Business Quotes

Once you get hooked on the airline business, it's worse than dope.

Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Whether you are a business leader or political leader, you need people around you who are prepared to tell the truth.

At American Airlines, we have built a business around the love of travel that has lasted three quarters of a century. And I'm pretty sure we're just getting started.

I think in just about any business the low cost competitor is always going to have an advantage.

Basically we get confused a bit about what retail is. It is really just buying things, putting them on a floor and selling them.

An entrepreneur in debt is an entrepreneur in business.

Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men.

In big industry new ideas are invited to rear their heads so they can be clobbered at once. The idea department of a big firm is a sort of lab for isolating dangerous viruses.

The left-leaning thinking that dominates the movie business follows a common liberal instinct to deny the spiritual dimension to every problem, thereby profoundly compounding the difficulties.

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.

Obama has been an absolute disaster in my opinion in the US. I run a business. The healthcare costs are going through the roof for not only the businesses but the people.

I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have.

Leaving [from EU] will allow us to return real democratic control to important areas of national life; from international trade, the right to work and live in Britain to business regulation.

The business model of racing is not a pretty one.

If you are a musician and you dont show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people will rip you off. They will sweet talk you into anything.

The secret is to make sure the business is running to perfection, with or without me.

Chances are that neither the client nor the agency will ever know very much about what role the ad has played in sales or profits of the client, either short-term or long-term.

Improve your business, your life, your relationships, your finances and your health. When you do the whole world improves.

Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.

When you start in that [model] business the rules are imposed upon you, but when you stay in the business long enough the rules could be broken.

You can do any number of things in the music business aside from trying to look like you're 25. To me it's embarrassing.

Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight -- this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one -- this is business.

Camp is always all business.

People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.

There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.

I'm not running for office. I don't have to be politically correct. I don't have to be a nice person. Like I watch some of these weak-kneed politicians, it's disgusting. I don't have to be that way.

My husband is not running for the presidency, neither are my children, neither is our business, neither are our foster children.

I am not a professional coach but I believe being healthy inside and out and cleansing your demons ... helps you perform better in business and become a more positive person.

I thought not being part of the [Britain] union was a bad idea. We are better together. It was dangerous for business as there were no [concrete] plans around the currency or the economy.

I am not going to give you a number for it because it's not my business to do intelligent work.

I think it's a reflection of the music business in general, which to me seems very fragmented.

The music business is strictly business.

Having the best product means nothing if the people won't buy it.

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

The key to evangelism is a great product. It is easy, almost unavoidable, to catalyze evangelism for a great product. It is hard, almost impossible, to catalyze evangelism for crap.

Integrity, number one. Even in business that's predicated on lies I refuse to become part of the lies that is all-consuming.

I can't believe what I said about myself. What I said in my own private conversations with myself to an ESPN producer are my business, and I had no business saying them to someone else.

If you're an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job.

It's a bottom line business where a lot of gray suits are brought in and then, within two years, these guys suddenly know everything about baseball.

If we agree that the bottom line of life is happiness, not success, then it makes perfect sense to say that it is the journey that counts, not reaching the destination.

Since the purpose of business is to satisfy existing desires, or stimulate new ones, if everyone were genuinely happy, there would be no need for business any longer.

I wanted to become an engineer, or get a masters in business. But I had the opportunity to do films when I was about 25 and it was a great way to express myself.

I'm 43 years old, and I know who I am, and I own my mistakes. They're my business. And when somebody who doesn't know me has an opinion, it's none of my business.

I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can only undo the mischief with infinite woe.

I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.

There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world