Business Quotes

If anyone asks how old I am, tell them it's none of their business!

No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.

In business be as able as you can, but do not be cunning; cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity.

Briefcases, like CEOs, should never look new and unused.

Sell practical, tested merchandise at a reasonable profit, treat your customers like human beings - and they will always come back.

I am often asked how I got into the business. I didn't. The business got into me.

If I could direct it [films] I would be very happy. But the economics of business don't always allow you to do what you want.

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.

Hollywood is about playing the game, and I can't think of any successful actresses who didn't play the game. There's a lot more renegades in the music business, from Patti Smith to Janis Joplin.

If someone was to tally the number of human hours wasted in business by people trying to accomplish objectives without being given the authority to do so, we would all be appalled.

Once the business data have been centralized and integrated, the value of the database is greater than the sum of the preexisting parts.

Business money reattaches worldwide Deep inside stops the diamond rocks In a million world, billion world, quitrillion world Rap moves on to the year three thousand

Everyone is so preoccupied by youth. People talk about how the movie business is a microcosm of the bigger picture, or life imitating art, but the business is guilty for getting women out of the way.

For every force charged by God, may He be exalted, with some business is an angel put in charge.

It's not an easy task building a motorcycle company. Your window for success is relatively small. You can't afford a lot of hiccups if you don't have another business supporting you.

Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories.

Investors who find the best businesses to put their money behind are rewarded for their research.

Success in any field, but especially in business is about working with people, not against them.

I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet!

Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.

There's a lot of ignorance in our business... Everybody's an authority. To have your own vision is rewarding.

In a startup, absolutely nothing happens unless you make it happen.

I must say, I feel the reception of my work is none of my business.

I know what I say; I understand my mission and business. God Almighty is my shield; and what can man do if God is my friend?

Control your cash. Stick to your core business. Know your numbers.

I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.

Any good business person applies financial discipline to everything they do.

If a business is not ethical, it will fail, perhaps not right away but eventually.

The most important invention that will come out of the corporate research lab in the future will be the corporation itself.

Innovation, I believe, is the only way that America will regain the initiative in a global dynamic economy.

When people talk about my business, my life, I'm really private. Maybe someone thinks I'm arrogant or something, but it's just me.

EROEI [energy returned on energy invested, or net energy] is to a civilization what gross profit is to a business, the source of the surplus that supports the entire enterprise.

The right remedy for the trade cycle is not to be found in abolishing booms and thus keeping us permanently in a semi-slump; but in abolishing slumps and thus keeping us permanently in a quasi-boom.

Men in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and while they are in the puzzle of business, they have no time to tend their health either of body or mind.

The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.

There will be no good business unless the majority comes to agree that we should demand more from business than large quarterly returns.

If you're going to get into big time religion, these are the games you have to play. You go into it as a business and you work it as a business.

The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department.

In a collective society, everybody's business is everybody's business.

Business happens over years and years. Value is measured in the total upside of a business relationship, not by how much you squeezed out in any one deal.

The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.

I'm sure there was people in Australia that told Peter Norman that hey, man, you shouldn't have done what you did, you shouldn't have gotten involved in those individuals, it wasn't your business.

Education is extremely important, especially in my business, the music business.

In raising a people from slavery to freedom, you have called them to act on a new theatre; and it is a necessary part of your business, to teach them how to perform their parts.

Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

Short-term can be terminal.

The major value of reaching goals is not to acquire it, but it's the person you become while you're working to acquire it.

Good wages are pro business, since they reduce turnover, increase morale, produce better-skilled employees, and improve productivity.

Funny, but after trading for more than 15 years, I still am capable of forgetting a cardinal rule: The paper you own, in the end, will be intertwined with the fate of the 30-year bond.