Top 100 Business It Quotes
#1. Listen you little turd, don't tell me my business. It's not worth the risk," the Old Man snarled.
"But Green ... Yikes, that stings!
Judy Byington
#2. If you develop a dialogue with me and take an interest in me, I'll want to give you the business. It's human nature.
Danny Meyer
#3. Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good.
Thomas Wolfe
#4. I never really thought I'd have the opportunity to run this business. It's an industry I grew up in. I watched EDS being formed in our living room at night.
Ross Perot Jr.
#5. Connection, he explained, was the essence of pop music, according to his boss, Jimmy Iovine: "Jimmy always says it's all about the connection between the artist and the fans," he says. "This whole business, it's just about that connection.
John Seabrook
#6. I love the community of theater. There is something about the camaraderie: People who show up eight times a week to do a show. It's unlike any other business. It's just lovely. You feel like you're in a family.
Billy Porter
#7. In this business it's difficult to make plans. I think the plans follow you and find you.
Julie London
#8. You always have to know what business you are in. Everybody thought we were in the basketball business. It's an NBA-team; we are not in the basketball business. We are in the business of creating experiences and memories.
Mark Cuban
#9. I tell people all of the time that they would make any show in this business - whether it's black, white, Hispanic, Jewish, Colombian, Dominican - whatever. They'll make it if it sells. It's a business. It's not personal.
Kirk Acevedo
#10. You know, Mrs. Fields was never a business. It was a part of me ... and I never separated, oh, well, business from personal because to me they all blended together.
Debbi Fields
#11. Hey. Nobody has any trouble believing in the internet, right, which really is magic. So what's the problem believing in a virtual private network for Santa's business? It results in real toys, real presents, delivered by Christmas morning, what's the difference?
Thomas Pynchon
#12. Once you're involved in a business, it's part of what you do. It's the way you are.
Ben Elliot
#13. My very first publication was an estimator - this was a statistical procedure - a kind of invention. My father got a patent and started a business; it wasn't successful, but maybe I have some of him in me.
Robert J. Shiller
#14. I think as a business it would be amazing if the euro was to collapse, but financially and economically I think that would be a bit of a tsunami for everybody to cope with.
Lloyd Dorfman
#15. I don't think in business it matters whether you're a man or a woman if you can do your job and have a brain.
Bette Davis
#16. A culture of discipline is not a principle of business, it is a principle of greatness.
James C. Collins
#17. I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.
Richard Branson
#18. You can have a worldwide shop from your bedroom. You can do things that weren't even dreamed of when I started off in business. It's why technology is the most wonderful thing for small businesses.
Theo Paphitis
#19. If we want to keep farmers in business, it's time for all of us, ordinary citizens and policy makers alike, to begin learning how that might be done. Sharing the Harvest is a great place to start.
Joan Dye Gussow
#20. The record business. It's exactly what it is-Record-Busin ess. You have to take care of both, or they won't take care of you.
Dr. Dre
#21. Golf isn't just my business, it's my hobby.
Lee Trevino
#22. In business it's about people. It's about relationships.
Kathy Ireland
#23. When I think about being out of the business, it scares me.
Kane
#24. Once you get hooked on the airline business, it's worse than dope.
Ed Acker
#25. I'm rather old-fashioned about this video business. It's all relatively new. We really don't do videos, Fleetwood Mac. We've only done two.
Christine McVie
#26. I heard this music coming out of the radio and it was 'Ain't Nobody's Business.' It got me. I thought, 'I can do this.' I decided just like that. No romantic story.
Jerry Leiber
#27. I go home to London in between jobs, and in London, my life has nothing to do with the business. It's a family life, hanging with friends.
Clive Owen
#28. If you're in the idea business, it doesn't matter where you're from. It matters if we care about the change you're making.
Seth Godin
#29. But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose.
Mark Cuban
#30. But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.
Warren Cuccurullo
#32. In a business, you have a vision, and you follow the vision. You have to execute. And then you have to learn how to run a good business. And I think if you look at the characteristics of any successful fashion business, it's all about that.
Mickey Drexler
#33. It doesn't matter how successful you are in this business, it's tough to get through the next door.
Kevin Sorbo
#34. Being an entrepreneur isn't really about starting a business. It's a way of looking at the world: seeing opportunity where others see obstacles, taking risks when others take refuge.
Michael Bloomberg
#35. The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.
Sam Donaldson
#36. When you are very idealistic, but caught in a world which is all about business, it creates anguish.
Anurag Kashyap
#37. I don't feel one's personal medical condition is everybody's business. It just isn't something you advertise, and it's not open to discussion.
