Business People Quotes

#1. The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub some of it off on to people who come to see you, and they hate that. To be alone trains one for death.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#2. The more time I spend with our people, the more I find out about our business.

Herb Kelleher

#3. If you are a musician and you don't show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people will rip you off. They will sweet talk you into anything.

Michael Schenker

#4. Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look for bugs and things.

Peter Weir

#5. By the Nineties, so many people were moonlighting and creating their own professional identities that China generated a brisk new business in the printing of business cards.

Evan Osnos

#6. We created a new kind of agency ... We had to retrain our people. But the corporations that will be successful will be those that are willing to change.

Howard Draft

#7. How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#8. People do make judgments of trust on appearance - in the real world and online.

Aaron Patzer

#9. Not everyone understand everything.

Dee Dee Artner

#10. There are some key elements to business being a success, and that's a smart visionary and great management behind the people that are going to build it.

Rob Dyrdek

#11. Love is neither a conditional business nor an ever-fixed mark arrangement. People always know somewhere inside them if they are not loved. No gestures, talk, conciliation, pronouncements can prevail over that deep instinctual knowledge.

Elizabeth Jane Howard

#12. If I said in one of my songs that my English teacher wanted to have sex with me in junior high, all I'm saying, is that I'm not gay, you know? People confuse the lyrics for me speaking my mind. I don't agree with that lifestyle, but if that lifestyle is for you, then it's your business.

Eminem

#13. Modern business-people and lawyers are, in fact, powerful sorcerers. The principal difference between them and tribal shamans is that modern lawyers tell far stranger tales.

Yuval Noah Harari

#14. The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not.

Marc Almond

#15. Democrats' attack on the Republican majority leader is nothing but a coordinated agenda to stop an effective leader from accomplishing the people's business.

Bill Shuster

#16. Personally I have never been able to understand why the head of a big business, whether it be the Nation, the State or the Army, or Navy should not desire to have very strong and positive people under him.

Theodore Roosevelt

#17. To the degree that one relates sensitively, appropriately, and even charmingly, to the people and events faced in business and personal life, success will follow.

Herman L Glaess

#18. I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful filmmaker-in that a number of people speak well of me. But none of my films have received unanimously positive reviews, and none have done blockbuster business.

Stanley Kubrick

#19. It's the lack of ambition that cripples most people, and makes them so pedestrian in the advertising/creative business

David Ogilvy

#20. Successful business people became successful because they took risks. The biggest risk is that once successful, they stop taking risks.

G.R. Gopinath

#21. Ultimately, if you want to make movies, you've got to want to make movies every day, when people are paying you to make movies and when they're not, because you're going to get a lot more no's on this business, no matter what it is, than you are going to get yeses.

Morgan Spurlock

#22. If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.

Brent Spiner

#23. War is only a passing phase in business life ... If you want my opinion there's nothing like a spot of patriotism for blinding people to reality.

J.G. Farrell

#24. I am right at the bottom compared to everybody else with press kits and demos and trying to get meetings. That's what I love about music and hate about it. That's why I respect people that are successful in the music business because you really have to build it from the ground up.

Drake

#25. If you want to know how a man stands, go among the people who are in his same business.

Will Rogers

#26. The secret to longevity in the music business is to change, and to be able to change. An actor has to assume other people's identities. A rock star doesn't need to do that. But change is important.

Nick Cave

#27. People tell us the countries that we'll have the most difficulty with are France and Japan. They say, 'Nothing you do in the rest of the world will work for us.' But that's changing. The differences are narrowing.

Joe Tripodi

#28. The thing about information is that information is more valuable when people know it. There's an exception for business information and super timely information, but in all other cases, ideas that spread win.

Seth Godin

#29. Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

Lee Iacocca

#30. It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the people, but they ought to take great care that they do not receive that inclination from the few persons who may happen to approach them.

Edmund Burke

#31. Vikings were pretty brutal, but also very educated people. They were salesmen, businessmen who started raiding when business wasn't good. That's why they had such great boats.

Baltasar Kormakur

#32. Laborers want their kids to be merchants or business people. Business people want their kids to be professionals. Professionals want their kids to be academics, professors. Academics want their kids to be artists. And artists don't care if their kids are laborers or not. They can be anything.

Demetri Martin

#33. I'm not big on reading business books. I get copies of all of them, because people want me to put a comment on the jacket. Every once in a while, I'll get interested and read one all the way through.

James Goodnight

#34. I know we didn't make an anti-Semitic film. This is what the Gospels are. And it's none of my business what other people think of me.

