories that would make people see the world in a different way. But I ended up going to business school because I thought I could ultimately get to where I wanted to go faster that way.

~ Jeffrey Skoll

Companies are bought for their revenue, customer base, technology, or people. A few great companies offer all of these, but any valuable business offers one.

~ Margaret Heffernan

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

~ Mark Mccormack

Never believe people in this business who say they don't read what's written about them.

~ Ryan Seacrest

My sweet spot is figuring out how to make a product that people love and how to refine it to make them love it more. All the rest is business noise.

~ Nolan Bushnell

What I tell founders is not to sweat the business model too much at first. The most important task at first is to build something people want. If you don't do that, it won't matter how clever your business model is.

~ Paul Graham

There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.

~ Bob Woodward

The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs what you have. The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe.

~ Simon Sinek

The record industry is still pissed off that other people are making money off their business, even if it promotes their products and increases their sales. I think they're still mad about radio.

~ Jonathan Potter

That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.

~ Morrissey

What has been happening more lately - of course, I also put in my bio, I say I do the voice of Goliath, but some people go - you know, I say something, and it's a funny thing when you work in this business, people will talk out loud in front of you like you're not there.

~ Keith David

People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!

~ Don Johnson

A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.

~ Marvin Bower

If you're soft and fuzzy, like our little characters, you become the skinny kid on the beach, and people in this business don't mind kicking sand in your face.

~ Michael Eisner

Come to West Virginia and we'll show you how to live... how to treat people. We're open for business. West Virginia is truly on the move.

~ Joe Manchin

Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These actors end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging.

~ Matt Damon

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

~ Elon Musk

Well, basically I have a lot of friends because I've been in the business a long time and worked with a lot of people.

~ Randy Jackson

Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.

~ Stephen Covey

You go through this business and you meet people that you bond with, and you get to go make movies with them. It's wonderful. What I've always dreamt of, in my career, is to have a brotherhood of collaborators, and go in and out of working with them. I'm just starting to get that, and it's really lovely.

~ Charlie Hunnam

What other people think of me is none of my business.

~ Gary Oldman

Your mission is to find a product or service that can positively impact the lives of 1 billion people because that's the game we're playing today.

~ Peter Diamandis

The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do.

~ Paul Theroux

Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.

~ Scott Adams

I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone's got their own definition.

~ Eric Clapton

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

~ Paul Valéry

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

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

~ Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Well, you can't trust most people in this game, period; it can be a very shady business.

~ Marvin Hagler