Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott McNealy

Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products..

Lin Yutang

When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.

Advertisements may be evaluated scientifically; they cannot be created scientifically.

Lena Horne

You wouldn't be allowed to get on a particular bus, but you'd be asked to sign your autograph.

Lee Iacocca

People want economy, and they'll pay any price to get it.

Lee Iacocca

In business, you're trying to make a buck. God was good to me and blessed me. I made some money and started this foundation years ago, and it has grown in size. With the foundation it's a lot different, because the bottom line isn't how you can make more money or get a better return, it's helping the projects that you feel strongly about move forward.

Lee Iacocca

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.

Larry Brilliant

If there's a big problem and you've got the right people with you, usually the answer emerges and you do what's the obvious thing to do. I don't think of myself as some great manager or great leader. I've been very lucky to be in the positions that I've been in. I meet a lot of people and I've grown a lot of companies, and I meet a lot of CEOs at big enterprises. I'm always so surprised at how much they seem to know. It doesn't always seem to be correlated to how well they actually do.

Lester Bangs

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Leo Burnett

I have learned that trying to guess what the boss or the client wants is the most debilitating of all influences in the creation of good advertising.

Leo Burnett

Advertising says to people, 'Here's what we've got. Here's what it will do for you. Here's how to get it.'

Leo Burnett

What helps people, helps business.

Leo Rosten

First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.

Leona Helmsley

We don't pay taxes. The little people pay taxes.

Joseph Stiglitz

I've always been sceptical about the notion that the market is a person you can engage in an argument with, and that that person is an intelligent, rational, well-intentioned person: it is fantasy. We know that ... the market is subject to irrational optimism and pessimism, and is vindictive ... You're dealing with a crazy man ... Having got what he wants he will still kill you.

Joseph Heller

I think that maybe in every company today there is always at least one person who is going crazy slowly.

Justin Bieber

Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me.

Julianna Margulies

My love life is nobody's business... if I give it to 40 million people to read, what do I have left when I go home? I'm protective of my personal life that way.

Josh Billings

Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them.

Josh Billings

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

Julius Nyerere

Should we really let our people starve so we can pay our debts.

Julie Walters

I didn't come into the business to get awards or titles.

Paul Keating

If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.

Paul Keating

Good economics is good politics.

Paul Dickson

A businessman needs three umbrellas - one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train.

Business is the salt of life, which not only gives a grateful smack to it, but dries up those crudities that would offend, preserves from putrefaction and drives off all those blowing flies that would corrupt it.

Pericles

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all.

Pauline Kael

in show business there's not much point in asking yourself if someone really likes you or if he just thinks you can be useful to him, because there's no difference.

George Lucas

Always remember, your focus determines your reality.

Elvis Presley

I don't like people who are in politics for themselves and not for others. You want that, you can go into show business.

Elliot Morley

Cost-effective, attractive to business partners, environmentally friendly, easy access to a wide range of guidance and support - it makes good business sense to implement and maintain a robust and effective environmental management system

No matter how much work a man can do, no matter how engaging his personality may be, he will not advance far in business if he cannot work through others.

Joe Baca

The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of the nation's infrastructure.