“Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.”
Business is where ambition meets reality. These quotes cover entrepreneurship, leadership, risk, failure, and the daily grind of building something that lasts. Expect hard truths alongside inspiration — the best business advice usually includes both.
“If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.”
“Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.”
“The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.”
“Sometimes I think our problems are made worse by the kind of business we're in. Playing these road shows is a weird experience.”
“It is the business of the future to be dangerous and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.”
“Somebody has to tell the E.P.A. that we don't need you monkeying around and fiddling around and getting in our business with every kind of regulation you can dream up. You're doing nothing more than killing jobs. It's a cemetery for jobs at the E.P.A.”
“Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.”
“So we really need jobs now. We have to take jobs away from other countries because other countries are taking our jobs. There is practically not a country that does business with the United States that isn't making - let's call it a very big profit. I mean China is going to make $300 billion on us at least this year.”
“An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.”
“No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community.”
“Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.”
“In business for yourself, not by yourself.”
“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.”
“The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.”
“What today's business reality makes clear is that brands cannot survive in a society that is failing economically, socially, ethically, and morally.”
“The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.”