3 December 2020 Niccolo Machiavelli No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
3 December 2020 Baltasar Gracian To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
3 December 2020 Harold S. Geneen It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
3 December 2020 Marlee Matlin How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to be true for most people in this business, what could I possibly tell them that they don’t already know?
3 December 2020 William Feather Business is always interfering with pleasure – but it makes other pleasures possible.
3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
3 December 2020 Charles Kettering High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland The real killers in the business world aren’t the ones who aim for the top, it’s the ones who aim for two notches below the top.
3 December 2020 Bryan Cranston I think naturally, if you’re an actor, there’s a high level of assertiveness that you need to have to survive this business. There’s boldness in being assertive, and there’s strength and confidence.
3 December 2020 Mia Wasikowska As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you’re relying on the business.
3 December 2020 Simon Mainwaring Business practices and how we treat the planet are also in desperate need of re-humanization.
3 December 2020 Tom Colicchio I started cooking in kitchens right out of high school, and I was lucky to work with a lot of great people, but I had no idea it would turn into this. Of course no one should go into this business because they want to be the next Emeril.
3 December 2020 Lee Iacocca Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can’t miss.
3 December 2020 David Frum We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.
3 December 2020 Ric Flair Nobody has wrestled everybody in the business like I have, especially not Bret Hart.
3 December 2020 Ross Perot Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You’d be amazed how many companies don’t listen to their customers.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
3 December 2020 Jeremy Renner I was always a singer. But I was always focused on being an actor as my trade. Music I do just for me. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible.
3 December 2020 Jim Carrey I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.
3 December 2020 Peter Drucker The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
3 December 2020 Kate Moss I’ll never forget that show season. It was completely mad. I was staying between Christy and Naomi’s rooms and it was all limos and the Ritz Hotel and all that kind of business.
3 December 2020 Alan Greenspan I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
3 December 2020 Jack Welch An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
3 December 2020 Andy Warhol Employees make the best dates. You don’t have to pick them up and they’re always tax-deductible.
3 December 2020 Betty White I cannot stand the people who get wonderful starts in show business and who abuse it. Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen, for example, although there are plenty of others, too. They are the most blessed people in the world, and they don’t appreciate it.
