Business Quotes

The sun isn't your friend. It didn't laugh at that stupid little joke. But when the business failed, when your beauty failed, when you should have gone home but spent the night, the sun kept shining.

OK, I know this is going to disgust you, Michael, but a lot of people are in this business to make money.

I don't have any love for this business or the game or for acting. This is my day job.

It either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anyone can get any benefit from it.

I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.

Punctuality is the sole of business.

Our bailout of Detroit will be remembered as the equivalent of pouring billions of taxpayers' money into the mail-order catalogue business on the eve of the birth of eBay.

Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards.

The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.

It really will benefit every area of the business. Financial struggle is something I'm very familiar with as an independent designer.

The dreamer is the whole dream. For us, dreaming and imagination are coupled with action to treat our lives, our business and our relationships as a constant unfolding.

I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

In the business world, management is always viewed in terms of productivity. Why? Because productivity is the key to the success of the organization and to your future as a manager.

Retail is selling things that don't come back to customers who do.

My great-aunt. . . . said nobody under 18 had any business reading Dickens. . . . She was right.

I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

My only "business plan" was to get lucky.

The income tax was devised to give lawyers and certified public accountants business. Few persons can make head, tail, or middle out of it. Einstein admitted he couldn't.

I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.

My business is making people, especially children, happy. I have dedicated much of my time to a study of the problems of children.

Most men of business think "Anyhow this system will probably last my time. It has gone on a long time, and is likely to go on still.

You should look at stocks as small pieces of business.

The people who come out on top in music business have persistence. It is key! Fall down seven times; stand up eight. It takes a lot of courage and an unwavering belief in yourself and your abilities.

An 'unintended pregnancy' could be a wonderful surprise, not planned but welcome. Why should the government be in the business of 'preventing' a surprising but welcome pregnancy

It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations.

I learned to take the first job that you have in the business that you want to get into. It doesn't matter what that job is, you get your foot in the door.

What's both fascinating and challenging about investing is that the changing nature of business and finance means you can never have it all figured out.

I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this business.

Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ.

The Whole Business of Man is The Arts, & All Things Common.

It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.

The meek shall inherit the earth, but they'll never increase market share.

Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.

We and God have business with each other, and in opening ourselves to God's influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled.

You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know quite what is going to happen.

Little Zac had it easy - but he didn't realize he had it easy, so he took it for granted. I think going through 'Hairspray' and other projects helped me learn about the business and life in general.

Excuses are useless. Results are priceless.

Make your money on the buy, not the sell; this is true in any investment whether it's real estate, business, or the stock market

Selling is essentially transference of feeling.

Work very very hard. This business is no joke. Make sure you know what you want or you might be taking someone else's view instead of your own.

I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.

An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

Everything you desire is always just outside your comfort zone, dear boy. If it wasn't you would already possess it, would you not?

Listen to people from your heart, as if your life depended on it, and you will find that in turn people will listen to you with all of theirs.

Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path.

That which is currently beyond your capabilities now, does not have to be so forever

In this world of half-jobs and liars, I will prevail.

I should become happier at what I do and leave others happier than before they’d met me.