Quotes about business

If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.

Vernon Howard

It doesn’t matter if you call it a boom or a bubble. The startup business moves in cycles, and what goes up will eventually come down.

Eric Ries

I started my career counting diamonds and schlepping gold jewelry around the world. The jewelry business is a very, very tough business – tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers.

Guy Kawasaki

In this business it takes time to be really good – and by that time, you’re obsolete.

Cher

The ability to sell is the number one skill in business. If you cannot sell, don’t bother thinking about becoming a business owner.

Robert Kiyosaki

It took me years and cost me countless thousands of dollars in lost business before I finally learned that it doesn’t pay to argue, that it is much more profitable and much more interesting to look at things from the other person’s viewpoint and try to get that person saying yes.

Dale Carnegie

The real fortunes in this country have been made by people who have been right about the business they invested in, and not right about the timing of the stock market.

Warren Buffett

It is the business of a general to be quiet and thus ensure secrecy; upright and just, and thus maintain order.

Sun Tzu

I don’t think goal setting is an important basis for a retail business. Most of the time goal setting puts too much energy and attention on being someplace else, instead of helping you appreciate where you are.

Wayne Dyer

If you want to know how a man stands, go among the people who are in his same business.

Will Rogers