Business Quotes
Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.
This summer is going to be a different summer for a lot of people. Everyone is going to take care of their own business and everyone is going to do what's best for them, including me.
Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.
A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.
Managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers are the beginning, not the end, of business valuation.
There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.
It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.
I'm the first to admit I've had a sheltered life. I grew up in the country and went to a boarding school. It was all just part of the business - be nice to everyone and all that.
Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?
A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
For policy makers interested in using tax policy to stimulate investments or especially to smooth business cycle fluctuations, the results are not promising.
A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.
Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the one with the most attractive exterior will win.
The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher.
If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men who make it their professional business to put it out?
I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.
I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.
Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.
Internalize the Golden Rule of sales that says: All things being equal, people will do business with, and refer business to, those people they know, like and trust.
It's a very good time for horror. This business certainly has changed, but there's still room for serious horror films. Look at 28 Days Later, that's not a tongue-in-cheek picture.
I'm rather old-fashioned about this video business. It's all relatively new. We really don't do videos, Fleetwood Mac. We've only done two.
For a male person bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes.
The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer, songwriter, or find a singer to develop.
Customers don't expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong.
Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market
If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors.
Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.
A charity dollar has only one life; a Social Business dollar can be invested over and over again.
I was the first f****** hippy to enter this business, you know... I was one of the first girls to say I don't give a f*** about this whole supermodel thing.
I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn't at all clear in the beginning.
Unless you can find some sort of LOYALTY, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.
It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.
Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.
All one needs is a computer, a network connection, and a bright spark of initiative and creativity to join the economy.
Without ambition no conquests are made, and no business created. Ambition is the root of all achievement.
The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) was asked what type of earning was best, and he replied: " A man's work with his hands and every (lawful) business transaction."
I have a dream that Africa should have one bloc - north to south - we could trade freely, people can move freely and that makes business sense.
You shouldn't focus on why you can't do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions.
What other people think of me is none of my business. One of the highest places you can get to is being independent of the good opinions of other people.
The true start-up of a business is what happens before you start-up.