Business Quotes

Corporate welfare, I think, is a disaster for this country. It's crippling our economy. It is contributing to a permanent underclass and corrupting the business community.

Many businesses with unpopular products or inefficient production find it much easier to curry the favor of a few influential politicians or a government agency than to compete in the open market.

I'm not knocking the wholesale grocery business or any other, but there is a kind of romance in journalism which some people, the lucky ones, feel inside them all their lives.

The real test of business greatness is in giving opportunity to others.

Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business; the trailer seldom goes far.

We have reached in this country an amazing degree of general prosperity, with American business on the whole no longer facing an uphill climb.

Flying was as necessary to my business as fiddles and footlights.

The unifying thread through all these different aspects of music business is just my attraction toward working with sounds and designing new scary, evil, dark sounds.

Ultimately, broadcasters and advertisers have to change the way they do business or they run the risk of linear TV becoming obsolete.

The City seems so much more in earnest: its business, its rush, its roar are such serious things, sights and sounds. The City is getting its living - the West-End but enjoying its pleasure.

In business life, that is, in its material processes, we eagerly accept the new. In social life, in all our social processes, we piously, valiantly, obdurately, maintain the old.

I was climbing up a mountain-path With many things to do, Important business of my own, And other people's too, When I ran against a Prejudice That quite cut off the view.

My dinners have never interfered with my business. They have been my recreation. . . A public banquet, if eaten with thought and care, is no more of a strain than a dinner at home.

If you want to read anything nasty about me, just go to the backpacker websites. There's this kind of elitist branch where they really believe that I had no business going backpacking.

While I am a capitalist at heart and I have no problems with commercialization as such, I believe that while it's okay if education becomes a profitable business, it's not okay if it becomes corrupt.

I just went into this business for laughs. I guess I don't mind being an actor so much now.

I never even went to high school because I went straight from middle school into the music business. I don't really know what it is supposed to be like.

High-end boutiques aren't putting small staple stores out of business. What's putting small staple stores out of business is formula retail.

For the last five years I've been in the production business.

My brother is what got me into the show business. So it's a really great relationship we have. Our whole family is - we're thick as thieves.

TV shows and stuff give people in the show business very bad names. I'm not going to name any shows, but a lot of shows.

If you must begin then go all the way, because if you begin and quit, the unfinished business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time.

The challenge will be to get the big corporate customers giving them their business, but it might be difficult in reality.

No one said living isn't a pretty chancy business, Sibyl. No one gets out of here alive.

When the people who support and are a part of your community, the community you have the pleasure and power and opportunity to serve, that's where all the best business happens.

Conservatively, I am saying that social networking has made being in a band more fun, but not necessarily changed how the business works.

He [Doanald Trump] had no business being president of the United States.

Governor Romney has been a great success in business. He has been a great success as executive, as governor of Massachusetts. I think that's the kind of guy we want in the White House.

I'm not in the business of satisfying everybody. I'm in the business of trying to satisfy the people who elected me governor.

We are not hiding things from the American people, but China everyday is conducting business in a way that hides things from their people.

...it is business that can exercise the fastest degree of change by seeing the opportunity rather than the threat

I think I've had the slowest, most methodical career in the business.

What's best for business is just continue to have an entertaining product with great, interesting characters.

Brand equity doesn't change based on economic considerations.

As a business you should probably be examining, hey, is this the type of message we want to send?

The President Barack Obama said if we get out of this business of trade expansion, we turn it over to the Chinese. This brings us into partnership with 11 other Pacific Rim countries.

We in America count on the profit motive to get people to do the right thing. That's our basic American notion when it comes to business.

Throwing young men out of work, throwing people into poverty and ending business life don't promote stability in the Palestinian territories,.

It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large.

It's easier to get on show business, the hard part is to maintain. Nobody stays famous forever.

My dad worked every day. I didn't get into show business to work every day. So the fact that most days I get to like, spend really good time with my kids - that's what success is to me.

Stand-up comedy is like the lowest medium in all of show business in levels of respect.

I think that some of our soldiers die in the battlefield and some come home to bad health and die prematurely, just by the nature of the kind of business they're in.

In many cases bands have a lot to overcome, business being what it is.

My brother is an agent, so he is in the business. Is he my agent? No, no, no. That would never work.

In the entertainment business, the biggest gift you could ever get is not an Oscar, it's not a Grammy, it's longevity.

In a creative business, if you're happy, it will come out in your work. I don't see how you can be happy if you don't like the people you're working with and if they aren't a joy to have fun with.

Mostly, as I said, a desire to do a bit of good, and the quaint notion that this is what we signed up for, this is the business that we have chosen.

I really do enjoy getting out to meet my readers. Writing is such a solitary business, it's gratifying to thank folks in person and really connect as human beings and not just words on a screen.

Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America.