Business Quotes

As I see it, most major philanthropists have been bullied into giving. They feel social pressure to give. It has become a cost of doing business.

Steven Levitt

You'd be a fool or a deluded idealist to think ethics would be prominent on Wall Street. That is not a statement against people in the money business, just a fact.

Steven Levitt

Well, Bill, I don't think you're going to find many shy people that are in the political business.

Scott McCallum

Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.

Scott McNealy

I had - I was pretty hell bent on getting into the cartoon business specifically as an artist from the get-go.

Seth MacFarlane

I learnt the hard way about positioning in business, about catering to the right segments.

Shaffi Mather

I got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law.

Shannon Miller

My undergraduate degree is in business, so I'm trying to get a bit of a background before I go in.

Shannon Miller

Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these puppy mills out of business.

Shelley Morrison

And then there's all these other creeps that surround your band and suck off you like leeches and try to manipulate you and your business. You have to watch like a hawk. I'm always ready to fight. I see it very much as a battle.

Shirley Manson

It's so hard for women in this business. And I want to be doing this when I'm 50.

Sienna Miller

In the coming years, if not sooner, social media will become a powerful tool that consumers will aggressively use to influence business attitudes and force companies into greater social responsibility - and, I suggest, move us towards a more sustaina...

Simon Mainwaring

The leverage and influence social media gives citizens are rapidly spreading into the business world.

Simon Mainwaring

Not since the digital revolution in the early '90s has technology placed such a comprehensive burden on business, employees and individuals to reinvent their business plans, services and products, and themselves to keep pace with the changing marketp...

Simon Mainwaring

There is a fundamental shift that social media necessitates in business today - the need to transition from 'Me First' to 'We First' thinking.

Simon Mainwaring

Integrate purpose into your for-profit business model through a long term commitment to a cause that is aligned with your core values and those of your community.

Simon Mainwaring

What today's business reality makes clear is that brands cannot survive in a society that is failing economically, socially, ethically, and morally.

Simon Mainwaring

The social business marketplace is effectively forcing brands to engage with consumers on the basis of something that is meaningful to them. More often than not, this takes the form of some core value that finds expression in a non-profit cause.

Simon Mainwaring

Business practices and how we treat the planet are also in desperate need of re-humanization.

Simon Mainwaring

As a speaker, business leader or marketer of any type, the onus is now on each of us to become equally capable of communicating very personally with a seemingly endless number of people connected by social technologies.

Simon Mainwaring

Perhaps the most effective way to describe the approach a brand must take is to think of themselves as social cartographers. By that I mean that brands must simultaneously inspire, engage and maintain a series of conversations taking place within cer...

Simon Mainwaring