Quotes about business

In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non-world.

Peter Drucker

I’ve done business with people I’ve met in politics, who I went to law school with, who I grew up with. Who do you do business with? People you meet in life.

Terry McAuliffe

We want to help U.S. entrepreneurs, small business owners, and brands and companies of all sizes sell their goods to the growing Chinese consumer class. Chinese consumers will get to buy the American products they want. This, in turn, will help create American jobs and increase U.S. exports.

Jack Ma

The premium single-cup segment is the fastest-growing business within the global coffee industry.

Howard Schultz

It is not permitted to a man, who takes up pen or chisel, to seek originality, for passion is his only business, and he cannot but mould or sing after a new fashion because no disaster is like another.

W. B. Yeats

Buying and selling securities on the Stock Exchange do not start new industries. Big business never starts anything new. It merely absorbs, consolidates and profits at the expense of others.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Asset values and earning power are the dominant factors affecting the valuation of a controlling interest in a business. Market price, which governs valuation of minority interest positions, is of little or no importance in valuing a controlling interest.

Warren Buffett

I am proud to have been in a business that gives pleasure, creates beauty, and awakens our conscience, arouses compassion, and perhaps most importantly, gives millions a respite from our so violent world.

Audrey Hepburn

Customer discovery is the process of translating a founder’s vision for the company into hypotheses about each component of the business model and creating a set of experiments to test each hypothesis.

Steve Blank

When I first got into business, I made a lot of bad decisions.

Daymond John