Business Quotes

Of course in show business there are two ways to play it and I am not politically correct so I am not going to get endorsements or anything like that

I have a bad gambling problem. You're not in show business for 12 years and dress like this without a bad gambling problem.

So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities.

Have you ever been tempted to start your own business? First read this cautionary tale, especially if you think your ideas come from God.

Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science.

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.

My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

Dreams have their place in managerial activity, but they need to be kept severely under control.

Born in Jabalpur, I was brought up in Deolali, where my father ran a small business of making fire extinguishers.

For a hot-shot CEO taking over a troubled company, mass firings are the ultimate quick fix, the accounting equivalent of crack: cheap, easy to score, instantly gratifying, and highly addictive.

The greater your command of brand loyalty, the less you must worry about price sensitivity and competitive promotions-and the less you must pay for marketing.

I've been in the bargain basement of the movie business.

Teach your children or your grandchildren Chinese. It is going to be the most important language of their lifetimes.

When I started in the business, I was told I had three good years in me.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.

Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand - that of finding workable compromises between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.

Video can seem like just another challenge to overcome, but I see a major increase in my business and brand awareness, all from the power of video.

Selling is a person-to-person business. You cannot send the sales manual out to make the sale. Sales manuals have no legs and no voice.

Not everybody paints what the public will pay for. The method in which an artist receives money is nobody's business, what matters is that paintings are produced.

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.

Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just have to be open for business.

This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing... Bodies are so messy and disappointing.

Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don't anymore. But I still enjoy it - just the physical act and all the - the whole business of making a thing out of language.

Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.

We have to find climate-friendly ways of encouraging economic growth. The good news is we think they exist.

Father's Day is important because, besides being the day on which we honor Dad, it's the one day of the year that Brookstone does any business.

If there is excitement in their lives, it is contained in the figures on the profit and loss sheet. What an indictment.

We've believed for 50 years that the Japanese are small Americans who wanted to be like us. They are not.

All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.

The business of the church is to tell and embody a story

The word love is never mentioned in big business.

I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.

Besides my religious commitment, the greatest single factor that has enabled me to pursue my business and political objectives has been the security and freedom of my home.

I am aware that success is more than a good idea. It is timing too.

It is the business of economists, not to tell us what to do, but show why what we are doing anyway is in accord with proper principles.

But, as soon as speculators become an important influence in the market, their business is to speculate on each others behaviour.

I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.

Growing up in the business you have to grow up very fast - you do have a different type of childhood, that has its benefits and it has its drawbacks.

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

A century and a half after its birth, the modern business corporation, an artificial person made in the image of a human psychopath, now is seeking to remake real people in its image.

I had one typewriter for 50 years, but I have bought seven computers in six years. I suppose that's why Bill Gates is rich, and Underwood is out of business.

In this business, if you don't have the capacity to step back and have some sort of relativity about things, you're screwed.

It's very, very rare in this business [moviemaking] where a script lands on your lap ready to go.

Giving is the business of the rich.

Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.

We can't be afraid to be weird.

Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.