Business Quotes

Purpose has to do with one's calling - deciding what business you are in as a person.

I would have shared with the banks my long-term vision and got them involved instead of just going to them when I needed money. I should have got them on my team right from the start.

Never underestimate the importance of self-belief to transform your own organization, to reassure nervous clients, and to change the future of our business.

I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business.

There is a lot of opportunity in all of this stuff [like healthcare business]. I don't know why everybody is focused on the negatives.

On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier.

Reinvent your business constantly. The end goal may be the same, but the tools and methods are constantly evolving.

I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act.

Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I think the ordinary guy has just as much right to say 'This is a good song' as somebody who is in the music business.

True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.

Isn't the Almighty always saying something, girl? Speaking through everything created, whispering in your hopes and dreams. Urging you to get on with business?

A business tip, you never know who's having "pillow talk" with one another. Watch what u say, who u say it to, & WHO u talk about.

As I was coming up in business, screwing up was not an option in any form.

I think of myself more as a workhorse actor. It will be hot and cold and up and down, but no one will kick me out of the business.

I want to see the numbers that prove that show-business marriages are any less successful than other marriages. It's just very public when they fail.

You can spend your life trying to be popular, and that's a tricky business. You can just try to be true to yourself.

The new solo album sounds like me: I'm singing about bad business transactions, bodily fluids, and courage.

The things I really learned, I learned from watching my parents. They take care of business. Always have.

People must be realistic when evaluating their business.

For venture capital, one of the original principles is people you want to invest in are people who've done it before with someone else's money. Not people who've just came out of business school.

I was never a hugely successful theatre designer. I painted a lot of scenery and did the lighting, and my lighting business grew out of that.

It's a roll of the dice in the movie business. I mean, every single movie is a roll of the dice. Any movie on paper could look like it's going to be fantastic. You know what I mean?

Clients don't want us to do what they ask, they want us to go further

I used to think business was 50 percent having the right people. Now I think it's 80 percent.

If you have done well in whatever business you are in, it is your duty to send the elevator back down and try to help bring up the next generation of undiscovered talent.

Having a company that's successful is a wonderful platform to do new things. You don't have to raise money for it; you can take profits from the company and pump them into new business.

I don't think you should ever start a business and move in a direction where you can't see it becoming a business.

How do you make a small fortune in the wine business? Start with a large fortune and buy a winery.

I think that denim is a sexy piece. If I would invest in anything in my closet it would be denim because you can wear it day to night and now it's even acceptable to wear to a business meeting.

The goal for me in business is to work on things I want to work on, and be as successful as I can, without achieving any sort of attention or fame. That would be the best. That would be ideal.

I'm a southern girl from Arkansas and I am just tryin to do my thing in the business. To make a long story short I'm just trying to be successful at what I do and work hard.

Modeling is a lonely business... You don't speak. You don't really portray anything but an image... the business is so superfluous about dealing with the outside, it messes with your mind.

Modeling is a lonely business.

I'm not a real social person, I'm shy and a lot of the business is just social.

Well, you know, I am in the business and I like to promote myself.

We must bring a message of solidarity, of mutual respect and, above all, of hope. Business cannot afford to be seen as the problem.

I have never participated directly or indirectly in any business related to the United Nations.

I don't have the inclinations that other people seem to have as far as the business is concerned.

Socialism is a society where the resources are used democratically to provide a better life for all, based on ending the dictatorship of big business over the economy and politics.

Big Oil, Wall Street and big business as a whole - they stand in the way of the kinds of change needed. They are fiercely against the radical reforms Bernie Sanders is popularizing.

Big business has many tools to make us pay for the crisis of their system.

I think, you know, a lot of the business of comedy is taking your personal experiences and making them relatable to other people.

Show business is a great place to fail upward... and I guess that's what I've done.

I guess show business is a lot like baseball: "Wait until next year!" You just never know. Some of the shittiest shows I've ever seen run forever, and some of the best things never get a chance.

Thanks to their decreased brainpower, people aren't diverted from the main business of life by the hobgoblins of opinion anymore.

The person who writes the bank's commercials is not the person who makes the loans.

A committee of three can accomplish much if two don't show up.

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers - joined in the serious business of keeping our food, shelter, clothing and loved ones from combining with oxygen.

Where you can see tribal behavior now is in this business about teaching evolution in a science class and intelligent design. It's the scientists themselves are behaving tribally.

I learned a lot from Jack Welch about how to run a business.