Aretha Franklin
#38. You're such a little moron, aren't you? They will hunt you down to the ends of the earth. It's nothing personal, just business. It's all about survival, dear boy." Drusilla Blackwood
Kathy Cyr
#40. IT is the building block of the business capability when business -IT gaps are shrinking, and it would be the roadblock if the gaps are enlarging.
Pearl Zhu
#41. I'm sure some people might be offended by that, but this is my feeling about show business. It's not all about pure talent. There are certain people who command a stage because they look good ,like me.
Howard Stern
#42. If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.
Stephen Covey
#43. I'm really happy with where I am, the movies in my life. Not satisfied, necessarily. But I won't put it on somebody else, blame anybody else for my position in the business. It's the choices I have made.
Giovanni Ribisi
#44. Potatoes are popped, with no oil, using the same technology used in the rice cake manufacturing business. It took a lot of trial and error and lots of practice, though, to get the right flavor.
Keith Belling
#45. That's so not your business it almost punches clean past the event horizon of Not Your Business and becomes Your Business again.
Amie Kaufman
#46. When you're dealing with Switzerland, Mr. Allon, it's best to keep one thing in mind. Switzerland is not a real country. It's a business, and it's run like a business. It's a business that is constantly in a defensive posture. It's been that way for seven hundred years.
Daniel Silva
#47. I am convinced that America can be turned around if we will all get serious about the Master's business. It may be late, but it is never too late to do what is right. We need an old-fashioned, God-honoring, Christ-exalting revival to turn American back to God. America can be saved!
Jerry Falwell
#48. He had never fainted in his life, and while he knew it was this whole life-mate, mind-blowing-sex business, it was still damned demoralizing to be fainting like a breathless virgin at the end of every encounter.
Lynsay Sands
#49. When all is said and done, what must be remembered is a newspaper is a business. It used to be a fabulous business that made extraordinary margins. It's now a very good business with appropriate margins.
Sam Zell
#51. As a business owner don't think your limitations, think business; it's all about business.
Vernita Naylor
#52. I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.
Curt Schilling
#53. If you live for this world, you are in the junk business. It's all just premature junk.
Adrian Rogers
#54. When digging ceases to be a great game and becomes, as in Egypt, merely business, it will be a bad thing.
Leonard Woolley
#55. It's a very, very difficult space to operate in, the restaurant business-it requires a lot of human beings to intersect at just the right place to make it all work out.
Rocco DiSpirito
#56. The music industry is a vicious business. It chews women up and spits them out.
Tori Amos
#57. When you grow a business, it belongs to a lot of other people besides you. As much as you want to control it, the minute you go public, it becomes a business ...
Donna Karan
#58. Sincerity w the most compendious wisdom, an excellent instrument for the speedy despatch of business. It creates confidence in those we have to deal with, saves the labor of many inquiries, and brings things to an issue in few words.
Lord Chesterfield
#59. Our business is all about helping someone - a founder, a CEO - building a great business. It's not about seeing our names in the press.
Douglas Leone
#60. A lot of times in this business, it's so transitory - it's just 10 weeks here or there on a movie and then it's over - but to see the same people over all that time, a decade, makes you feel really safe and secure.
Helena Bonham Carter
#61. I feel I belong in the movie business and I belong in the security business. It's a natural for me.
Sam J. Jones
#62. They made it personal when they shot Pop. It is not business, it's personal.
Mario Puzo
#63. We are kidding ourselves if we don't think of the drug business as a legitimate business. It's what funds governments. It's too much money to ignore.
Daniel Craig
#64. The federal government does not trample in jackboots those with whom it does business. It wraps them in cotton batting and, when they express ingratitude, apologizes profusely.
Timothy Noah
#65. Drugs have been in the game for a long time. They were there when I was in college, and even in high school. It's in life. It's in business. It's everywhere.
Michael Jordan
#66. I feel very lucky that I've been able to carve out any niche at all in this business. It's so hard to get into.
Brian Posehn
#67. Evolution can't be predicted, Julian used to tell me; it's a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn't aim.
Robert Charles Wilson
#68. War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.
M.F.K. Fisher
#69. I hope the best for anybody in this business. It's hard enough as it is, and of course you don't get much respect from anybody, but when you do, you should appreciate it.
Robin Zander
#70. You have little representation of young black men in the business sector, so you have children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods who don't hear discussions at the dinner table about what goes on in business. It's almost as if we have two nations.
Edmund Phelps
#71. Think about how Google talks about its business. It certainly doesn't claim to be a monopoly.
