In Business Quotes

#1. She comes to naught, my dear one, she comes to naught, all that there business. What the hell, maybe twice in your life you have yourself a whore of a good time, and then you spend every night of the rest of your life trying to get that good time back. But she comes to naught.

Lynn Coady

#2. When I started Biocon in 1978, the obstacles I needed to navigate were manifold - ranging from infrastructural hurdles to issues related to my credibility as a business woman. With no access to venture capital, money was scarce and high-cost, debt-based capital was all I had.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

#3. There are not more than five primary colors (blue, yellow, red, white, and black), yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen.

Sun Tzu

#4. Social networks are like grease - in some cases, gasoline - for our personal business networking machines. If you aren't plugged in, you will be out-done by better-connected, hyper-networked colleagues and competitors.

Danah Boyd

#5. Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.

Samuel Alexander

#6. Trump is running for president and he's wasting no time getting down to business. In fact, just after his announcement he demanded to see Jeb Bush's birth certificate.

Jimmy Fallon

#7. Begin to break limitation in your home, business, career and spiritual life, in Jesus' name!

T. B. Joshua

#8. 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

#9. I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.

Liev Schreiber

#10. 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

#11. In life and in business, you need to be good-hearted and trustworthy, and to have integrity. This is the way to build long-term relationships. It is also important to be optimistic and to look at challenges as opportunities.

Henry Sy

#12. I don't relate to what's left of the music business. There doesn't seem to be any point to it anymore. The business that I grew up in and loved, we made records a different way - there were record companies, there were stores where you could buy albums.

Don McLean

#13. Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.

Mark Pincus

#14. The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it suggests a fundamental lack of faith in American business and American ingenuity.

Barack Obama

#15. A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.

Nancy Reagan

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

Brent Spiner

#17. I used to use business to make money. But I've learned that business is a tool. You can use it to support what you believe in.

Po Bronson

#18. Don't make light of werewolves, Jessica,' Luke said in a quiet voice. 'They're very serious business.

Francine Pascal

#19. I'm in this business to make films, not get deluded by the system. The system is set up to give you a headache.

George Tillman Jr.

#20. Get on top of the obstacles
and they become vantage points.

Tom Althouse

#21. We paused to nod in deference to a just-arrived mom of six who placed third in her age group in the Ironman and has a successful catering business, No Small Affair. Everyone suspects she's on meth but still, the woman commands respect.

Elisabeth Egan

#22. 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

#23. Before I started Code for America, I spent my career around startups. First it was game developers, small teams trying to make hits in a tough business. Then, when I started working on the Web 2.0 events, it was web startups during times of enormous opportunity and investment.

Jennifer Pahlka

#24. I'm not in the luxury-goods business. I sell unique objects. I wish I was in luxury goods because then I could just call the factory and say, 'I need 10,000 more of whatever.' But I can't - because then it's not art, it's something else.

Larry Gagosian

#25. In general, we run the farm like a business instead of a welfare recipient, and we adhere to historically-validated patterns.

Joel Salatin

#26. Evidently, one thing seems to have more value in direct proportion to whether or not we feel we have the freedoms, joys or conveniences of that thing.

David Brier

#27. Sometimes, as in a game of chess, we must strategically regress so that we might progress toward our ultimate objective.

Crystal Woods

#28. A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.

Charlie Munger

#29. I used to go with him and I'd sometimes play, take over from him. That was my first taste of the music business, I suppose, but I was also in the youth orchestra at Johnston Grammar.

Trevor Horn

#30. 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

#31. I think the business of writing a great deal of it is the business of paying attention to your characters, to the world they live in, to the story you have to tell, but just a kind of deep attention and out of that if you pay attention properly the story will tell you what it needs.

Salman Rushdie

#32. Because I didn't go to drama school, I didn't start in the business with any toolbox apart from enthusiasm and instinct. I'd throw everything at a part and sometimes realise that I had hit my limits.

Hattie Morahan

#33. I like the fact that now my understanding for entertainment and the entertainment business is completely different from what it was when I first came in. I get the business side of it.

Kevin Hart

#34. Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas.

W. Edwards Deming

#35. Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world

Ann Patchett

#36. In the world of Big Macks Starbucks coffee and oversized SUVS it was business as usual snort and go

Saira Viola

#37. Brains are an asset, if you hide them.

