Business Quotes

On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married

As an improvising musician, I am not in the music business, I am not in the creativity business; I am in the surrender business.

Failure or success in business is primarily not determined by mental capacity but by MENTAL ATTITUDES

I've often felt there might be more to be gained by studying business failures than business successes.

You know we're in a business where things are just unpredictable. You don't know what's going to happen...we were lucky Blessed, I think is a better way to put it.

Ethics and religion must not stay at home when we go to work.

We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders ... In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force for harm than individual greed or error.

Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.

Either we are a sovereign state, or we are not! As long as we are not, we have no business in a community of sovereign states.

Don't shy away from producing your own film and being in charge of its business end as well.

We're operating this planet like a business in liquidation.

It's better to be first in the mind than to be first in the marketplace.

I just try and learn to be a good husband and be a good father before I am a good rock star. That means saying no to certain things that go with the business.

Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it's hard to turn away. Then, of course, you're hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.

We must be careful that the business we build does not become mere busyness.

Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you.

Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.

It is the business of future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.

The efficient use of energy is as much an issue for Saudi Arabia, with its huge natural resources, as it is for all countries. Increased efficiency makes sense environmentally, but also economically.

We can't be in the business of carting fresh air around the country.

I can still play this game at a high level; I've proven that. I want to be home. I want to be close to my family. I want to be close to my foundation and my business interests.

I run a business. People want to work for less money, I pay them less money. ... Women shouldn’t be so grateful. Know what you’re worth. Walk away.

The most generous part of your philanthropy could be the time you put in to procure the same results and same outcomes and same returns you demand in business.

I will always recommend Goodwin & Thyne Properties to all my friends and business associates, thank you for going over and beyond the call of duty!

I guess I've never really been aggressive, although almost everybody else in show business fights and gouges and knees to get where they want to be.

if companies are in business solely to make money, no consumer can fully trust what they do or say.

When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun

If the Church is a body, and the body is a business, isn't that the same thing as prostitution?

My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.

If we [are to] reach a situation of true peace, real peace, peace for generations, we will have to make painful concessions. Not in exchange for promises, but rather in exchange for peace.

I believe that Jews and Arabs can live together. It's not an easy thing but I believe we can reach an agreement.

Filmmaking, at the end of the day, is a business and a balance must be struck between that and emotional ties.

I have come to believe that politicians are in the business of 'marketing' their product to the public, by exaggerating threats and over-selling government solutions.

I think that the main issue with inequality is not the gap between the rich and the poor. It is the gap between the earnings of top business leaders and the salaries of academics and journalists.

All business begins with the public permission and exists by public approval

Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it suggests a fundamental lack of faith in American business and American ingenuity.

[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I'd choose to believe in God - He's been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.

The press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.

One clear focus for everyone. Your business needs laser focus on what the next objective is. Execution is key.

Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work.

I think that the Oscar gives you some kind of guts or something, it gives you the illusion that you can do it. It's good for business.

The government is a tyrant living by theft, and therefore has no business to engage in any business.

I have a very good relationship with myself. My favourite quote is, "What you think about me is none of my business."

If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?

The present and future of knowledge attainment and essential business skills.

Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen.

Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back to the company.

The best of life is the exercise of ingenuity-in design, in finance, in flying, in business.