Business You Quotes

#1. It's important to have a really clear strategy so when you are in business, you only have to make micro-strategy changes.

Alexa Von Tobel

#2. In this business, you're either Brad Pitt right away, or you're already going down the ladder.

Skeet Ulrich

#3. I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales.

Zig Ziglar

#4. Your biggest fear is the transition from football to business. You feel inferior at the beginning. You don't have the knowledge to compete. But once you start focusing and understanding, then you start relating to things.

Emmitt Smith

#5. To have a successful career, you have to approach it as an entrepreneur, even if you are working for someone else. Your career is your own private business. You have to market yourself and your abilities and knowledge just as you would a product or service.

Earl G. Graves, Sr.

#6. Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.

Irving Berlin

#7. Demonstrated that the more you owed a country the more business you did with it.

William L. Shirer

#8. Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it's show business. You know, we all got rhythm.

Diana Ross

#9. The William Morris Agency handled me. In that business, you're only as good as your last picture.

Johnny Weissmuller

#10. Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#11. Selling is a person-to-person business. You cannot send the sales manual out to make the sale. Sales manuals have no legs and no voice.

Jim Rohn

#12. As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.

Morgan Freeman

#13. Study the business you think you might like. Satisfy yourself that they will suit your needs. There are so many alternatives available - don't be too quick to choose. Just about any business can fail and any can succeed.

Paul Clitheroe

#14. I have always loved the competitive forces in this business. You know I certainly have meetings where I spur people on by saying, "Hey, we can do better than this. How come we are not out ahead on that?" Thats what keeps my job one of the most interesting in the world.

Bill Gates

#15. Feminism? The word itself means exactly the same thing to me as the word God does - it's a spirituality that is deeply personal, deeply subjective, and deeply no one else's business. You can identify the word however you want, it's just the non-exploration of it that is unacceptable to me.

Amber Tamblyn

#16. No matter what business you're in, everyone in the organisation needs to know why

Frances Hesselbein

#17. Never invest in a business you can't understand

Warren Buffett

#18. 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

#19. I was the first f****** hippy to enter this business, you know ... I was one of the first girls to say I don't give a f*** about this whole supermodel thing.

Helena Christensen

#20. I'm in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't have any plans. I don't have a map. If you did in this business, you'd destroy yourself.

Colin Farrell

#21. I've always just adored music. It's my first love, really. I admire and respect people in the music business. You really have to work hard and diligently. Sometimes actors can be lazy and get away with it, but you can't do that if you're a musician.

Blythe Danner

#22. I'm actually very snobbish about directors. I have to say 'no' all the time. 'No' is the most powerful word in our business. You've got to protect yourself.

Brad Pitt

#23. The minute you start the process of deciding to make a film and you're communicating that vision to anyone, you're in the process of selling. If you don't understand that, you're not in show business. You're just not.

Peter Guber

#24. In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#25. Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is that?

William Kittredge

#26. In show business, you had levels. I was at the top of the TV end of it.

Gabe Kaplan

#27. If you're a responsible business, you don't let things like that happen in your business that have an impact on the country.

Rick Santorum

#28. I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.

Dennis Farina

#29. When you make a business you're making a little world.

Derek Sivers

#30. I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.

Sam Walton

#31. Conflicts often stem from a couple of leaders on both sides that are badly brought up. They'd rather go to war than compromise. And in business, you're competing with other companies all the time, but you don't end up going to war with each other.

Richard Branson

#32. Whatever business you're in - it doesn't matter - it's going to commoditize over time. It's going to devalue. You've got to keep moving it to a higher value.

Ginni Rometty

#33. Dawn is about luminosity and so is the iPhone ... The little drawings of the dawn are done while I'm still in bed ... If you're in my kind of business you'd be a fool to sleep through that ... Artists can't work office hours, can they?

David Hockney

#34. It doesn't matter what business you're in. It is the people who achieve things, not capital, and the great advantage for us is that I think women have always known this.

Janet Holmes A Court

#35. In business, you learn from mistakes. In government, they never do.

Rick Scott

#36. The only way one should buy stocks is if you understand the underlying business. You stay within the circle of competence. You buy businesses you understand.

Mohnish Pabrai

#37. But the longer I'm in the business, you see a lot of times these screenplays have been rewritten 5 times and you're not really offending an author.