Mae West

#38. In my business, one learns there is a fine line between insanity and genius. We would be wise to give this man a little respect.

Dan Brown

#39. 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

#40. You are free; you are free to go to your temples. You are free to go to your mosques or to any other places of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion, caste or creed - that has nothing to do with the business of the state.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#41. Most of your day is spent working, and being in a band is no different. We're just business travelers in a way.

Adam Schlesinger

#42. 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

#43. Make it your business to draw out the best in others by being an exemplar yourself.

Epictetus

#44. Actually, I think business women are better women at home, if you want to know the truth because you do understand what goes into a day's work out in the world, a very nerve-racking affair.

Bette Davis

#45. I was no longer the storm-tossed heroine lost in her lover's arms. I was Sydney Sage, Alchemist and caretaker, and I was back in business.

Richelle Mead

#46. Don't worry. He won't be hard to talk around. Doin' the business that makes a baby is one of his favorite things."
"One of them?" I teased.
"He likes fucking a whole lot, but my man's addicted to blowjobs and that's me taking it in the wrong end to make babies.

Kristen Ashley

#47. What we need is to think strategically about development, analyzing a country's potential role in its region and the world in search of opportunities for growth. Platforms like the Global Social Business Summit can facilitate the process on bringing about change.

Muhammad Yunus

#48. Being able to do everything in the business doesn't necessarily mean you should do everything.

K Callan

#49. Politics is a rough and tumble business. It's not for the faint-hearted. I've got bruises and cuts from being in the political arena. But by and large, I understand how to navigate the process.

Donna Brazile

#50. 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

#51. He was good in business, but there was business left to do. He never said he loved me, guess he thought I knew.

Reba McEntire

#52. Most true artists care about music as a pure, passionate art form, but can get caught in the trap of the business. Which, sadly, has now become more important than the artist or even the music itself.

Rosanna Arquette

#53. If you're a single man and you happen to be in this business, you're deemed a player. But I don't see myself as a ladies' man.

Bradley Cooper

#54. The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc.

Swami Vivekananda

#55. SUPPOSE that an investor you admire and trust comes to you with an investment idea. This is a good one, he says enthusiastically. I'm in it, and I think you should be, too.

Warren Buffett

#56. Before Disney, I did other shows so I was aware of the business. They're all the same in that they're a professional environment. The only difference between a Disney show and other network shows are in the age of the actors you're working with and the age of the intended audience.

David Henrie

#57. A woman can plan. A woman thinks she needs a man for nothing in this world but soon realizes she is wrong. The same way every black- owned business has to acquire goods from a white distributor, women have to do business with men, be it professional or personal, to achieve too many of our goals.

Eric Jerome Dickey

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. It's my impression that investment in Europe is done for the right reasons. Europe is a very good place to do business; it's a large market.

Margrethe Vestager

#61. There has never been a better time in the history of time than right now to start a business.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#62. When it comes to success in business, an MBA degree is optional. But a GSD, which is only earned by Getting Stuff Done, is required.

Christine Comaford-Lynch

#63. Like squirrels, the best in every business do what they have learned to do without questioning their abilities - they flat out trust their skills, which is why we call this high-performance state of mind the "Trusting Mindset."

John Eliot

#64. For me, politics is not a career. For me, my career was being in business and starting a business and making it successful. My life's passion has been my family, my faith and my country.

Mitt Romney

#65. I'm extremely competitive with myself. But I'm not actively competitive with other women in the business. Which may have been a mistake. I've never had someone in my life, agent or otherwise, fighting for me.

Kim Basinger

#66. Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut it down.

Francine Busby

#67. Turning away, sobbing, I hide behind my hair, the kettle and coffee forgotten. It's too hard to talk about it. I can't talk about it. It's no one's business but mine. The trauma breathes in my blood, it feasts on my life, it gives me cold sweats and nightmares still.

Poppet

#68. I was born into the business. My mother was an entertainer. It was natural. But yes, in the next life, I might not do it.

Dina Lohan

#69. Will Ferrell is a dangerous man. If he thinks you're in his way in show business, he will crack your head open. He's the Jeff Gillooly of comedy.

Tina Fey

#70. People now a days are in business of minding other's business.

