Business Quotes

Business plans are the tool existing companies use for execution. They are the wrong tool to search for a business model.

What this means is that people are seeing a stable business, which is good, and a business that is in control, which is also good.

There are a lot of people who get support from a thriving business.

I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy.

I've been here 21 years, and I literally did walk up and down Music Row trying to break into the business. I felt very free to go into any publishing company.

If we were born to overthrow the order of ignorance and injustice of the world, it’s our job to realize it and get down to business.

Guys like me come along very seldom in the wrestling business. You can count 'em on a couple of fingers.

In bad times, the rich usually get richer.

The newspaper is dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers and its one business I'd never be in

Introverts .. may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas.

It's not a giant thing, like graduation, Mardi Gras, Halloween or New Year's. We do get business from it. That's why we put stuff out; we don't skip it. It's our big thing for March.

Business is business and politics is politics and never between shall meet.

Business is business, that is, you must do everything promptly; delay and shuffling won't do.

Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Don't get the idea that I've turned green. My business is making money, and I think this is going to make a lot of money.

It's not that I'm not interested in politics, but rather, I think that the people who become politicians in Japan are not very dynamic. Honestly, I find business much more interesting than politics.

We may pretend we are basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

Let me tell you, it’s a lot easier to raise money for a governor. They have all kinds of business to hand out, road contracts, construction jobs, you name it.

The strong man wants to be allowed to DO; the little man wants to stop him.

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.

...to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.

The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything.

My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.

As Danand Ian over at the Lifestyle Business Podcast say: Rush to failure.

The business of everybody is the business of nobody.

Everybody's business is nobody's business.

He [Charles II] was utterly without ambition. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing the administration.

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.

Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business.

Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

No praying, it spoils business.

If joining IBM was commitment, not employment, and the company engaged in something more than business, it had a right to demand of its men unconditional loyalty, Watson believed.

Most business models have focused on self interest instead of user experience. Those are the kinds of problems we solve to solve.

We must learn to lean upon ourselves; we must learn to plan and execute business enterprises of our own; we must learn to venture our pennies if we would gain dollars.

You're not in competition with other women. You're in competition with everyone.

I have a suspicion that the definition of "crazy" in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to f*** [sleep with her] anymore.

My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building.

These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business. Features don't even run in theaters very long anymore before going right to television.

Even my agents say, 'We don't know what this business is anymore.'

If artists slowly learn how their business works, they'll have the ability to grow at any rate they can dream up, but they'll also have the ability to control the message whatever that might be.

You cannot design better products by staying in the office.

The government itself cannot create jobs. Jobs are created by business people and entrepreneurs.

WORK ON YOUR STORY! He/she who has the best story wins! In life! In business! The White House!

Swipe from the best, then adapt.

You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out.

If the other guy is getting better, then you'd better be getting better faster than the other guy is getting better... or you're getting worse.

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.