Business Quotes

When you make a business, you get to make a little universe where you control all the laws.

Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it's show business. You know, we all got rhythm.

I grew up always admiring business owners. I was always interested in knowing who pulled what strings. I've always been in love with the decision making process, not just the product.

I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company.

Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.

If your business is not a brand, it's a commodity.

If in a Christian pulpit you have no business saying, "I suggest to you" No! "These things I declare to you."

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

Modern business must have its finger continuously on the public pulse. It must understand the changes in the public mind and be prepared to interpret itself fairly and eloquently to changing opinion.

The possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to insure success.

Traditional thinking is all about "what is" Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.

If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business.

I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them.

Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.

I've set the model of showing fighters how they should conduct their business.

I don't fight for legacy. I don't fight for none of that, I fight for that check. I'm in the check cashing business.

I genuinely believe that any business can create a competitive advantage through giving outstanding customer care.

Didn't want to be a star, wanted just to play guitar in this cockamamie business.

I always tell people, it took me 10 minutes and 35 years in the business. I get tired of playing it ["Lullaby of Birdland"], but not of collecting the royalties.

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach.

If I had my life to live over again, I would elect to be a trader of goods rather than a student of science. I think barter is a noble thing.

I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?

In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of succcessful businessmen.

I don't give a damn what other people think. It's entirely their own business. I'm not writing for other people.

Most of the heroes of Scripture rose to their greatest victories after their worst mistakes. God is in the redemption business, and He testifies of this through the lives of everyone He calls.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

If your business depends on you, you don’t own a business—you have a job. And it’s the worst job in the world because you’re working for a lunatic!

Give the Germans five deutschmarks and they will save it. But give the British £5 and they will borrow £25 and spend it.

A woman may be a mother, a sister, a business woman, or she may own a business. Woman do many things, and it is important that we do it with grace and style.

It's just business nothing personal.

for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

In my career, people in the record business have been rockin' in the same ol' boat. They all crooks - I'll say it clear and loud - especially the big ones.

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.

I think it is a man's duty to make all the money he can, keep all that he can and give away all that he can.

Only about half of all commercials actually work.

No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.

The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders.

It's dangerous business, thinking you can make people over.

Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.

Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.

You don't need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.

You must take risks, both with your own money or with borrowed money. Risk taking is essential to business growth.

To build wealth today, you must be in your own business.

We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks - that's show business.

I don't like people who are in politics for themselves and not for others. You want that, you can go into show business.

The customer is number one, the employee is number two and the shareholder is number three. If the customer is happy, the business is happy, and the shareholders are happy.

You can't delegate growth or customer satisfaction.