Quotes about business

The business end of business has never interested me.

Hugh Hefner

I’m sometimes described as a flamboyant leader and a hip-shooter, a fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants operator. But if that were true, I could never have been successful in this business.

Lee Iacocca

Focus very clearly on a few small things. The purpose of a business is to give someone something that they want. Have a product or service that’s really excellent. What can you offer that no one else can offer and will satisfy them at a higher level than what anyone else can?

Brian Tracy

There’s no such thing as business ethics; there’s just ethics. And ethics makes no concessions for the real or imagined necessities of making a profit.

Michael Josephson

Our business is about technology, yes. But it’s also about operations and customer relationships.

Michael Dell

Watch yourself as you go about your daily business and later reflect on what you saw, trying to identify the sources of distress in your life and thinking about how to avoid that distress.

Epictetus

Any man who goes into anything in life and does it better than the average will have a successful life. If he does it worse than the average, his life will not be successful. And no business can exist in which success cannot be won on that basis.

Charles M. Schwab

It has become harder and harder in the United States to make films unhampered by outside influences. I’ve always been able to steer clear of that and keep the business people out of my hair completely.

Woody Allen

This industry is 90 percent business, 10 percent talent.

Pitbull

Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

George Bernard Shaw