Top 100 Out Of Business Quotes
#1. Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these puppy mills out of business.
Shelley Morrison
#2. Lewis and I played my-God-how-tacky-is-that? with Patrick's collection of objets d'crap, finally coming to the conclusion that only a going-out-of-business sale at a whorehouse could really explain a lot of it.
Rachel Caine
#3. If I'm the poster boy for steroids, steroids is going out of business.
James Toney
#4. Keeler, you have so many issues, you can put the fucking New York Times out of business.
Charlie Cochet
#5. Yves Saint Laurent will never go out of business so long as I'm buying mountains of Touche Eclat.
Deirdre O'Kane
#6. I was in the world of business for 25 years. If you didn't balance your budget, you went out of business.
Mitt Romney
#7. As a genre, rockabilly's post-Elvis profile has seldom been lower in the United States. Many labels that produced fresh bass-slappin' sides during the '90's are now out of business.
Brian Setzer
#8. As a rule, from what I've observed, the American captain of industry doesn't do anything out of business hours. When he has put the cat out and locked up the office for the night, he just relapses into a state of coma from which he emerges only to start being a captain of industry again.
P.G. Wodehouse
#9. There's such an emphasis on making money that we've really taken the humanity out of business
Paul Tudor Jones
#10. My protest against digital has been me saying, "What's going to happen to film?" The result is that Kodak is out of business. That's a national tragedy. We've got to keep making film.
Oliver Stone
#11. As a programmer, it is your job to put yourself out of business. What you do today can be automated tomorrow.
Douglas McIlroy
#13. It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.
Herbert Hoover
#14. Adults are living increasingly as children: completely in their imaginations. Reading Harry Potter while every newspaper in the country goes out of business. They know so little that is real.
Lorrie Moore
#15. I started my blog in 2002. That was pre-MySpace, pre-Facebook. That was back before newspapers realized they were going out of business. That was back when no one gave any credence to Internet writers.
Tucker Max
#16. Amazon drove Borders out of business, and the vast majority of Borders employees are not qualified to work at Amazon. That's an actual, full-on problem. But should Amazon have been prevented from doing that? In my view, no.
Marc Andreessen
#17. The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.
Tom Hanks
#18. There will be two types of businesses in the next 5 years, those that are on the Internet, and those that are out of business
Bill Gates
#19. There's a lot more people that enjoy me playing the enforcer, the destroyer. If bad disappears one day, then good goes out of business.
Robert LaSardo
#20. I have taken some hits here and there, but I've been most damaged carrying my little terrier to bed, and I broke my hip turning off the lamp. I've been nicked a few times, but he put me out of business. So life is a very strange adventure.
David Douglas Duncan
#21. Big oil, big steel, big agriculture avoid the open marketplace. Big corporations fix prices among themselves and thus drive out of business the small entrepreneur. Also, in their conglomerate form, the huge corporations have begun to challenge the very legitimacy of the state.
Gore Vidal
#22. If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
B.C. Forbes
#23. You never quite know in business if what you are doing is the right or the wrong thing. Unfortunately, by the time you know the answer, someone has beaten you to it and you are out of business.
Mark Cuban
#24. In Houston, Texas, a man was born again in one of our meetings. He owned a liquor store. The next morning he had a sign on the front of his door saying, Out of business.
Billy Graham
#25. I was almost put out of business by a well-meaning corpse.
W.C. Fields
#26. We have 400,000 small businesses forming every year in this country. How great is that? They are employing themselves, they are potentially employing others. The bad news is, we have 470,000 going out of business every year. And why? They cite Obamacare.
Ted Cruz
#27. The reason why bookstores are going out of business in the States is that people just can't focus on longer narratives now - even narrative film is in crisis in many ways, unless it's an adventure film.
Barbara Kruger
#28. The chances of a bank going out of business are extremely slim, but it's always a good idea to spread around major sums so every penny is backed by insurance.
Suze Orman
#29. If people only knew the healing power of laughter and joy, many of our fine doctors would be out of business. Joy is one of nature's greatest medicines. Joy is always healthy. A pleasant state of mind tends to bring abnormal conditions back to normal.
Catherine Ponder
#30. One day there'll be no need for me. I'm actually hoping to put myself out of business.
