Quotes about business

I can give you my personal opinion: love the music, hate the business. It’s a screwball business, and there are a lot of players who will straight-up lie to you.

Justin Timberlake

I eat as much as I ever did, I drink more than I should, and my sex life is none of your goddamned business.

John Wayne

Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.

Jerome

A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.

Lee Iacocca

A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him.

Samuel Johnson

There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.

Samuel Johnson

I started the business with a simple question: How can we make the process of buying a computer better? The answer was: Sell computers directly to the end customer. Eliminate the reseller’s markup and pass those savings on to the customer.

Michael Dell

You must find something you want to live for that’s bigger than yourself – a mission – whether it’s your children, a business, a non-profit, whatever. That pulls you to achieve, which is far more sustainable than to push yourself to. You can only push yourself for so long.

Tony Robbins

All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual.

Margaret Thatcher

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

Jeff Bezos