Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality.
My father had the main barber- and beauty-supply business in the African-American community in Buffalo.
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw.
Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
Every successful business, even Google, Facebook, Twitter, started with a combination of manual improvements and friends of the founders using the site.
Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.
If we are to succeed, we must recognize that the community redevelopment is not solely the rehabilitation of housing, or putting a mall in the business strips.
I've tended to work at fast-growing companies that improve the way business gets done.
When you break it down, Yahoo! is a Very Large Display Advertising business, with a hefty side of search and a bit of this and that on top.
It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away.
My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.
The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago.
Google's real threat to China is not that it will leave the country. It's that it will embarrass China and damage its national reputation as a place to do business.
Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it.
A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
'Captain America' was probably the most universally positive experience I've had in this mad business.