Business Quotes

I've learned from my dealings with Johnny Carson that no matter what kind of friendship you think you have with people you're working with, when the chips are down, it's all about business.

I've learned that friendship does not equate business, business does not equate friendship.

The U.S. economy and workers benefit from a strong, healthy relationship between government and business.

I don't think business news is just for old white men with money.

I think that focusing on the money, on the business, is not enough.

Rappers aren't the really rich ones. We all have nice houses with studios and cars, but you need a piece of someone's business to be super wealthy.

I've still got a small fitness and conditioning business where I travel round the world doing stuff for individuals and corporations, mainly fitness training.

I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.

This marriage is no one's business but our own.

We believe responsible business can be profitable business

There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.

You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.

My best business decision was becoming a writer as well as a director, and learning all aspects of the filmmaking craft. My worst business decision was licensing music that I don't own.

What we are trying to do is to create a new business paradigm, simply showing that business can have a human face and a social conscience.

A great advantage I had when I started The Body Shop was that I had never been to business school.

Work/life benefits allow companies meaningful ways for responding to their employees' needs; they can be a powerful tool for transforming a workforce and driving a business' success.

In school I studied international business and marketing, so I've always been attracted to business.

I agree that [marriage] should be treated like a business deal. But every business deal has to have its own terms and its own kind of currency.

The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn't happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10 percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

Any work that's worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That's true if you're running a business, it's true if you're trying to help on a campaign.

I'm not in the fashion business; I'm in the beauty business.

When you're an adult designer, you're either running a business or you're helping someone else's business run. Either way, that's a lot of pressure.

And I really believe good journalism is good business.

I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies.

Only communist regimes have churned out more jargon than modern business.

Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.

And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople get ahead by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a really sharp-looking report.

There are very few people that I deal with from a business side that it's just strictly a one-sided business relationship. I think that's important.

The entertainment business is to business what plastic flowers are to flowers.

Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.

When I'm asked how to succeed in show business, I always say I haven't the foggiest

Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.

My theory is, if you can do comedy and you can be in a scene with someone like Brad Garrett and hold your own, you've really got a future in this business.

All too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.

In what other business can a guy my age drink martinis, smoke cigars and sing? I think all people who retire ought to go into show business. I've been retired all my life.

It's a "keep your fingers crossed" business, the entertainment business.

American business can out-think, out-work, out-perform any nation in the world. But we can't beat the competition if we don't get in the ball game.

Business deals are successfully negotiated every day throughout America. The common thread is a mutual desire to reach an accord. And the media business is no different.

It [moviemaking] is all a relationship business. It's a personal business. It's all personal relationships, if you're lucky enough to build on one to the other.

I have a lot of dislike for the business end of the music business, particularly what they call shopping for a label. It can be a real stupid thing.

The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business.

You have to have a business model you believe in and like.

A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.

A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the dollar, but is due to pride in one's work, the pride that makes business an art.

American business needs a lifting purpose greater than the struggle of materialism.

When we talk about Donald Trump business, he has taken business bankruptcy six times. There are a lot of great businesspeople that have never taken bankruptcy once.

Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle of our careers. It's the nature of the business.

The hardest part of it was really being away from my family - I have two small children. Last year I took over 20 business trips, so being away from them was hard.

Finance went from being a small business, effectively, to being a big business. In part, that's the growth of the world's wealth. That's called savings.