Business Quotes

We need to repeal Dodd-Frank act. It is eviscerating small businesses and small banks.

I want to invest and have my own record label and artists. I want to have a business where my kids, kids, kids will still have something going on long after I'm gone.

But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. It kills the people trying to start a business.

I'm in the business of providing people with secondary satisfactions. It wouldn't have done me much good if they had all written their own plays, would it?

Elvis changed the country music scene quite a bit; he almost put country music out of business.

Let it be a settled principle in our minds that the first and chief business of the Church of Christ is to preach the Gospel.

Social media allows you to network, collaborate, and share your work with others. Building a solid network via social is the most valuable thing you can do for your business or personal brand.

I ignore all the doomsaying nonsense. I'm in a business where the odds of ever earning a living are a zillion to one, so I know itcan be done. I know the impossible can become possible.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.

Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.

We both (Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett) insist on a lot of time being available almost every day to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. We read and think.

See's candy company was the first high-quality business we ever bought.

I've done the same thing in the world of business that winners do in the game. I watch them, admire them.

It's magazines like HITS that have to label things.

Most people that work in [show] business, if they're not gypsies by nature, become gypsies, just because of the reality of this business.

Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.

Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Tastes are created by the business interests. How else can you explain the popularity of Al Hirt?

Building a business is not rocket science, it's about having a great idea and seeing it through with integrity.

I couldn't care less about business.

The role of business is to provide products and services that make peoples lives better - while using fewer resources - and to act lawfully and with integrity.

Industry prospers when it offers people articles which they want more than they want anything they now have. The fact is that people never buy what they need. They buy what they want.

Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each.

Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do.

We Experiment Endlessly, With New Products, New Methods, New Companies And New Marketing. A Successful Business The Emphasis Is On Experiment And Development, Ideas Are The Lifeblood Of Business.

Growth does not always lead a business to build on success. All too often it converts a highly successful business into a mediocre large business.

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig.

Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you

Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.

If you don't hire at least one or two people that are smarter than you are, then you're a terrible manager and I don't need you.

Premium will increasingly be defined in terms of sustainability and environmental compatibility

Those not favorable to the money trust could be squeezed out of business and the people frightened into demanding changes in the banking and currency laws which the Money Trust would frame.

The essence of good advertising is not to inspire hope, but to create greed.

You have to have a strong sense of self in this business - otherwise they're going to spit you out.

Those who say "it's not personal, it's just business" are lying. All business is personal, and the best business is very personal.

Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.

The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.

The Holocaust industry has always been bankrupt. What remains is to openly declare it so. The time is long past to put it out of business.

If my father's business hadn't gone broke, I'd be exporting nuts, bolts and sugar machinery right now. What an awful thought!

My business life takes a big chunk of time, but I still put exercise in my schedule. I'm up at 5 A.M. and get up and stretch and go for a run in Runyon Canyon with all five of my dogs.

At home, we don't listen to our music-we listen to other people's music. It keeps you attached to the show business world.

I have shared my whole life. My private and my show business life. It helps me actually to feel my songs and to go on with my dreams.

In business, there’s such a thing as an invaluable person, but no such thing as an indispensable one.

A leader should be a visionary and have more foresight than an employee.

The best part? Probably being able to portray such a respectable, ethical, intelligent, strong woman. That's still pretty rare in our business, unfortunately.

One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that

It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.

Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow.