You Quotes

Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers.

~ Ross Perot

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

~ An Wang

Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.

~ Michael Gerber

As you know, the business is cyclic with styles. It's no different from clothing styles.

~ Juice Newton

The key to competing and surviving against Wal-Mart is to focus your business into a niche or pocket where you can leverage your strengths in the local marketplace.

~ Michael Bergdahl

I've found that in business opportunities will constantly emerge or situations develop that make you revise your plans along the way.

~ Benjamin Cohen

You say he's childish, but he's very professional about business transactions.

~ Martin Bashir

This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances.

~ Ronnie Milsap

You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.

~ Harold S. Geneen

I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.

~ Lucille Ball

Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.

~ Eminem

You can have a wrestling idea, but you need to have these momentum-shifting moves. We had the Hulkamania movement, then it shifted to the beer-drinking, Stone Cold era, we reinvented the business with growing the black beard and becoming the bad guy, what's that next level.

~ Hulk Hogan

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

~ Will Rogers

Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.

~ Andy Warhol

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

~ Michael Korda

When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.

~ Michael Douglas

In this business, if you don't pay your debts you're finished.

~ Roger Stone

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

~ Scott Adams

To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.

~ Paul Mccartney

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

~ Jane Fonda

Female rappers get it the hardest. You have to be a girl, yet you have to be just as hard as the guys. I think some female rappers get scared out of the business before they can make it.

~ Nicki Minaj

My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

~ Ted Turner

The one thing that's going to get you through this business is having strong roots, being grounded and knowing what is true.

~ Sally Hawkins

I was raised with a sense of entrepreneurship - my father owned a roofing business, and I grew up with the idea that you never want someone telling you what you can and cannot do.

~ Anthony Mackie

You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world.

~ Alan Shepard

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

~ Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

~ John Greenleaf Whittier

Our new attitude is how can we put you in front of our customer.

~ Terry Semel

It doesn't matter how successful you are in this business, it's tough to get through the next door.

~ Kevin Sorbo

Once you understand business models you can then start prototyping business models just like you prototype products.

~ Alexander Osterwalder

If you fire people, you fire customers.

~ Ferdinand Piech

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.

~ Reba Mcentire

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.

~ Denzel Washington

Luck is believing you're lucky.

~ Tennessee Williams

If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family.

~ Victoria Smurfit

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

~ Maya Angelou

Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.

~ Alicia Witt

Age and size are only numbers. It's the attitude you bring to clothes that make the difference.

~ Donna Karan

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

~ Colin Powell

Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.

~ E. F. Schumacher