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.
“I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera.”
“If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.”
“I feel lazy when I'm not working. I learned all my business sense from my dad. He always believed in me, and I think the last thing he said to me before he passed away was, 'I know you're gonna be OK. I'm not worried about you'.”
“Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it's our business.”
“Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.”
“I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.”
“The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.”
“To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.”
“Interest in business ethics courses has surged, and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making business serve long-term social values.”
“But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it's virtually impossible. It's very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms.”
“Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.”
“What other people think about me is not my business.”
“The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.”
“I went onto reality TV as a business decision.”
“Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.”
“There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.”