Business Quotes

Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.

Marriage is a civic matter. It is really not, together with all its circumstances, the business of the church.

The Devil, it is true, is not exactly a doctor who has taken degrees, but he is very learned, very expert for all that. He has not been carrying on his business during thousands of years for nothing.

It is the most ungodly and dangerous business to abandon the certain and revealed will of God in order to search in to the hidden mysteries of God.

I know that God is not going to willfully hurt us. Why there is suffering is the business of the Lord, but He never seems to give us more than we can bear.

The web attacks traditional ways of doing things and elites, and this is very uncomfortable for traditional businesses to deal with.

In a sense, traditional business is design blind.

The course of business shapes public opinion.

My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.

Many have been with the show for years, and they have sources in the business, so we do know things, but until it is verified, we don't run with the story.

The music business is really, really small. The real music is becoming almost extinct, if you don't stay true to who you are.

I decided to start my own label because so many people with talent come to me wanting to know how they can get in the music business.

A risk-taking environment starts at the top of a corporation. If the CEO doesn't have this spirit, chances are you won't find it anywhere else in the organization.

I wasn't that interested in the dollars-and-cents part of business. My interest in starting Mary Kay Inc. was to offer women opportunities that didn't exist anywhere else.

The more we talk about kindness in business, the more we'll break through the hard structures that have defined business and alienated women from getting to the top.

the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.

I want to see a UN that enables a gathering of energies in which business plays its proper role.

If the Chinese business community takes the Declaration of Human Rights, core labor standards, and environmental standards seriously, the government of China will take them far more seriously, too.

I love being in the business I'm in-I do love being a part of a group of people that work well together. I love it when there's a connection.

Republicans seems to me to be chiefly concerned with holding on to what they have: in society, it's position, or respectability, or what you will; in business, of course, it's profit.

I think now the music is good. I tell people all the time who like to be in the music business you got to have a hit record.

It was hard to watch, the business side is so big in the game.

If you are doing well, your business will pay more in tax; if you're not doing well, you pay less.

I don't like when people relying on me in any kind of business way. I'm just a writer. I'm just noodling around and trying to come up with great characters and fun ideas.

The main thing that 99designs is about is choice. Its a fantastic model that eliminates risk for small business owners and puts designers on equal footing.

We consciously decide whether to consider people; we fall in love despite ourselves; we entirely fail to fall in love with people who fall in love with us. It is a mightily complicated business.

Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.

When he [the slothful person] is pressed to be diligent, either in his worldly affairs or in the business of religion, this is his excuse (and a sorry excuse it is as bad as none).

Those that are above business.

There are many programs specifically aimed at helping people in poverty start a business.

Hollywood is famous for breeding monsters, and having worked in the business, I've known a lot of them. But only intermittently have I ever found them monstrous. They have many other qualities.

I think the publishing industry is dismayingly like the movie business. It grows more corporate by the day.

I have very mixed feelings about the movie business, and about Los Angeles in general.

The feature film business, the studio film business, feels to me like there's just nowhere else to go. It's like a record that's just skipping at the end, with the needle stuck in the run-out groove.

I'm in the entertainment business, where you're only as good as your last show.

William Blake really is important, my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business.

In any spiritual undertaking, God's first order of business is to see to the spiritual health of His people.

...I've learned exactly who the enemy are. I easily recognize them-business-suited in their modern American executive guise, each boss two feet taller than I am and impossible to meet eye to eye.

Hollywood is in the perception business where you create layers to create mystery. In Silicon Valley it's about taking away the layers to get to the substance.

When a small business grows like eBay did, it has a multiplier effect. It creates other small businesses that supply it with intellectual capital, goods and services.

Regulation is strangling businesses of all sizes in California, and we've got to streamline regulation so it's easy, not hard. to do business.

Well, California used to be in the dream-making business, and unfortunately what's happened I think we're now in the dream-breaking business.

In the afternoon, the king and queen sat to hear the business of their kingdom. At least, the queen sat to hear the business; Costis was still not sure what the king was doing.

I have respect for my fellow journalists at the other networks, and I wish them all well. This is a tough business, so good for them.

It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a pantomime cow.

I'm looking forward to being a mom and a wife and a business owner.

My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.

Oftentimes, small business owners are unable to obtain reasonably priced financing and instead turn to higher priced forms of capital, such as credit cards.

I'm horrible with money. I make bad business decisions every hour of the day.

That my business success is equal to my personal life.