Michael Moore
#31. I don't think we will put higher-ed out of business. I think we'll evolve it. More access, higher quality, lower costs, more global reach.
Sebastian Thrun
#32. If lack of a feature will force you out of business today it doesn't matter how much it will cost to deal with the code tomorrow; you
Sandi Metz
#33. If Satan wasn't around, churches would go out of business.
Marilyn Manson
#34. I personally felt that his ad hominen attacks on British architects were not the sort of thing a Prince of Wales should be doing because, apart from anything else, they put various people out of business.
Anthony Holden
#35. The diet industry has a deep interest in the failure of dieters
if everyone got skinny, they'd go out of business.
Golda Poretsky
#36. Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.
J. B. Pritzker
#37. If tomorrow, women woke up and decided they really liked their bodies, just think how many industries would go out of business.
Gail Dines
#38. The credit card companies have put the loan sharks out of business.
Elizabeth Warren
#39. If politicians all told the truth, we'd be out of business.
Jay Leno
#40. I think, as a chef and restaurateur, that you have to take care of your business. Otherwise, you're only as good as your last meal. You have to watch if your food costs are too high, or you could be out of business in no time.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
#41. We kept saying, 'These banks are out of business.' But the government kept saving the banks," he said. "And right in the midst of this Iceland went broke.
Michael Lewis
#42. Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't.
Marc Andreessen
#43. He liked cheap women, fast cars, late nights, and hard liquor, especially all together. In Jack's view, you are obliged to sin on Saturday night so you'd have something to atone for Sunday morning. Otherwise, you'd be putting the preacher out of business.
Lisa Kleypas
#44. It seems like every time I agree to work with a video game company they go out of business. I stopped because I was starting to feel guilty.
Neil Gaiman
#45. When the Academy called, I panicked. I thought they might want their Oscars back and the pawn shop has been out of business for a while.
Woody Allen
#46. I collect old Coon Chicken Inn memorabilia. I collect black memorabilia, like old minstrel posters. It was a real place. There was one in Seattle, one in Portland, and one in Salt Lake City. They started in 1925, and then they went out of business around 1958.
Terry Zwigoff
#47. The small town is passing. It was the incubator that hatched all our big men, and that's why we haven't got as many big men today as we used to have. Take every small-town-raised leader out of business and you would have nobody left running it but vice-presidents.
Will Rogers
#48. Grocery stores can't afford to pay $80 a square foot. At that rate, we are going out of business.
John Catsimatidis
#49. Vine, the Ringling Brothers circus, Friendster, horseshoes, pay phones, typewriters, etc. Things go out of business. Don't think it can't happen to Madison Avenue. Adapt or die.
Andrew Essex
#51. The Gnostics were rapidly driven out of business by the hierarchical orthodox Christians.
Robert Shea
#52. Countries don't go out of business ... The infrastructure doesn't go away, the productivity of the people doesn't go away, the natural resources don't go away. And so their assets always exceed their liabilities, which is the technical reason for bankruptcy. And that's very different from a company.
Walter Wriston
#53. The idea that growth equals profitability is a misconception. If you can't afford the financial or qualitative side of growth, it can just as easily put you out of business.
Mark Cuban
#54. 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
#56. You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.
Sam Walton
#57. The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid.
Will Rogers
#58. If you really want to get rid of the problems in the NFL, put Obama in charge of it: in a few months it will be so deep in debt it will have to go out of business - no more concussions.
Rush Limbaugh
#59. We always say at CARE that we would love to see if we can work ourselves out of business.
Helene D. Gayle
#60. As we women awaken and actually love our funky chunky bodies, as is, imagine how many consumer industries will go out of business. What freedom and soul free dance lovin' fun! P.S. our ancestral sisters will be sooo proud!
Jan Porter
#61. The desire of any war photographer is to be put out of business.
Robert Capa
#63. It's been busier than ever I guess they were having a going-out-of-business sale.
David Livingstone
#64. The only person who can put you out of business, in the early days, is yourself.
Eric Ries
#65. The Anarchists set off World War I with a gunshot in Sarajevo - but they faded away. It wasn't that the police drove them out of business. The ideology had nowhere to go except into permanent negativity.
