Modern Business Quotes

I was commissioned in 2003 to create an original show, and began developing 'Upwake.' 'Upwake' tells the story of Zero, a modern-day business man, going to work with his life in a suitcase, stuck between dream and reality and not able to decipher the two. I wanted 'Upwake' to have the same audiovisual qualities as a movie would.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

It seemed to me the perfect company for the 21st century would be one that was technology-orientated with great content and national scale.

There has been a seismic shift in the business world. The great classical business principles still hold true but they need to be fused with cutting edge internet technology.

Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.

Auntie Anne's is a modern-day business miracle that never should have happened.

Our tenants now are companies like Uber, the taxi service, Meituan.com, China's version of Groupon - and a large number of startups. These companies operate in a modern way, just like their customers: They go on the Internet, look for an offer and take it.

The political boundaries of nation-states are too narrow and constricted to define the scope and activities of modern business.

Surely no one will consider us lacking in reverence if we say that every one of the "principles of modern salesmanship" on which business men so much pride themselves, are brilliantly exemplified in Jesus' talk and work.

The industrial revolution that defined the first half of the 20 century marked the start of modern business, typified by high-volume, large-scale organizations. Mechanization created a culture of business derived from the capabilities and needs of the time.

Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.

Many small businesses are running entire businesses from a mobile phone.

As much as technology has made me so much more efficient, enabling me to run a small but global company from where I happen to be, at times it feels like the technology is running me, as opposed to the other way round.