Business Quotes

The first person I met in the business was David Heyman, who was a producer on Daytrippers and who went on to produce the highly-unsuccessful Harry Potter series.

The Future belongs to those who can spread ideas.

Revolutionary leaders have to care more about what they think of themselves than what the world thinks of them.

Organizations are successful because of good implementation,not good business plans.

Revolutionary products don't fail because they are shipped too early. They fail because they aren't revised fast enough.

I came to the Braves on business, and I intended to see that business was good as long as I could.

Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships. The quality of your business is no different.

Most business problems can be solved if you can teach yourself to look beyond the dollar sign.

Customers are the reason we open our doors every day, and keep the machines humming all night long. Customers determine what we eat, where we live, whether we stay in business.

No business can stay in business without customers. How you treat - or mistreat - them determines how long your doors stay open.

I'm probably the only person who goes to work and says 'Wow, it's really nice here and sweet,' even in the competitive movie business.

We are far more effective on the inside looking out than the outside looking in.

Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.

Writing is a business and should be practiced as such. On days when you think you can’t possibly write a line you do it anyhow.

A big business never becomes big by being a narrow society looking after only the interests of its organization and stockholders.

Business and action strengthen the brain, but too much study weakens it.

Before the Civil War, the Southern states were selling a lot of cotton to England and didn't seem to mind British occupation. By and large, the Revolutionary War wasn't at all great for business.

Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.

We have a basic notion that unless we find a solution for environmental problems, we will not achieve sustainable growth in the coming years

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

My brother, Mario, is in show business and so are all my cousins on my dad's side. We come from a family of musicians. My grandmother's sister in Puerto Rico plays five instruments.

Comedy is a very delicate business, especially comedies that sort of attempt to do things in an honest way and in a very naturalistic way the way that 'No Strings Attached' is.

Being a father ... I can't help feeling that, by comparison with being a mother, being a father is a rather abstract business.

Elves and Dragons! Cabbages and potatoes are better for me and you. Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you. ~Hamfast Gamgee (the Gaffer)

I began my show business career playing violin in San Francisco at the corner of Market and Taylor. I understand that there is a theater there now.

I think healthy competition is good for business, and really at the end best for end-users. Just think about what Android would have been if it was not for iPhone - a better blackberry?

If you want to sell 'em fish, sell 'em big fish. That's the secret to success.

You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything.

Do not primarily train men to work. Train them to serve willingly and intelligently.

If everyone had to start up their own business, socialism would soon die.

Any time you are in the content creation business, you have to leverage that content in as many ways as possible. DVD is one valuable secondary growth channel for HBO. Maybe the Internet is next.

British Beatitudes! ... Beer, beef, business, bibles, bulldogs, battleships, buggery and bishops.

The sign brings customers.

Television is one of the most fickle businesses that there are, you are in favour one minute and out the next.

I think, as Ive gotten older I have realized what a huge privilege it is to even be in this business. I, more than ever, love what I do.

Lunch should consist of at least 1/3 relationship building talk. If you don't have time for business talk, it was a very successful lunch.

Social media presents an opportunity for business people to connect and know each other prior to a phone call or email taking place.

There's a part of me that wishes I had gone to school and gotten a business degree, because I almost wonder if that wouldn't be more helpful than my theater degree, in some ways.

To talk about a relationship trivializes something that's nobody's business.

The war on drugs is really no war at all - it's a business!

Your mom's in our business...she's in our business... Can't you see, girl, that your mom's trying to end this?

The worst thing in this business is to be thought of as a no-talent.

There are two key lessons: a) The only way to survive in business is to be profitable, unless you have an unlimited amount of money; b) Get through your difficulty and learn to do better next time.

I always react to news immediately. That's my business.

There can be no one best way of organizing a business.

Don't get seduced by the next shiny thing, because you'll get caught up chasing shiny things and that will keep you from addressing what you really need to accomplish.

Integrity is the human quality most necessary to business success.

Ideas that change business models and that can make money are the most threatening, outside actual religion.

PayPal is a business that will be bigger than eBay.