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Business Quotes

The business man - a man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.

It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

We have enough objects of charity at home, and it is our duty to take care of our own poor, and our own suffering, before we go abroad to intermeddle with other people's business.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.

In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning.

My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.

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.Great things in business are not done by one person, they are done by a team of people.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being WalMart. We make it by innovation.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

Great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.

If you keep your eye on the profit, you're going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.