Peter Thiel
#72. I believe the auto business is a highly comprehensive and complicated business. It's not that easy for people simply to enter and ruin the whole thing.
Li Shufu
#73. Positioned on my dresser, that white-as-snow rose is a personal message to me. It speaks of unfinished business. It whispers, I can find you. I can reach you. Perhaps I am watching you now.
Suzanne Collins
#74. While I am a capitalist at heart and I have no problems with commercialization as such, I believe that while it's okay if education becomes a profitable business, it's not okay if it becomes corrupt.
Chetan Bhagat
#75. In this business, it is about making an impact.
Randy Orton
#76. There is no sport as competitive as business. It's 24 by 7 by 365 by forever.
Mark Cuban
#77. Music is not a very stable business. It comes and it goes, and so does money, but your education stays with you for the rest of your life. When you have that education, and you have nothing to fall back on, you can get a get a job anywhere.
Selena
#78. You know when I'm down to my socks it's time for business
That's why they're called business socks
It's business, it's business time
Flight Of The Conchords
#79. He shook his head. "You didn't do anything. It'd be like blaming a tornado for ripping through a trailer park. The tornado's just minding its own business. It can't help what it is."
A tornado. Something that destroyed everything in its path. A natural disaster. Me.
Kathleen Peacock
#80. Before the whole [music] business was calibrated around the selling of records. I never could have imagined that live performance would become kind of a vortex of the business. It's such a seismic shift really.
Arthur Fogel
#81. There is no review process, Doc. This isn't a government thing. Hell, it's not even a business. It's just us monkeys flying fast and tryin' t keep our butts out of the engine plume.
James S.A. Corey
#82. Fiction is an urgent business. It is the Dying Us telling stories to the Dying Us, trying to crack the nonsense in our heads open with a big hammer pronto, before Death arrives.
George Saunders
#83. The Macau casinos have a wonderful business, it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsewhere who send it through junky companies to casinos to gamble. The growth continues and they have basically western managers and western accounting, so we trust the numbers a little bit more.
James Chanos
#84. Think & Grow Finance is a Melbourne based mortgage broking business. It provides you all type of financial help at any time.
Parveen Kumar
#85. Hollywood can be a very stinging town. They say it's a forgiving business. It's not that forgiving.
Jeff Conaway
#86. I mean, there's always somebody in somebody's administration who jumps out early, sells a book, and goes after the guy who hired him, ... I don't know if that's good. It may be good business; it's not good politics.
Bob Dole
#87. There is far more danger in public than in private monopoly, for when Government goes into business it can always shift its losses to the taxpayers. Government never makes ends meetand that is the first requisite of business.
Thomas A. Edison
#88. Here we are, then, once more back at the old doctrine - Laissez faire. Let us translate it into blunt English, and it will read, Mind your own business. It is nothing but the doctrine of liberty. Let every man be happy in his own way.
William Graham Sumner
#89. The American Beauty Rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it. This is not an evil tendency in business. It is merely the working-out of a law of nature and a law of God.
John D. Rockefeller
#90. Who would want to break into [the music business]? It's like a bank that's already been robbed.
Randy Newman
#91. Marketing is the lifeblood of your small business. It's what makes the cash pour in.
Denise O'Berry
#92. Yes, yes, many months ago. But your mother is someone who will always be in my life. She's not the kind of person who leaves your life when she's in it. Anyway, when someone you care about gets ill, all the other business...it just goes.
Zadie Smith
#93. I think that if people realize that with an mp3, you're only getting five percent of the sound that's there. But when you hear the entire thing ... I think it would save the music business. It's such a drastic change.
Tom Petty
#94. I've met a lot of people and happened to inspire a lot of people who I'm in conversation with about business. It's just how things are going for me and it's great, but music is always going to be number one for me.
Nas
#95. Great customer service is not just one part of your business, it should be in every part of your business!
Tom Kenemore
#96. If there is one characteristic that signals creativity in business, it might be follow-through.
Michael Ray
#97. Great music can come from anywhere around the globe. And there has always been a music business. It just wasn't recorded, nor was it centered in New York, London, Los Angeles or Nashville but rather St Petersburg, Vienna, Berlin, Milan and Paris.
Seymour Stein
#98. I just want to create, and socializing is part of the experience. It might sound crazy, but I don't see myself in the jewelry business. It's an experience.
Waris Ahluwalia
#99. There's a beauty of show business. It's the only business you can have a career in when you're dead.
Tom Waits
#100. I'm in the movie business; it's meant to be very cutthroat. But you won't find anybody that ever says I cheated them or manipulated them.
Jack Nicholson
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