Business Quotes

I tried acting and all of the arts, I even put out a record album, but what I like the most is business.

One is that that's the way we started and we thought there would be more value and less confusion if the business model was just based on delivering news that's of value to Web sites.

Your website is the window of your business. Keep it fresh, keep it exciting.

Advice? I don't offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.

When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.

Actually, I think business women are better women at home, if you want to know the truth because you do understand what goes into a day's work out in the world, a very nerve-racking affair.

I went onto reality TV as a business decision.

A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich.

Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake.

(Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation of profit, it is the avoidance of loss

I have always believed you cannot run a successful enterprise from behind a desk.

Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.

Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.

I learned that nobody's better than you to get your business off the ground. The experience you get is priceless.

Unfortunately, WorldCom is not the only company caught up in this kind of accounting scandal. The impact this will have on the general public is yet to be seen.

Censor: A self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business.

This is a tough business to run for president.

Success? Odd as it seems, you will achieve the greates results in business and career if you drop the word 'achievement' from your vocabulary and replace it with 'contribution'.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee.

The most probable assumption is that no currently working 'business theory' will be valid 10 years hence.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Business enterprise is an organ of society. There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.

I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers.

We were hoping to build a small profitable company; and of course, what we've done is build a large, unprofitable company.

Industry pays debts, while despair increases them.

As to the idea that advertising motivates people, remember the Edsel.

I started in a business background, but then it was like, 'you know, I can't do math,' so I changed it to a liberal arts degree and got my Bachelor of Arts in Communications and it made sense.

I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business.

Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

Part of the film business is, if you want an apple, you buy an apple.

Movies are not a growth business.

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.

I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.

Business shouldn't be like sports, separating the men from the women.

That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life.

I have no ego. There is no way you can have a big ego and survive in this [show]business. You can't learn if you think no one else has anything to say that's of value.

Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production - only to produce a race of bed-wetters!

Innovation and creativity are the juiciest parts of running a business.

When you're in business, if you have some sort of gimmick it's a huge advantage.

To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.

To believe a business impossible is the way to make it so. How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.

Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look for bugs and things.

I only know one thing: Everything I learned about the banking business, I learned in the banking towers of the Societe.

I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed

Let's all commit ourselves to the basic civility of minding our own business. Failing that, let's go back to a time when we were nasty and judgmental, but only behind one another's backs.

Business and the environment: Wasting resources costs the earth - and lowers your competitive edge

We have to be a state where business is welcome and jobs are created. We have to demand value for what is spent and we need to continue to resist a lottery.

I think concerns with a member of Congress with a cabinet official being active in business. I don't see why it wouldn't apply to the president.