Business Quotes
That I would rather be in another business where a bad cold wouldn't put me out of work.
I feel like I run a business although I haven't one. It's planning, planning, and planning.
Some people hold themselves above the fashion business but are still complicit and fall prey to it.
If I weren't doing what I'm doing now, the actress thing, the star business, if you want to call it that, whatever it is, I'd be in an asylum. I'm sure of it.
As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.
Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.
I've been able to write at least one book a year for 20 years, and I don't think I would've had that kind of drive if I hadn't come out of the journalism business.
One of the most difficult things for a writer in this business to accept is the uncertain fate of one's work.
This business of saying the same thing over and over and over again – which to a lot of Washington insiders and pundits is boring – works.
I've spent so much time in that makeup that I'm now unrecognizable. The business doesn't know who I am.
Lack of discipline. First of all, I think some of them fail because they just don't have natural talent, and they shouldn't even be in the business to begin with.
Innovation implies high risk, and with high risk comes failure, so you've got to be prepared for that, but if you don't risk, then your business goes stale very quickly.
The ideological foundation of today's business schools is that economic control should be shifted out of government hands into those of financial managers - that is, Wall Street.
Hosting a show, even a talk show or a game show, there's so much business you have to conduct. There's so much guiding you have to do.
Business operators that really deeply care about their employees and consumers deliver the right response every day.
Drugs have been in the game for a long time. They were there when I was in college, and even in high school. It's in life. It's in business. It's everywhere.
To separate the purpose of a business from the purpose of people who are in the business is, I think, not a good thing.
Estimates show that small businesses contribute 60-80 percent of the net new jobs annually.
The arrangement bore the same relation to actual finance as fantasy football bears to the NFL.
Reengineering cannot be entrusted to the semi-competent, the hangers-on with nothing better to do.
The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to work for them.
Halliburton is not a 'company' doing business in Iraq. It is a war profiteer, bilking millions from the pockets of average Americans. In past wars they would have been arrested – or worse.
One day there'll be no need for me. I'm actually hoping to put myself out of business.
Librarians in America do something like a couple of billion dollars worth of book business every year.
We need more people to go into business and fewer wasting our lives becoming bureaucrats and civil servants.
Hollywood is a small, familial place. Everyone does business with everybody else. The same complications occur in investment banking.
Actually, the New Deal's central dedication was to business recovery rather than social reform.
I just like to talk to people. I don't know how to bridge the gap between getting to know someone and then schmoozing and sort of working contacts and business connections.
Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.
I thought I was going to be a math major. My parents were both accountants and wanted me to major in business. Math was our compromise.
I think the hardest thing about being an actor is between jobs when you don't know and wondering if you'll ever work again. It's kind of a crazy business.
My business is only to keep myself in motion, whilst motion pleases me; I only walk for the walk's sake.
Small-business people do not want to have more than 50 employees, because that's when all the regulatory burden of Obamacare kicks in.
I wouldn't want to sacrifice the last years that I have of being youthful in this business to have kids.
I went to business school but left after four months because I just didn't want to be a puppet of society, stuck in an office, craving some sunlight.
In order to run a great business, you must know that a bunch of really intrinsically unhappy people, that's not a recipe for success. Don't be anywhere you don't need to be; it's just like that.
What happened was, my parents after Circus Boy decided to take me out of show business for two years to go back to normal school. It was the smartest thing they ever did.
There was never any pressure on me to go into the business, but I was always aware of it. I'd go on the set with my father and he and my mother would always be singing.
In knowledge-intensive business settings, where every manager has to oversee massive amounts of information as well as people, facilitating the use of psychic energy becomes a primary concern.
As an actor you just want to continue to work on things that you like. You can be in this business a long time and consistently working and just be totally artistically unfulfilled.
I think you need a really strong businessperson running the state, a person who's used to turning negatives into positives, which is what happens in business.
We'll be passing tax relief for small business owners and working families across the country.