Business Quotes

I wouldn't call it an addiction. But the truth is, when you join a team as a new professional you encounter a system. As a young rider, older riders let you know how the business works.

In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing right. Show business. I owe it everything - it owes me nothing.

I'd love to do situation comedy - it's the best job in show business.

Average Americans, middle-class citizens, just feel disenfranchised by our government. And they feel particularly unhappy by what is perceived as business-as-usual politics in Washington.

One would think that the record of already existing regulatory agencies is sufficiently eloquent in showing that it is Big Business that does the regulating rather than vice versa .

It's completely legitimate for a company to continue striving for growth and higher profits. But business activities have to be conducted in a sustainable manner.

Learn as much as you can about your proposed business. Ask questions. Join industry associations. Study successful competitors carefully.

Running a business without marketing will kill it.

Green business is not about tie-dyed T-shirts. It's about transforming the industrial system itself into one that looks at all the connections.

Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives.

...instead it seems that business - like weight loss - is a subject wherein hope and fear inspire limitless gullibility.

Personal differences, musical differences, business differences, but most of all because I have a better time with my family.

There's very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see.

I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.

I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.

All my life I knew I would have a big business. That’s what I wanted from the time I was in second grade; there was never a doubt in my mind.

I think Donald Trump is new. He's a business guy running for president. So, you're not going to see a conventional campaign because he is not a conventional politician. He's not even a politician.

You have to remember, eight out of 10 businesses in America, they file their business as individuals, as people.

Keep your money in the first place. Let's make our companies competitive and let's make good business decisions dominate their decision making, not what's good for Washington carve outs.

I'm actually an optimist about what lies ahead. Are wikis reliable? It depends on the specific business. Is Wikipedia reliable? You bet. Wikipedia is a researcher's dream.

Major brands don't know what to do with happy customers. They make it hard for customers to say thanks and way too often companies don't celebrate and embrace customers' positive gestures.

It's funny but when young people say to me "what can I study to be a force for change, should I study law or biology or business?" My answer is music, drama, journalism, communications.

I didn't want to be a sweet boy's sweet girlfriend. I wanted to be Fawn's equal, the kind of girl who stood up for herself and took care of business, who cut guys loose when it was required.

Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier.

McLuhanism and the media have broken the back of the book business; they've freed people from the shame of not reading. They've rationalized becoming stupid and watching television.

French is the most beautiful,” he said, “and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other.

Oh, if people only knew how this business has grown.

The film business has changed so dramatically from when I started.

There's no job in show business that's harder than any other job outside show business.

I didn't learn fire-eating to conquer my fears. I learned fire-eating because I desperately wanted to be in show business.

In my opinion, life is more important than show business.

The business has changed greatly since my day.

When I came back into show business in '88 after spending 20-odd years in the civil service, it wasn't planned.

Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.

I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.

Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company, which was obviously a rather successful enterprise.

Doing the things we do now and doing them better, cheaper and faster will take us far. But it will not take us far enough. We're going to have to do new things in new ways.

Businessmen are always trying to advance their business interests, but they are not running for Prime Minister.

We always look at the margin of safety in the balance sheet and then worry about the business.

Mrs Thicknesse and I agreed that a business of his own was probably the only solution for him because he was obviously unemployable.

If you have too many problems, maybe you should get out of business. There is no law that says a company must last forever.

Business exists to supply goods and services to customers and economic surplus to society, rather than to supply jobs to workers and managers or even dividends to shareholders.

To satisfy the customer is the mission and purpose of every business.

A business exists because the consumer is willing to pay you his money. You run a business to satisfy the consumer. That isn't marketing. That goes way beyond marketing.

Providing more desirable products, services, and customer experiences is vital to the continued existence of any business. And that is INNOVATION.

An employer has no business with a man's personality... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.

The new always looks so puny-so unpromising-next to the reality of the massive, ongoing business.

Luck never built a business. Prosperity and growth come only to the business that systematically finds and exploits its potential.

A business enterprise must continue beyond the lifetime of the individual or of the generation to be capable of producing its contributions to economy and to society.

The enterprise can fulfill its human and social functions only if it prospers as a business.