Business Quotes

It's hard being such a powerful woman in the business. I'm known for not always being warm and fuzzy, because you'll just get bulldozed over.

It's been a joy to be a part of other people's journey, to be able to inspire and be a part of new singers coming up in this business.

The red lips are - I don't want to call them "armor," but they're the clothes of my character, and I'm in the business of entertainment. Wearing red lipstick helps get me into that world.

The best business decision I've made was to become a songwriter. I can't say that I have a worst, because I don't have any regrets.

Being in the music business is a totally different industry right there.

Recent research suggests that New Deal programs may actually have had their primary impact on the economy by influencing consumer and business expectations of future growth and inflation.

The US government should not be in the business of discrimination.

That whole country, Malaysia has a history of telling other countries back off, we'll do our business. They're pretty stubborn bunch of people. So they will do what they have to do.

You just plant a few seeds, cultivate the shoots, and watch your career grow and branch out. It takes time and dedication. There are no overnight success stories in the music business!

I'm just trying to survive and stay relevant! That's all anyone in the music business can ask for.

I think the fact that I grew up in show business had a real effect on my personality. If you were born in New York during the golden age of television, and you grew up on Broadway, that marks you.

Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.

I think the fact that I was raised in show business, in New York City, in the '50s, that's affected my personality to the point that I'm a little different.

Black folks are judged by quantity, not quality. It's a decimal point or figure. How different is that from slavery? There's no moral code, it's just about successful business for America.

My business is the enforcement of the tax laws and the integrity of the tax code and making sure that trustees of charitable giving are true trustees.

If you wanted a safe job, go sell shoes. This is a tough business.

I don't get into the book-telling business of conversations I have with the president. That's not my style, and I don't think that's a responsible thing to do.

It's time for people in business to take steps to recharge the workplace.

[Donald Trump] has got his own controversies to deal with. The business conflicts are a big one. But he's creating new ones. There's no precedent for it.

[Donald] Trump's business conflicts are big enough and have come up throughout various aspects of this transition.

Not only can [business conflicts] not be ignored, it needs to be dealt with really front and center before he can conduct [Donald's Trump] presidency.

[Donald] Trump continues to dismiss those concerns though, even as some Republicans, like Lindsay Graham, are making the case that Trump's business ties deserve the scrutiny.

Despite their good intentions, today's businesses are missing an opportunity to integrate social responsibility and day-to-day business objectives - to do good and make money simultaneously.

So it is the business community and agricultural community who I think might have the most influence on helping us make this effort more bipartisan.

My business is staunching blood, and feeding fainting men.

The business man who gains success at the expense of the poor and miserable gains nil respect from his peers.

There's usually some process by which a potentially great idea gets prostituted into something lacklustre, or by which the wrong idea gets put forward.

It's the business I'm in, I can't say that signing things is the favourite part of my career but you know that it has to be done and that there is no pain involved.

The best part of aging in this business is losing that obsession about work and being able to spend a little more time with family.

As they say in the rodeo business, he just drew a tough one. There were a lot of positives for Jason to take out of this. He put us in a position to win.

I go home to London in between jobs, and in London, my life has nothing to do with the business. It's a family life, hanging with friends.

The utility of the robot needs to come first. It's business model over technology.

I was well aware of the fact that once you appeared in Doctor Who as something else, you were ruled out for the part of the Doctor: that was a kind of well known thing in the business.

The outsider is not sure who he is. He has found an “I”, but it is not his true “I”.’ His main business is to find his way back to himself.

The quicker we get about the business of reducing our reliance on oil the better.

Rock and roll seems to have had a mellowing in the business where it got harder to sell individual records and make money doing that.

I'm just going about my business. Am I going to bend over backwards to assure everybody that I'm a good guy? No, I'm not going to do it.

Corporations never actually mention 'money'; that would be vulgar. They prefer such words as 'turnover,' 'profit,' 'salary,' 'revenue,' 'budget,' 'premium,' and 'savings,' all much more refined.

The religion of the corporate world is novelty. What is new is always right.

Business and its logic of productivity have become the reference point in a society that thinks marketing every time it opens its mouth.

the middle manager is doomed to remain just that. Once an office rat, always an office rat.

When you're 'recruiting' people in temporary positions for the firm (short-term contracts, free-lancers, etc.) treat them well: remember, they're the only ones who actually do any work.

Art is fast, but with art you're tied down. That's too negative. What I mean is, you have a business and a place that you go every day. I guess some artists do move around.

There is no future in which bits will be harder to copy than they are today ... Any business model that based on the idea that bits will be harder to copy is doomed.

Find a business mentor. Connect with others who are successful in other lines of business. Bounce ideas off them, pick their brains. Maybe they can re-write a proposal for you.

I'm much more of a realist. I'm really practical. I'm the kind of person that calls my business manager and says, OK, if it were all to end today, how many months do I have to live?

I pride myself on being down-to-earth. I’m from the Midwest. People who go into show business are screwed up. I romanticized about having a serene life.

I don't look at paying $8 billion for the directories business of Qwest as the thing that would really excite me... I'm looking at a connection to the human being where it's interesting.

The thing I hate about the film business, is having to pitch your idea.

The competitive nature of hip-hop culture has always had battling involved with it. So you battle with the other artist but not necessarily in business and everywhere else.