Famous Quotes & Sayings

For the ones that are ready for it, that means they're pretty clear on the goals they have for their business and the goals they have for the family." ()

Rob Lowe

For sure, without question, the writing is better on TV pound for pound than movies because the businesses have changed so much. So all the great writers would rather work for TV, and they do.

For the first time ever, the Microsoft Business Solutions and Mobile and Embedded were in the black.

For the first term of his presidency, the Bush administration had a long list of complaints about Syria that got longer after Iraq.

For the economy to stay on track, businesses must step up to the plate and increase capital spending.

Ida Tarbell

When the business man who fights to secure special privileges, to crowd his competitor off the track by other than fair competitive methods, receives the same summary disdainful ostracism by his fellows that the doctor or lawyer who is 'unprofessional,' the athlete who abuses the rules, receives, we shall have gone a long way toward making commerce a fit pursuit for our young men.

Ida Tarbell

The surprise of the fight on the long day, of the experiments with the shorter one, has been not only that the business could stand it, but that the business thrived under it as surely as the man did. It is but another of the proofs which are heaping up in American industry to-day that whatever is good for men and women - contributes to their health, happiness, development - is good for business.

Ida Tarbell

Very often people who admit the facts, who are willing to see that Mr. Rockefeller has employed force and fraud to secure his ends, justify him by declaring, 'It's business.' That is, 'it's business' has come to be a legitimate excuse for hard dealing, sly tricks, special privileges.

Hunter Tylo

Unfortunately, since the Sept. 11 tragedy, our business is not doing too well.

Gloria Vanderbilt

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

Gloria Steinem

I never expected to be even busier at 81, and doing more of what I love, than when I was 30.

Gloria Steinem

There are two types of people in the world, those who say 'there are two types of people in the world' and those who don't.

Harry S Truman

Men make history, not the other way around.

Harry S Truman

The difficulty with businessmen entering politics, after they've had a successful business career, is that they want to start at the top.

J. P. Morgan

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

J. Paul Getty

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

J. Paul Getty

Patience; this is the greatest business asset. Wait for the right time to make your moves.

J. Paul Getty

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

J. Paul Getty

Build wealth as a by product of your business success. If wealth is your only objective in business, you will probably fail.

J. Paul Getty

The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might and force of habit. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him-and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires.

J. Paul Getty

The #1 guideline to success is you must be in business for yourself. When you work for someone else, you sell your time at wholesale to your employer, who then re-sells it at retail to the customer.

J. K. Rowling

Well you seemed too busy to call him a prat and I thought someone should.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Muhtar Kent

During difficult economic times, consumers gravitate toward the brands they know, the brands they love and trust.

Ken Wilber

Perhaps the best place to begin with an integral approach to business is with.. oneself. In the Big Three of self, culture, and world, integral mastery starts with self. How do body and mind and spirit operate in me? How does that necessarily impact my role in the world of business? And how can I become more conscious of these already operating realities in myself and in others?

Keenen Ivory Wayans

The pressures having grown up in this business can be really rough. And it is a testament to you that you have remained focused and NOT lost your mind.

Ken Kesey

Now, you’re either on the bus or you’re off the bus.

Katsuaki Watanabe

Being satisfied with the status quo means you are not making progress

Kevin Roberts

In my 35 years in business I have always trusted my emotions. I have always believed that by touching emotion you get the best people to work with you, the best clients to inspire you, the best partners and most devoted customers.

Kevin Roberts

The Web is functionally fantastic, but it's a tool. A terrific place to present information but not, at this stage, a tenably emotional location.

Kevin Roberts

Emotion. Passion. Ideas. Simplicity. These are the big things that big business needs from its creative agencies. No one else is going to provide these essential elements for business.

Kevin Rose

Letting users control your site can be terrifying at first. From day one we were asking ourselves, "What is going to be on the front page today?" You have no idea what the system will produce. But stepping back and giving consumers control is what brought more and more people to the site. They have a sense of ownership and discovery at the same time. If you give users the tools to spread and share their interests with others, they will use them to promote what is important to them.

Kevin Rose

Ifyou believe in something, work nights and weekends, it won't feel like work.