In business, real jobs profitably produce goods and services that people value more highly than their alternatives. Subsidizing inefficient jobs is costly, wastes resources, and weakens our economy.

Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers.

The role of business is to provide products and services that make people’s lives better – while using fewer resources – and to act lawfully and with integrity.

The goal of a business is to create value for others. Profit is just a measure of how well we are doing that.

I have a business that, funnily enough, has an Indian link – we grow Indian sandalwood in plantations and export the timber and oil overseas.

There’s always a lot of work to do in this business.

In this business, my business, I get to meet all kinds of incredible people, fascinating people, glamorous people and sexy people and highly intellectual people. And you meet them and you go ‘interesting, interesting, interesting’. They’re interesting, but not very many people stop you in your tracks.

America is not a country, it’s a business.

Your opinion of me is none of my business.

Most of the great businesses of our time have experimented. Like Google.

In this business, you either adapt or die.

Generally, health is just so heavily regulated. It’s just a painful business to be in. It’s just not necessarily how I want to spend my time.

Ethics and integrity are crucial in business.

IT and the entire communications business clearly have the greatest potential for growth. But if you’re talking about sheer size, the steel and auto industries will remain at the top.

The ultimate test of your business model is whether it will survive when you are no longer around.

Business need to go beyond the interest of their companies to the communities they serve.

A good business model is one that can adapt to changing circumstances.

If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.

All businesses make mistakes. The trick is to avoid large ones.

Building a business and becoming a billionaire is it’s not championship. It’s the competence; the competence in your sector with other companies not looking to have some kind of records in this issue.

I don’t have business with any politicians.

Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.

In business, timing is everything.

Business is not just about profits; it’s about building relationships.

Our established businesses of hydrocarbons, energy, and petrochemicals pretty much run on their own, with their own proven leaders. This has helped me focus almost exclusively on two things: Firstly, new businesses. And secondly, institutionalising what I call the Reliance Management System.

At Reliance, we have always believed in investing in the businesses of the future and in investing in talent.

We all get into business, and we take a risk in terms of putting capital.

Profit or loss is not guaranteed. That depends on the consumer and depends on the product. That’s a risk that business people take.

Digital life and digital services are a multi-wave business.

I was very focussed on building various competencies in Reliance and we were not ready to do two things at the same time. It was a big risk for us to get into IT, especially because it was hugely effort-intensive. In my language, I said we have too much soap on our body and we need to take a bath in the chemicals business.

Our goal is very simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.

If your business is static, you’re likely to have issues.

If we are not trusted, we have no business.

Real estate is a relationship business.

The methods by which the “Empire of Business” maintains its control over journalism are four: First, ownership of the papers; second, ownership of the owners; third, advertising subsidies; and fourth, direct bribery. By these methods there exists in America a control of news and of current comment more absolute than any monopoly in any other industry.

Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper, and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid.

If you can’t get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you’re in the wrong business.

We’re in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.

You saw the exodus of many people on the business council, who resigned, who said those are not my personal values, those are not our corporate values, and those – we don’t believe – are the values of our country.

Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money

I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you’re a Democrat. Sometimes that’s good, obviously, and sometimes that’s obviously bad. But in the news business, there’s no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.

For me, it’s about camaraderie. My whole life is like, if something’s going on, nothing ever preceded fun. I always put my friends and the fun and the business ahead of everything.

Nobody has wrestled everybody in the business like I have, especially not Bret Hart.

I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.

I don’t think there’s anything positive in the WCW brand at all. It was dead when they brought it. They were going to bury us when they did business.

I was always a fan but me and Kevin Pattero, he was a friend of mine who trained for the Olympic games in 1972… he and I became very close friends and roommates and I kind of rode his coattails into the business.

Sometimes you got to put somebody in their place, let them know that you mean business and you’re a grown ass man.

I want to be clear : Many local jurisdictions, businesses and organizations have their own mask requirements and other mitigations that must be respected, throughout this pandemic, we’ve deployed the tools available to us as needed. Our approach has saved lives and kept our economy open and growing.

Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn’t performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.

None of our family businesses were focused on technology. It was ’93 when I came out of law school, and the Internet was taking hold. So I started New World Ventures.

I’m in the business of providing people with secondary satisfactions. It wouldn’t have done me much good if they had all written their own plays, would it?

There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking an intelligent interest in it. They do not experiment, compare, fit the tobacco to the occasion. A man should always be pleasantly conscious of the fact that he is smoking.

Everybody at Axa has understood that digital is there, that digital changes our business, and also that digital can create an opportunity

Economy: cutting down other people’s wages.

The business of everybody is the business of nobody

The business of the dramatist is to keep himself out of sight, and to let nothing appear but his characters. As soon as he attracts notice to his personal feelings, the illusion is broken.

