Business Quotes

That's ended, that's over. I want you to meet my pimps. I thought, I'm a show-business ho already, so I might as well be a real ho.

The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.

Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud.

I think I've realized that business and being polite [don't] match. You can be fair, but me being polite was not me being fair to myself.

In the ordinary business of life punctuality is . . . necessary.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit

Every corporate security may be best viewed, in the first instance, as an ownership interest in, or a claim against, a specific business enterprise.

He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.

Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.

To be at ease is better than to be at business.

The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work.

No one on earth is allowed to question my business decisions.

A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.

We never set up Yandex to imitate what others were doing. We've been in the business longer than other search engines and have created many original products.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.

Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.

One of the key problems of the business world is that greed has become culturally acceptable.

To run this business ... you need ... optimism, humanism, enthusiasm, intuition, curiosity, love, humour, magic and fun, and that secret ingredient-euph oria.

The question is where are business ethics and morality if one of the parties wants to dishonor a binding contract, just because in retrospect it realizes it could perhaps have got a better price!

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist.

The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.

I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents.

The Government's business is in sound condition.

The business of being a popular entertainer in England is just too hard.

So many people comment that I'm much more mature than average. In this business, you can get taken advantage of if you're not aware and you're not tough.

I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business.

War is good business Invest your son

One of the biggest problems out there that I hear from my friends in the business community is that there's no lending, that it's tough to get a loan today.

I'm mad in the front of my mind, but business-minded in the back.

I do not think I'm a great talent. I think I'm a medium talent, but I think I understand the business and enjoy the business.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what's good.

The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.

The simple truth is that our businessmen do not want a government that will let business alone. They want a government they can use.

Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people.

Those who manage their way into a crisis are not necessarily the right people to manage their way out of a crisis

Unless we take that first step into the unknown, we will never know our own potential.

Let's execute along this strategy, but know that we'll probably get some of this wrong, so be open to changing it.

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.

A recession is when you have to tighten your belt; depression is when you have no belt to tighten. When you've lost your trousers - you're in the airline business.

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

A genuinely humble attitude is one of the greatest skills in business. Because it compels us to LISTEN and LEARN.

People do make judgments of trust on appearance - in the real world and online.

I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.

Become an expert in one fundamental area of your market or business, no one starts out as a generalist.

Why are we trying to measure social media like a traditional channel anyway? Social media touches every facet of business and is more an extension of good business ethics.

I'll be like Irving Berlin: "There's no business like show business."

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.

Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.