Business Quotes

I want to create a management company for people like me so that they don't have to give up the way they present [themselves], they just have someone to help them keep their business afloat.

From the business point of view—not to overstate it—intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.

The nature of business and government has been to build a surplus and self-perpetuate, but the Internet fosters and rewards smaller, more fluid organizations.

Creativity is an import-export business.

I don't care to dress up except when it is necessary or good for my business.

In this business actors who have Botox or surgery make you very aware of age. It's awful.

All My Children taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera! It is a good way to start in the business, get success without getting a big head and learn your craft.

If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months.

The global triumph of American technology has been predicated on the implicit separation between the business interests of Silicon Valley and the political interests of Washington.

I don't trust this [american] government to be regulating corporations. I trust big business to be regulated [by itself] and to be a party to a decent solution.

I am a woman and my business is to hold things together. My business is to tear them apart.

Travel, which had once charmed him, seemed, at length, unendurable, a business of color without substance, a phantom chase after his own dream's shadow.

Our job if I can see straight and hear clearly and understand ~ is to make advertising and run advertising that is seen and read and heard ~ and remembered ~ for its reasonable and compelling truth.

Part of the business of being an artist is abetting talent. The best do that.

I'm sure people in the business have said: She's too old for that part. I don't hear about it because your agent protects you from those negative things.

But even our pleasures are calculated and business like. We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended. Our salons are often little better than bazaars of fashion.

I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.

The key to successful business is self belief and application.

Right now I'm reading every fashion magazine I can find. As a shoe designer, I feel it's my responsibility to learn as much as I can about the business, past and present.

I'm excited about the old songs. That's a nice place to be after grinding out the music business for twenty years.

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

The business of art is to enlarge and correct the heart and to lift our ideals out of the ugly and the mean through love of the ideal. The business of art is to appeal to the soul.

It's the hurt business, it's boxing. We're there to get it in.

I don't care if New York avoided bankruptcy by substituting tourism for the garment business.

A business is good if it gives a decent day's reward for a decent day's work, treats people decently, and gives them a voice at the top.

Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.

The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.

In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.

Come home to men's business and bosoms.

Make thy recreation servant to thy business, lest thou become a slave to thy recreation.

If you hang around long enough to show these people what you can do, you have a chance in this acting business.

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Having worked for him in the nuclear weapons policy business, I can tell you that President Reagan was committed to assuring the effectiveness of our nuclear deterrent.

Journalism is the entertainment business.

Everyone's got unfinished business with Barcelona. They're the greatest team in the world.

Believe in better is one of the most powerful words you can use in the business community.

The best advertising and the best communication when it comes to business is that which makes you smile, that which makes you think, that which makes you ponder.

They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I.

A business that doesn’t change is a business that is going to die.

Every business should have its biographer-not after its head is dead but to show that he's very much alive.

It sounds corny, but I think people need stories to process the world. That's our business. That's the job we're in. We tell stories.

I hate to say Napster kind of killed our business, but what can I tell ya?

You know what I'm talking about. This business has changed. Flyers aren't pilots anymore, they're engineers. This is a college man's game. Our work is done. The pioneering is over.

The language and concepts contained herein are guaranteed not to cause eternal torment in the place where the guy with the horns and pointed stick conducts his business

I think the anti-smoking business is a yuppie invention-an extension of the concept that "we'll always be young, rich, and healthy.

Prediction is a very difficult business, particularly about the future

Don't try to solve the entire problem on day one.

There is a difference between hiring a CEO and turning over control of the business.

Many artists stick to making and hire a manager to focus on their business. Artists that build websites and mobile apps can do that, too.