Business Quotes

This is the hardest thing I've ever done, being in fashion business, because that's what it is at the end of the day, a business, and you have to make sure it works.

Enron is now officially out of the energy business. They are now in a new business: confetti.

I am not a businessman. I am a business, man.

Nowadays it seems more and more like the 'business' in 'show business' is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it's all part of getting people in to see the movies.

I don't like show business. I don't like the business. I love acting. I love this. I love talking to people.

I was always a singer. But I was always focused on being an actor as my trade. Music I do just for me. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible.

It takes a lot more to run a good business than just trailing commissions or kickbacks otherwise everybody would succeed, wouldn't they?

The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer.

Entertainment is like any other major industry; it's cold, big business. The business end wants to know one thing: Can you do the job? If you can, you're in, you're made; if you can't, you're out.

I hate show business.

In this [fashion] business you're living in the future a lot of the time.

We own 18 percent of just the PC business. Now that's only about 60 percent of our business today.

I like the fact that now my understanding for entertainment and the entertainment business is completely different from what it was when I first came in. I get the business side of it.

The music business is really a spiritual business whether we know it or not.

Good journalism is good business practice; good business supports great journalism.

By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.

I don't think most people would want me to have a business relationship as a senator where my business partners can reap the benefit of my position and I one day get the share the profits.

When you're in show business no matter what you're doing it's an insecure business.

The people who think that the power of big business is enormous are mistaken

Economists' unanimity that bad business is ahead is the most reassuring news possible. It's very unlikely that this will be the one time they're right.

The Internet produces new business models and also reinvents traditional business models.

One of the first things to be noted in business life is its imperialism. Business is exacting, engrossing, and inelastic.

American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human race without first proving that they can sell things to it.

It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.

I had a female business partner once. Didn't work.

When I bought my house in L.A., that was the best business decision I ever made, until the housing market crashed, and it became the worst business decision I ever made.

Success in business isn’t about being right; it’s about being committed.

We have boys now, and men, in the rock and roll business and all the show business, who have this reaction on women. They scream. They yell. They do all sorts of wild things.

For me, politics is not a career. For me, my career was being in business and starting a business and making it successful. My - my life's passion has been my family, my faith, and my country.

I commend #AIESEC's continuing efforts to develop the #future #business #leadership of our countries.

Hurried business is bad business.

You've got to know business before you go to show business.

Don't go to business school.

There are three rules for running a business; fortunately, we don't know any of them.

in show business there's not much point in asking yourself if someone really likes you or if he just thinks you can be useful to him, because there's no difference.

Profit is not the explanation, cause, or rationale of business behavior and business decisions, but the test of their validity.

"Value added" is a meaningless concept for a retail business , for a bank, for a life insurance company, and for any other business which is not primarily engaged in manufacturing.

If small business goes, big business does not have any future except to become the economic arm of a totalitarian state.

If you are going to survive in business, show business or any business, then you have to be bold.

A generation ago, the image was that you had to trample everyone else down to succeed; but I don't believe that makes good business sense.

I think that being a business a leader that treads all over people to get to the top is actually not the way I think to become a successful business leader.

I consider anybody who has been able to make a living in this business [movie business] without having to do something else for a living for any period of time let alone 43 years would be a miracle.

If you’re a responsible business, you don’t let things like that happen in your business that have an impact on the country.

CNN canceled all the shows I was on. They're going in a different direction, but that's their privilege. They own the business.

Fitz: How bad is it? Nighteyes: Mind your own business. Fitz: You ARE my business. Nighteyes: Sharing pain doesn’t loosen it. Fitz: I’m not sure about THAT.

If your in business your in show business. The moment you get to work your on stage. Give your performance of your life.

We should want small business, large business all doing well. We shouldn't want to punish them for the simple reason that they've gone into business, which is what the Democrats do.

I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.

If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.

One way to think about running a successful business is to figure out what the least you can do is, and do that.