1. The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players. - Blaine Lee
2. What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful. - Blaine Lee
3. A bankruptcy judge can fix your balance sheet, but he cannot fix your company. - Gordon Bethune
4. Business is in itself a power. - Garet Garrett
5. Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do. - Richard Nelson Bolles
6. Our new attitude is how can we put you in front of our customer. - Terry Semel
7. Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products. - Scott McNealy
8. The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark. - Jack Anderson
9. I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles. - Zig Ziglar
10. A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large. - Henry Ford
11. In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes. - Lincoln Steffens
12. Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. - Abraham Lincoln
13. If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you. - Zig Ziglar
14. Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business. - Zig Ziglar
15. Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people. - Steve Jobs
16. After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains. - Walt Whitman
17. I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death. - Leonardo da Vinci
18. I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful. - John Wooden
19. The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. - Bill Gates
20. You're not free if you can't start a small business because you fear losing your health care, and you're certainly not free if a male boss or politician prevents you from making decisions about your own reproductive health. - Pete Buttigieg
21. Tearing apart a community, a business, and a family will make America worse off, every time. - Pete Buttigieg
22. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. - Thomas Paine
23. I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters. - Galileo Galilei
24. Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business. - Clara Barton
25. Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him. - P. T. Barnum
26. There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me. - Tupac Shakur
27. It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business. - Gertrude Stein
28. You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place or worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed - that has nothing to do with the business of the State. - Muhammad Ali Jinnah
29. We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them. - Samuel Adams
30. I don't care what straight people do, I don't care what gay people do. I don't care what nobody do. That's they business. I just care about what I do. You know what I'm saying? - ASAP Rocky
31. When you're eight years old nothing is your business. - Lenny Bruce
32. I fell into makeup by accident, but I found my love for it, and once I realized that I could actually turn it into a huge business, that's when I started taking it a little bit more seriously, but it's always something that I knew could be something. - James Charles
33. I've been in the fight business my whole life. I know fighters. - Dana White
34. We need to revise our economic thinking to give full value to our natural resources. This revised economics will stabilize both the theory and the practice of free-market capitalism. It will provide business and public policy with a powerful new tool for economic development, profitability, and the promotion of the public good. - Paul Hawken
35. Writing is a lonely business. - Sherman Alexie
36. 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. - Neil Gorsuch
37. I don't hang out with agents and producers and I'm not into the business side at all. - Winona Ryder
38. If your business is the right business, then money will never be an issue. - Adam Neumann
39. A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all. - Michael LeBoeuf
40. Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships. - Michael Dell
41. Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself. - Ben Stein
42. Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business. - Sammy Sosa
43. While I appreciated the educational advantages I enjoyed in the school and was proud of what I could show in mental culture, I had an earnest desire for something more than a mere business education... I desired to study for a profession, and this prompted me to leave my native state. - Hiram Rhodes Revels
44. When someone takes their existing business and tries to transform it into something else - they fail. In technology that is often the case. Look at Kodak: it was the dominant imaging company in the world. They did fabulously during the great depression, but then wiped out the shareholders because of technological change. - Charlie Munger
45. If it can be profitable to be green, that's just smart business. - Barry Sternlicht
46. I don't think you should ever start a business and move in a direction where you can't see it becoming a business. - Kevin Systrom
47. It was impossible to operate in the aluminium business without krysha - very real physical protection. - Roman Abramovich
48. I never aspired to be a public figure. I have always been interested primarily in real business and the development of business strategies. - Roman Abramovich
49. I founded Atari in my garage in Santa Clara while at Stanford. When I was in school, I took a lot of business classes. I was really fascinated by economics. You end up having to be a marketeer, finance maven and a little bit of a technologist in order to get a business going. - Nolan Bushnell
50. Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right. - Bill Ackman
51. One of the biggest lessons I've learned is that there has got to be a reason for what you're doing. You actually have to care about what you're doing. The business has to be about something. Whatever the point of it is does not have to be inconsistent with making money, but usually if that's the sole reason, it is not very successful. - Stewart Butterfield
52. Music is spiritual. The music business is not. - Claudio Monteverdi
53. Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks. - Mark Twain
54. Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. - Jack Welch
55. The Internet is the Viagra of big business. - Jack Welch
56. A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message. - Jack Welch
57. Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business. - Jack Welch
58. To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons. - Confucius
59. Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. - Winston Churchill
60. Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him. - Henry David Thoreau
61. The first mistake in public business is the going into it. - Benjamin Franklin
62. Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion. - Benjamin Franklin
63. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. - Benjamin Franklin
64. If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. - Abraham Lincoln
65. Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech. - Abraham Lincoln
66. I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy - it's serious business. - Maya Angelou
67. Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others. - Helen Keller
68. It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition. - Aristotle
69. I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales. - Zig Ziglar
70. I'm constantly amazed that owners and managers of all businesses don't train their people to call the person who pays by credit card by name. It definitely makes the customer feel good and will be a factor in bringing them back to your place of business. - Zig Ziglar
71. The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip. - Zig Ziglar
72. It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business. - Mahatma Gandhi
73. Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth. - Virginia Woolf
74. The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. - Ronald Reagan
75. Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close. - Ronald Reagan
76. Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns. - Plato
77. As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Postal Service must change and develop a new business model. - Bernie Sanders
78. Comcast rents modems directly to consumers, thereby competing directly with companies like Zoom. It has every reason to make Zoom modems more expensive or even to drive companies like Zoom out of business. - Bernie Sanders
79. I laugh all the time - at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don't laugh onstage because then it's serious business. - Steven Wright
80. I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business. - Donald Trump
81. But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it's virtually impossible. It's very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms. - Donald Trump
82. So we really need jobs now. We have to take jobs away from other countries because other countries are taking our jobs. There is practically not a country that does business with the United States that isn't making - let's call it a very big profit. I mean China is going to make $300 billion on us at least this year. - Donald Trump
83. I have used the laws of this country just like the greatest people that you read about every day in business have used the laws of this country, the chapter laws, to do a great job for my company, for myself, for my employees, for my family, et cetera. - Donald Trump
84. If I don't get along with Democrats, I'm sort of, like, out of business. - Donald Trump
85. I have the right temperament. I have the right leadership. I've built an incredible company. I went to a great school. I came out - I built an incredible company. I wrote the number one selling business book of all time: 'Trump: The Art of the Deal.' - Donald Trump
86. I had tremendous success in show business - star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 'The Apprentice' was one of the most successful shows. - Donald Trump
87. The way I run my business seems to be easier than the way I run my life. - Donald Trump
88. The golf facet of my life doesn't go with the rest of my life, which is a rough-and-tumble life. I work in real estate development, which is the toughest business, and I do it in the toughest city. I deal with ruthless people. - Donald Trump
89. If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers! - Marilyn Monroe
90. Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world. - Marilyn Monroe
91. Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
92. Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. - Vince Lombardi
93. It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent. - Barack Obama
94. If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen. - Barack Obama
95. America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger. - Barack Obama
96. That's what the Affordable Care Act is all about. It's about filling the gaps in employer-based care so that when we lose a job, or go back to school, or start that new business, we'll still have coverage. - Barack Obama
97. It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way. - Ernest Hemingway
98. When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. - Steve Jobs
99. Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost. - Steve Jobs
100. But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business. - Steve Jobs
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