Business Quotes

So it's the kind of business where you can't wait to get up in the morning and read the papers, or listen to what's on the news, and you know, how the world's going to change.

My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that made sure we ate right and we had our cod liver oil, but didn't know a heck of a lot about what I did.

And I thought I'd always like some form of business, I didn't know what kind of business I'd go in.

Perseverance is the key to starting a successful business.

I knew that I wanted to start my own business. I knew that I wanted to work for myself. I was no stranger to the word no. You just have to keep going.

I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.

History at its best is a gritty, dirty business.

the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That's the unfinished business between us. because love, love is never finished.

Every office interprets business casual differently. Feel out your office!

The distinctions between advertising and marketing are blurring, requiring new roles and new forms of consumer-centric marketing.

In the future, it will become increasingly obvious that your competitors are just as clueless as you are.

Your business clothes are naturally attracted to staining liquids. This attraction is strongest just before an important meeting.

I never intended to be on television or in a movie. The theater was all I ever dreamed about, once I decided to try to make it as a business profession. All this other stuff has just been icing.

Among idealists and visionaries, there is no shortage of good intent, but there's often a shortage of discipline.

Good innovators like to solve business crossword puzzles.

Have a core concept, but wrap it in a full business model.

Most companies are built to execute today's business model, not discover tomorrow's.

You can increase the odds of spotting the weak points in your approach if you really think about the end-to-end business model you plan to follow - how you plan to create, capture, and deliver value.

I'm sure there will be business ventures and things down the road, but I definitely don't want to be a team owner.

The internet is a great thing but the worst thing that it brought to the music business was piracy and it's made making stuff available really difficult.

The art business is a rarified business and appeals to an audience capable of spending money on a luxury. Too often the atmosphere in a gallery borders on snobbishness.

Well, Bill, I don't think you're going to find many shy people that are in the political business.

I question the premise that digital is necessarily the enemy of traditional media. In many ways, it presents us with enormous opportunities.

At some point, practicality requires that you reach out to people in the business. You have to take care of business if you value your work.

I don't really plan on working a 9-to-5 job. I want to own my own business.

Since I was small, when I was in school, I was a business girl. I would buy things to sell, gums for three cents, things like that.

You kind of can't help who you'll fall in love with. I'd date someone who isn't in the business in a heartbeat.

I went through a period of pulling away from everything - acting, people - not sure if I would ever have a voice in this business.

Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.

I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.

I pretended I had urgent business at the prosecutor's table which, in one of The System's obvious tells, was always millimeters from the jury box.

As an organization grows and succeeds, it sows the seeds of its own demise by getting boring.

Choose your customers. Fire the ones that hurt your ability to deliver the right story to the others.

In a world of free, everyone can play.

Your best customers are worth far more than your average customers.

Don't try to be the 'next'. Instead, try to be the other, the changer, the new.

I don't think there's a shortage of remarkable ideas. I think your business has plenty of great opportunities to do great things. Nope, what's missing isn't the ideas. It's the will to execute them.

If your organization requires success before commitment, it will never have either.

If you're in the idea business, it doesn't matter where you're from. It matters if we care about the change you're making.

Give up control and give it away ... The more you give your idea away, the more your company is going to be worth.

Once you have permission to talk to someone, finding new products or services for them is a smart way to grow.

The sooner we realize that the world has changed, the sooner we can accept it and make something of what we've got. Whining isn't a scalable solution.

The innovator creates a business where they are making money, even when they sleep.

The market and the consumer and idea trump the system.

The application process changes the list of who applies. Your applicants reflect your methods.

The business of Mr. Bennett's life was to keep his daughters alive. The business of Mrs. Bennett's was to get them married.

I had - I was pretty hell bent on getting into the cartoon business specifically as an artist from the get-go.

I learnt the hard way about positioning in business, about catering to the right segments.

The enigma of cinema is gone because of the focus on business. As soon as you attach numbers to a film, you limit it. Films are meant to be an escape from reality.

I realize that the majority of people in the entertainment business happen to be Democrats. I have no problem with that. And they should have no problem with the fact that I'm a Republican.