Quotes about business

In every business I had ever started, even ones that had totally failed, I had kept good relations with the investors.

James Altucher

In the case of Apple, they did originally do production internally, but then along came unbelievably good outsourced manufacturing from companies like Foxconn. We don’t have that in the rocket business. There’s no Foxconn in the rocket business.

Elon Musk

I see the level of sophistication and knowledge about business growing dramatically. Several decades ago, only a few companies thought about international business.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

In my early days of flying, if you flew on instruments, you were inevitably going to fly in thunderstorms. That was just a part of the business of flying.

Arnold Palmer

Big business don’t go broke any more. The minute it looks bad for them, they combine with something else and issue more stock.

Will Rogers

When you’re building a business or joining a company, you have to be transparent; you can’t have two sets of information for two sets of people.

Howard Schultz

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: ‘Oh, that’s just the way things are done around here.’ Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.

Steve Jobs

There’s nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.

Tupac Shakur

I have to think my success in the VC business was due in no small part to seeing Larry Ellison in action back in the day.

Steve Blank

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Jon Oringer