Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Ashcroft

The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'well done'.

Film is much more of a brand business, whereas on Broadway, you can do complete unknowns and have hits.

Kenneth Arrow

Not every business cycle has a financial crisis. Frequently they do.

Kevin Warsh

I was quite convinced that I didn't want to be a lawyer. But I felt that law school would be a useful way to understand public policy and to understand business in this environment.

Kumar Pallana

My father lost his business. Our house was locked up, and we had to leave.

Kevin McCarthy

As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work.

Kevin McCarthy

Life in the restaurant business can provide a start in the working world for young people or a stable living for many Americans and their families.

Kevin Plank

You need to put your hands around the throat of your business, and you need to run it. There's no other way.

Kevin Nash

Everyone wants to call wrestling 'the business.' Why don't you treat it like a business? I don't care if you're running a diner, if you're running a car wash or a wrestling company. It's all business.

Karl Marx

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

Karl Marx

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

P. T. Barnum

Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior', for by living up to it there is no such word as fail.

P. T. Barnum

Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business.

P. T. Barnum

Every crowd has a silver lining.

Paul Newman

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

...." 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.'"

Marya Mannes

I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mould society.

Marya Mannes

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.

Marshall McLuhan

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

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

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

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

Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.

Paul Ryan

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

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 Hawken

Being in business is not about making money. It is a way to become who you are.

Paul Hawken

Don't go to business school.

Paul Hawken

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

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 Arden

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.

Julia Margaret Cameron

Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping.

Joseph Joubert

We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.

Milton Friedman

The great virtue of free enterprise is that it forces existing businesses to meet the test of the market continuously, to produce products that meet consumer demands at lowest cost, or else be driven from the market. It is a profit-and-loss system. Naturally, existing businesses generally prefer to keep out competitors in other ways. That is why the business community, despite its rhetoric, has so often been a major enemy of truly free enterprise.