Business Long Quotes

#1. Stationary storage will be as big as the car business long term. The growth rate will probably be several times what it is for the car business.

Elon Musk

#2. I have been in the business long enough to know what an intense amount of work it takes to operate a theater company.

Demian Bichir

#3. Once you've been around this business long enough, anything is a possibility. It's a business first and foremost. Guys play it because they love it, but it is a business, and if you don't understand that it's a business, you're lying to yourself.

Logan Mankins

#4. Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term.

Gerry Schwartz

#5. If you stay in the business long enough and get to be old enough, you get to be new again.

George Burns

#6. American business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees who are educated enough that they can tell the difference between the men's room and the women's room without having little pictures on the doors.

Dave Barry

#7. If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet. Cloud? That's not new; it's a new name.

Safra A. Catz

#8. Greenwood Insurance Group looks out for our company, and our employees. Their thoroughness and ability to shop for the best policies at the best prices shows me that they care about our business - long term.

Matthew Ford

#9. If you stay in this business long enough, you're liable to hit it big.

Steve Kanaly

#10. I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company.

Don Henley

#11. In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.

Warren Buffett

#12. My father ran London Films. He made films like 'The Red Shoes,' 'The Third Man.' And he had had a long career in the film business, which was bifurcated with a career in intelligence. He had to deal with gangsters, and sometimes he would take me with him. Also, I went to school with their children.

Mark Helprin

#13. The digital capability is synthetic in nature, embedding agility in processes and focusing on building the long-term business competency.

Pearl Zhu

#14. The business virtue par excellence is honesty without it markets can't long survive.

Ted Malloch

#15. Success in the long run has less to do with finding the best idea, organizational structure, or business model for an enterprise, than with discovering what matters to us as individuals.

Jerry I. Porras

#16. I don't know why it's anyone's business! People do what they need to do. I did it, and it was nowhere near as traumatic as being raped. I was so numb for so long that sex work for me was not a big deal.

Margaret Cho

#17. Slater's a big star and he's been in the business a long time. He's always in a good mood and easygoing but he takes his character very seriously.

Uwe Boll

#18. Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and the twentieth would be no further advanced than the eighteenth century.

William McKinley

#19. Just as a warm and moist environment is conducive to the spread of deadly bacteria, the worlds of politics and business especially - with their long time frames, complex outcomes, and murky cause and effect - are conducive to the spread of half-cocked guesses posing as fact.

Steven D. Levitt

#20. Human life [is] ... a process of filling in time until the arrival of death, or Santa Claus, with very little choice, if any, of what kind of business one is going to transact during the long wait.

Eric Berne

#21. So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

D.H. Lawrence

#22. There are lots of women and lots of men in the business that the powers that be decide are the right people and they'll stand with them for quite a long time.

Rupert Everett

#23. Business gives you a massive high. Doing a great deal, coming up with an inspirational solution ... It's very addictive. But it doesn't last long. In isolation, it's a bit sterile. It doesn't reward the soul.

John Caudwell

#24. In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty, your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.

Akio Morita

#25. Men were created for something better than merely to make money. A close application to business, until a competence is gained, is one of the chief virtues; but to continue in trade long after this result is obtained, is one of the signs, not to be mistaken, of a sordid and ignoble nature.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#26. Acting is a precarious business. I have had periods where I felt like I couldn't get arrested, but you have to see it as a long game.

Ewen Bremner

#27. This long-tail distribution of returns is why it's important to be bold. Big winners pay for so many experiments.

Derek Thompson

#28. It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

Elon Musk

#29. The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

Hunter S. Thompson

#30. The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.

James Anthony Froude

#31. I've been in this business a long time, and I'm very clear on what is real and what is fleeting.

Tamara Tunie

#32. We're not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.

Lindsey Graham

#33. You're not going to stay in business, the business of making movies very long because you need the resources in order to keep going. So you have to try and find a niche audience or some kind of audience that has the same likes, dislikes and aesthetic sensibilities that you have.

George Lucas

#34. Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.

Ethel Waters

#35. Change is not always easy when patterns in our lives have existed so long.

Lolly Daskal

#36. As long as there are big corporations, there will be big unions. The economic power of big business will be matched by the economic power of the big unions.

Margaret Chase Smith

#37. Most of my ex-girlfriends are still close friends. I guess when you are with someone that long, unless they did something really terrible to you, you remain friends. My real estate business is run by my best friend, who is an ex-girlfriend.

