Quotes of: Business-people Keyword

Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.

Michael Porter

Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.

Marilyn vos Savant

I like knowing about everything, and I think that really helps me in my business.

Martha Stewart

I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.

Martha Stewart

Advertising holding companies used to boast about their share of the advertising market. Now they are proud of how much of their business is not in advertising.

Maurice Saatchi

Companies that make keys, credit card companies, any company in the service business - anything to do with a consumer is probably a software company.

Michael J. Saylor

You can make great money in a utility type of business by borrowing cheaply and lending sensibly but that's not what's being done.

Meredith Whitney

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

Mark Zuckerberg

If anyone can make anything, anywhere. It fundamentally changes the meaning of business.

Neil Gershenfeld

The question arises whether private companies can bear responsibility when considering the large risks involved with nuclear business.

Naoto Kan

Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I am very pleased to be back at Onex and am looking forward to helping build our business.

Nigel S. Wright

Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.

Olusegun Obasanjo

It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Owen D. Young

The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.

Owen D. Young

I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.

Pamela Anderson

I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.

Patricia Clarkson

When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.

P. Chidambaram

In many ways, that affection is the real reward for 56 years in the business. Although the money ain't exactly bad either.

Perry Como

The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new business opportunities and greater efficiencies and coordination.

Peter Chernin

In simple terms, we are aligning our business today with the way we believe future systems are going to be designed, acquired and maintained.

Phil Condit