Business Quotes

I've been polite and I've always shown up. Somebody asked me if I had any advice for young people entering the business. I said: "Yeah, show up.

Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you.

I think about what's the best way to serve people. In business, if you do more for others than anybody else does, you dominate. That's the bottom line.

I can help someone grow their business 130% in 12 to 18 months only because I've done that with so many of my own and have faced so many challenges.

The music industry is a vicious business. It chews women up and spits them out.

There's a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can't write. It's a big business.

Stand-up don't get no respect - it's the hardest thing to do in show business. You don't have no band and there's no music.

I went into the family business. To me, it was the norm and not the exception.

Really, Mr. Lincoln, I have had enough of this show business.

Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.

Hope is a slow business.

If we can put together a Mexican businessman and a U.S. businessman, they will find a way to do more business.

The closer you get to your ultimate customer, the more you learn about your business.

That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life.

I shall make it my business to take my chances in the matter of libel suits.

I am a huge fan of Alan Furst. Furst is the best in the business--the most talented espionage novelist of our generation.

Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.

I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.

Etiquette is what you are doing and saying when people are looking and listening. What you are thinking is your business.

The thing is not to leave unfinished business; make every day count.

I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.

Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly.

Trying to get government to be as efficient as business is as hopeless as trying to teach cats to bark and dogs to meow.

Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.

Baseball isn't a business; it's more like a disease.

Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.

Banking is a branch of the information business.

A lot of great fortunes in the world have been made by owning a single wonderful business. If you understand the business, you don't need to own very many of them.

Valuing a business is part art and part science.

Does the business have favourable long term prospects?

We've had public companies in the past in that business and they bleed. We've got a lot more blood than they do.

As of 1992, in fact-though the picture would have improved since then-the money that had been made since the dawn of aviation by all of this country's airline companies was zero. Absolutely zero.

Earnings can be pliable as putty when a charlatan heads the company reporting them.

Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.

The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.

Everyone is on the same page and putting their best foot forward.

I didn't go into this business to do action because I'm a classically trained actor. But I'm good at kicking and punching.

Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.

I am always going to do my best, no matter where I am.

When you figure it right down, none of us are in a really essential business but the farmer, and he raises so much that even his business is partly non-essential.

Creativity is the most practical thing a businessman can employ.

A principle isn't a principle until it costs you something.

Today's smartest advertising style is tomorrow's corn.

There are two basic rules which should never be broken. Be subtle. And don't, for God's sake, try to do business with anyone who's having a bad game.

The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process.

BUSINESS and LIFE are like a bank account-you can't take out more than you put in.

Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.

One right and honest definition of business is mutual helpfulness.

There are many untalented people making millions of dollars in the film business.

The Navy's a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, 'Frightfully sorry, old chap.'