Business Quotes

Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free.

When the Supreme Court says baseball isn't run like a business, everybody jumps up and down with joy. When I say the same thing, everybody throws pointy objects at me.

One of the most important pieces of advice that I have learned is to listen to your customers. They will be able to tell you how your business is doing and what direction you need to go in.

I'm a pitchman, my business comes from the pitch, nothing else.

When you incorporate giving into your business, you attract the most amazing partners.

What happens when you combine blogs, Google and millions of dissatisfied customers? An e-mob.

Personally, I've made myself a very small window of what I enjoy in this business, which is I love being a big part of the storytelling process.

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

It is only by walking in the digital footsteps of your customer that you can uncover a new landscape of opportunities for engagement as well as a new reality for your business.

Imagine if your business burned down and you had to walk across the street and start again, what would you do differently?

Become the very best in your business!

We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from him.

To the people of Illinois let me say this. Business as usual IS OVER.

The business of the country is business.

Business will be either better or worse.

The chief business of America is business.

It horrifies me how much it costs to put on shows now, mainly due to EU regulations. The freedom to be entrepreneurial is no longer there. It's a massive business now.

A sucker has no business with money in the first place.

If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.

You know criticism when you get into this business. You accept the bad with the good, the tabloids and the positive side of it.

I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.

Eighty to 90 percent of success in a company has nothing to do with business at all - it's all personal.

You can get into the greatest business in the world because you can manufacture money by yourself on the field.

It’s like a cotillion, this partners business, except with killing.” “So, exactly like a cotillion,” said Simon.

I've lived the American dream. I was born and raised on the farm, first in my family to graduate from college. I spent 13 years working in our family business.

We start with our consumers and spend an exorbitant amount of time talking with them, trying to figure out what's driving them, finding out where they are and how they're changing things.

What if compassion is also profitable? What if compassion is also good for business?

The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings.

Timing and pace are important in any film, whether it be comedy or drama. And how better to learn the fundamentals of these show show business ingredients than by dancing?

No matter how big you are in the business, at the end of the day it's still work.

Business is about belonging which means inclusion is the new black.

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

For a business plan written when the hardware was a wire-wrapped board and the software was three demos on a graphics substrate, it was pretty close.

When the Chinese told Google that they had to block sites or they couldn't do [business] in their country, they managed to figure out how to block sites.

I owe Elvis my career, and the entire music business owes him it's lifeline.

Life should be an unfinished business.

In business there's people who have talent and there's people whose talent is to take advantage of people who have talent.

When I reached the top in business, I adjusted to my new position – I became bolder and crazier than before. And I listened even less to people who tried to slow me down.

The two most important things to remember in business are: to be aware of the consequential impact on ecology, and a caring relationship between employer and employee.

So I just always drew. But never took that as a career path. I ended up in the computer business, and found myself as the vice president of sales and marketing for a computer accessories company.

The movie business is based on criminals. Some of them are in movies and some of them make movies.

The only way to know how customers see your business is to look at it through their eyes

I've always had philosophy, which has been really helpful for me, getting into the business. I didn't have any connections. I didn't know anyone. It was just about my work.

Where I'm from? A little town called none of yo god damn business.

Sports has become such a big business that the line between journalism and being a broadcast partner for all intents and purposes has been obliterated.

If you want to be a leader, you've got to be a reader.

My aim is to integrate business connections into vulnerable communities thus creating jobs.

A dirty word in the film business right now is intelligence.

We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.

The more people we have on our team. the less room there is in the elevator and the more complicated everything gets.