Quotes about business

If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that.

Barack Obama

All great change in business has come from outside the firm, not from inside.

Peter Drucker

Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

Abraham Lincoln

A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge.

Samuel Johnson

All organizations must be capable of change. We need concepts and measurements that give to other kinds of organizations what the market test and profitability yardstick give to business. Those tests and yardsticks will be quite different.

Peter Drucker

The goal of every startup experiment is to discover how to build a sustainable business around that vision.

Eric Ries

I’m in show business. I’m not like a poor factory worker who’d been laid off.

Woody Allen

The mission of a business should fill a need that the customers want. And if it fills that need, and fills it well, the business will begin to make money.

Robert Kiyosaki

I’m not averse to making a lot of money. But where does that end? I hang out with people with hundreds of millions of dollars. Is that the standard by which I should measure myself? Where does that take you if you’re in my business? I think it takes you to pretty dark, corrupt places.

Tim Ferriss

If you’re an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job.

Guy Kawasaki