Business Quotes

Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.

On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.

The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.

Centralization at the national capital or within a business undertaking always glorifies the importance of pieces of paper This dims the sense of reality.

I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.

Boxing is show-business with blood.

Every business has two financial objectives: One is to make money; the other, more elusive, is to make money consistently.

I've never been good in the financial and business arenas. I handle the creative side of things.

I'll be getting all types of crazy fans, from the hoodest dude to the straight-up dude in a business suit. It's dope. I have a crazy wide-range fan base.

When you're playing it as a business... your livelihood depends on winning and losing and so some- times sportsmanship is lost, as in the process of billion dollar companies.

Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.

If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.

The Rotary Club will do the work, because business people are busy. But the impact and the value of this will be to the business.

I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

In business, there are times when you disagree, and sometimes it turns out that you're just plain wrong. Humor takes away tension and helps you realize you're wrong.

any effort at large-scale reorganization - that is, any project spanning more than two years and, more generally, anything that has not already been done - is inevitably doomed to failure.

Wrecks are going to happen in this business, that's just a risk of the sport. If you can't keep from worrying about it, then you're in the wrong line of work.

But if you do not have the Tao yourself, what business have you spending your time in vain efforts to bring corrupt politicians into the right path?

I've always heard that women secretly want their father. So I used to walk around in a 1950s business suit, with a hat and a pipe. My opening line would be, 'You should be getting to bed now.'

I have always looked after the little things of my business; weightier matters will take care of themselves.

If y'all see me in the news, and I make the news for something that I ain't got no business making it for, don't bash me. Say it was a young guy living.

I was told that my going to college wouldn't be good for my career. I think that's nonsense. It's good to empower yourself by cutting yourself off from this business every once in a while.

Before I begin, may I ask how old you are?" "You may ask." "How old are you?" "It's none of your business

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

You know, I never expected to enter the movie business.

If you're not on the right path, get off it.

What matters most: passion or competence that was born in? Berkshireis full of people who have a peculiar passion for their own business. I would argue passion is more important than brain power.

I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.

It's a small percentile of people who see one dime out of the music business.

Drivers are pretty well set, but crew chiefs, they change their business cards like they change their pants.

This is a business meal. The calories do not count. I am mentally labeling these as 'business calories' so my body will know they were eaten in the line of duty and will process them differently.

A Christian has no business being satisfied with mediocrity. He's supposed to reach for the stars. Why not? He's not on his own anymore. He has God's help now.

I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home.

I like business and personal life to be distinct.

It is morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money.

If we want to produce people who share the values of a democratic culture, they must be taught those values and not be left to acquire them by chance.

Money is not my business; my thinking is my business. I don't have any other business.

If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.

There is so much blood on this chicken-killer's hands, a little more on his business suit won't hurt.

My business is to obey when the Lord commands, and this is the duty of all mankind.

Those who start in business with too little money are more likely to succeed than those who start with too much. Energy and imagination are the springboards to wealth creation.

It's astonishing how many business owners are terrified of selling. Salespeople who see the most people a day are the highest paid regardless of the economy.

I wanted to be great. And I loved Nashville, so that made it easy. I loved the music business. It made it easy for me to stay and make a life here.

Being generous without keeping score strengthens your spirit, keeps you focused on the people who make your business what it is, and helps breed success.

Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.

Everything's a business. Love, truth, beauty. Conversation is a business. Spirituality is not a business, so it's going to go against the grain of people who are trying to exploit other people.

It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes.

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

The thing I really look for in this business is there are guys who are into football and there are guys who are in the profession for other reasons.