Quotes about business

We now understand the distinction between startups – who search for a business model – versus existing companies – that execute a business plan.

Steve Blank

Having the ability to be brutally honest with yourself is the greatest challenge you face when creating a business model. Too often we oversell ourselves on the quality of the idea, service, or product. We don’t provide an honest assessment of how we fit in the market, why customers will buy from us, and at what price.

Mark Cuban

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them right away.

Ronald Reagan

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Higher education is a business that doesn’t know it’s going out of business.

Mark Cuban

There’s no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance and start your business.

Kevin Plank

I’ve done well, I’ve been disappointed, and I think it all goes back to you. Of course the labels are going to be the labels. It’s the music business. You are a business. That’s what they do. So you’ve got to protect yourself.

Mary J. Blige

All the lawyers and the business stuff is work, but actually creating stuff isn’t work. It’s good effort. It’s hard work. But, it’s not work. It doesn’t feel like work because the result is very rewarding.

David Copperfield

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

It wasn’t very long ago when you wouldn’t even think about there being health information on the smartphone. There’s financial information. There’s your conversations; there’s business secrets. There’s probably more information about you on here than exists in your home.

Tim Cook