Business Quotes

Jim Newman, the business visionary who created the term 'comfort zone,' showed me how to expand my horizons. Thanks to Jim, after I attended one of his PACE Seminars in 1978; I moved out of my comfort zone at Bear Stearns and became a super successful oilman.

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.

Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow.

I am not embarrassed to be a banker. I am not embarrassed to be in business.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.

You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything.

I have a helicopter that I use for U.K. business trips, and I fly myself. I have a yacht in Antibes in the south of France, which is a sort of indulgence, as we only use it for about four weeks a year. The rest of the time, it is chartered out to people as a business.

Building a successful business requires a combination of human capital, financial resources, market opportunity, persistence, community support, and even luck.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.

When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.

Judges should be in the business of declaring what the law is using the traditional tools of interpretation, rather than pronouncing the law as they might wish it to be in light of their own political views.

A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.

I think global warming is the gravest threat. With global warming, it's the product of a war between old energy - between the carbon cronies, who, by the way, could not stay in business in a true free market capitalism.

You have to be just as mistrustful of straightforward rationality in business as you do of a uniquely gut approach.

By now, it seems as if everyone has already read Thomas L. Friedman's 'The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.' It changed the way we think about global business, competitiveness and the implication for far-flung economies, governments, education and more.

It's a real roller-coaster ride if you're lucky to have longevity in this business - you have to be able to ride those waves.