Business Quotes

"The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do."

Roy L. Smith, American Clergyman

Business, Successful, Man

1

"The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix."

Lawrence Eagleburger, American Diplomat

Business, Community, Question

1

"I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor."

Alan Arkin, American Actor

Business, People, Being

1

"Well, California used to be in the dream-making business, and unfortunately what's happened I think we're now in the dream-breaking business."

Meg Whitman, American Businessman

Business, Dream, Now

1

"If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing business at all."

Leo Burnett, American Businessman

Business, Customer, Writing

1

"We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass."

Karl Marx, German Philosopher

Business, Time, Man, Worth

1

"Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network."

Toni Morrison, American Novelist

Business, Money, People, Inheritance, Network

1

"I don't believe we're the party of big business."

Ed Gillespie, American Politician

Business, Party

1

"From the business point of view, always encouraging the people in our company to own stock in the company, and if we're going to build something great, to have a lot of people share in the benefits of that greatness."

Sanford I. Weill, American Businessman

Business, People, Encouraging, Greatness

1

"There is a lot of lip service paid in this Congress and downtown at the White House about family values and small business. Who better represents family values and small business than the fishermen and women on the Oregon and California coast."

Peter DeFazio, American Politician

Business, Family, Women, Values

1

"In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships."

Lee R. Raymond, American Businessman

Business, Work, Corruption, Countries

1

"The business of America is business."

Calvin Coolidge, American President

Business, America

1

"When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills."

Daniel Goleman, American Author

Business, Intelligence, People

1

"Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world."

Bruce Barton, American Author

Business, Men, World

1

"Business is in itself a power."

Garet Garrett, American Journalist

Business, Power

1

"I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas."

Margaret J. Wheatley, American Writer

Business, Strategy, Now, Planning

1

"Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business."

Jesse Ventura, American Politician

Business, Religion, People, Strength

1

"I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business."

Stephen Ambrose, American Historian

Business,

1

"If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously."

Dennis Quaid, American Actor

Business, Ability

1

"There are some very real areas where working together is critical, whether it's talking about public policy issues, enforcement, or how to work together to facilitate new business opportunities. The RIAA has gotten much more involved in that."

Hilary Rosen, American Businessman

Business, Work, Policy, Public

1

"This Department of Treasury, run by this administration, using the same tried and true accounting methods that every business in America uses, cast new light on the fiscal severity that our Nation is facing, what some would call a mess."

Jim Costa, American Politician

Business, America, Light, Nation

1

"If I love you, what business is it of yours?"

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Business, Love

1

"A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results."

B. C. Forbes, Scottish Journalist

Business, Order, Results

1

"Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns."

Willem de Kooning, American Artist

Business, Fraud, Style

1

"Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business."

Calvin Coolidge, American President

Business, Accomplishments

1

"It's a very good time for horror. This business certainly has changed, but there's still room for serious horror films. Look at 28 Days Later, that's not a tongue-in-cheek picture."

John Carpenter, American Director

Business, Time, Horror, Tongue

1

"All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them."

Richard Hughes, British Writer

Business, Fiction, Questions

1

"The biggest disappointment has been seeing the number of people in this business with very shortsighted views."

Greg Ginn, American Musician

Business, People, Disappointment

1

"Our fathers were actually business partners in the same real-estate firm, and we got together and thought, How can we get a movie together and get distribution and create a new movie genre? We started by making satires of commercials."

David Zucker, American Director

Business, Thought, Fathers

1

"I think it is very important in this business to be an individual."

Lee Ann Womack, American Musician

Business,

1

"We have the right assets for a fast-growing digital business."

Bernie Ebbers, Canadian Businessman

Business, Right

1

"The sex element is the most important in the business. You must sell sex."

Bobby Darin, American Musician

Business, Sex

"I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin."

John Irving, American Novelist

Business, Actor, Pretty, Skin

"Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on."

Ed Rendell, American Politician

Business, Community

"Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country."

Norman Cousins, American Editor

Business, Government, Country, Today

"Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth."

Dennis Weaver, American Actor

Business, Change, Earth, Will

"In this business you break a leg and 150 other people are out of work while production is shut down. It's not like you were an accountant and could still work with your leg in a cast."

Ken Curtis, American Actor

Business, Work, People, Production

"I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act."

Jennifer Aniston, American Actress

Business, People, Family, Act

"I can say that hands down from being in this business 32 years; we're going to be much better than we were last year just because there's eight new players that now have experience and Palacios will be healthy."

Rick Pitino, American Athlete

Business, Experience, Being, Now

"I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern."

Brent Spiner, American Actor

Business, Causes, Concern, Word

"Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Business, Credit

"Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs."

Charley Pride, American Athlete

Business, Beliefs, Religious

"When there's uncertainty they always think there's another shoe to fall. There is no other shoe to fall."

Kenneth Lay, American Businessman

Business, Uncertainty

"I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out."

Stuart Symington, American Businessman

Business, Authority, Budgets, Defense

"Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect."

Michael Porter, American Educator

Business, Effect

"Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way."

Jesse Ventura, American Politician

Business, Work, Government, Hell

"Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships."

Michael Dell, American Businessman

Business, Technology, Customer, Relationships

"Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it's our business."

Gwyneth Paltrow, American Actress

Business, Marriage, Being

"Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere."

Arthur E. Waite, British Occultist

Business, Life, Knowledge, Harmony

"The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."

Mark Zuckerberg, American Businessman

Business, Risk, Strategy, Failure

"The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do."

1

"The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix."

1

"I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor."

1

"Well, California used to be in the dream-making business, and unfortunately what's happened I think we're now in the dream-breaking business."

1

"If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing business at all."

1

"We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass."

1

"Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network."

1

"I don't believe we're the party of big business."

1

"From the business point of view, always encouraging the people in our company to own stock in the company, and if we're going to build something great, to have a lot of people share in the benefits of that greatness."

1

"There is a lot of lip service paid in this Congress and downtown at the White House about family values and small business. Who better represents family values and small business than the fishermen and women on the Oregon and California coast."

1

"In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships."

1

"The business of America is business."

1

"When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills."

1

"Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world."

1

"Business is in itself a power."

1

"I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas."

1

"Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business."

1

"I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business."

1

"If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously."

1

"There are some very real areas where working together is critical, whether it's talking about public policy issues, enforcement, or how to work together to facilitate new business opportunities. The RIAA has gotten much more involved in that."

1

"This Department of Treasury, run by this administration, using the same tried and true accounting methods that every business in America uses, cast new light on the fiscal severity that our Nation is facing, what some would call a mess."

1

"If I love you, what business is it of yours?"

1

"A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results."

1

"Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns."

1

"Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business."

1

"It's a very good time for horror. This business certainly has changed, but there's still room for serious horror films. Look at 28 Days Later, that's not a tongue-in-cheek picture."

1

"All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them."

1

"The biggest disappointment has been seeing the number of people in this business with very shortsighted views."

1

"Our fathers were actually business partners in the same real-estate firm, and we got together and thought, How can we get a movie together and get distribution and create a new movie genre? We started by making satires of commercials."

1

"I think it is very important in this business to be an individual."

1

"We have the right assets for a fast-growing digital business."

1

"The sex element is the most important in the business. You must sell sex."

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"I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin."

​

"Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on."

​

"Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country."

​

"Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth."

​

"In this business you break a leg and 150 other people are out of work while production is shut down. It's not like you were an accountant and could still work with your leg in a cast."

​

"I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act."

​

"I can say that hands down from being in this business 32 years; we're going to be much better than we were last year just because there's eight new players that now have experience and Palacios will be healthy."

​

"I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern."