Inspiring Business Quotes to Motivate Entrepreneurs - page 6

The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action
The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action
 Chester Barnard
Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard, you can get an 'A' pretty much guaranteed, but in entrepreneurship, that's not how it works.
 Eric Ries
What you think of me is none of my business.
 Larry Winget
Life is an opportunity afforded to each not to eat and drink, but to achieve something nobler and higher to merge in the Reality.
Take away the ability of an intelligent, principled, hard-working mind to get it wrong, and you take away the whole thing.
 Kathryn Schulz
A man's potential for God lies not in his ability, nor in his opportunity, but in his humility before God.
 Jim Berg
As President, I am determined to offer leadership to overcome our current economic problems. My goal is for jobs for all who want to work and economic opportunity for all who want to achieve.
 Gerald R. Ford
My career in the movie business began in Hong Kong, my heart has always been tied to Asia, and it is immensely gratifying to see international recognition for Asian cinema as a whole.
 Michelle Yeoh
Our fathers were actually business partners in the same real-estate firm, and we got together and thought, How can we get a movie together and get distribution and create a new movie genre? We started by making satires of commercials.
 David Zucker
Businesspeople are like sharks, not just because we\'re gray and slightly oily, or because our teeth trail the innards of those we have eviscerated, but because we must move forward or die.
Businesspeople are like sharks, not just because we're gray and slightly oily, or because our teeth trail the innards of those we have eviscerated, but because we must move forward or die.
 Stanley Bing
I left Mexico for artistic survival. If I had stayed, I would have been forced by the government, who control the movie business, to direct TV shows or commercials or infomercials for the government.
 Alfonso Cuaron
I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.
 Edward Zwick
First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.
 Leo Rosten
An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.
While I support immigration regulated through a legal framework, I do not support rewarding those who broke the law to get here.
 Christopher Bond
Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get.
You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.
 Earl Nightingale
I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.
The Way of the Sage is to act but not to compete.
The Way of the Sage is to act but not to compete.
Both my mother and I were determined that we weren't going to stay on welfare. We always worked toward doing better, toward having a better life. We never had any doubts that we would.
 Larry Ellison