Business Quotes

I didn't take a single business class. I learned on the job.

The money isn't a lure. I've done very well out of this business.

It's getting better generally, daily, especially in TV, for women in acting and age and looks count less. As more women come into the business. Change of any sort takes a long time to happen.

Benevolence today has become altogether too huge an undertaking to be conducted otherwise than on business lines.

If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I've hit the lottery.

The intelligence gap is essentially a shortage of executives with superior thinking skills who are needed by every business, as compared with the number of decision-making positions available.

I like the music. I don't like the business. I get very tired of the travel and moving, constantly moving. But the hour-and-a-half that I'm making music, I'm one of the happiest people on earth.

People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention the realities of show business.

I decided to take a leap of faith and go into business for myself. I'm scared to death!

The quiet of the morning offers a perfect time to do a meditation and yoga practice. It also allows time to be creative or to contemplate before the business of the day.

I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.

In the first 27 years of my life, I never had written a single non-technical word. I went to engineering college and went to business school. I never knew I could write fiction of any form.

Small businesses are really the engine in the economy.

We don't want to give a business that is not going to come through the troubled waters a loan that they can't pay back.

Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.

Health care is the No. 1 concern of small businesses and the status quo is untenable.

In October 2008, when the credit crunch hit, small businesses were really crushed by the lack of capital.

I'm just in the business of creating; creating new work inspires you to create new work. It's kind of funny.

I care more about the people than about the company. That's why I don't want to own it. I don't want to run a business. People do it better than I do.

Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.

I remember specifically my mother telling me growing up don't put my business in the street. I was like seven, and I am like, 'What does that mean.

Acting is one of the most risky businesses you could ever be in. You literally do not know where your next paycheck will come from.

People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.

He was not going to be dragged into other people´s business. He was going to plunge in headfirst.

My business was born out of my frustration with other cashback schemes. I wanted a more curated service than the other sites offer.

I wander around in corsets in my house all the time. I'm a lot girlier than the roles I play, but I don't believe there's anything wrong in this business for being typecast.

I care deeply about journalism, but we need to be a business.

I'm a huge romantic comedy fan and have been in this business for 17 years and I think for all 17 I'd hoped and dreamed and wished to some day be in a romantic comedy myself.

For every sleazeball in the business there are plenty of decent and wonderful people.

A lot of artists are just really stupid about money, and it's really hard to find somebody who kind of thinks of shuffling money around and doing business as an art.

But principles defended at the expense of pragmatic application is the business of priests.

For those working menial jobs or putting in 100-hour weeks for corporations, the lure of starting your own business can seem like a great way to get more flexibility, upside, and ownership.

In business it's about people. It's about relationships.

It's been an extraordinary journey. I have learned so much along the way. I entered the modeling industry as a business person already. I always knew I belonged on the other side of the camera.

I intentionally built a business that has absolutely nothing to do with appearance.

It's very different than it use to be. I think everybody has a lot more experience in how to be in a relationship - whether it's a marriage or a significant other or a business or a friend.

We are able to help animals all around the world as a result of the media and entertainment business, which is able to spread compassion and change at rapid speed.

What brought me into the TV business is what keeps me here and happy. You can learn something new every day if you have a really positive attitude.

It was while starting my business that I saw my first glimpse of government's impact on business.

Rapping's a release of the good and the bad - that's the definition of hyphy. You can't be like that, you can't get hyphy in, like, a business environment. I can be me. I'm energy. Hyphy is energy.

The pressures having grown up in this business can be really rough. And it is a testament to you that you have remained focused and NOT lost your mind.

Being properly prepared is one of the biggest assets in business and in athletic competition.

Business is a human enterprise, driven and determined by people.

People do business with people they know and like

We have a tendency to romanticize independence. Most business literature still views autonomy as a virtue, as though communication, teamwork, and cooperation were lesser values.

It's never a metric, it's where the person is going or not. Metrics are used to make things work better, but don't necessarily make a business better.

I think in this business [acting] there's the option to do a lot of things and say, "I don't care. I'm just going to do what I want," but what I do affects a lot of people.

I was minding my own business, really, and then all of a sudden, Hollywood approached me.

Our friends have nothing to do with the business. Some of our closest friends in Florida are not stars.

We know that President Obama and his accomplishments, that there's a lot of unfinished business there.