Quotes About Business Person

“To be a great business person, you must be a great observer.”

— Ehab Atalla

“A business person is all about solving problems.”

— Ehab Atalla

“-Homeless person or business person, doctor or teacher, whatever your background may be, the same holds true for each of us: life takes on the meaning that you give it.”

— Liz Murray

“Any good business person applies financial discipline to everything they do. The movie business is and should be no different; I don't believe you have to sacrifice creativity to have business success. To the contrary, great art requires discipline.”

— Paula Wagner

“As soon as he said it was okay to do engineering, that really freed me up. My psychological block was really that I didn't want to start a company. Because I was just afraid. In business and politics, I wasn't going to be a real strong participant. I wasn't going to tell other people how to do things. I wasn't going to run things ever in my life. I was a non-political person and I was a very non-forceful person. It dated back to a lot of things that happened during the Vietnam War. But I just couldn't run a company.”

— Steve Wozniak

“I sense that striving for wholeness is, increasingly, a countercultural goal, as fragmented people make for better consumers, buying more bits and pieces - two or more cars, two homes and all that fills them - and outfitting one's body for a wide variety of identities: business person, homebody, amateur athlete, traveler, theater or sports fan.”

— Kathleen Norris

“It's not in either my personal or business interest to be a highly visible person.”

— Jerry Speyer

“It's been an extraordinary journey. I have learned so much along the way. I entered the modeling industry as a business person already. I always knew I belonged on the other side of the camera.”

— Kathy Ireland

“I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.”

— Anna Sui

“I'm not a real social person - I'm shy - and a lot of the business is just social.”

— Kim Basinger

“I learned hard lessons, and I've taken that lesson and it's helped me become a better business person and a better leader.”

— Rick Scott

“If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business.”

— Francis Ford Coppola

“Don't get married until you're certain that you're marrying the right girl. How did I know my wife was the one? I'd seen her for a couple of months. I liked her. She was a very creative person and she had a very good grip on politics and business.”

— Brian Wilson

“As a person, I've been in the business since 1969, and I never remember getting an honest count based upon how many records been sold for Burning Spear.”

— Burning Spear

“Life will hit you hard, regardless of what you do-adventurer, business person, king.”

— Robert J. Crane

“When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.”

— Magic Johnson

“Every small business will give you an entrepreneurial way of looking at things. I guarantee you that for every plant that closes, if you gave it to one small-business person in that community, he or she would find a way to make it work. The small-business attitude is you always find a way to make it work.”

— Hamdi Ulukaya

“You have a career, and you start as a business person. And you work your way, you reach this peak, and you know the time's going to come when you go back down.”

— Miranda Lambert

“It is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who you are writing songs for and what your goals are as a songwriter. So believe me, if you think I've got it down I don't it is a constant struggle.”

— Christine Lavin

“While my father was a diplomat rather than a business person, I count him as a critically important formative role model. He was comfortable living and working all around the world, wherever he was assigned.”

— Muhtar Kent

“I think you need a really strong businessperson running the state, a person who's used to turning negatives into positives, which is what happens in business.”

— Mike Curb

“You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'?”

— Dick Gregory

“I'm a business person at heart.”

— Desiree Rogers

“Washington is like playing the Super Bowl, only there are no timeouts, no potty breaks, and the arena is filled with the media. In government, you have to learn to put yourself second in a big way. But I am a business person at heart. I like to be in charge.”

— Desiree Rogers

“Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person.”

— Phillip Lim

“I give Bill Gates an A for vision because, as a business person and a strategist, he's brilliant. His flaw is that his view is not informed by a humanistic or compassionate vision of how to make computers work for people.”

— Mitch Kapor

“I'm probably not your typical business person in many ways. I don't wear a suit. I don't carry a briefcase. I don't wear a tie. I'm fairly casual. I haven't got a big office, and it's in a very ordinary part of town. I'd much prefer to downplay than impress.”

— Gerry Harvey

“I'm an old-timer in the business from the sense that when you do something that you feel good about there might be another person out there who feels the same way, or a hundred or a couple million.”

