Business Quotes

Music is a creative endeavor so I feel the business around it should be creative, too. One size doesn't have to fit all.

A business based on brand is, very simply, a business primed for success.

While the importance of a strong brand is widely understood, nothing is as misunderstood in American business as the question of how to use it.

Look, the media are trapped by changes in the technology and business of their industry.

I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theater, I didn't even know there was a show business.

There's an assumption by many partners that no matter what happens to their business, they'll be partners forever.

I don't live my life on the road. I'm getting on a bit and there's a lot of other things in my life. Our lovely children and their lives. It's more of a part-time business these days.

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.

Normally for work I will fly business class.

In life, you either watch TV or you do TV. I told my daughters that the only way you're going to make it in this business is to get in the game. That's the biggest advice I can give them.

of the world and drudgery of business , seeks a pretense of reason to give itself a full and uncontrolled indulgence.

We're not motivated by money. We are into this thing that we're building.

Don't worry about me. I plan to continue to be in show business. I have already been booked to be in a production of 'The Sunshine Boys' with Jay Leno.

My good friend Paul Shaffer and I are going to continue in show business. Next month Paul and I will debut our new act at Caesar's Palace with our white tigers.

We are living in a time when the very integrity of the Constitution is being threatened daily, from federal bailouts to federal assumption of control over private business.

Neville [Chamberlain] has a retail mind in a wholesale business.

We are on the threshold of a sea change in the agency business.

Film is a collaborative business: bend over.

In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.

There's no question that positive thinking has a place in business. [...just as it has in the the rest of a happy, successful person's life.]

I'm a great believer in the Arsene Wenger school of management - which is, you don't worry about the opposition, you just get your own act together.

In the future, every industry should be an environmental industry. In a world where energy and carbon emissions are constrained, every business must take resource productivity seriously

I think that's really risky to make yourself unsexy, because the business demands that women be sexy.

I'd like to be remembered, as a copywriter who had some big ideas. That's what the advertising business is all about. Big ideas

Why should a manufacturer bet his money, perhaps the future of his company, on your instinct?

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Profit is not the proper end and aim of management - it is what makes all of the proper ends and aims possible

For the last 15 years, Microsoft’s master business plan seems to have been, “Wait until somebody else has a hit. Then copy it.”

The time that I would spend revisiting my old Get Your War On strips is more profitably spent Googling myself and reading comments about how people hate my pencil-sharpening business.

The only reason to be in business is to be great.

Business in Russia was not being done like in the West, with contracts. In Russia, hundreds of millions of dollars were going forward and backward by word of mouth.

Fast food also has a uniquely difficult business structure for workers to achieve better wages and working conditions.

Obama had reached out to the business community, they just haven't liked all of his decisions and some of his rhetoric. But generally, I think the administration is quite open and accessible.

When I started in the business in 1999 and 2000, we had companies that were going public in two, three or four years.

Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation.

Cable is a niche business. If you can own a niche, that can be a very strong business.

I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early 70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.

We knew we loved making cookies and every time we did, we made people happy. That was our business plan.

You know, Mrs. Fields was never a business. It was a part of me...and I never separated, oh, well, business from personal because to me they all blended together.

We wanted to enjoy what we were doing and we had business things we had to straighten out and personnel problems and it sort of took a little time to do it.

I did win [on a contest]. And that started me on a new path, and into show business.

This business is all about being seen, and the more people see you the better.

Small businesses are important, but so are tiny businesses.

It's the reality of our business.

I preume there are far too many abortions performed in this country. And I also believe that at the end of the day, as much as I might disapprove, none of them are really any of my business.

If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.

Business must be the solution, not the problem.

Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth.

While my insides may be rotten, I still like a good reason to kill someone. It has to be either business, personal, or out of sheer boredom.

Make every decision—even decisions about whether to expand the business, raise money, or promote someone—according to what's best for your customers.