Business Quotes

Complex regulation in place of simple-rules capitalism disrupts market processes and corrupts business incentives.

A new model of heroic capitalism based on principle-driven, free-market entrepreneurship deserves a central place in business-ethics thought and action.

There's a lot of books out there about how you lead change in business, but I've certainly not seen any... on how you do that in public institutions.

Later, at Stanford University, I thought I'd become a lawyer or businessman, but my father came to me and said he thought there was a big future in the fine-wine business.

Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away from it.

Times change; Hollywood is not the same as it was when I first entered the business. It felt to me like it was starting to narrow down and centralize itself around what would... make money.

You work like hell to get yourself ahead in the business. You could go anywhere before, and suddenly you can't go anywhere. It's like being a cartoon character.

Science fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy.

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

I can't point to a moment or incident that made me see that this business, this putting down words on paper, was what I would do for the rest of my lucid life. But apparently, that is my calling.

America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable.

Business and leadership is about the future. What worked five years ago is unlikely to work tomorrow.

I was spawned by some pretty good people in this business - Mr. Astaire, Mr. Tracy. They stopped and took their time to talk to people.

The range of debate between the dominant U.S. [political] parties tends to closely resemble the range of debate within the business class.

I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so.

The best in business spend far more time on learning than in leisure.

Dreaming is great, but thinking big thoughts alone will not build a business, pay your bills or make you into the person you know in your heart you can be.

The more successful you and your organization become, the more humble and devoted to your customers you need to be.

The quickest way to grow the sales of your business is to grow your people.

The business (and person) who tries to be everything to everyone ends up being nothing to anyone.

All things being equal, the primary competitive advantage of your business will be your ability to grow Leaders Without Titles faster than your industry peers.

People do business with people who make them feel special.

To be successful in business and life, spot the possibilities while others look for problems.

Radio is commercial, isn't it. Its a business.

If there's anyone out there who has taken extreme to a new level, its Joe De Sena - in adventure racing, in business, and ultimately in the business of adventure! Spartan Up! is must-read.

Business can't trump happiness.

No movie becomes a hit without good reviews and word-of-mouth. No agency ever became a great brand by merely saying it was great - in advertising or by any other medium.

I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.

There isn't a plant or a business on earth that couldn't stand a few improvements-and be better for them. Someone is going to think of them. Why not beat the other fellow to it?

Bob Beaudine challenges you to think differently. His unique approach to life and business has helped elevate many careers.

We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end.

I don't drive an Escalade; I've never lived on a mansion; I live in a townhouse. Even with my internet business, when I was making just shy of a million and a half a year, I lived in the same house.

Since the beginning of recorded history, the business of government has been wealth confiscation.

I'll walk through fire to do what I do because the movie business, when it's right, is the coolest art form ever invented.

I was always fascinated by the decision-making process and the managerial process and just business in general.

Today it is difficult to find leaders who are independent of the forces that have brought us our problems: The Congress, the bureaucracy, the lobbyists, big business, and big labor.

The state of California has no business subsidizing intellectual curiosity.

Business is full of pain and hardship and with that, laughter and release.

I love making things, like software, and films, and laughter. And working with Gus Silber, to make the Funny Business book, has been a fantastic journey.

Business, like life, is funny. We all go through difficult times, and we all have to face curve balls and challenges, each and every week. And we need to laugh when things are funny.

What is it about business that makes us laugh - when things go wrong, which they do all the time (why, I still wish I knew) then we need to laugh.

What's weird about the cinema business is that you have to have a thick skin while remaining vulnerable as an artist. It comes with time. You get dumped, your heart gets broken.

I have drive, for sure. You have to. It's a tough business; there are a lot of actresses and not a lot of great roles. I don't want to complain because I'm so grateful.

You have to be at the forefront of culture to create art, which they call "product," and Hollywood is not. It's this very old business model, which I think is dying in a lot of ways.

Imitation is the sincerest form of show business.

In any business, you have to evolve.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Business is a cobweb of human relationships

Pleasure is far sweeter as a recreation than a business.

Business and the state have a common interest; not an adversarial interest.