Business Quotes

Business is not financial science, it's about trading.. buying and selling. It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it.

Anita Roddick

A friendship founded on business is a good deal better than a business founded on friendship.

John D. Rockefeller

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

Regardless of how well a studio is run, it's only as good as the product it produces.

Vince McMahon

If you stop building stars, which we never do, you wouldn't be in business.

Vince McMahon

Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

Peter Lynch

My first six years in the business were hopeless. There are a lot of times when you sit and you say "Why am I doing this? I'll never make it. It's just not going to happen. I should go out and get a real job, and try to survive.

George Lucas

We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.

Ray Kroc

In business, I loved cars. I couldn’t wait to get to work in the morning. Only in America can you decide to get a good education and pursue what you like.

Lee Iacocca

Basically we get confused a bit about what retail is. It is really just buying things, putting them on a floor and selling them.

Gerry Harvey

I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it’s not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work.

Philip Green

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

Grenville Kleiser

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Thomas Carlyle

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

Elbert Hubbard

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

Bill Gates