Business Quotes

My business is not to show anybody anything; my job is just to do it.

Most of this innovative new music doesn't make money so it's regarded as uninteresting for the business people and considered as "underground".

It’s the downside of a family business: anything good is because I’m somebody’s son; otherwise, I’m a schmuck.

I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business , after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the Plantations .

In the software business there are many enterprises for which it is not clear that science can help them; that science should try is not clear either.

When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.

If your business isn’t optimised for mobile, it might as well be invisible. Mobile isn’t going to be a medium. It’s going to be the medium.

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

People without independence have no business to meddle with science. It should never be linked with lucre.

The Deer Hunter is securely on my list of American movie events, by which I mean those films that aspired to the whole equation, to be show business and art at the same time.

When you have a pipe salesman with a business called Macabee Pipes, I'd say you've got your tongue planted firmly in your cheek.

I started at GM knowing very little about that particular business. Not being an expert means you have to learn everything, starting from the basics.

I don't know anything about cars. A business is a business, and I think I can learn about cars. I'm not that old, and I think the business principles are the same.

The height of success is when you break your business, that is what I say! Just when you think things are really really going well that's the time to change.

I think the greatest CEOs in the United States business anyway are the ones you don't hear too much about.

I was so happy I didn't have to work that night. That was the truth, because show business is about the hardest profession in the world.

In business courtesy and efficiency have a symbiotic relationship.

I don't want to be in the film business. I'm not even sure it's a business.

I never play golf because it takes too long, and the business connections it produces can be made just as easily over an early breakfast.

You always learn lessons in business.

I'm not in the business of saying just one thing about just one place. If you only see Palestine in my films, then I've failed because then I'm just a provincial filmmaker.

Life isn't worth living unless you're willing to take some big chances and go for broke.

After three major movies, I was like, 'Oh, I guess you're supposed to get a publicist?' Girls that are in the business now that are successful are more savvy.

I did 'The Karate Kid,' then I just went back to college. I didn't know how much money it made and I didn't have a publicist. I didn't have any sense of the business part of it.

You've got to spend a little money to make a little money.

You have got to have an agent. Its a business. But I think there is a way to be artful and commercial at the same time.

The credit card companies have put the loan sharks out of business.

It is, I suppose, the business of grandparents to create memories and the relative of memories: traditions. We want to lodge moments, like snapshots, in the fleeting video of time.

There were times when there were parts that I was sure I got and then I didn't, and I did get upset. But at this point, it doesn't affect me in the least because I know how the business works.

A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage constantly in multilateral diplomacy.

When I get up in the morning I brush my teeth and go about my business, and if I am going anywhere interesting I take my camera along.

Higher education is the only business that has a ceremony for firing its customers.

I'm still as fascinated with the music business as ever. I'd love to do an electronic album like Prodigy or Underworld. I really like that sort of music.

And I trusted someone to look after me on the business side of life.

Charity itself consists in acting justly and faithfully in whatever office, business and employment a person is engaged in.

My business is circumference.

There can be no freedom in the large sense of the word, no harmonious development, so long as mercenary and commercial considerations play an important part in the determination of personal conduct.

... if the production of any commodity necessitates the sacrifice of human life, society should do without that commodity, but itcan not do without that life.

Being in the business and growing up in L.A., I think I turned out pretty OK.

It is not easy to grow old in this business, when you are a woman above all, in the cinema.

American businesses are looking for are certainty and executive orders don't really get them that.

First something is a great idea, then it becomes a cause, then it becomes a business and finally it becomes a racket.

If the power goes out, business stops... whether you sell roses or youre a big manufacturer.

I'm going to start a lot of companies. These are not sham companies. These are great businesses.

The only person who can put you out of business, in the early days, is yourself.

The goal of every startup experiment is to discover how to build a sustainable business around that vision.

It doesn't matter if you call it a boom or a bubble. The startup business moves in cycles, and what goes up will eventually come down.

Google is more than a business. Google is a belief system. And we believe passionately in the open Internet model.

We're about to see an acceleration in technological platforms that, for marketers, will be on a scale rivalled only by the arrival of color TV.

I realized that I needed to know more about the business side of things. I don't like feeling uneducated about things, and feeling uneducated about my own business felt ridiculous.