Quotes about business

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty…an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft.

John F. Kennedy

If your happiness depends on your children being happy, that makes them your hostages. So stay out of their business, stop using them for your happiness, and be your own happiness. And that way you are the teacher for your children: someone who knows how to live a happy life.

Byron Katie

Any dispassionate observer would recognize that on day one, a start-up has no customers, and unless the founder is a true domain expert, he or she can only guess about the customer, problem, and business model.

Steve Blank

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Henry David Thoreau

The hardest thing about the business is minding your own.

Drake

I look forward to an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft.

John F. Kennedy

The entrepreneur must be the best salesperson and marketer in his business.

Robert Kiyosaki

When you are not making the present moment into a means to an end, you also are not making every human being you meet – in your business and even at home, in your family – into a means to an end.

Eckhart Tolle

Pride is a master of deception: when you think you’re occupied in the weightiest business, that’s when he has you in its spell.

Marcus Aurelius

Business plans are the tool existing companies use for execution. They are the wrong tool to search for a business model.

Steve Blank