Business Quotes

Don't ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, accounting, accounting. Know your numbers.

Punctuality is the soul of business.

Infrastructure is the backbone of economic growth. It improves access to basic services such as clean water and electricity, creates jobs and boosts business.

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

The gig economy is empowerment. This new business paradigm empowers individuals to better shape their own destiny and leverage their existing assets to their benefit.

If we die, we want people to accept it. We're in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us, it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.

Steve Jobs once asked me for some advice about retail, but I said, 'I am not sure at all we are in the same business.'

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

The most important decision I've made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought everybody with me, my homies from the neighborhood, criminals. I just said, 'Come on everybody, we made it.' Then I had to realize we didn't make it. I made it.

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.

There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone's business.

The basic principle which I believe has contributed more than any other to the building of our business as it is today, is the ownership of our company by the people employed in it.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

Sustainability has to be a way of life to be a way of business.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

Constantine 'Costa' Gratsos had made his fortune as a lifelong associate of shipping icon Aristotle Onassis. He took a liking to me, became my first mentor, and showed me how to swim in the deep, dangerous waters of business.