Jim Caviezel

#35. At the end of the day, we're all brothers and sisters in God. What people do is none of my business.

Tyson Fury

#36. We're in the business not so much of being contrarians deliberately, but rather we like to take perceived risk instead of actual risk. And what I mean by that is that you get paid for taking a risk that people think is risky, you particularly don't get paid for taking actual risk.

Wilbur Ross

#37. I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.

Harrison Ford

#38. What people in business think they know about the customer and market is likely to be more wrong than right ... the customer rarely buys what the business thinks it sells him.

Peter Drucker

#39. Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.

Seneca The Younger

#40. There's a bunch of people who sit around and make excuses for themselves and get upset with artists, but you already know what this is - it's an ego-driven business.

Rico Love

#41. Being effective at social media, whether for business or personal use, means capturing people who have short attention spans. They're only a click away from a picture of a funny cat, so you have to make your thing more compelling than that cat. And that can be a high bar.

Alexis Ohanian

#42. Really good customer service will deliver sales. You are training salesmen to give the best possible advice and then to achieve the sale. People actually like you to ask for a sale because it shows you value their business.

John Caudwell

#43. A lot of people think that as a player, during the lockout, you just have your whole day free. It's not like that - especially for me. I wake up everyday, train in the morning from 9 a.m. to about 2 p.m. Then I have a business meeting here, have to meet this person there, it's non-stop for me.

Carmelo Anthony

#44. In any business, the more you learn, the more sympathetic you can be to other people's positions.

Peter Asher

#45. Business and scholarship pass away with the person, but the soul is forever like new. Fame and fortune change with the generations, but the spirit is always the same. Enlightened people surely should not exchange the lasting for the ephemeral.

Zicheng Hong

#46. I'm in a business where there's complete anarchy. You can't control it - you can only react to it. The control that people traditionally had over their message is gone. Look at Wikileaks: you have to approach everything you write on the basis it's going to be on the front page of the newspaper.

Martin Sorrell

#47. But while my inner voice was clearly telling me I was at my core an entrepreneur, it's inconvenient to decide at twenty-three that you can't really work for other people.

Kelly Cutrone

#48. In our age, the problems that needs to be solved are growing in number and business of life is overpowering

Sunday Adelaja

#49. As a group, anthropologists are not too fond of people who work in the business world.

Helen Fisher

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

David Karp

#51. People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.

Michel De Montaigne

#52. Just as we leave the effects of our work behind in results, we leave the effects of our interactions with people in their hearts, minds, and souls.

Henry Cloud

#53. I tell people I'm big in the music business like a barnacle is big in shipping.

Vance Gilbert

#54. I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.

Adam McKay

#55. Ask ourselves: How can we serve, nurture and sustain the planet and its people in our business ventures?

Horst Rechelbacher

#56. My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He's my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#57. Lots of people, from what I can see, just want to get into the music business for the glamour of it. But there isn't any, really. It's so up and down this industry, but if you really love it, nothing can stop you.

Eliza Doolittle

#58. Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared.

January Jones

#59. Find the right people, not the best people.

Jack Ma

#60. I loathe hair salons. People have always told me I am in the wrong business because I can't stand getting my hair cut or having it messed around with. Hairdressers feel as if they've got to be your shrinks. I just want them to do my hair so I can get out of there.

Erin Wasson

#61. The people of Gaza are trapped. Israel has sealed the border, and they have no way to leave the Gaza Strip to do business.

Richard Engel

#62. These record companies are going to be going out of business pretty soon, because people are just going to be downloading what they want to hear.

Lester Bowie

#63. It's easy to think people have no business giving you advice when it isn't the advice you want to hear.

Katie Kacvinsky

#64. Don't thank your parents. If you were raised in a nurturing environment, you wouldn't be in show business. Don't say, 'Wow, this is heavy.' Of course it's heavy. It contains the shattered dreams of four other people.

Conan O'Brien

#65. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn.

Joss Whedon

#66. I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.

S. Truett Cathy

#67. My original business model - I actually wrote this down - was 'interesting work for interesting people.'

Tim O'Reilly

#68. I certainly know there are people in positions of power in the business who lack imagination and, perhaps as a result of that, think of me as 'David'. But I wouldn't really want to work with those people, you know?

Michael C. Hall

#69. Before I had published anything, I still hung out with people who liked to write. None of us had published, so there was no talk about the business, and there was probably a lot more angsty talk back then. But these days maybe there are some more laments about the culture, but I would say no.

