Business Quotes

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty...an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft.

What church I go to on Sunday, what dogma of the Catholic Church I believe in, is my business; and whatever faith any other American has is his business.

What is this Chocho business?' Will muttered to himself. But his friends overheard the comment. 'It's a term of great respect,' they chorused, and he glared at them. 'Oh, shut up,' he said.

It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater.

This may seem simple, but you need to give customers what they want, not what you think they want. And, if you do this, people will keep coming back.

The modern corporation must manufacture not only goods but the desire for the goods it manufactures.

Happiness does not require an expanding economy

It's as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving.

Nothing keeps a company honest and efficient like the threat of other companies coming along and taking its business away.

I saw how the regulation I called for made things worse, didn't help consumers and simple competition was better. And I started praising business and occasionally criticizing regulation.

If I depended on the critics' judgment and recognition, I'd never have gone into the motion-picture business.

I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it wont be successful.

Effective leaders are, first and foremost, good teachers. We're in the education business.

Business is about profit, yes, and it is about more than profit. At its best, it is about expanding the possibilities of humanity.

I think that maybe inside any business, there is someone slowly going crazy

Take the humbug out of this world, and you haven't much left to do business with.

It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.

Feminists is something people hate above all. Nothing worse than being a woman in this [movie] business. I really believe that.

The more I know about business, the more I'm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Without the Internet I would have no fans and I wouldn't be in this business. I owe everything to the Internet and my fans.

How something important happens is the business of historians and newspapers, the effect it has is the business of philosophers and writers and especially poets.

For me, religion is serious business - a farrago of authoritarian nonsense, misogyny and humble pie, the eternal enemy of human happiness and freedom.

I don't live in as much fear as I used to. I'm not afraid of the music business. Life is too damn short. I know what's important, and the tasks are very clear.

When I was growing up, I said I wanted to be a model, but people said I had no chance and when I realized my ambition, people in the business still continued to state negative stuff.

If we want people on the front lines of companies to be responsible for making good business decisions, they must have the same information that managers use to make good business decisions.

There is empirical evidence that leading brands that keep investing during recessions gain share.

Films are hard to make and I think the word indulge really leads one to believe that it's an easy sort of business and it's really extremely difficult.

Business wise, I have always learned valuable lessons so I don't regret any decisions I have made.

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business.

I got to show off in front of my husband, who married me as I was stepping out of the business, so he had no idea that I could strut my stuff on the stage.

University: ... a place where rich men send their sons who have no aptitude for business.

The self-anointed media elite among us believe, somewhat self-servingly, that not only the act, or process of making a profit is positively sinister, but also that the very desire to do so is.

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.

If you want to be told what to think, well, I'm not in that business.

I'm such a fan of Idina Menzel! I think she's made a wonderful career in this business. I love her so much, and any role she's played, I'd love to be able to follow in her footsteps.

I learned that monthly payments are the cornerstone of everything in the automobile business.

Number one rule, attend to business

I'm not in the business of making us look clean, but I don't want us to look like monsters either. I think there is a little bit of hero and villain in all of us.

Space is very unforgiving business

My other creative outlet is knitting; aside from being fun, it is my antidote to the film business: I have full creative control, there is no development process, and I can self-finance.

What's her name?" "None of your business." "That can't possibly be her name.

That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.

America's corporations learned long ago that equality is just good business and is the right thing to do.

People will pay for content ... Everybody is going to have to start charging. They'd be crazy not to.

A man who cannot command his temper, his attention, and his countenance should not think of being a man of business.

Half the business is done, when one has gained the heart and the affections of those with whom one is to transact it.

I don't see how you have the nerve to oppose this bill when you run the biggest gambling business in the world - gambling on the hereafter.

In the business of portrait photography, one must combine the artist and the craftsman.

I have a vision for a world where business is the most powerful force for positive change.