— Herb Alpert

“I have always been a business person.”

— Bethenny Frankel

“The fears you do not face become your walls. Most people in business, and in their personal lives, design everything so they can avoid doing what makes them feel uncomfortable. Yet any good business person knows we are not only paid to work, but also we are paid to be scared.”

— Robin S. Sharma

“There's an eternal war between a creative person and the business person.”

— Jerry Della Femina

“I'm a horrible business person.”

— Colin Trevorrow

“When a New York attorney general brings a lawsuit against a prominent business person, there are two things you can count on out of that office - lots of political bluster and little accountability.”

— Kenneth Langone

“That image of the common drunk is a myth. There is a thing called a maintenance drinker which may very well be a mother of four, a welder or a distinguished business person. These people build up a tolerance and manage to still maintain their daily lifestyles while constantly struggling with this disease, because it is a recognized disease by the American Medical Association.”

— Lisa Anderson

“A small business person has Uncle Sam as a partner, a partner who puts up no money, does no work, and wants 30 or 40 percent”

— Irwin Schiff

“One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.”

— Alan Cooper

“There are two parties involved in every corrupt transaction, typically a government official and a business person. Yet those who pay bribes are often depicted as innocent victims ... The reality is that both parties conspire to defraud the public.”

— Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker Of Wallasey

“Of the seven days God gave to us in a week, He said to take six, and use them for our business. Yet we think that we must have the seventh as well. It is like someone who, while traveling, comes upon a poor man in distress. Having but seven shillings, the generous person gives the poor man six, but when the wretch scrambles to his feet, he follows his benefactor to knock him down and steal the seventh shilling from him.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“I must be the only person of my age who doesn't have a bloody gong. They are so common in show business.”

— Janet Street-Porter

“Focus is not a 'business only' thing. Each person has only twenty-four hours per day, and how we spend those hours shows what's important in our lives. The question we must ask ourselves is ... Are we focusing on what really matters?”

— Mac Anderson

“I have sometimes, probably, forgotten - and I know I have - to pat the back of someone or said thank you enough times or maybe even once sometimes I wish I were perfect. I wish I were just the nicest, nicest, nicest person on Earth. But I am a business person.If I were a man no one would ever say that I was arrogant.”

— Martha Stewart

“We really have to, as a country, recognize that school is where people get their identity not just as a scholar, or a future business person, but as a citizen. And we need to make sure that schools set them up for success as citizens.”

— Benjamin Jealous

“When you have a programmer-founded company it often gets really techy, if you have a producer or a business-person, it all really sets the flavor of the company, just the priorities and the way you deal with everything.”

— Tim Schafer

“As of today, I have absolutely no regrets. I think I am a mature person who can take things in stride. I'm grateful for people in my past. They helped me get to where I am, wherever that is. But now, I am thinking for myself and sitting in on all the business transactions.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“Five years after I started CD Baby, when it was a big success, the media said I had revolutionized the music business. But 'revolution' is a term that people use only when you're successful. Before that, you're just a quirky person who does things differently.”

— Derek Sivers

“Nothing's worse than a business person who sells out to the left, if you're a capitalist, stand up and be counted.”

— James Cook

“Whenever you see some business person quoted complaining about how he or she can't find workers with the necessary skills, ask what wage they're offering.
Almost always it turns out what said business person really wants is highly (and expensively) educated workers at a manual-labor wage. No wonder they come up short.”

— Paul Krugman

“It took me awhile to not be ashamed to be a poet in the business environment, and to be a business person in the poet environment.”

— Victoria Chang

“I challenge every business person in America who has ever complained about the failure of the welfare system to try to hire somebody off welfare. And try hard.”

— William J. Clinton

“I'm really bad with trolls because I have a lot of really intense friends who are not necessarily doing things so legally. If I get trolled, [my friends will send me] an email with the person's Social Security number, phone number, pictures of his family, his business, his spouse. I see this person in his totality, and I feel so bad. I shouldn't have that power.”

— Margaret Cho