Business Quotes

Mistakes will not end your business. If you are nimble and willing to listen to constructive criticism you can excel by learning and evolving.

I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.

If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.

I feel like I'm at a level in my business where I've established myself as a professional. And the one thing I haven't managed to do is find a way to achieve a better balance.

Why did I want to win? because I didn't want to lose!

It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.

Nothing good was ever learned from eavesdropping, so mind your business and let others mind theirs.

Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings.

Music and the music business are two different things.

There are three proven rules for good teeth: brush after every meal; see your dentist twice a year; and mind your own business.

When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.

The cave art of Madison Avenue has been by far the most innovative and educative art form of the twentieth century.

Advertising is the principal reason why the business person has come to inherit the earth.

Beware of a misfit occupation. . . . Consider carefully your natural bent, whether for business or a profession.

There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster.

Nostalgia isn't a business model

I am constantly asked why I never made other films after 'There's No Business Like Show Business,' the answer is I was never asked.

Short-term can be terminal.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Fathers have skills that they never use at home. You run a landscaping business and you can't dress and feed a four-year-old? Take it on!

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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