Business Quotes

When television came in, everybody thought that was the end of the movie business, which was not and is not.

Big business is basic to the very life of this country; and yet many -perhaps most - Americans have a deep-seated fear and an emotional repugnance to it. Here is monumental contradiction.

Somebody asked me the question not too long ago: 'Dave, do you think the music business has turned corrupt.' I said: 'Absolutely not - it has always been corrupt.'

A business must have a conscience as well as a counting house.

Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.

In my walks, I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods if I am thinking of something out of the woods?

Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties.

I'm also very fond of a light business jet, so I'd like to get it before it's too late.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

I've fallen back on this periodically, although I must say that getting out of the grocery business ranked right up there with getting out of the army as one of the happier experiences of my life.

Business must be a force for good in the world.

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

Philosophy is everybody's business.

You've gotta be business savvy really, or else you get the piss taken out of you.

There is no business to be done on a dead planet.

This market right now is moving on nothing more than emotions. Guess what? It almost always moves on emotions.

I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus.

In the Ford Motor Company, we emphasize service equally with sales.

By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway.

I know. I'm Darren. I don't know what I'm doing here.

Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry.

As a member of the House Committee on Small Business and because of my own experience as a small business owner, I am appreciative of the impact these small businesses have on our local economies.

Finance that only talks to itself & deals with each other becomes socially useless

The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.

We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires.

He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.

What do artists do? Artists give people something they didn't know they were missing: a dance, a piece of music, a painting, a piece of sculpture. Catering to that need is the best business strategy.

Oh, I know all about my mother and me,' you may say. 'All that business with my mother was over years ago.' You don't and it wasn't.

Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.

The business of business is people.

I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.

I think my greatest moment in business was when the first Southwest airplane arrived after four years of litigation and I walked up to it and I kissed that baby on the lips and I cried.

Businessmen are notable for a peculiarly stalwart character, which enables them to enjoy without loss of self-reliance the benefits of tariffs, franchises, and even outright government subsidies.

Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.

The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.

In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could possibly be twisted into a professional expense and remember to lump in all the doubtfulls.

You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don't sell out for money, fame, or notoriety.

Zen has no business with ideas.

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

You’ve got to be sure of yourself before You can ever win a prize.

After a while the press of business in the province put an end to our philosophizing, and I returned with increased determination to my plans to fly to the Moon.

Do what is necessary to be resilient. You will get knocked down. What matters is that you get back up.

I think Sean Parker damaged the music business with Napster.

If I don't make music I'm going back to the hood. I'll sell crack. I'm gonna go back to sell crack if I can't make it in the music business and that's what I was doing before that.

Freedom brings opportunity, opportunity makes your future.

I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.

We don't think of ourselves as do-gooders or altruists. It's just that somehow we're trying our best to be run with some sense of moral compass even in a business environment that is growing.

We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options ... I am an options trader, and I don't understand options. How do you want a regulator to understand them?