Edward Burns

#38. To prosper soundly in business, you must satisfy not only your customers, but you must lay yourself out to satisfy also the men who make your product and the men who sell it.

Harry Bassett

#39. Purpose has to do with one's calling - deciding what business you are in as a person.

Ken Blanchard

#40. You've got to love this business. You have to be able to take rejection.

Jessica Biel

#41. You sit here for days saying, this is a strange business. You're the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine.

Rumi

#42. In any business, you have to evolve.

Ross Levinsohn

#43. 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

#44. Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.

Jim Carrey

#45. I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output.

Rufus Wainwright

#46. They're talking about a movie I don't want to hold to that because in this business you can talk about things for years before they get done - god knows if the financing would happen.

Caroline Dhavernas

#47. In any case where someone is hurt within himself because of a mere jealousy over your success expedition, that is none of your business.You don't bring yourself low in order to please those who envy you.

Israelmore Ayivor

#48. There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.

Billie Holiday

#49. You see I don't like to be really too commercial about things but in this business you've just got to be commercial otherwise the films don't make money and you don't make films and as a long as a commodity is selling it's silly to kill it dead.

Peter Cushing

#50. At the end of every day, having a clientele that speaks well of you, that's the largest source of business. I don't care what kind of business you're in. Clients referring us to their friends or relatives is so much more powerful than any advertising we could ever do.

Charles R. Schwab

#51. This business [moviemaking] isn't easy. It's a hard business. You just keep plugging away until you figure it out. You write something you love and keep banging on people's heads until somebody lets you do it.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

#52. I've done well, I've been disappointed, and I think it all goes back to you. Of course the labels are going to be the labels. It's the music business. You are a business. That's what they do. So you've got to protect yourself.

Mary J. Blige

#53. When you start out in the wrestling business, you make a lot of mistakes, tripping over your own feet and looking like a fool.

Hulk Hogan

#54. If you've got a business - you didn't build that.

Barack Obama

#55. If you must use more than ten slides to explain your business, you probably don't have a business.

Guy Kawasaki

#56. What did I expect of him? Very little, I promise you. One more dented little face. One more adolescent freak. The usual unusual. One great thing about being in the adjustment business: you're never short of customers.

Peter Shaffer

#57. When you go for business, you just see the airport, the offices, cities. You never see what 80 per cent of the population does in a country, so if you want to understand what Indonesia is made of, or the depths of China or India, you have to go and see.

Jean-Pascal Tricoire

#58. One of the things I've really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are. Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.

Aimee Mann

#59. In a business like the movie business, you're going to have a lot of people competing. Somebody is always coming behind them who wants their job. Being an actor is like being in quicksand: whatever you do, it disappears very quickly. You have to keep reminding people.

Robert Osborne

#60. Mind your own business, you goddamn raisin with legs! Taran screamed from inside the house.

Cecy Robson

#61. For one movie, I'm learning to play a violin, and I had never picked up a violin in my life. That's a big challenge. That's what I see as one of the advantages of this business. You get to do things you'd never do, in a normal lifestyle.

Luke Evans

#62. 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

#63. So many people comment that I'm much more mature than average. In this business, you can get taken advantage of if you're not aware and you're not tough.

Amanda Bynes

#64. Oftentimes during the period in which conventions really did business, you had situations where the delegates were divided and you would have ballot after ballot before there was a final nominee.

Michael Beschloss

#65. If your business requires your presence you don't have a business, you have a job.

Michael Gerber

#66. The truth is an artist like me who doesn't get the type of promotion that we see more commercial artists receive, and especially in this climate of the music business, you have to be creative about how you promote yourself.

Chrisette Michele

#67. When you make a business, you get to make a little universe where you control all the laws.

Derek Sivers

#68. I'd go for parts that didn't pay a dime, and there would be 300 to 400 actors there. It could be very discouraging. To make it in this business, you have to have a kind of dumb sense that you're really good. You have to believe that someone is going to recognize that.

Michael Imperioli

#69. When you're launching a business, you just really want to know somebody deeply to help in how you do it.

Alex Blumberg

#70. No matter what business you are in, and no matter how small or mundane, the activities, there must be continuous investment in it.

Strive Masiyiwa

#71. If the store were your own business, you'd escort the customer to a product's location in the store and refer to the customer by name.

