Business Quotes

In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It's not so competitive.

The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.

I'm not a good businessman and I don't promote myself particularly well. It's best I don't talk to anybody lest I alienate myself.

The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.

Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.

I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.

I have never been able to understand why perfectly sensible people waste time being wittily obscure instead of just saying what they want and going on about their business.

We're never going to be the ultimate-insider look. You can do 50 insider looks at this Hollywood business, and the satire didn't intrigue me. I think others can do that.

Agriculture's not insulated from having a percentage of people who might be really good old graziers, but they're no good as business people.

Blacks own so little of the music business, it's pathetic. But I see that changing soon. Black artists, black businessmen and women will unite.

The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.

My wife is the fact-checker, I'm in the story telling business.

Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.

Door’s locked,” he said. “And we have unfinished business.

People ascribe a certain kind of silliness to the movie business. Everybody feels like, "In the movies, they do crazy stuff."

The crisis in Europe has affected the US economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on business and consumer confidence and pressuring US financial markets and institutions.

I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an entrepreneur and other things of interest to me.

Business has a responsibility to give back to the community.

Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.

Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.

Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.

...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.

Let every one ascertain his special business and calling, and then stick to it if he wants to be successful.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot.

People who have come from nothing and started their own business or opened up a whole new niche in a particular industry, they truly inspire me.

Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.

I don't have any talent as an artist but I do have an awareness for business and what you need to bring to that world. It helps to know what you're good at.

Every decision that Donald Trump makes is going to impact his bottom line of some business that he owns all over the world. So it remains a huge issue.

Big business is willing to destroy the planet for short-term profits

Unhappy business men, I am convinced, would increase their happiness more by walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change of philosophy.

Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.

I mind my own business. And I don't eat junk food.

Every woman I know in the broadcast business worked hard so we can talk about sports, not talk about us talking about sports. Ultimately, that's the goal. When the game starts, it's just a game.

I enjoy business. I enjoy inspiring women.

My business doesn't keep me warm at night.

I don't think in business it matters whether you're a man or a woman if you can do your job and have a brain.

I have a ball - and it keeps my heart rate up. I get to wear fabulous clothes. I get to make people laugh. That's my core business, and that's where I'll always return.

Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn't even doing the singing. I'm a bit cynical about this [music] business.

The [film] business is run by men, and they're basically interested in their own species, and they're not so interested in women belonging to the human race.

Nothing beats standing in the middle of the action, with all the data I need at my fingertips

Sure, I have a job now, but the acting business isn't always that solid, and so I wanted something to fall back upon.

It's the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there's nothing more powerful. That's just as true [for] education and human rights as it is for hotel or steels.

We started Ashoka here in India with a simple idea: that you needed social entrepreneurs to deal with problems that don't fit the business paradigm.

All things being equal, I think people would still prefer to do business with their hometown companies. That's true in America, that's true in China, that's true in Germany.

People in business understand paying money to be more efficient. You can bootstrap markets where the devices are too expensive at first because these are so valuable to some people.

When you're underperforming the index, you go home at night and cry in your beer. It's not fun, but who said this business should be fun. We're too well paid to hang our heads and say boo hoo.

Totie Fields is one of my benchmarks for a lot of things. There was a standard of show business.

People that don't want to get down to the business at hand. Instead of just doing less, we have to find ways of doing more with less. That's the key to the future.

Our philosophy is we call it as we see it. Sometimes you agree, sometimes you don't. Robust debate is good.

Keep your head down. Mind your business and do the best job you can.