Quotes about business
business zuckerberg creating
No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that. The magazine stories make it sound like Mark Zuckerberg woke up one day and wanted to redefine how the world communicates [by creating] a billion-dollar company. He didn't. Drew Houston
business young-entrepreneurs starting-up
Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once. Drew Houston
business politics monsters
Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything. Anais Nin
business thinking textiles
To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke. Alvin Toffler
business creating people
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
business school body
A great advantage I had when I started The Body Shop was that I had never been to business school. Anita Roddick
business trying faces
What we are trying to do is to create a new business paradigm, simply showing that business can have a human face and a social conscience. Anita Roddick
business thinking community
I think it is completely immoral for a shop to trade in the middle of a community, to take money and make profits from that community and then ignore the existence of that community, its needs and problems. Anita Roddick
business thinking people
I don't think I'm a risk-taker. I don't think any entrepreneur is. I think that's one of those myths of commerce. The new entrepreneur is more values-led: you do what looks risky to other people because that's what your convictions tell you to do. Other companies would say I'm taking risks, but that's my path - it doesn't feel like risk to me. Anita Roddick
business numbers community
I don't want our success to be measured only by financial yardsticks, or by our distribution or number of shops. What I want to be celebrated for - and it's going to be tough in a business environment - is how good we are to our employees and how we benefit our community. It's a different bottom line. Anita Roddick
business making-money profit
if companies are in business solely to make money, no consumer can fully trust what they do or say. Anita Roddick
business morality kind
If you pretend that business is beyond morality, that's the kind of morality you get. Anita Roddick
business moving civilization
If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed. Anita Roddick
business lines argument
My argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That's where it should be. Anita Roddick
business loss excitement
If there is excitement in their lives, it is contained in the figures on the profit and loss sheet. What an indictment. Anita Roddick
business world trade
If trade undermines life, narrows it or impoverishes it, then it can destroy the world. If it enhances life, then it can better the world. Anita Roddick
business ideas timing
I am aware that success is more than a good idea. It is timing too. Anita Roddick
business people vision
A vision is something you see and others don't. Some people would say that's a pocket definition of lunacy. But it also defines entrepreneurial spirit. Anita Roddick
business practice rights
For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses. Anita Roddick
business individuality firsts
Be daring. Be first. Be different. Anita Roddick
business virtue hundred
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it. Andrew Young
business chickens
Before I got in this business I was in the chicken business. Chubby Checker
business thinking years
I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies. Christopher Walken
business thinking skills
I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business. Christopher Walken
business believe people
If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too! Angelina Jolie
business commitment weight-loss
The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it. Andrew Carnegie
business men thinking
Do not think a man has done his full duty when he has performed the work assigned him. A man will never rise if he does only this. Promotion comes from exceptional work. Andrew Carnegie
business shows therapy
Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse. Anita Loos
business negative knows
Negative things, and they were all deliberate and I'm not going to say who they were but I know who they were and it was in the business, and that's not a good sign. Andrew Lloyd Webber
business competition stealing
Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat. Ambrose Bierce
business way merit
FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude. Ambrose Bierce
business men tongue
An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue. Ambrose Bierce
business forever achievement
That is the wearisome part of business - there is no peace, no sense of certain, permanent achievement, no stability. The unexpected, and usually the awful, is forever happening.