Business Quotes

I'm in the movie business; it's meant to be very cutthroat. But you won't find anybody that ever says I cheated them or manipulated them.

I don't remember if I've been asked seriously to direct a picture. I understand that. I'm very good business for people as an actor and perhaps they'd rather I didn't.

Because of the way the business is structured, I have sometimes turned down scripts that I might otherwise have accepted had I known who was directing them.

The problem of transmitting scientific knowledge is a very difficult business.

In a sometimes unreasonable business, Jack Valenti was a giant voice of reason. He was the greatest ambassador Hollywood has ever known and I will value his wisdom and friendship for all time.

People always overestimate how complex business is. This isn't rocket science. We've chosen one of the world's simplest professions.

Drucker said: 'If you weren't already in this business, would you enter it today? And if not, what are you going to do about it?' ... Simple, right? But incredibly powerful.

Make winners out of every business in your company. Don't carry losers.

Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.

What business could be mature when you have economies with more than 2 billion people in India, China and Southeast Asia?

Real change agents comprise less than 10% of all business people.

Sometimes you think the movie is good and BOOM! Sometimes you think it's no good. BAAM! The movie business is a big gamble. You never know.

So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different.

In the television business, I don't think anyone will let you go in and pitch a show unless you use the words 'organizing principle' or 'this is the prism through which we see their lives'.

It is not the business of science to inherit the earth, but to inherit the moral imagination; because without that, man and beliefs and science will perish together.

Business, properly understood, is so central to every aspect of our civilization that Republicans should proudly announce that they are indeed the party of business.

Whether you are running a business, an industry, or a nation - what is needed are insight, integrity, and inspiration.

I got into the business all by chance. I really enjoy what I do now, but it wasn't always a huge dream of mine. I think I always had thought about it growing up, though.

I only am in this business because I enjoy it. I think that is the only way to be in the business.

So, the advice that I would always give is make sure you've got your own career, before you put your child in the business.

There is not much new in management, but there is a lot new in business.

Every successful business, even Google, Facebook, Twitter, started with a combination of manual improvements and friends of the founders using the site.

I made so many mistakes in my first successful business I'm almost embarrassed to recount them.

Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.

When politics is elevated over business, economic disaster follows.

Nothing's worse than a business person who sells out to the left, if you're a capitalist, stand up and be counted.

You have to remember a lot of business is very cyclical.

Certainly there are bubble-like valuations of certain companies, but I don't think anyone out there believes that we're going to go back to doing business the way we used to do business.

Business 2.0 was hugely profitable last year, and will be profitable this year.

Business people have been made into these rock stars because they've made a lot of money.

Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins. At one time they may be carbuncle stones, then coals, then diamonds, then flint stones, then morning dew, then tears.

My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.

I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.

There are no working hours for leaders.

I'm not big on reading business books. I get copies of all of them, because people want me to put a comment on the jacket. Every once in a while, I'll get interested and read one all the way through.

I don't keep up on a lot of the business trends.

I've tended to work at fast-growing companies that improve the way business gets done.

We're no longer a small business; we're a large organization spread around the world. I can't imagine Netscape growing as fast as it has if it weren't for the way we use our products.

But what difference does it make? ... When you're mixed, you see how absurd this business of race is.

Connectivity doesn't just mean you get a lot more chances to deliver messages about customer service and pricing plans. This isn't one-sided. It enables people to talk back.

One of the reasons a lot of actors go into the business is that for a short period of time, you get to be other people who you can only fantasize about being, by and large.

Technology helps us become more efficient and productive but our business still has a lot of art as opposed to strictly science.

The business of America shouldn't be subsidizing business.

Sometimes you have to destroy your business in order to save it.

If I'm the poster boy for steroids, steroids is going out of business.

Our customers want to give us more business and the key for us is to manage growing volumes properly.

The Internet has killed the traditional record business, but it's given back in the way of instant access.

JPMorgan is a very good franchise. And the way you should look at a franchise, a business, is from the standpoint of the customers.

No one has the right to not assume that the business cycle will turn! Every five years or so, you have got to assume that something bad will happen.

You don't run a business hoping you don't have a recession.