Business Quotes

If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self- interest, you can have practically anything you go after.

We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering

On ships they call them barnacles; in business they attach themselves to desks and are called vice presidents.

My biggest problem with the retirement thing was I'd be leaving the part of this business that I enjoy the most... the entertaining part, being on stage and seeing how the music affects people.

Pour your heart and soul into your business. People will notice.

Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.

They [the Reagan Administration] want to put street criminals in jail to make life safer for the business criminals. They're against street crime, providing that street isn't Wall Street.

The public does not know what is possible. We do.

It's none of the governments business who comes to, in, on, or from my body.

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

I love show business. I wake up every morning and kiss it.

The airline industry is full of bullshitters, liars and drunks. We excel at all three in Ireland.

I am interested in garnering the white vote, and the black vote, and the Latin vote, and the Asian vote, and the business vote, and the labor vote.

Government is a parasite-a cancer that by nature tries to spread deeper into society. Those who want to run others' lives won't give up and start minding their own business.

I'd say to anyone trying to break into the business: Don't just be interested in movies. Be interested in life. Be a person. Be in touch.

That's what's great about show business. It's escapism. You pay your five bucks to get in and sit there and you're in another world. Forget about the problems in the world. It's wonderful.

The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost.

The most important job of an entrepreneur is to design the business before there is a business.

It's a very, very difficult space to operate in, the restaurant business-it requires a lot of human beings to intersect at just the right place to make it all work out.

I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output.

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

I've always leaned toward a feminine, funky style, even in business settings. I used to paint my nails blue in 1993, before it was mainstream.

People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.

The challenge with being an initiator of projects is that you are never, ever done.

You can buy a person's hands but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.

You make more money selling advice than following it. It's one of the things we count on in the magazine business -- along with the short memory of our readers.

Racism, because it favors color over talent, is bad for business.

Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.

Each had his own business to think of. Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title.

No one can measure the loss of business that may arise from a defective item that goes out to a customer.

I've really gone into business since I got the 6 string, which was like starting all over.

Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years' business career, from which I had retired.

When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree

A successful trader studies human nature and does the opposite of what the general public does.

Nothing is so much fun as business. I do not expect to do anything but work as long as I can stand up.

There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.

Running helped me learn how to deal with failure, and failure is a big part of the Internet business.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.

I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.

The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy.

It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be.

Businesspeople are like sharks, not just because we're gray and slightly oily, or because our teeth trail the innards of those we have eviscerated, but because we must move forward or die.

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

The biggest challenge in business is not the competition, it's what goes on inside your own head

Government should stay the hell out of people's business.

The intelligent investor shouldn't ignore Mr. Market entirely. Instead, you should do business with him- but only to the extent that it serves your interests.

As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Postal Service must change and develop a new business model.

We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hell of an ad.'