Business Quotes

Everyone in show business has had the experience of the fan who is so excited at recognizing their favorite star, they say, 'Oh my gosh, you're my biggest fan!

I came to the conclusion long ago that limits to innovation have less to do with technology or creativity than organizational agility. Inspired individuals can only do so much.

My theory has always been that everyone in show business is there because they were deprived of some attention as a child.

You must perfect every fundamental of your business if you expect it to perform well.

At the end of the day, photography is ninety-nine percent business, connections, and politics and one percent creativity.

I think that the Middle East is the largest piece of unfinished business that we all have. I happen to believe in the democratization process.

In business, I loved cars. I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning. Only in America can you decide to get a good education and pursue what you like.

How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

Change the boundaries of business.

Even before my parents died, I felt all the responsibility to my family. I don't know why. In any business, any relationship, if something goes wrong, I feel I am to blame. It's something inside me.

However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions.

When you believe you can... you can!

No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.

The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.

You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Clause!

No man has the mind of Christ, except him who makes it his business to obey him.

Basically, I'm just a guitar player that figured out I wasn't ever gonna be able to buy dinner with my guitar playing so I got into songwriting, which is a little more profitable business.

I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

It's the most unglamourous glamour business in the world.

They say that politics is show business for ugly people, but as I always crack, what would I know about that? I like a challenge

The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning process.

You have a career, and you start as a business person. And you work your way, you reach this peak, and you know the time's going to come when you go back down.

I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too.

Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends.

There are only two words that will always lead you to success. Those words are yes and no. Undoubtedly, you've mastered saying yes. So start practicing saying no. Your goals depend on it!

I learned hard lessons, and I've taken that lesson and it's helped me become a better business person and a better leader.

The amount of time people waste dwelling on failures rather than putting that energy into another project, always amazes me

Call on a business man only at business times, and on business; transact your business, and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his business.

To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.

It's not my business to try and make God think like me... but to try, in prayer and penitence, to think like God.

I'm not really in the excuse business.

Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.

God never tempts any man. That is Satan's business.

Always let your employees come to work with a smile.

Capitalism, communism ... it's all garbage.

Don't think what's the cheapest way to do it or what's the fastest way to do it. Think what's the most amazing way to do it.

You are not in business to be popular.

Beware of that profound enemy of the free enterprise system who pays lip-service to free competition, but also labels every antitrust prosecution as a persecution.

Catfish is not playing guitar no more, he's doing like a home-front thing. He had been in the business around ten years before I got in it, so I guess he's had enough of it.

If you believe in unlimited quality and act in all your business dealings with total integrity, the rest will take care of itself.

Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn't survive the auditions or the rejections, or people just didn't realize how good they were.

Squash was my livelihood and as in business, I had to stay on top.

Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.

I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man.

As a business owner or manager, you know that hiring the wrong person is the most costly mistake you can make.

A good idea for a new business tends not to occur in isolation, and often the window of opportunity is very small. So speed is of the essence.

This Islam business kidnapped me.

Take every gain without showing remorse about missed profits, because an eel may escape sooner than you think.