Steven Burd

#72. War is a bloody, killing business. You've got to spill their blood, or they will spill yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts.

George S. Patton

#73. Growing up in the business you have to grow up very fast - you do have a different type of childhood, that has its benefits and it has its drawbacks.

Jodie Sweetin

#74. I've always been pretty levelheaded. In show business, you need to have a certain internal stability.

Annette Bening

#75. The client wants an innocent young girl and you will fulfill that role. He doesn't want to hear your life story or why you entered this line of business. You are forbidden to discuss weighty matters or your personal life. Do you understand?

H.M. Ward

#76. Because if you had your eye to business, you could see places in the sewers where a tosher could hang on in a bubble of air while all around him the world raged.

Terry Pratchett

#77. Modeling is a lonely business ... You don't speak. You don't really portray anything but an image ... the business is so superfluous about dealing with the outside, it messes with your mind.

Kim Alexis

#78. It's very eclectic, the way one chooses subjects in the movie business, especially in the commercial movie business. You need to develop material yourself or material is presented to you as an assignment to direct.

John Frankenheimer

#79. Your customers are only satisfied because their expectations are so low and because no one else is doing better. Just having satisfied customers isn't good enough anymore. If you really want a booming business, you have to create Raving Fans.

Ken Blanchard

#80. The greatest demand is not to demand anything, and the greatest service of love is not to turn it into a business: "You kiss me, I'll bring flowers to you. I brought flowers to you, why didn't you kiss me?"-your American way.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#81. Playing all of these games, getting to know everything about the NBA, you realize that you are your own business. You have business meetings to go to, signings to go to. Like, I'm only 20, but the stuff I'm doing the average 20-year-old isn't doing.

Derrick Rose

#82. You need to have camaraderie in the clubhouse. Wherever you're working, be it a baseball team or at a business, you want to walk in there and say, 'Geez, it's great to be at work. Let's go get 'em,' as opposed to walking in there knowing there's going to be a commotion.

Pat Gillick

#83. If you have done well in whatever business you are in, it is your duty to send the elevator back down and try to help bring up the next generation of undiscovered talent.

Kevin Spacey

#84. If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.

Carlos Slim

#85. Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#86. Ignore the stock market, ignore the economy, and buy a business you understand.

Warren Buffett

#87. What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.

Mario Andretti

#88. Before you start any business, you need to get your target audience down pat. Who do you want to serve? Who will your product/service benefit the most? Don't worry about the rest.

Kevin J. Donaldson

#89. So I'm leaving Sony, a free agent, owning half of Sony. I own half of Sony's Publishing. I'm leaving them, and they're very angry at me, because I just did good business, you know.

Michael Jackson

#90. I think in business, you have to learn to be patient. Maybe I'm not very patient myself. But I think that I've learned the most is be able to wait for something and get it when it's the right time.

Bernard Arnault

#91. As you navigate the bumpy waters of your business, you should create a system around every problem that arises.

Korbett Miller

#92. Barack Obama doesn't believe in free enterprise. He's never going to admit it. For instance, he's never going to come straight out and say, 'If you own a business you didn't build it.' Alright, maybe he will.

Marco Rubio

#93. Working on any show that works is the best job you can possibly have in any area of the business. You've got so much going for you, a good community, everybody's hanging together, and you get to do it every week.

James L. Brooks

#94. In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business.

Carlos Alvarez

#95. With any entertainment business, you sort of have to be OK with just going with it. I've learned very much to just go with the flow and see what happens with my life, and what happens happens.

Aubrey Peeples

#96. When we left school, it was the early eighties. This country was on its knees. There were no jobs, none. If you couldn't go into Daddy's business, you emigrated or went on the dole. Even if you had the money and the points for college - and we didn't - that just put it off for a few years.

Tana French

#97. When you are new to the business, you think if you give a really bad performance, that's one they will print. You will be judged. You just have to be brave.

Robbie Coltrane

#98. If you do everything that everyone else does in business, you're going to lose. The only way to really be ahead, is to 'be different'.

Larry Ellison

#99. But then, you know, I'm very happy, I've got to this stage in my life and I'm not dead. I haven't got married and divorced and done all that palimony business, you know all that mess.

Michael Hutchence

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

Skitch Henderson