Quotes about business

No financial man will ever understand business because financial people think a company makes money. A company makes shoes, and no financial man understands that. They think money is real. Shoes are real.

Peter Drucker

Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing.

Steve Blank

When I come upon a man who has a gleaming, empty, clear desktop, I am dealing with a fellow who is so far removed from the realities of his business that someone else is running it for him.

Harold Geneen

You’ll have to hire people to expand your business. But it’s a good discipline to really question if you need each and every hire.

James Altucher

In getting Under Armour started, like any business, I think, number one, you need a great idea. But it’s also about who you know.

Kevin Plank

I certainly have no desire to sell a good controlled business run by people I like and admire, merely to obtain a fancy price. However, specific conditions may cause the sale of one operating unit at some point.

Warren Buffett

If someone asks me what cloud computing is, I try not to get bogged down with definitions. I tell them that, simply put, cloud computing is a better way to run your business.

Marc Benioff

A Negro just can’t be whipped by somebody white and return with his head up in the neighborhood, especially in those days, when sports and, to a lesser extent show business, were the only fields open to Negroes, and when the ring was the only place a Negro could whip a white man and not be lynched.

Malcolm X

When I’m out of politics I’m going to run a business, it’ll be called rent-a-spine.

Margaret Thatcher

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10 percent to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want to put it on my business card.

Bill Gates