Quotes about business

Can you imagine any public company embracing a business model that would lead to the decline in revenue that we experienced from 1986 through 1999?

Warren Buffett

When I’m in there I’m just in my zone. What people think about when they’re looking at me, that’s their business. If there is a bit of that, I am fine with it, each to his own.

Conor McGregor

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

William James

I have never known a concern to make a decided success that did not do good, honest work, and even in these days of the fiercest competition, when everything would seem to be a matter of price, there lies still at the root of great business success the very much more important factor of quality.

Andrew Carnegie

Those who start in business with too little money are more likely to succeed than those who start with too much. Energy and imagination are the springboards to wealth creation.

Brian Tracy

Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I don’t fight for legacy. I don’t fight for none of that, I fight for that check. I’m in the check cashing business.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Founders have continually struggled with and adapted the ‘big business’ tools, rules, and processes taught in business schools when startups failed to execute ‘the plan,’ never admitting to the entrepreneurs that no startup executes to its business plan.

Steve Blank

Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind, the aggregate nature of man more continuously, and more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.

Walter Bagehot

Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.

John Wayne