Everybody’s business is nobody’s business

If I’m watching my son play soccer, that’s what I’m doing. If I’m going to a school concert, that’s what I’m doing. I turn the phone off. I actively tune into whatever I’m doing. I walk every evening with one of my sons and for that half an hour, 45 minutes, that’s what I’m doing.

You should choose organisations that are going to be flexible and supportive and recognise people are going through different stages in their careers and actually need different sorts of support.

It’s called show business for a reason.

Then the business game is to make profits out of others, and to prevent others from making profits out of you.

When they want to do a thing, in business of course, they must wait till there arises in their brains, somehow, a religious, or ethical, or scientific, or philosophic, concept that the thing is right. And then they go ahead and do it, unwitting that one of the weaknesses of the human mind is that the wish is parent to the thought.

I’m all in favor of banks that play their part in community endeavors, private individuals looking for loans, people who want to start up a little business, and that’s what banks are for.

A business man who was also a biologist and a sociologist would know, approximately, the right thing to do for humanity. But, outside the realm of business, these men are stupid. They know only business. They do not know mankind nor society, and yet they set themselves up as arbiters of the fates of the hungry millions and all the other millions thrown in. History, some day, will have an excruciating laugh at their expense.” I was not surprised when I had my.

An annuity is a very serious business.

I was not made for the desk and counting-house, for petty business squabbling, and legal jangling.

You know, I really miss sex scandals. They’re generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they’re going on, the people who actually keep the government running are let alone to go about their business. Good old sex scandals.

I started missing acting when I was in school, and I realized after being in the business after however many years that I was really interested in film.

I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.

Bad taste is vulgar. The world as a whole is f——g ugly. And the Internet too, but I’m not in the construction business.

When I think about being out of the business, it scares me.

People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention the realities of show business.

Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. That’s the equivalent of more than 1,200 police officer posts. These reforms are a watershed moment in policing. They show that we really mean business in busting bureaucracy

Whether people choose to have same sex relationships or relationships outside the marriage – whatever happens between two consenting adults should be purely their business, not the state’s or the society’s.

I need to travel, of course, with my laptop, so I can do my business on the road.

No matter what you go through with the business side or the Hollywood side at the end of it all, when you are there on the set, it is your thing. So it is your own private world and that’s great. That’s where you have that bubble to create something in.

My objective has been to empower jointness, to push individuals to consider affiliations as opposed to working as solo business visionaries.

Sometimes it is in the long-run interest of the business sector to restrict the freedom of individual firms so that they do not destroy the common pool of resources that all of them need, such as natural resources or the labour force.

In England a king hath little more to do than to make war and give away places; which in plain terms, is to impoverish the nation and set it together by the ears. A pretty business indeed for a man to be allowed eight hundred thousand sterling a year for, and worshipped into the bargain! Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived

The widely accepted assertion that, only if you let markets be will everyone be paid correctly and thus fairly, according to his worth, is a myth. Only when we part with this myth and grasp the political nature of the market and the collective nature of individual productivity will we be able to build a more just society in which historical legacies and collective actions, and not just individual talents and efforts, are properly taken into account in deciding how to reward people.

Between the Great Depression and the 1970s, private business was viewed with suspicion even in most capitalist economies. Businesses were, so the story goes, seen as anti-social agents whose profit-seeking needed to be restrained for other, supposedly loftier, goals, such as justice, social harmony, protection of the weak and even national glory.

Even when he played, he made a business of it.

We must stop thinking primarily in terms of “money” and “business”.

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.

The artist is not a reporter, but a Great Teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is, but as it ought to be.

[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.

The purpose of an army must surely be to put itself out of business

All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you’re Woolworth’s

One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other menfir

I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can only undo the mischief with infinite woe .

Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.

Advertising is legitimised lying.

Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank you note.

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody’s business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy

When I went to City of Bath College, I studied the music business

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.

I’m not a very gregarious person. I can’t bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed.

One of my personal plights in this business is about playing ‘The Sassy Black Girl.’

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

The PC is successful because we’re all benefiting from the competition with each other. If Twitter comes along, our games benefit. If Nvidia makes better graphics technology, all the games are going to shine. If we come out with a better game, people are going to buy more PCs.

I consider Apple to be very closed. Let’s say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can’t exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don’t care that you only have 7 percent to play with

We can all agree that we need to be helping small businesses. All of us can agree that the cost of higher education is too high, and college debt is too big of a burden for young people.

I could’ve always worked shows, clubs, Las Vegas and Atlantic City, but I was successful in business ventures, and things weren’t happening in show business, so I said, ‘Let me see what I can do.

In show business, you had levels. I was at the top of the TV end of it

Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other’s business.

Music is life, and life is not a business.

When you start out in the wrestling business, you make a lot of mistakes, tripping over your own feet and looking like a fool.