Ryan Kavanaugh

#38. I can honestly say that TOMS is my future. I mean I have no desire to start any other company for as long as I live because this is the perfect blend of business and philanthropy to me.

Blake Mycoskie

#39. If you're running a business for the long term, the last thing you should be doing is borrowing money to buy back stock.

Stanley Druckenmiller

#40. Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#41. When I'm writing in long hand, it just goes on and on and on. When I was in the saloon business, I would just greet people and talk to them and avoid taxes, and getting behind the bar. What else.

Malachy McCourt

#42. Science can only be comprehended epistemologically , which means as one category of possible knowledge , as long as knowledge is not equated either effusively with the absolute knowledge of a great philosophy or blindly with scientistic self-understanding of the actual business of research.

Jurgen Habermas

#43. Sunday evenings had long saddened me, reminders of death, unfinished business, guilt, and loss.

Alain De Botton

#44. I never play golf because it takes too long, and the business connections it produces can be made just as easily over an early breakfast.

Eli Broad

#45. To the champ, everything is serious business. I'm hoping that he'll live long enough to learn that in this world that is a very dangerous attitude.

Stephen King

#46. If you go to an ATM for a hundred dollars and it keeps spitting twenties, when would you walk away? When it wasn't spitting twenties no more. As long as you can take the money out, you'd stay there. That's what the wrestling business is like.

Kevin Nash

#47. Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.

Bill Ackman

#48. Glamour's my thing. The glamour is what got me into this business in the first place. I lived in a fantasy world in order to survive. Now that I'm here, I plan to work it. That means playing the part
long, tight dresses, slick! Unless you rise to the occasion, Hollywood doesn't really exist.

Theresa Randle

#49. Nothing is so much fun as business. I do not expect to do anything but work as long as I can stand up.

William Wrigley Jr.

#50. There are men - now in power in this country - who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit.

John Lindsay

#51. Say, this new home building idea of President Hoover's sounds good. They are working out a lot of beneficial things. The only thing is it took 'em so long to think of any of 'em. We ought to have plans in case of depression, just like we do in case of fire, 'Walk, don't run, to the nearest exit.'

Will Rogers

#52. If you go running, you put on sneakers. When you go bowling, you take your personal bowling balls with you. In much the same fashion, it won't be long before you have your special sunglasses to take to the movie theater.

Jeffrey Katzenberg

#53. A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a long time with some fluctuations. And even part of the business world is in favor of it, too. But the government won't allow it.

Noam Chomsky

#54. Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government.

Naveen Jain

#55. It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.

Harrison Ford

#56. An effective breakout block is at least three-hours long and spent on things other than work. It is time scheduled away from your business during normal business hours that you will use to refresh and reinvigorate your mind, so that when you return to work, you can engage with more focus and energy.

Brian P. Moran

#57. Whenever you're sitting across from some important person, always picture him sitting there in a suit of long red underwear. That's the way I always operated in business.

Joseph P. Kennedy

#58. I was burned out, and my wife and I were having our first kid, so I wanted to take some time off. In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren't there when I came back.

Chris O'Donnell

#59. Business colleagues who have not seen each other for a long time but who have a good relationship can always shake hands warmly and grab each other's right upper arm or shoulder with their free left hand. Men and women executives should not kiss each other in public.

Letitia Baldrige

#60. I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.

Angelina Jolie

#61. America's corporations learned long ago that equality is just good business and is the right thing to do,

Lloyd Blankfein

#62. I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective.

Major Owens

#63. All the nut eaters and food faddists I have ever known, died early after a long period of senile decay - Winston Churchill

Stuart Finlay

#64. In business as in life, sometimes bad things happen to good people, and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But over time, if you play long enough, everybody gets what he deserves.. good and bad.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

#65. The Holocaust industry has always been bankrupt. What remains is to openly declare it so. The time is long past to put it out of business.

Norman Finkelstein

#66. I've been involved in the offering-up-adoption-as-another-choice business for a long time.

John Schneider

#67. Government and business must come together on the interlinked issues of conservation, economic development and renewable energy. There are literally thousands of businesses, many in the tourism industry, that depend on an intact marine environment for their long-term survival.

Richard Branson

#68. I have this home in New York, I have a long-term relationship with my boyfriend, who's from Australia, and I had this business that I had maintain. Even though I wasn't actively shooting, there's a lot of peripheral work.

