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Business Quotes

The U.S. economy and workers benefit from a strong, healthy relationship between government and business.

– Harold Ford, Jr.

Chemists have always been in the business of taking atoms and putting them together with other atoms with precisely defined connections.

– George M. Whitesides

The premium single-cup segment is the fastest-growing business within the global coffee industry.

– Howard Schultz

Before the Civil War, the Southern states were selling a lot of cotton to England and didn’t seem to mind British occupation. By and large, the Revolutionary War wasn’t at all great for business.

– Henry Rollins

There are some people in show business who are proud of the number of marriages they’ve had.

– Gerry Anderson

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

– Henry Ward Beecher

I pretty much believe, as everyone in the B Team does, that business must succeed beyond the bottom line. More important than profits is how you get to them. Measuring financial earnings and losses only is definitely not enough and has led us astray from creating a better world for all.

– Guilherme Leal

Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don’t make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.

– Gale Anne Hurd

Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy. The other side of it is that you can’t cut enough costs to save your way to prosperity.

– Howard Schultz

I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.

– Herb Ritts

I think in just about any business the low cost competitor is always going to have an advantage.

– Gerard Arpey

Social media is interesting. It helps me connect with fans. It’s immediate. It’s a big part of my touring business – getting the word out via Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

– Hannibal Buress

Business leaders cannot be bystanders.

– Howard Schultz

I got more out of the farm than Harvard Business School.

– Greg Brenneman

My first words were always about food – I grew up in northern California, and when I was 10 years old, I had my own pretzel cart business.

– Guy Fieri

I fear this little episode does not speak very favourably for my business capacity in those early days, for I certainly ought to have made much more than I did by this really important invention.

– Henry Bessemer

A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn’t matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author… if it doesn’t sell any papers, it’s not a good column. It’s a terrible yardstick to use, but in the newspaper business, that’s the whole thing.

– Herb Caen

A large social-media presence is important because it’s one of the last ways to conduct cost-effective marketing. Everything else involves buying eyeballs and ears. Social media enables a small business to earn eyeballs and ears.

– Guy Kawasaki

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

– Henry Ford

Major labels didn’t start showing up really until they smelled money, and that’s all they’re ever going to be attracted to is money-that’s the business they’re in- making money.

– Ian MacKaye

Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy.

– Howard Schultz

All foreign companies registered in China are Chinese enterprises. Their innovation, production and business operations in China enjoy the same treatment as Chinese enterprises.

– Hu Jintao

Business is a team sport.

– Greg Brenneman

I tell my employees that we’re in the service business, and it’s incidental that we fly airplanes.

– Herb Kelleher

Teaching, real teaching, is – or ought to be – a messy business.

– Harry Crews

I think my greatest moment in business was when the first Southwest airplane arrived after four years of litigation, and I walked up to it and I kissed that baby on the lips and I cried.

– Herb Kelleher

A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.

– Howard Schultz

When my brother and me got into performing in the late ’40s and early ’50s, it was a sensational opportunity to learn from our elders. Every show we played had a dancer, a comic, a juggler, a singer, an acrobat. I came to appreciate virtuosity in all forms of the business.

– Gregory Hines

Make no mistake: business forces, if used long-sightedly, are the tools for leveraging new consumer behaviors, new and smarter ways of production, and for accelerating the transition to a sustainable world.

– Guilherme Leal

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

– Henry Ford

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