Top 64 My Business Is Not Your Business Quotes
#1. Quigley (to Duane): My business is not your business, whether you ask after it in Tainish or interpretive dance.
Ashley Cope
#2. I'm always interested in understanding the math of things and understanding as much as I can about all aspects of business. And what I learn today may be useful to me two years from now. That'sreally the wonderful thing about investments is your knowledge is cumulative.
Warren Buffett
#3. 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
#4. Until now I have never really lived! Life on earth is a creeping, crawling business. It is in the air that one feels the glory of being a man and of conquering the elements. There is an exquisite smoothness of motion and the joy of gliding through space. It is wonderful!
Gabriele D'Annunzio
#5. 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
#6. It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.
Edward Hopper
#7. it's just business nothing personal...
Mario Puzo
#8. I've always heard that women secretly want their father. So I used to walk around in a 1950s business suit, with a hat and a pipe. My opening line would be, 'You should be getting to bed now.'
Conan O'Brien
#9. Positioning is finding the right parking space inside the consumer's mind and going for it before someone else takes it.
Laura Busche
#10. A title from the1966 movie
"The Russians Are Coming,
The Russians Are Coming,"
gives a new meaning to
a phrase: "wait a minute,
we've seen this movie before
Steven Ivy Attorney Entrepreneur
#11. Do I use VORP? I may be using it and not even know it, and if I am, it's nobody's business. There are a lot of different criteria in judging players. I think I use, um, esoteric qualitative mathematical review times five. That's one of them.
Ned Colletti
#12. I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.
Rutherford B. Hayes
#13. In the marketplace, small businesses are the face and voice of humanity, which provides them with a great advantage in the Age of the Customer.
Jim Blasingame
#14. One finds many companions for food and drink, but in a serious business a man's companions are very few.
Theognis Of Megara
#15. Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future, I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now.
Elisabeth Elliot
#16. This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.
Lakshmi Mittal
#17. A man driving a wagonload of children in a cage doesn't have to state his business. A farmer whose flesh lies sunken around his bones, and whose eyes are the colour of hunger, doesn't have to explain himself if he walks up to such a man. Hunger lies beneath all of our ugliest transactions.
Mark Lawrence
#18. When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine
Margaret Thatcher
#19. My best advice to actors is if you love acting, do it every chance you get. Success does not mean success. All that matters is whether or not you're doing your best to entertain. The way this business works is all about luck and timing.
Matthew Gray Gubler
#20. Lots of my dying patients say they grow in bounds and leaps, and finish all the unfinished business. But assisting a suicide is cheating them of these lessons, like taking a student out of school before final exams. That's not love, it's projecting your own unfinished business
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#21. Fitz: How bad is it?
Nighteyes: Mind your own business.
Fitz: You ARE my business.
Nighteyes: Sharing pain doesn't loosen it.
Fitz: I'm not sure about THAT.
Robin Hobb
#22. I'm not a Christian for your benefit. I'm a Christian for my benefit, and how I walk my walk is my business, and how you walk your walk is your business.
John Schneider
#23. Nashville is a lot like my hometown. You learn so quickly once someone hears something about you or sees something, everybody talks about it at dinner. They know your business, so people tend to be more private and not to throw themselves into everyone's faces.
Garrett Hedlund
#24. Advice? I don't offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
Betty Friedan
#25. Well enough. I won't ask you if your love is true or any of that rot - it's not my place to judge. After all, I'm a naked woman chained to a wall; I've no business questioning the lifestyles of wine-makers or anyone else.
Catherynne M Valente
#26. So my advice to startups in this particular category is if you're going to put your product in beta - put your business model in beta with it. Far too often we are too product focused and not business-model focused. That's one thing I definitely would have done differently with JotSpot.
Joe Kraus
#27. My business is not reading your messages. I don't have a business doing that. And it's against my values to do that. I don't want to read your private stuff.
Tim Cook
#28. Yours is more than business. Your opinion of him - and your continuing relationship with him - matters. My nephew is not accustomed to that, and he's struggling with it.
Kelley Armstrong
#29. I'm not ogling him for myself. I'm ogling him for you. It was, after all, your sex life we were discussing. (Selena)
Well, my sex life is just hunky-dory, and not the business of the people in this restaurant. (Grace)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#30. 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
#31. What is your problem?" I asked, scooping the freezing mess out of my cleavage.
"We got unfinished business," he reminded me.
"My name's not Bill." He chuckled. "Yeah, I loved that movie. Shoulda brought a katana, but it seemed like an unfair advantage.
Karen Chance
#32. MAKE WAVES WITH ME! My talk's not cheap, but sponsorship is inexpensive and tax-deductible.
Lisa Tolliver
#33. It is a dark and dirty business, Will Henry. And you are well on your way." He patted my knee, not to congratulate, I think, but to console. His tone was sad and bitter. "You are well on your way.
Rick Yancey
#34. Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid.
Upton Sinclair
#35. Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.
Julius Rosenwald
#36. 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
#37. The more time I spend with our people, the more I find out about our business.
Herb Kelleher
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. There's nothing you can do God's business is adoption, Child, And He has chosen you.
Beth Moore
#41. Nothing is illegal so long as you correct it before the SEC catches it.
Ali Sheikh
#42. Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
Gore Vidal
#43. Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
Edward De Bono
#44. Forget "six degrees of separation" today it's "six degrees of CONNECTION.
Morag Barrett
#45. To me, job titles don't matter. Everyone is in sales. It's the only way we stay in business.
Harvey MacKay
#46. The business of the philosopher is well done if he succeeds in raising genuine doubt.
Morris Raphael Cohen
#47. 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
#48. To become distinguished in your industry, you have to constantly manage, master and maximise your time.
Onyi Anyado
#49. No Executive can value the worth of others unless he first learns to value himself
John M. Capozzi
#50. The business conduct of the disciples of wise men is truthful and faithful ... He does not allow himself to be made a surety or a guarantor and does not accept the power of attorney ... He lends money and is gracious. He shall not take away business from his fellow man.
Maimonides
#51. Friends don't let friends become BossHoles! Or work for one either.
Greg L. Alston
#52. 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
#53. But principles defended at the expense of pragmatic application is the business of priests.
Kathleen Parker
#54. 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
#55. Something will master and something will serve. Either you run the day or the day runs you; either you run the business or the business runs you.
Jim Rohn
#56. 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
#57. How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#58. Sustainability at Nike means being laser-focused on evolving our business model to deliver profitable growth while leveraging the efficiencies of lean manufacturing, minimizing our environmental impact and using the tools available to us to bring about positive change across our entire supply chain.
Mark Parker
#59. Today, if you're an American business, you actually get a benefit for going overseas. You get to defer your taxes. So if you're looking at a competitive world, you say to yourself, "Hey, I do better overseas than I do here in America."
John F. Kerry
#60. People do make judgments of trust on appearance - in the real world and online.
Aaron Patzer
#62. A few primary keys to becoming a leader in business include having a clear intent or purpose, a truly inspiring vision, a grand message to share, a genuine social calling and a targeted niche to serve.
John Frederick Demartini
#63. 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
#64. If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe.
[Lat., Qui finem quaeris amoris,
(Cedit amor rebus) res age; tutus eris.]
Ovid