Claire Danes

#69. I have long-range plans, but you always have to wait for business to catch up with you. It's a matter of contracts and meetings catching up with your ideas of what you want to accomplish in life.

Rex Smith

#70. Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls.

Carly Simon

#71. I fished a little while ago with a man, not in his first youth, who had wasted the flower of his life on business and golf and gardening and motoring and marriage, and had in this way postponed his initiation (to fly fishing) far too long.

Arthur Ransome

#72. A rise in the level of saving can reduce aggregate activity temporarily but only a sustained high level of saving makes it possible to have the sustained high level of business investment that contributes to the long-run growth of output.

Martin Feldstein

#73. I came to the conclusion long ago that limits to innovation have less to do with technology or creativity than organizational agility. Inspired individuals can only do so much.

Ray Stata

#74. No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

Samuel Beckett

#75. I long for the day when advertising will become a business for a grown man.

Howard Gossage

#76. 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

#77. So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

Walter Bagehot

#78. When work is not going well, it's useful to remember that our identities stretch beyond what is on the business card, that we were people long before we became workers - and will continue to be human once we have put our tools down forever.

Alain De Botton

#79. Wall Street got drunk and now it's got a hangover. And the question is, how long will it sober up and not try to do those fancy financial instruments?

George W. Bush

#80. You can't run a company simply by the numbers. So if you're going to bet on someone, you bet on someone you want to be in business with for a long time.

Amy Pascal

#81. The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.

John Maynard Keynes

#82. I was recently asked about the business side of 'Biggest Loser,' but as long as we entertain people, we can keep coming back and making a difference. It's a delicate balance, but one feeds off the other. I feel so good about the show - it's uplifting and inspiring and entertaining at the same time.

Alison Sweeney

#83. It doesn't matter what your boss thinks as long as he doesn't cry.

Gerry Geek

#84. People are always saying that Hollywood messes up kids. I'm like, 'No, families mess up kids!' I grew up in Hollywood, and I'm perfectly fine. If my children want to go into the entertainment business, I won't stop them, as long as they're passionate about it.

Tori Spelling

#85. For me to be in the entertainment business for as long as I have, for 15 years and been relevant, been successful, continue to do shows, sell out shows, traveling and everything ...

Ginuwine

#86. So long as money can answer, it were wrong in any business to put the life in danger.

Saadi

#87. How long do you have to stay and socialize?"

"Well, I still have to butter up the president of the Jupiter Point Business Coalition."

"I do hope you mean literally."

His eyes darkened with desire and he pulled her tighter against him. "As you wish, milady.

Jennifer Bernard

#88. The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid

Lucian Of Samosata

#89. Most men of business think Anyhow this system will probably last my time. It has gone on a long time, and is likely to go on still.

Walter Bagehot

#90. As Iraq erupts in civil war and America again contemplates intervention, that unfinished business should give new urgency to the question of how the United States military controlled the media coverage of its long involvement there and in Afghanistan.

Chelsea Manning

#91. If you don't operate it as a business, you aren't going to be around very long.

Skitch Henderson

#92. The business of writing a novel is a long, meandering road into the self, into the imagination. And it's a road the writer travels alone.

Lisa Unger

#93. I travelled a lot for business and was in the office for long hours.

Mike Jackson

#94. If you're a freelance writer and aren't used to being ignored, neglected, and generally given short shrift, you must not have been in the business very long.

Poppy Z. Brite

#95. I'm here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.

Mark Zuckerberg

#96. It matters not to me what I do, or what I suffer, so long as I abide loveingly united to God's will - that is my whole business.

Brother Lawrence

#97. The business of finding a nation's soul is a long and slow one at the best and a great many prophets must be slain in the course of it. Perhaps when we have slain enough prophets future generations will begin to build their tombs.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

#98. I got screwed over in some bad business deals, but as long as I focused on those past problems, I couldn't move forward. I had to let all of that go and forgive everyone and everything first.

Steve Pavlina

#99. It is therefore our business to restore economic freedom through the restoration of the only institution under which it flourishes, which institution is Property. The problem before us is, how to restore Property so that it shall be, as it was not so long ago, a general institution.

Hilaire Belloc

#100. It's getting better generally, daily, especially in TV, for women in acting; and age and looks count less. As more women come into the business. Change of any sort takes a long time to happen.

Julie Walters