Quotes about business

I love show business. I wake up every morning and kiss it.

Richard Pryor

My dad is like a cactus – introverted and tough. I’m a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He’s my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me.

Gary Vaynerchuk

The NBA is never just a business. It’s always business. It’s always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.

Mark Cuban

The success and ultimately the survival of every business, large or small, depends in the last analysis on its ability to develop people. This ability is not measured by any of our conventional yardsticks of economic success; yet, is the final measurement.

Peter Drucker

When the people who support and are a part of your community, the community you have the pleasure and power and opportunity to serve, that’s where all the best business happens.

Chris Brogan

It’s far more difficult being a small-business owner starting a business than it is for me with thousands of people working for us and 400 companies. Building a business from scratch is 24 hours, 7 days a week, divorces, it’s difficult to hold your family life together, it’s bloody hard work and only one word really matters – and that’s surviving.

Richard Branson

Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one’s heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

George Bernard Shaw

In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.

Les Brown

America used to be a uniquely productive, low-cost place to do business. We had efficient infrastructure. We had limited regulation. We believed in the market.

Michael Porter

Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.

Ray Bradbury