Business Quotes

Art dealing is when you're doing it as a business.

I didn't know how to run a business. I was a terrible gallerist, the worst in history, possibly.

I don't think an actor's job is to be recognized. I think an actor's job is to facilitate the writing in a way that changes the way people think. No other business does that.

Take care of your customers, and you will have a successful business. Don't, and you won't. The airlines need to figure this out - soon.

I think the answer has to do with the fact that [Louis D.] Brandeis was a consistent critic of bigness in business and in government.

I think everyone should sell other people's stuff and their own stuff. I think everyone, almost everyone should mix those two business models.

I have a dad-ager. My dad is really good at the business end of things. But it's really a family affair. My mother handles all my social media stuff - Facebook, Twitter, e-mails, that kind of thing.

You have to be a star to be in this business.

I still enjoy acting. I love the moment in front of the camera, but it's all the other moments that I don't enjoy. The 'business' aspect of it, the gossip.

As white authors, bloggers, and readers, we must stop promoting diversity as a business opportunity or a chance to buy ally points with our disposable income.

It's a real roller-coaster ride if you're lucky to have longevity in this business - you have to be able to ride those waves.

I don't consider stardom to be anything related with me. I hope that the only way this business will ever change me will be (giving me) a good life.

Jumping up and down is definitely sexy," Vayl assured me. "Would you like to do it two or three times right now before we get down to business?" Sterling and Cole groaned at the same time "Ewww!

We do what we can. The results are none of our business.

The reason why [the medical community] is reluctant to talk about it is because there's such a huge business in pharmaceuticals.

Even the most humble role, I've always felt really wildly grateful to be getting anywhere in film business.

The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you’re always asked to do what you’ve already done.

I think with every successful consumer Internet business, there will be lawyers that are interested in going after your company, especially when they think that there's a financial incentive.

Maintaining the trust of the consumer is critical to our business

Lust is a captivity of the reason and an enraging of the passions. It hinders business and distracts counsel. It sins against the body and weakens the soul.

It doesn't matter who you are, football's a business. At some stage you're going to have to leave a football club, that's just normal.

Swearing relieves the feelings - that is what swearing does. I explained this to my aunt on one occasion, but it didn't answer with her. She said I had no business to have such feelings.

Love is woman's business,and in "business" we all lay aside our natural weaknesses.

Don't have any opinions. They're bad for business.

Exhibition is certainly the safest part of the cinema business, but it's very capital intensive.

We are in the transport business. We transport audiences from one place to another.

As an actor, you get to live out many professions. I just want to continue to evolve. My one goal in this business is just longevity and respect, and that's something I'll always have to work toward.

When I look back, I did what I had to do for business and then fit family life into it.

Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists.

I was working in a family business-the fur business - and I hated it. I was reading the New York Times want ads, and I saw a photographer's assistant job in Vogue. Things went from there.

When you've been in the business 5-years, as a person, it's like you're 5-years old - like a child. 10-years and you're 10-years old, 20... Etcetera. That's how I measure maturity in this industry.

No one would have picked me out in high school and said, 'This guy is going to be in show business.' I don't have any of the talents you would normally associate with show business.

Your house is your first small business. It's where your investment is and [where] our greatest asset is.

Now our biggest environmental problems come from our own actions, our own choices, rather than pollution produced by big business.

Once you privatize something, it becomes a for-profit business.

I'm not going to give up doing interesting things. I'm going to do it as long as I possibly can and hopefully have longevity in this business.

L.A. can be very superficial, and it's hard to meet cool people here. I try to stay away from the glitzy side of the business and have a normal life as much as possible. I keep to myself.

If you're looking to grow your business then Kate Beeders is the practitioner for you

I don't have anything to prove anymore. What other people think of me is not my business.

Never buy hardcover books. They are designed to sell to those who don't actually read. Along with books, many other things can be read: natural scenery, love, officialdom, business¡­

My only job is to be happy. So for everybody that cares about me and is not trying to be all up in a celebrity's business, just know that I'm happy. My son is happy. We enjoy our lives.

I love when I am around a veteran in [show] business. Because I can dig and ask questions, and find out the "who" and "what" of it all.

I saw myself traveling with a company or making my own work and being a little weird. I wasn't thinking about the business side of anything, I just knew that I loved dancing.

Apple really has no presence in business, and we think Vista's going to have a huge presence in business. We think we're going to help the corporate IT stack save money.

Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer, I can't imagine something that could be worse than this for the software business and the intellectual-property business.

Back then, if you had a sore arm, the only people concerned were you and your wife. Now it's you, your wife, your agent, your investment counselor, your stockbroker, and your publisher.

When you raise prices, you've got to make sure you get it to the bottom line. You can fritter it away because of the way you're running the business, with maybe not a totally disciplined approach.

The best businesses adopt a similar approach to Google. They are consistently looking for ways to improve what they do.

It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away.

Trophies separate the winners from losers, and life is about winning and losing. Go into business and you see. You're competing every day.