Business Quotes

All criticism hurts me. I'm so in the wrong business.

Some people may have thought that this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people think about me is none of my business.

The hardware business is all about per-unit manufacturing cost and functionality. The services business is less asset-intensive and more dependent on people.

My best business decision is always to have been unembarrassed about negotiating a decent deal. Not being coy or shy about money is second nature to me.

Growing up in a business-orientated family meant that I naturally learnt the tricks of the trade.

I never wanted to run a production company. I didn't want to convert my life into running a business.... so I always resisted it and kept things simple.

In an ideal world, I'd be able to do my shows in my pajamas. Luckily I've got one of the best stylists in the business, Rebecca Allen - she knows what looks good on camera and gives it a sexy kick.

Music is kind of a strange business, and it's too weird of a job to have mean, conniving people around.

You have to find ways of integrating what you like into your business life. And it's difficult at times, but I think over time with experience, you learn how to do it.

The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from morning to night. So it was a big menagerie of kids, business and cooking!

Never mingle love and business.

It was a culture that business is something bad - it was a leftist-oriented psychology. We have to break this. We are pro-business.

I believe that companies, doing business in a responsible and sustainable way, can help raise the quality of life and standards of living in some of the poorest parts of the world

The only technology that helps to create a plethora of business and employment opportunity while promoting the green environment, is serving good for the society and, therefore, the sustainability.

corporate America corrupted the watchdogs that were supposed to be guarding the public interest by feeding them under the table.

Having a partner definitely allows you to take more risks.

I've always wanted to do a movie, and I really feel the urge to do it.I'm in Hollywood - I have no business not being in the movie industry.

I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and being in the studio.

I was a first time bride at 44. I had never even lived with anybody. And after running my own business for many years, I knew how to be the boss - but I had no idea how to be a good partner.

The most wonderful time to be in the art world was in the sixties, because it wasn't a business - there was no business of doing art.

In my early days of flying, if you flew on instruments, you were inevitably going to fly in thunderstorms. That was just a part of the business of flying.

I enjoy the press. I understand their business.

Any artist manages his own business along with his manager. Every band should.

You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?" "For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the cocaine bottle.

Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us.

A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.

I took some me time. I think that's a really important thing to do for yourself, especially in this business. And now I feel like I'm in a really good, positive place in my life.

I've always been able to keep my private life separate from my business.

I grew up in the business since I was three years old so I've always kind of been in front of the camera and grew up in commercials and I knew that I wanted to do it no matter what, I just loved it.

I'm happy that I was able to experience a normal life besides show business, because it gives you something to draw from.

I'm pretty good at weaseling my way into a job, even if I have no business being there.

Theater doesn't bring money in general. That's not why you do it. If you go into theater for money then you've really gone into the wrong business.

The only other people who have had experiences similar to those of this man were locked up inside institutions for the criminally insane. The difference is, this guy gets business cards.

The share of income that small business people are paying in taxes is the lowest it has been in 65 years - since Obama has cut taxes 18 or 22 times for small business.

I have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business, and I have to make serious decisions.

I think it's very hard to go into the same business as your family when you're an artist.

Whatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.

Mr. Ward, what is it that the foulest bastards on earth denounce us for, among other things? Oh yes, for our motto of 'Business as usual.' Well-business as usual, Mr. Ward!

Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

Every four minutes, another American home or business goes solar.

The problem is that, over time, big pieces of business that have to get done without leadership from Washington, don't get done.

There's something about these steps [in Oval Office] and thinking about everybody who's walked here and all the business that's been done here.

My hope is that more and more investors around the world see an opportunity to do business in Greece.

You can't manage [country] the way you would manage a family business.

If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.

Your business is a part of yourself. Should it be? Who knows, but it sure feels that way. You can never really leave it.

Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.

The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business...I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

You make history when you do business.

Good environmentalism is good economics