The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
Thomas J PetersI like Mr Gorbachev, we can do business together.
Margaret ThatcherI am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.
Anita RoddickTo succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
John H PattersonThere's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.
Norman MailerIn the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
Harold GeneenWoman, a pleasing but a short-lived flower,
Too soft for business and too weak for power:
A wife in bondage, or neglected maid:
Despised, if ugly: if she's fair, betrayed. (An Essay on Woman)
Mary LeaporBusiness, labour and civil society organisations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.
Kofi AnnanI decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit.
Shirley BasseyWe are in a results business, so Stuart Pearce being a jolly old boy won't keep me in a job.
Stuart PearceWhen you are led by values, it doesn't cost your business, it helps your business.
Jerry GreenfieldLife is a ticklish business; I have resolved to spend it in reflecting upon it
Arthur SchopenhaeurThe fact that I have entered into IT-related business is proof that businesses have to evolve and keep with time. One has to re-invent continuously.
Kerry PackerThe CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
Lyndon JohnsonThe tour is not going to happen now, it is far too soon. I can't do it next year. It kind of breaks my heart because that is what I'm in this business for.
Kylie MinogueI think "immoral" is probably the wrong word to use... I prefer the word "unethical." [on his style of business]
Ivan BoeskyThe worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
Harold GeneenNo dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.
Mikhail BaryshnikovIf you are a complete perfectionist, then the truth is that this ice skating business will drive you a little crazy!
Dorothy HamillCreating a close connection to those you do business with has its many risks, rewards and consequences. There are few things in business I have encountered that are more difficult than firing someone, particularly if that someone has always been, or has become a friend.
Mark CubanTo succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
J Paul GettyOur grandly business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand
Thomas CarlyleWe mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.
Adlai E StevensonMen of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Dale CarnegieGenerally, it's very difficult to get established in the music business in any era.
Peter AsherGood writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.
Larry KingPeople tell me not to do a soap, but it was a great learning experience because I became familiar with the technical aspects of the business. Besides, look who came out of soaps - Julianne Moore, Demi Moore, Tommy Lee Jones, Parker Posey, Kathleen Turner. All amazing people.
Sarah Michelle GellarThe trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.
Charlton HestonI'll keep it short and sweet - Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business.
Montgomery BurnsThe movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Will RogersFor me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses.
Anita RoddickDuring this campaign the chancellor and the prime minister will stand up and say it [the government] hasn't increased taxes, and that's just not true for business.
Digby JonesBusiness underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbour on an empty stomach.
Woodrow WilsonAt the time I was growing up in the business I was very well established within the industry as a child actor and as I grew up and turned into a teenager there was less and less work.
Morgan BrittanyEvery business is built on friendship.
J C PenneyMy own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerAnybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business.
Franklin P JonesI think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality.
Harold GeneenWe made a plan at school to meet in her garage and kiss. It was like this little business deal. I kissed her and then I ran home (on his first girlfriend)
Brad PittBusiness is the salt of life, which not only gives a grateful smack to it, but dries up those crudities that would offend, preserves from putrefaction and drives off all those blowing flies that would corrupt it
Owen FelthamI don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.
Ralph NaderDiscourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
Abraham LincolnAlthough it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.
Peter LynchI'm not sure I knew what an entrepreneur was when I was ten, but I knew that starting little businesses and trying to sell greeting cards or newspapers door-to-door or just vending machine kind of thing is... there's just something very intriguing to me about that.
Steve CaseI've been in the business for 20 years, then I come on this show, sit on my arse, eat crap, jump out of an aeroplane - and now everyone wants to talk about me.
Joe PasqualeTaxes, social security and health care are a heavy burden on emerging and growing businesses.
John EvansMy father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffee houses - folk music - then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it.
David CrosbyThere are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.
J P GettyI don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.
Richard Bach"There are two reasons why I'm in show business, and I'm standing on both of them."
Betty Grable
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