Business Quotes

I want everybody in the news business to think of ABC before they go any place else. If it costs us an extra few thousand dollars to do that, what does it mean?

The importance of discretion increases with closeness to the top of a hierarchical organization.

It's unfortunate that music has become such big business.

The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.

Did business with Qatar, a US ally which protects al-Qaeda.

Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars.

One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.

It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven't got any other business interests.

If you really want to get rid of the problems in the NFL, put Obama in charge of it: in a few months it will be so deep in debt it will have to go out of business - no more concussions.

When priorities are in place, one can more patiently tolerate unfinished business.

My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them.

What drives me is the prospect of turning an obstacle into a business opportunity, and then growing that into something lasting and rewarding.

So long as money can answer, it were wrong in any business to put the life in danger.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Greater diversity drives better business results.

There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.

That's where I'd like to be: when the business says here's a good actor who is marketable so we can use him. Just that.

My home has always been show business.

Chaplin is no business man - all he knows is that he can't take anything less.

A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him.

The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.

To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar

In matters of business, no woman stops at integrity.

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused

If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still

Embrace what you don't know

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age

QuickBooks - the very fact that we could even dream to make something in the business arena, and that it would then succeed - was a total revolution to me.

Subsequent to the original Quicken, the whole idea that we, as a consumer products company, could actually make business products, that was a whole revolution in our thinking.

I often give my wife Carol scripts I'm offered and want her opinion - because she's a really smart lady, and she's got nothing to do with this business, so I get the audience's point of view.

I'd fired anyone who was involved with Creed. I didn't want anything to do with the music business. The entire press and industry hated me, so what was the point?

This is not going to be business as usual. This is business unusual

The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.

It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.

People get good gigs because they stand up....You don't get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.

Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.

You can't fool all the people, not even most of the time. And people, once unfooled, talk about the experience.

A product for everyone rarely reaches much of anyone.

I picked up business skills along the way, but there are things you learn at school like speaking the language of business so you can speak with CEOs.

How to succeed in business without really trying (title of book)

There's a Harvard Business School thing that says, 'Every 10 years you should replant yourself,' and the only way to keep young is to learn new things and keep curious.

I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men just drift.

In this business, you're either Brad Pitt right away, or you're already going down the ladder.

What I do in my own time, is my business.

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

People are grateful when you make a difference in their lives. That is the essence of any successful business

We are quite convinced that if he were alive today, as an astute businessman looking out to the future, he would be moving out of fossil fuels and investing in clean, renewable energy.

Tracking account planning is rather like counting a mixed batch of tropical fish. You think you see patterns, but they've all changed by the time you've finished counting.