Kartik Mehta

#71. I've never gone to acting school and I never will, so I'm learning about the business from the people who are in the business. It doesn't seem like I work at all. And the unknown is always exciting.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

#72. Many people fail in their career, business and relationship, and others get stuck because of their inability to make quality decisions.

Nkem Paul

#73. We are a bed business, and a coffee-room business. We are not a general dining business, nor do we wish it. In consequence, when diners drop in, we know what to give 'em as will keep 'em away another time.

Charles Dickens

#74. Once you have opened up prisoner interrogation, wiretapping, border patrol, jailing and the services of the military, when this has been turned into a for-profit business in this endless war, then we're in deep trouble.

John Cusack

#75. When employees and employers, even coworkers, have a commitment to one another, everyone benefits. I have people who have been in business with me for decades. I reward their loyalty to the organization and to me. I know that they'll always be dedicated to what we're trying to accomplish.

Donald Trump

#76. Since we built such sophisticated business machines, people tended to think of IBM as a model of order and logic - a totally streamlined organization in which we developed plans rationally and carried them out with utter precision. I never thought for a minute that was really the case.

Thomas J. Watson

#77. There can always be an 'Idol' without anybody. I believe that Seacrest is probably the best host in the business.

Nigel Lythgoe

#78. The great thing about reading diverse news from the fields of business, health, science, technology, politics, and more is that you automatically see patterns in the world and develop mental hooks upon which you can hang future knowledge.

Scott Adams

#79. The car business is a lot like football. In football, you have to win once a week. In the car business, you have to win every day.

Tom Dempsey

#80. To come out in the music business, you only really get one shot. A lot of people get to play small gigs first, and build up that way, without anyone really seeing them.

Dhani Harrison

#81. Some of the fans here were not too sure about their club signing a player from their biggest rivals. Fortunately, we had a great season and won the League title for the first time in four years. Now, I think, everyone can say it was good business.

Luis Figo

#82. What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us is that they almost always abandon the interest of their friends for the interest of the business, because they wish to have the honor of succeeding in that which they have undertaken.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#83. I'm really not a party person. I'm in the business of working with 100 people every day, so I don't revel in meeting a roomful of people in my leisure time.

Zubin Mehta

#84. I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

George Bernard Shaw

#85. In pre-movie days, the business of peddling lies about life was spotty and unorganized. It was carried on by the cheaper magazines, dime novels, the hinterland preachers and whooping politicians.

Ben Hecht

#86. There are some people in show business who are proud of the number of marriages they've had.

Gerry Anderson

#87. If your partners in business do not match up to God's standards, then seek other partners.

Sunday Adelaja

#88. Create reciprocity in your business by making the first gesture, like make a comment on the blog of a great speaker.

Lisa A. Mininni

#89. My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.

P.J. Harvey

#90. If tomorrow morning by some stroke of magic every dazed and benighted soul woke up with the power to take the first step toward pursuing his or her dreams, every shrink in the directory would be out of business.

Steven Pressfield

#91. Sometimes, in order to be successful, a business must reset.

Bob McNair

#92. With the young man starting in business, let him understand the value of money by earning it.

P.T. Barnum

#93. But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.

Steven Soderbergh

#94. I have no interest in being a celebrity. I wouldn't go to anything that I wasn't involved in just for the sake of wearing a nice frock and having my picture taken. That part of the business doesn't make me feel very comfortable.

Michelle Gomez

#95. In such business
Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th' ignorant
More learned than the ears.

William Shakespeare

#96. The correct way to punctuate a sentence that states: "Of course it is none of my business, but
" is to place a period after the word "but." Don't use excessive force in supplying such a moron with a period. Cutting his throat is only a momentary pleasure and is bound to get you talked about.

Robert A. Heinlein

#97. Life is not enjoyed by being busy over everything in general, but being passionate about one thing in particular. Always focus on that one thing; dream it and live it!

Israelmore Ayivor

#98. So the question is, do corporate executives, provided they stay within the law, have responsibilities in their business activities other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible? And my answer to that is, no they do not.

Milton Friedman

#99. No one in my family is in show business, unless you count dog shows as show business.

Rebel Wilson

#100. I get a lot of fan mail addressed to Bilbo and sometimes Sir Bilbo - it's hardly ever addressed to Ian Holm, in fact. My business manager drafts the replies, and then I pop in to the office and sign them, 'Bilbo!'

Ian Holm