Business Quotes

In Las Vegas, people know that the odds are stacked against them. On Wall Street, they manipulate the odds while you are playing the game.

The function and responsibility of the President is to set before the American people the unfinished business, the things we must do if we are going to succeed as a nation.

The whole thing of this business is to retain your enthusiasm and, in a sense, retain your innocence and try to practice as much humility as possible.

Nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous.

Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business.

Boys do not have the monopoly in Staring Business, after all.

I only do business with the people I do business with. The people I do business with find out I do business with the people I don't do business with.... I can't do business with you.

You cannot run a successful retail business from memory.

If we're going to create the best business climate to create higher paying jobs and retain our young people, we're going to have to build a workforce prepared for the opportunities of the future.

Don't let anyone say you can't do it.

The mercantile business did not suit me

Jazz has to work. It has to play with the audience and with the marketplace. I think that is relevant to business.

The manager's job - the impresario's job - is to preside over the company's efforts to jam so the business runs really well.

I don't know the extent to which they do business [ in Wells Fargo]. I just want to see how this thing continues to unfold and if they have a legitimately major change in their culture.

Men will look back in amusement at the pretence that once caused people to refer to General Dynamics and North American Aviation and AT&T as private business.

My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education.

We have the best writers in the business [on The Office].

To learn the worth of a man's religion, do business with him.

It is the business of the teacher ... to fortify reason and to make conscience sovereign.

I have this saying. Quality is the best business plan. I believe so strongly in that.

I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.

At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that.

I've always followed politics, and I think politics is everybody's business because we're electing someone who's going to be making important decisions that will affect all of our lives.

Music business is hard. It's very difficult. And it's not for everyone. Even if you can sing or even if you can write a song, it takes a lot of determination, it takes some kind of thick skin.

I've withdrawn many times. Part of me is a monk, and part a performing flea! The fear in the music business is that you don't exist if you're not at Xenon with Andy Warhol.

The diversity revolution [in the news media] was supposed to increase readership and enhance credibility. Just the opposite has resulted. How long will it take the business to figure this out?

Growing up I didn't want to be an actor. I sort of didn't want to go into the family business; the main reason being there was something I wanted to do far more, which was be an artist.

Set the mind to work, and apply the thoughts vigorously to the business, for it holds in the struggles of the mind, as in those of war, that to think we shall conquer is to conquer.

Action is the great business of mankind, and the whole matter about which all laws are conversant.

I don't think there's any such thing as rock n' roll anymore - it's an amalgamation of business interests.

Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.

My role is to find strategic insights as to where design can have the most business impact. A designer can bring a viewpoint of not just aesthetics, but economics and usage.

Artists change how we see the world - and that can have value in the way people do business.

If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.

Back in the '80s and '90s, when there was still a record business, there was pressure on anyone who was fortunate to have a few hits on a major label to continue that success.

When we invest in an asset-rich but low-returning business, time may be working against us.

Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business

Small business, right down to the individual can beat big, bureaucratic companies ten times out of ten.

Don't let the fear of statistics keep you from launching a continual improvement program. The statistics hurdle is easily overcome, going out of business is not.

The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer.

Commercial organisations that operate responsibly have benefitted by increased revenues of 682% compared to 166% for those that don't

Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way we are worrying about government.

Romney is right that the Obama vision is too centered on government. But his is too centered on the promotion of business and wealth creation at the expense of everything else.

The artist's business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes... when he has nothing better to do.

Despite some struggles of our own, Americas business and economic system remains the envy of much of the world.

In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there, he can be great and kind-but he must get there first.

I was bullied as a kid, and I got a job on television. And I had a camera. And so I wanted to go after those business bullies. And I just have been following that instinct.

Trade is a social act.

Do your homework or hire wise experts to help you. Never jump into a business you have no idea about.

Not only them...you've also had Young Hudson mouths to fill You could have had a thriving business But you forgot to present the bill