Business Quotes

The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.

When there's an opportunity, some people pass it by. I've been lucky enough to recognise opportunities and every day, in my business, there's an opportunity somewhere - to buy, expand, design.

Focus on the core problem your business solves & put out lots of content & enthusiasm, & ideas about how to solve that problem.

A sound man is good at salvage, at seeing nothing is lost

If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy.

Dad is my best mate and I can tell Mum absolutely anything. I really appreciate Mum and Dad. Why are we so close? Young parents, I think. The rock business keeps their minds young.

Get your customers involved in your business. Make them your partners and they'll never leave you.

There's just something fascinating to me about watching a business interaction unfold, and the negotiation. And how everything is negotiable in life.

Business is like tennis. Those who serve well win.

The digital revolution is almost as disruptive to the traditional media business as electricity was to the candle business.

I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior, which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others.

When I was very young, at the beginning my business was to work more than the others to show them their pointlessness.

Someone who feels appreciated will always be & do more than expected. This holds true in love & business.

There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in harm's way.

Just being young and growing up in this business is hard. Just growing up in general is hard.

We cannot certainly, have any excuse either for taking any thing that belongs to our masters without their leave, or for being unfaithful in their business.

I didn't come into the business to get awards or titles.

The spring of 1930 marks the end of a period of grave concern...American business is steadily coming back to a normal level of prosperity.

The US presidency will continue to represent the major power groups of the United States - big business and the military - regardless of who the talking head is.

There's also, I think more so in the music business and especially for women, this ceiling that people put on you if you have children or a family and decide to spend time with them.

[On daughter Liza Minnelli] I think she decided to go into show business when she was an embryo, she kicked so much.

The rise of the Internet has caused the demise of the record labels, and has destroyed the music business of old, but it's also created new opportunities for young artists.

If a man goes into business with only the idea of making money, the chances are he won't.

Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.

The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other.

We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.

A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play.

Many persons have an idea that one cannot be in business and lead an upright life, whereas the truth is that no one succeeds in business to any great extent, who misleads or misrepresents.

America is one of the biggest businesses in the world, and the people who run it can't balance their budget. We need business people in there and lobbyists out of there.

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

What we're going to do is try to get TSA out of the human resources and personnel business and into the security business to connect the dots.

A lot of record company people, even though they're our age, want to be perceived as young hip guys, and they're hurting the business.

I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.

Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.

People say you never retire in this [film] business and I say, well, not until they retire you.

The boundaries of design are the same as the problem of perception.

We become what we think about most.

Fear and creativity don't mix well.

You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise - the more successful, the greater the prejudice.

Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.

The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.

If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.

If I've learned anything in this business, it's that you have to be fearless.

But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.

Details are our business as writers. Your heart leaps when you see a detail that can go somewhere

The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now.

There's too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.

I honestly believe that advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

Most organisations say they want creativity, but really they do not.

If you have a business model that relies on customers being misinformed, you better start working on changing your business model.