Business Quotes

It's clear that other problems such as [...] the domination of business over government, science, thought, and society, are much bigger than non-free software.

When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages.

One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business.

That's the main business of the poem!-to see if you can't make up a language that sets all your selves talking at once-all of them being fair to each other.

Ooh. Top secret angel business, huh? What’re you going to do? Dance on a pinhead? Lobby for National Cute Puppy Day?

I'm all for sharing music, but when people can download a whole record and pay nothing for it and then they share it with 100,000 other people, it's breaking down the whole business.

I think I am like everyone else in the music business these days - you have to adjust to the times and deliver whatever people want, and are using to consume the music.

Managing university finances is very tricky business. We're nonprofits. We're not supposed to accumulate large surpluses.

If you cheat on your wife, you'll cheat on your business partner.

Now, sorry about that kill-on-sight business.

And if I was humming "Happy Birthday" and smiling stupidly as I fled for my life—well, that was nobody's business, was it?

Big Business wants cheap labor costs.

I've built companies, I've created jobs, I know the frustration of small businesses with higher taxes.

You want people to feel comfortable to walk in their neighborhoods, go out and shop, do business.

To complain about critics in a business is like a sailor complaining about the waves. Go back to the beach if you don't like it.

I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.

There's a bunch of people who sit around and make excuses for themselves and get upset with artists, but you already know what this is - it's an ego-driven business.

The business is so driven by money, everyone's trying to get it right.

I get a lot of return business. I think it's all those years I put in traveling around the country; people saw me before and had a good time so they want to see me again.

I want to get my Masters in business.

I would like to be remembered as a responsible human being who handled business while also taking care of his family.

In the business of acting, those are the actors that make the trains run on time, you know? There's nothing without them.

[Jodie Foster] is one of my favorite actors and people in the business.

With the strong bipartisan rejection of the Dorgan amendment today, the Senate cast a vote in favor of the U.S. working to knock down unfair trade barriers that hurt American business and farmers

How does the weakness of the dollar affect your business?

I want to make films that make people laugh hard, and I am not afraid to walk away from this business tomorrow.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so; life's business being just the terrible choice.

Evolution can't be predicted, Julian used to tell me; it's a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn't aim.

This is a nasty, rotten business.

There are about a dozen of these gardens, more or less extensive, according to the business or wealth of the proprietor; but they are generally smaller than the smallest of our London nurseries.

Business logic and musical logic are utterly incompatible.

Let those possess the land, and only those, Who love it with a love so strong and stupid That they may be abused and taken advantage of And made fun of by business, law, and art.

Merely transferring the content of existing newspapers online and expecting payment won't work because they are two separate business concepts.

About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman's education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return.

If you are interested in a form of science or interested in a particular kind of business or whatever - or if you want to be a writer, there's so much information out there, it's almost too much.

If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.

Think before you act: it's not your money.

The easiest way of making money is to stop losing it.

Cash in must exceed cash out.

Without the right attitude, a business with everything going for it will fail.

Either an executive can do his job or he can't.

No decision in business provides greater potential for the creation of wealth (or its destruction, come to think of it) than the choice of which innovation to back.

All good management is the expression of one great idea

No executive devotes effort to proving himself wrong.

Management capability is always less than the organization actually needs.

If you are doing something wrong, you will do it badly.

If you are attempting the impossible, you will fail.

If sophisticated calculations are needed to justify an action, don't do it.

The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business.

It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business.