The best wrestlers, whether its a Hulk Hogan or a Rey Mysterio, are the ones who have psychology and can understand this business.

The enigma of cinema is gone because of the focus on business. As soon as you attach numbers to a film, you limit it. Films are meant to be an escape from reality.

Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people.

When I got back here in 1997, I was looking for more room, and I found an archive of old Macs and other stuff. I said, ‘Get it away!’ and I shipped all that shit off to Stanford. If you look backward in this business, you’ll be crushed. You have to look forward.

A desire not to butt into other people’s business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathematics, not guesswork.

As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell.

Los Angles is not my favorite city. Well, I shouldn’t say that… I love to visit it, on a temporary basis. It’s just such a company town! You can’t go anywhere and not run into someone who wants to be in the business.

Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it’s starting a new business, entering into a serious relationship, or jumping out of an airplane.

If you learn to run your own business, you’ll never have to worry about having a job or pleasing a boss for the rest of your life.

Your success in life isn’t based on your ability to simply change. It is based on your ability to change faster than your competition, customers and business.

It’s sentiment and business. Half and half.

This isn’t over. This is just the beginning, any company that chooses to boycott business in Israel is going to look at this case, and once we’re done, they’re going to think twice whether they want to take on Israel or not. Trust me, this is just the beginning.

Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren’t for the goddamned people.

If you aren’t having fun, you are doing it wrong. If you feel like getting up in the morning to work on your business is a chore, then it’s time to try something else.

Business opportunities are like buses; there’s always another one coming.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

I know I can hold two, maybe even three belts. So I have business to take care of back in and around my weight class.

When I’m in there I’m just in my zone. What people think about when they’re looking at me, that’s their business. If there is a bit of that, I am fine with it, each to his own.

I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man.

What’s the difference between you and the man sitting beside you? It’s one percent. In my business, only one percent makes it. If everyone had the same dream, only 1 will make it from this crowd. Who will be that one?

My business is to prevent the future.

I knew the shirt-swapping business in general was getting out of hand when opponents would ask me for my shirt while we were still mid-match. Those are the wrong priorities.

Mind your business. Take care of what you came here for. Find the ‘I’ first and you may afterwards speak of other matters.

The Power that created you has created the world as well. If it can take care of you, it can similarily take care of the world also. If God has created the world, it is His business to look after it, not yours.

One lesson to any young chef out there: never mix family with business.

The secret is to make sure the business is running to perfection, with or without me.

Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.

A business enterprise must continue beyond the lifetime of the individual or of the generation to be capable of producing its contributions to economy and to society.

When the business grows, the person who founded it is incredibly busy. Rapid growth puts an enormous strain on a business. You outgrow your production facilities. You outgrow your management capabilities.

Any existing organization, whether a business, a church, a labor union, or a hospital, goes down fast if it does not innovate. Conversely, any new organization, whether a business, a church, a labor union, or a hospital, collapses if it does not manage. Not to innovate is the single largest reason for the decline of existing organizations. Not to know how to manage is the single largest reason for the failure of new ventures.

If a business is to be considered a continuous process, instead of a series of disjointed stop-and-go events, then the economic universe in which a business operates-and all the major events within it-must have rhyme, rhythm, or reason.

The enterprise can fulfill its human and social functions only if it prospers as a business.

I’m a writer. I could not or would not ever run a business. I don’t even have a secretary. And contrary to some of the stereotypes, entrepreneurs are not loners. I am.

The subordinate’s job is not to reform or reeducate the boss, not to make him conform to what the business schools or the management book say bosses should be like. It is to enable a particular boss to perform as a unique individual.

To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.

The new always looks so puny-so unpromising-next to the reality of the massive, ongoing business.

The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.

Businesses are not paid to reform customers. They are paid to satisfy customers.

Business exists to supply goods and services to customers and economic surplus to society, rather than to supply jobs to workers and managers or even dividends to shareholders.

Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.

An employer has no business with a man’s personality. The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.

Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise.

If you have too many problems, maybe you should get out of business. There is no law that says a company must last forever.

Tomorrow always arrives. It is always different. And even the mightiest company is in trouble if it has not worked on the future. Being surprised by what happens is a risk that even the largest and richest company cannot afford, and even the smallest business need not run.

What makes demographics such a rewarding opportunity for the entrepreneur is precisely its neglect by decision makers, whether businessmen, public-service staffs, or governmental policymakers. They still cling to the assumption that demographics do not change – or do not change fast. Indeed, they reject even the plainest evidence of demographic changes.

Some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I’ve worked with over a sixty-five-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They were all over the map in terms of their personalities, attitudes, values, strengths, and weaknesses.

Providing more desirable products, services, and customer experiences is vital to the continued existence of any business. And that is INNOVATION.

In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non- world.