Business Quotes

We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel.

The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.

It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.

Every man should be content to mind his own business.

You never know just what you can do until you try.

I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in the music business.

And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.'

If you are going into show business for money and power, forget it! It won't happen. You don't go for that first.

If you live for this world, you are in the junk business. It's all just premature junk.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.

I think that if you can achieve a balance, then you appease a lot of yourself and your career and what it takes to maintain in this business for a while

What can a sales person say to somebody to get them to buy a product that they already use every day if they don't like it? Nothing.

Our aim was to insure repeat business based on the system's reputation rather than on the quality of a single store or operator.

I have been very fortunate in [the entertainment] business, and I am very grateful for that. I wish the same for everyone out there, especially everyone who dares to dream.

Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.

When you reach that kind of successful pinnacle, it is the nature of the business and the press and everything that they go about tearing you down.

In the U.S. Senate, in the short term we need to reduce the tax burden on hard working individuals, families, and small businesses.

Not everybody is comfortable with my ethnicity. When I first came along in the business, they didnt really like the idea of my name being Raquel.

The group will not prosper if the leader grabs the lion's share of the credit for the good work that has been done.

But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

Healthcare is very much a high priority for me. Healthcare is also a huge issue for business, both big and small.

I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.

Everyone tries to talk you out of going to college. The consensus being that people are just gonna forget about you, you know, and that's the way the business works.

... there is one primary purpose of a Christian's business: to serve God.

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.

Imagination in business is the ability to perceive opportunity.

Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.

As our voices rise in protest, the NSA monitors your every phone call. if you have a cell phone, you are under surveillance. I believe what you do on your cell phone is none of their damn business.

The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did.

Art is not the spiritual side of business.

I couldn't concentrate on music. So I made the choice to give up my career as a musician in the frontline to deal with the business.

There's nobody in show business that I dislike so I wouldn't want to get in there to hurt anybody.

I was one of those guys who never wanted to start their own business. I never saw myself as a leader. I saw myself as a great No. 2.

There is no human feeling to the US securities markets and sometimes no discernible evidence of human intelligence either. But they work.

Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find.

There are no bad business and investment opportunities, but there are bad entrepreneurs and investors.

One of the hardest things a person who is new to the way of business thinking has to go through is the countless number of people who will say to you: "You can't do that.

The Business story is designed to trigger the listener to take an effective action. If it doesn't, the story fails.

People are becoming more and more aware of how the dominance of development and business is altering their lives and, in particular, their own heritage.

It's not government's business what people do in their private bedrooms.

Don't become a slave to non-crucial matters.

I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.

Other people's opinions of you are none of your business.

Even the busboys at the restaurants have a script to give you. Everybody is in the business.

My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and keep adding bits of business.

I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.