Business Quotes

Most people define greatness through wealth and popularity and position in the corner office. But what I call everyday greatness comes from character and contribution.

Seek to get more deeply involved in the business that you are in. If I had to distill it down into one word, you have to be curious as a professional.

Ninety-eight percent of what goes on in people's heads is none of their smucking business.

There are really very few economies of scale in centralising or standardising advertising.

Advertising tends to be most effective in jogging finally into action those people who are well-enough disposed towards a product, but have not yet got around to buying it.

It is fairly clear that many of the arguments against proposition testing are really arguments against propositions themselves.

I think we rarely recognize the fifth business in our lives at the time those people are changing us.

In point of morals, the average woman is, even for business, too crooked.

I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.

I'm before him on my knees, and he kisses me He assumes I lose my reason and I do. Men are stupid, men are vain, Love's disgusting, love's insane, A humiliating business-oh how true.

The wasting of finite resources is everyones business

The truth is, every sport has been turned into a huge, nihilistic business.

In books there's nothing of the fish covered in the coldness of the sea, or the feeling of a star touching space. Bad for business.

I didn't leave business school to go bankrupt.

I don't blame any director for wanting to do something more commercial. That's all part of the business. I certainly have done it, as an actor.

From a relatively early age I got interested in business

[On swinging for the fences] Ultimately, you have the potential to build a significant business with the potential to have a positive impact on millions of people's lives.

I think the music business is changing. Artists that don't want to tour and just want to collect royalty checks and stay home are not going to be able to do that.

In show business, you can't make a living. You can only make a fortune, but you can't make a living.

If you stay in this business long enough, you're liable to hit it big.

You can't be in the music business as long as "Steve and Edie" have, if you stink.

I did a lot of things when I first started out. In order to be in show business, I juggled, I did magic tricks, cards tricks and I played the banjo.

A lot of things seem to be worth almost no money. but if you do them very well, and they help people fill a need, there's a great business you can build around that.

You'd better have the technology knowledge. I really urge you not to think you can start a whole company and business with just ideas on paper, because you'll end up owning so few of those ideas.

I am in a business that's built on record sales and reputation and how your single is doing and where your song is on iTunes. But the kind of music that I do comes from my beliefs.

Unfortunately, today's colleges and universities, and especially our business schools, do not offer pragmatic crisis management teachings.

You'll go out of business if you think people are stupid.

Data is great, but strategy is better

I'm sure some people will say, 'Why do this?' And my response is, 'Why wouldn't you?' The film business in general is using a model that is outdated and, worse than that, inefficient.

But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.

I laugh all the time - at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don't laugh onstage because then it's serious business.

We are in a results business, so Stuart Pearce being a jolly old boy won't keep me in a job.

One of the big failings of art schools is that students aren't given any teaching on how to survive as a one-person business, which is what it is.

I think that business leaders today have to be more rounded than they used to be, they have to be completely multi-functional and fast-moving.

I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out.

It's been my observation, after years in the [insurance] business, that a certain percent of the population simply can't resist the urge to cheat.

With ruin staring you in the face, there is nothing worse to live through than a siege of waiting and hoping. If you manage to live through it, nothing can ever jar your nerves after that.

I think the responsibility of running a huge business, which happens if you become a successful designer, probably makes you more careful.

Being a good designer certainly doesn't guarantee that you're good at business. It's probably more surprising when the two talents coexist in one person.

It's a very exciting time in the history of this country, to even see people responding to a different way of doing business and really wanting to make a change.

The business of living - that's your artwork, and the process of that is finding out who you are, what it all means.

I mean, everybody's star fades in every business; that's just a natural part of life.

Answer your phone. Get call forwarding. Or an answering service. Hire staff if you need to. But make sure that someone is picking up the phone when someone calls your business.

Deal with complaints. If you give the complaint your attention, you may be able to please this one person this one time - and position your business to reap the benefits of good customer service.

Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast. I'm not talking about onset or duration. I mean the quality of the insanity, the day-to-day business of being nuts.

I'm in a relationship with life. My life is just out there. I'm on the road every day. I love my life.

The truth is women in the workplace don't have to fight nearly as hard for opportunities, or to dispel stereotypes, as they did before.

I love the way business works, when there's a crisis or a scandal, there is blood on the floor. Somebody pays, people are held accountable, that's just not politics.

We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.

Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference between beings, because its aim and end is to obliterate all such fictions and monstrosities.