Chang-rae Lee

#70. [On Obama Administration] I've never heard any administration or any business or anybody ever claim incompetence more than this group of people,

Glenn Beck

#71. When I graduated from college in early 2010, I decided that I needed to create a calling card, some kind of business card that people can link to my name and face. So I did this 'Mad Men Theme Song ... With a Twist' music video. I released it just as I moved to L.A.

Allison Williams

#72. I cannot give any assurances. I'm not in that business. I haven't been, and I don't intend to get into it. People who try to make predictions about things or assurances often find they're wrong.

Donald Rumsfeld

#73. My closest adviser is my wife. It's nice to have one of the smartest people in business as your life partner, and someone you have dinner with and breakfast with.

Dave Goldberg

#74. The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business.

Robert Jordan

#75. The only other people who have had experiences similar to those of this man were locked up inside institutions for the criminally insane. The difference is, this guy gets business cards.

Augusten Burroughs

#76. Learning is about seeing things froma a different perspective. My role is to help people improve their vision

Bob Selden

#77. I think, you know, a lot of the business of comedy is taking your personal experiences and making them relatable to other people.

Kumail Nanjiani

#78. America is a nation of 270 million people: 100 million of them are gangsters, another 100 million are hustlers, 50 million are complete lunatics, and every single one of us is secretly in show business. Isn't that fabulous?

Tom Robbins

#79. I wanted to be an actor from a young age, but actually becoming one and seen the ugly side of the world does feel different and sometimes unwelcome. There are shallow, vapid, untalented people zombieing the streets of Hollywood, adding decadence and immorality to an already extravagant business.

Fran Kranz

#80. Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. - It is not fair. - He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. - I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it - but fear I must.

Jane Austen

#81. Consider the problem of taking showers with Christians. They are, after all, constantly going on about the business of witnessing in the hopes of making converts to their God and church. Would you want to shower with such people? You never know when they might try to baptize you.

Stanley Hauerwas

#82. In the restaurant business, as opposed to the theater, center orchestra is an 8 P. M. reservation. Orchestra on the side is 7 or 8:30. Mezzanine is 6 and 9. But people don't take it personally when they call the theater and can't get what they want.

Danny Meyer

#83. A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.

Eric Hoffer

#84. The most that many people could hope for was that they should not incur the wrath of gods whom they had failed to appease or propitiate; beyond that, gods should be left to get on with their proper business and mortals with theirs.

Alexander McCall Smith

#85. Come to West Virginia and we'll show you how to live ... how to treat people. We're open for business. West Virginia is truly on the move.

Joe Manchin

#86. Why are other people profiting off that? I can see that if I have the page and sold it for $50 and 20 years later somebody's got it for $200, okay. That's business. But I had no say in that art being out there. It just really burns me.

Mike Royer

#87. Would I employ you if you were obese? No I would not. You would give the wrong impression to the clients of my business. I need people to look energetic, professional and efficient. If you are obese you look lazy.

Katie Hopkins

#88. Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Ordway Tead

#89. I went from sort of trying to get work to all of a sudden being signed up for the next few years on something, and something of this scale with some of the best people in the business involved, acting and directing. It was a dream.

Chris Hemsworth

#90. I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.

Baltasar Kormakur

#91. I realize I love crazy ladies. Of course I don't like to think of myself as one, but maybe I am, too. I dunno. I'm always drawn to them; I think it's because I'm attracted to people who aren't in the business of people-pleasing: saying what they really think, not passive-aggressive at all.

Michaela Watkins

#92. Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.

Stanislaw Lem

#93. It's a diabolical business. I can't imagine how hellish it must be to be hounded like Amy Winehouse and people like that. I have a little peripheral place on the outskirts of celebrity, when I go to premieres and that sort of stuff, which is as close as I want to get.

Jeff Beck

#94. Most business people today are not going to invest in the uncertainty that exists in America.

Howard Schultz

#95. When I was CEO, and I'd listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.

Ben Horowitz

#96. I have a problem with the term social entrepreneurship because people say only business helps to make the world a better place.

Sabriye Tenberken

#97. There is no business, there are only people. Business exists only among people and for people.

James Autry

#98. Exploring female rage on film doesn't frighten me - it might frighten a lot of people in my business, but, gosh, I know a lot about that, from personal experience and friends' experiences.

Reese Witherspoon

#99. Consider a situation where we refuse to pay attention to the less fortunate people in our neighbourhoods. If every single person in the elite of our society will take care of at least one child, most of the street kids would be taken care of. Yet, we act as if it is none of our business.

Sunday Adelaja

#100. The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings.

Mo Ibrahim