Business Quotes

Never go into business purely to make money. If that's the motive you're better off doing nothing.

Life is a series of ups and clowns. Make it worth your wild!

I don't like you two going off on you won. Just remember: behave. If I hear about any funny business, I will ground you until the Styx freezes over.

What people do in their private lives is their business, and shouldn't be anybody else's business.

My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards.'

While I find that I can keep my nose out of other people's business, I do have a curiosity as to their non-business activities.

Every home should have a room, or at least a nook with two chairs, where it is a sin punishable by immediate expulsion to speak of money, business, politics or the state of one's teeth.

The children don't choose to be in the business, but the harming and long-term effects through arguments, divorce and conflicts over the financial issues in a business are huge.

Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it's probably a bad business in which to invest.

Everybody who's in the news business today was influenced in a positive way by Walter Cronkite. He had ability, humility and integrity, a rare combination.

It's something that's really fun to do. It's a family business.

Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.

Trump is bringing his business acumen to politics. That's something that politicians don't have: business acumen, many of them. And so they don't recognize it, and they don't understand it.

No one who is in business for profit can foist his or her beliefs on a workforce that includes many people who do not share those beliefs.

The playthings of our elders are called business.

If I were born again, I would still be an industrialist. I complain because it's very hard work with no weekends, but I would still do it.

Someday, you need to build a business that's difficult to replicate. This is an important part of a good idea.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it - and they do enjoy it as much as man and other circumstances will allow.

The business of life is to go forward.

I had the human rights life, and I had the family business life.

My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.

Artists live in an imperfect world where affairs of the heart must sometimes be compromised with business.

It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well.

What's everybody's business is nobody's business.

Aim low, reach your goals, and avoid disappointment.

They are a special breed-like normal accountants, but without the soppy sentimentality. These are the oncologists of market capitalism.

Russians aren't good at haggling, they aren't passionate about business. But they are outstanding fighters.

Marketing begins before the product is launched.

If every Christian family brought in a child who needed a family we would put the foster care system out of business.

I'd rather clean my toilet than go to a show-business party.

In everything I do, whether in business, philanthropy or my personal life, I am guided by my inner truth, my values.

People look at me as spiritual... but I am also very logical, very business-minded. The two come together.

I want a documentary to crest by being voted on by 6000 people who are in the business of telling stories.

I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit.

I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.

In the military, they give medals for people who are willing to sacrifice themselves so that others may survive. In business, we give bonuses to people who sacrifice others.

True love exists in business. It's when Employee and Employer are amazingly grateful to have each other. We should all have true love at work.

The positive aspect of competition in a business scenario is it helps you to be more alert and innovative.

The only thing constant is change, we keep going through it not only in Las Vegas but in every part of our business and culture

Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.

I got screwed over in some bad business deals, but as long as I focused on those past problems, I couldn't move forward. I had to let all of that go and forgive everyone and everything first.

The more unpredictable the world is the more we rely on predictions.

That’s why people who seek out group flow often join startups or work for themselves. Serial entrepreneurs keep starting new business as much for the flow experience, as for the additional success.

Life is a very serious business for the simple reason that nobody dies laughing.

I believe that the data will set you free. At the end of the day, it’s about how do you turn those pieces of information into insights that will improve business.

Little girls think it's necessary to put all their business on MySpace and Facebook, and I think it's a shame...I'm all about mystery.

One genuine new relationship is worth a fistful of business cards.

Women were also urged to work on a mysterious quality called 'fascination.' Coming of age in the 1920's was a competitive business.

One honest relationship can be more productive than fistfuls of business cards.

I really always felt that I was going to be an actress. I had a lot of confidence in the fact that I would do well from a very early age. I didn't know how tough the business is.