Business Life Quotes

I don't live in as much fear as I used to. I'm not afraid of the music business. Life is too damn short. I know what's important, and the tasks are very clear.

Throwing young men out of work, throwing people into poverty and ending business life don't promote stability in the Palestinian territories,.

The one requirement for success in our business lives is effort. Either you make the commitment to get results or you don't.

One of the first things to be noted in business life is its imperialism. Business is exacting, engrossing, and inelastic.

This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.

Speaking Spanish and Japanese has opened doors in my career and helped me bridge cultural differences, both in my personal and business life. During my football career I realised quickly what difference language skills can make

I had the human rights life, and I had the family business life.

I have shared my whole life. My private and my show business life. It helps me actually to feel my songs and to go on with my dreams.

I had made what I believe was one of the more valuable decisions of my business life. This was to confine all efforts solely to making major gains in the long-run.

... thething I am proudest of in my whole business life is that I do not take, that I never took in all my life, and never, never! will take, one single penny more than 6% on any loan or any contract.

Oh, what a day-to-day business life is.

Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force, and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character.

My business life takes a big chunk of time, but I still put exercise in my schedule. I'm up at 5 A.M. and get up and stretch and go for a run in Runyon Canyon with all five of my dogs.

Because my business life is so busy, my home is really my sanctuary. That is where I reflect and spend quality time with my girls.

When you are congruent in your personal life, you will be congruent in your business life.

You have to find ways of integrating what you like into your business life. And it's difficult at times, but I think over time with experience, you learn how to do it.

Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home.

Live a vital life. If you live well, you will earn well. If you live well, it will show in your face; it will show in the texture of your voice. There will be something unique and magical about you if you live well. It will infuse not only your personal life but also your business life. And it will give you a vitality nothing else can give.

Perhaps your quest to be part of building something great will not fall in your business life. But find it somewhere. If not in corporate life, then perhaps in making your church great. If not there, then perhaps a nonprofit, or a community organization, or a class you teach. Get involved in something that you care so much about that you want to make it the greatest it can possibly be, not because of what you will get, but just because it can be done.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Throughout my business life I have always tried to keep on top of costs and protect the downside risk as much possible. The Virgin Group has survived only because we have always kept tight control of our cash. But, likewise, I also know that sometimes it is essential to break these rules and spend lavishly.

Business, life itself, is damned hard work if you wanna be good at it. Actually, that's precisely wrong. Business ceases to be work when you're chasing a dream that has engorged you. ("Work should be more fun than fun" - Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn't there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.

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

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.

You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

But the meaning of life is not . . . explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered by a bank account.

We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure - full of surprises. Some good. Some bad.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.

I wish I could say I coined the phrase "failing forward." I do it all the time. I find as I've embraced this approach to business, life, cycling and generally any new endeavor I take on, I've grown more and more comfortable with the possibility that I am not likely to succeed on my first try. And that's ok.

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

What was your greatest challenge? Staying alive as a business, staying ahead of the game, and melding my business life with my personal life.

The advertising agency, as it stands today, is a peculiar manifestation of American business life of the twentieth century - glossy, brash, and insecure.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

... business training in early life should not be regarded solely as insurance against destitution in the case of an emergency. For from business experience women can gain, too, knowledge of the world and of human beings, which should be of immeasurable value to their marriage careers. Self-discipline, co-operation, adaptability, efficiency, economic management,--if she learns these in her business life she is liable for many less heartbreaks and disappointments in her married life.

If you can shape your business life or your working life, you can just look at it as another extension - you just fulfill all your values as a human being in the work place. If you are an activist, you bring the activism of your life into your business, or if you love creative art, you can bring that in.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

You have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization. I've heard it came to civilization through Venice which of course was once the great commercial power in the Mediterranean. However, double entry bookkeeping was a hell of an invention.

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

In business life, that is, in its material processes, we eagerly accept the new. In social life, in all our social processes, we piously, valiantly, obdurately, maintain the old.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

It is true that we have not deliberately or wholly abandoned the Christian element in our tradition, but does that element count with us as it once did? Is the moral tone of the nation - its politics, its business life, its literature, its theatre, its movies, its radio networks, its television stations - Christian?