Inspirational Business Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.”
– Jane Austen

“Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue. You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.”
– Ayn Rand

“This is the music business. ‘Five years is five hundred years’ – your words.”
– Jennifer Egan

“The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.”
– Peter F. Drucker

“Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing but nobody else does.”
– Steuart Henderson Britt

“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves it s amazing what they can accomplish.”
– Sam Walton

“Steve Jobs gave a small private presentation about the iTunes Music Store to some independent record label people. My favorite line of the day was when people kept raising their hand saying, “Does it do [x]?”, “Do you plan to add [y]?”. Finally Jobs said, “Wait wait — put your hands down. Listen: I know you have a thousand ideas for all the cool features iTunes could have. So do we. But we don’t want a thousand features. That would be ugly. Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It’s about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.”
– Derek Sivers

“The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.”
– Frank Zappa

“You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.”
– Ronald Reagan

“In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents. ”

– Alexandre Dumas

“To become successful, one must put themselves in the paths of giants!”

– Lillian Cauldwell

“If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.”
– Seth Godin

“We have not noticed how fast the rest has risen. Most of the industrialized world–and a good part of the nonindustrialized world as well–has better cell phone service than the United States. Broadband is faster and cheaper across the industrial world, from Canada to France to Japan, and the United States now stands sixteenth in the world in broadband penetration per capita. Americans are constantly told by their politicians that the only thing we have to learn from other countries’ health care systems is to be thankful for ours. Most Americans ignore the fact that a third of the country’s public schools are totally dysfunctional (because their children go to the other two-thirds). The American litigation system is now routinely referred to as a huge cost to doing business, but no one dares propose any reform of it. Our mortgage deduction for housing costs a staggering $80 billion a year, and we are told it is crucial to support home ownership, except that Margaret Thatcher eliminated it in Britain, and yet that country has the same rate of home ownership as the United States. We rarely look around and notice other options and alternatives, convinced that “we’re number one.”
– Fareed Zakaria

“Life insurance is a dying industry.
– Jarod Kintz

“I work for a mom and pop business. They’re my mom and pop, and by work I mean they give me an allowance. But that’ll end soon. By age 30, in just a few months, they said it’d be time for me to earn a living. I guess that means they’ll want me to start mowing the lawn.
– Jarod Kintz

“If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want. ”
– Zig Ziglar

“When [what you are deeply passionate about, what you can be best in the world at and what drives your economic engine] come together, not only does your work move toward greatness, but so does your life. For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work. Perhaps, then, you might gain that rare tranquility that comes from knowing that you’ve had a hand in creating something of intrinsic excellence that makes a contribution. Indeed, you might even gain that deepest of all satisfactions: knowing that your short time here on this earth has been well spent, and that it mattered.”
– Jim Collins

“If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible.”
– T. Harv Eker

“I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.”
– Warren Buffet

“Cream always rises to the top…so do good leaders”.”
– John Paul Warren

“I have a head for business and a body for sin. Unfortunately, the sin appears to be gluttony.”
– Jenny Colgan

“But while my inner voice was clearly telling me I was at my core an entrepreneur, it’s inconvenient to decide at twenty-three that you can’t really work for other people.”
– Kellly Cutrone

“The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.”

– Jim Collins

“I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man!”
– Jay Z

“Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship…the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.”

– Peter F. Drucker

“Be a surfer. Watch the ocean. Figure out where the big waves are breaking and adjust accordingly.”
– 37 Signals

“If you’re creative, if you can think independently, if you can articulate passion, if you can override the fear of being wrong, then your company needs you more than it ever did. And now your company can no longer afford to pretend that isn’t the case. So dust off your horn and start tooting.”
– Hugh Macleod

“Large amount of resources and more individuals in your organization do not necessarily equate to victory over your opponent if you have lost the advantage of formlessness.”
– Kambiz Mostofizadeh

“My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as a country, to leave it to the Americans to make money from a great British invention. I appeal to the children of this country and to their Potter-fiend parents to write to Warner Bros and Universal, and perhaps, even, to the great J K herself. Bring Harry home to Britain—and if you want a site with less rainfall than Rome, with excellent public transport, and strong connections to Harry Potter, I have just the place.”
– Boris Johnson

“… all too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.
– Gary Hamel

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