Quotes about business

You must take risks, both with your own money or with borrowed money. Risk taking is essential to business growth.

J. Paul Getty

My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.

Sara Blakely

The essence of a successful business is really quite simple. It is your ability to offer a product or service that people will pay for at a price sufficiently above your costs, ideally three or four or five times your cost, thereby giving you a profit that enables you to buy and to offer more products and services.

Brian Tracy

Every entrepreneur, whether man or woman, should start with a robust business structure.

Chanda Kochhar

Bringing together the right information with the right people will dramatically improve a company’s ability to develop and act on strategic business opportunities.

Bill Gates

I’m not as interested in what you make as I am in what you’re passionate about. What business are you really in?

Howard Schultz

If you can’t get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you’re in the wrong business.

Vince Lombardi

I viewed it as a business, but I always viewed it as a game. An opportunity to show my skills, my basketball skills, amongst the best in the world.

Michael Jordan

If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you need very little in the way of a margin of safety.

Warren Buffett

If Vancouver did not succeed as Starbucks from ’87 on, our entire international business, which is now thousands of stores and a significant amount of growth and profit, may not have existed.

Howard Schultz