Business Quotes

I'm extremely blessed because I travel extensively for my work, but I always try to incorporate a bit of leisure with business.

I never had tons of friends on tour. I was quiet and went about my business.

At the end of the day, every media entity is in the business of selling soap. They're not afraid of being popular.

Me trying to make a business around Linux would have been a total disaster.

Economics and ethics are not mutually exclusive.

You should treat your marriage like a business that you wouldn't want to let fail.

I considered going into business or becoming a lawyer - not for the money, but for the thrill of problem-solving.

I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've never bumped into it.

If there is no worker involvement, there is no quality system

I believe that independent film making is the last frontier of creative expression available. So I'm always willing to lend a helping hand to a young film maker who's just getting into the business.

Always hire people who are better than you. Hiring dummies is shortsighted. You can't move up the ladder until everyone is comfortable with your replacement.

There's something really natural to me about being what they call in the business a "hyphenate." Being a musician-actor or writer-musician-actor.

Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to dispatch than method.

Dispatch is the soul of business.

Business by no means forbids pleasures; on the contrary, they reciprocally season each other; and I will venture to affirm, that no man enjoys either in perfection that does not join both.

A lot of people say I'd miss show business if I quit. I'd miss some of it. Now it's the only life I know.

Terrorism is actually a very expensive business.

I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.

Fashion's recognized as a business now, but it was something that was almost underground when I started.

People trust I know what I'm doing. I have lots of credibility. I've had years of learning. I know and understand my business.

My council to Ted [Turner] is that he should watch Fox Business. He'll be elated to find how much substance there is in our news.

The music business doesn't interest me anymore.

I've always got the road. Stand-up makes you so autonomous and self-sufficient that it really helps with that part of show business.

Anyone who critically analyzes a business learns this: that the success or failure of an enterprise depends usually upon one man.

As I visualize the new, I become dissatisfied with the old.

A happy life, a life making full use of all our potential is and must be a balanced life. The obstacles to it are mainly illusory; most of our limitations are self-imposed.

The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid

You respect all of these people that you know in the business as actors. And they sort of turn around and say, we really like your work. It's a nice acknowledgment.

In order to succeed in business a man does not need a degree from a school of business administration. These schools train the subalterns for routine jobs. They certainly do not train entrepreneurs.

The only means to well-being is to increase the quantity of products. This is what business aims at.

Business is a means- the only means- to increase the quantity of goods available for preserving life and rendering it more agreeable.

I've been trying to bust into the comedy business my whole life. It's hard in Hollywood to do different things. I know this. It's a struggle.

As much as I want to stay on the team -- I love Chicago, I love the Bulls -- at the same time, I know the business part of it. Sooner or later, all the rumors are going to come up.

The largest business in American handled by a woman is the Money Order Department of the Pittsburgh Post-office; Mary Steel has it in charge.

To me, conservative means believing in a minimum amount of government and a maximum amount of freedom - and keeping government out of people's lives and business - and leaving people alone.

Always remember the famous adage about the movie business: You can't make a living, you can only get rich.

with all these tentpoles, franchises, reboots and sequels, is there still room for movies in the movie business?

Ego problems are endemic in every walk of life, but in the movie business egomaniacs are megalomaniacs.

[On filmmaking:] Cardinal rule: It's a youth business.

Directing is the last frontier for women in the movie business. We are studio heads, we are producers and we are writers, but we are not directors in any numbers.

Professional sports is a business.

There has been an effect of business rap on the output of today's rap music. But I don't think that's the modern day rapper's fault.

Growing up in Mississippi, I was such a farmer, and it's not desirable to bring attention to yourself. That's my nature, and all of a sudden, I'm in show business.

I do consider myself a feminist. I know the word has weird implications for people now, but I do think that its important to have women involved, whether its business or public service or...anything.

Social intercourse, even friendship among most people, is a merely a business arrangement that lasts only so long as there is need.

It is such a great fault to talk too much that, in business and conversation, if what is good is also brief, it is doubly good, and one gains by brevity what one often loses by an excess of words.

What is self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue.

Without putting the brakes on out-of-control campaign contributions from individuals and corporations - it will be business as usual, with 1 percent of Americans pulling the strings.

Here is another secret: I have no business being fascinated by you.

If you hate to lose, you do whatever you need to do to make sure you're business is successful.