Business Quotes

I'm not in the business of changing policies. I hope to inform, not form, decisions.

Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face, especially if you are in business. Yes, and that is also true if you are a housewife, architect or engineer.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

I work hard, and managing an inventory-based business can be extremely stressful. The upside is that, as long as I get my job done, I can take time off pretty much any time I want.

I've got a wife, four kids, a business, and a baseball career.

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.

What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?

I know I can hold two, maybe even three belts. So I have business to take care of back in and around my weight class.

The most important part of every business is to know what ought to be done.

Twenty years in this business convinces me that any normal person using the customary three percent of the brain can pick stocks just as well, if not better, than the average Wall Street expert.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, in business, so is a number.

You have to be pretty tough to be an actor, and you have to be pretty certain what you want. You can't waffle through this business.

Chart positions aren't the be all and end all.

I have some unfinished business to complete at the University of Oregon.

It would be easier to screw up American Express than Coke or Gillette, but it's an immensely strong business.

What a sad business is being funny!

I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone.

Nothing is ever enough when what you are looking for isn't what you really want.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.

Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.

Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.

The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

True creativity often starts where language ends.

I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.

I always am very aggressive and putting out much more than people would like, but that's the business I'm in.

I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.

The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.

The very heart of worship, as the Bible makes clear, is the business of expressing, from the depths of our spirits, the highest possible honor we can offer before God.

I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.

In business, everything starts with integrity. Otherwise it falls apart, though it does take time to find out who has integrity.

Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.

I'm quite worried about the fiscal imbalances that we've got and what that might mean in terms of financial crisis ahead.

The returns from investing in poor people are just as great as the returns from investing in the business world... and have even more meaning

You can be a business thinker.

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.

Once I pull up to the stadium, for me it's all business. This is my job and I take it really serious.

There's so much more purpose behind my getting up in the morning. Business is hard, really hard, but it's worth it.

If you take care of your workers they'll take care of your business.

Business model innovation is constant in this economy. You start with a vision of a platform. For a while, you think there's a line of sight, and then it's gone. There's suddenly a new angle.

All artists have runners, people that tell them what to do, business managers, lawyers, these - if they get the right ones, they're lucky, and if they get the wrong ones, they're unlucky.

The Federal Reserve needs to provide small businesses in America with the same low-interest loans it gave to foreign banks.

We are in the entertaining business, they want to get autographs, they want to take something home, whether it's a signed hat or, you know, program or whatever it might be.

What is a business? It's simply an idea that makes someone else's life better