Quotes about business
business home love-life
My love life is nobody's business... if I give it to 40 million people to read, what do I have left when I go home? I'm protective of my personal life that way. Julianna Margulies
business air long
Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them. Josh Billings
business grease complaining
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease. Josh Billings
business people debt
Should we really let our people starve so we can pay our debts. Julius Nyerere
business awards titles
I didn't come into the business to get awards or titles. Julie Walters
business humility pride
If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility. Paul Keating
business economics
Good economics is good politics. Paul Keating
business home office
A businessman needs three umbrellas - one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train. Paul Dickson
business marketing action
Marketing strategy is a series of integrated actions leading to a sustainable competitive advantage. John Sculley
business data decision
No great marketing decisions have ever been made on qualitative data John Sculley
business believe america
Innovation, I believe, is the only way that America will regain the initiative in a global dynamic economy. John Sculley
business kids successful
As a kid, chess was the first thing I studied in a structured way that helped me gain the discipline to study medicine and become successful doctor. Mark Spitz
business ideas entrepreneur
Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea. Mark Pincus
business crazy salad-dressing
When the idea came up, (Newman's Own) I said, "Are you crazy? Stick my face on the label of salad dressing?" And then, of course, we got the whole idea of exploitation and how circular it is. Why not, really, go to the fullest length, and the silliest length, in exploiting yourself and turn the proceeds back to the community? Paul Newman
business men preparation
...." I was rather discouraged when I discovered that Paul and Hotch had no marketing survey, no business plan, no budget, no organized strategy for the introduction of the sauce. When asked about this lack of preparation, the haphazard nature of their business, Paul said, 'Me in this business is just part of life's great folly. Stay loose, men, keep 'em off balance.'" Paul Newman
business real thinking
I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mould society. Marya Mannes
business responsibility feelings
Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills, or the bottle. Marya Mannes
business curves want
When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves. Marshall McLuhan
business ideas viruses
In big industry new ideas are invited to rear their heads so they can be clobbered at once. The idea department of a big firm is a sort of lab for isolating dangerous viruses. Marshall McLuhan
business hands tyrants
Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort. Marshall McLuhan
business goal advertising
Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness. Marshall McLuhan
business science discovery
Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity. Marshall McLuhan
business skills ideas
Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor. Paul Ryan
business cities knowing
Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores - these didn't come out of nowhere. Paul Ryan
business way making-money
Being in business is not about making money. It is a way to become who you are. Paul Hawken
business school school-bus
Don't go to business school. Paul Hawken
business order choices
Natural capitalism is not about making sudden changes, uprooting institutions, or fomenting upheaval for a new social order. Natural capitalism is about making small, critical choices that can tip economic and social factors in positive ways. Paul Hawken
business real earth
We have an economy that tells us it is cheaper to destroy earth in real time rather than renew, restore, and sustain it. You can print money to bail out a bank but you can't print life to bail out a planet Paul Hawken
business perfect waiting
We are always waiting for the perfect brief from the perfect client. It almost never happens [...] Whatever is on your desk right now, that's the one. Make it the best you possibly can. Paul Arden
business growth spirals
Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping. Julia Margaret Cameron
business high-heels use
When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use. Joseph Stalin
business steps capacity
In this business, if you don`t have the capacity to step back and have some sort of relativity about things, you're screwed Leonor Varela
business commitment annoyed
Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying. Neil Young