Pete Hamill
#66. Even the biggest blaze, though, has to start somewhere, with a tiny spark, or arsonists would be out of business.
A.P.
#67. It has always puzzled me, in my business, that people think they have to answer questions, no matter how disagreeable or dangerous, just because they were asked. Of course, we journalists would be out of business if they didn't.
Judith Martin
#68. Those not favorable to the money trust could be squeezed out of business and the people frightened into demanding changes in the banking and currency laws which the Money Trust would frame.
Charles August Lindbergh
#69. In the technology world, you have to execute fast or you're out of business.
Vivek Wadhwa
#70. Travis punched his palm. "Do you want me to go beat the piss out of Finch? Teach him a lesson? I'll take him out."
I couldn't help but smile. "If I wanted to take Finch out, I'd just tell him Prada went out of business, and he'd finish the job for me.
Jamie McGuire
#71. The new companies often put the old ones out of business; the young were forever eating the old. The whole of the Valley was a speeded-up Oedipal drama. In this drama technology played a very clear role. It was the murder weapon.
Michael Lewis
#72. Jesus Christ says, 'Kill me and in 3 days, not only this temple, but all temples in the whole world will be out of business.' This is the most stunning thing any human being has ever said.
Timothy Keller
#73. We'll be out of business in a few years. We got savings put aside for the lean years, but the lean years have been here for a long while, and every year they just get leaner. Horus is crazy, really bugfuck crazy, spends all his time as a hawk, eats roadkill, what kind of a life is that?
Neil Gaiman
#74. If you aren't going out for business, you may go out of business.
Robert J. Braathe
#75. You'll go out of business if you think people are stupid.
Steven Moffat
#76. If every Christian family brought in a child who needed a family we would put the foster care system out of business.
Shane Claiborne
#77. Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business.
Mortimer J. Adler
#78. It's time for the bully pulpit of the White House to bring the gangstas in, put them around the table and let them know that if they don't come up with loan modifications and keep people in their homes that they've worked so hard for, we're gonna tax them out of business.
Maxine Waters
#79. This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#80. I would think that most of the online business will be conducted by traditional retailers and that over 90 per cent of the e-retailers will, in fact, all go out of business.
Gerry Harvey
#81. As a small business owner, you must sell or you will go out of business. Therefore, you must prospect (it's an integral part of the process). You have to bring people to your business, not just wait for them to show up.
Diane Helbig
#82. Gyms would run out of business.. if love-making did more for your fitness than just the moans, groans, huffing and puffing ...
The Fitness Doc
#83. If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.
Lee Kuan Yew
#84. All those years we'd spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you'd play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business.
Nick Lowe
#85. If your business is not on the Internet, then your business will be out of business.
Bill Gates
#86. You can be a leader, a follower or out of business.
Terence Mauri
#87. In the private sector, there is always innovation. There's always change. There's always improving productivity, and if you're not leading that, you'll be passed and ultimately go out of business. So there's an urgency to constantly update and renew and to rethink your enterprise.
Mitt Romney
#88. While Mitt Romney was at Bain Capital, almost one out of every four companies they were involved with went bankrupt or went out of business.
John Brabender
#89. A lot of the point mags are going out of business. They dropped the pay tremendously and it's all because of the internet. I used to go out once a month to LA and shoot for one week. I'd make a ton of money then come back to New York and do whatever I wanted.
Richard Kern
#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. As far as my fellow students go, I'm one of the two dangerous rebels who turned up in office casual; the rest are so desperately sober that if you could bottle them you could put the Betty Ford Clinic out of business.
Charles Stross
#92. I predict that many teams will go out of business and the size of the leagues will be greatly reduced.
Will McDonough
#93. 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
#94. Comcast rents modems directly to consumers, thereby competing directly with companies like Zoom. It has every reason to make Zoom modems more expensive or even to drive companies like Zoom out of business.
Bernie Sanders
#95. Higher education is a business that doesn't know it's going out of business.
Mark Cuban
#96. My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.
Kurt Vonnegut
#97. A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is and lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you will go out of business.
Bill Gates
#98. The toughest decision is always whether to open a restaurant. Two or three bad months, and you could be out of business.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
#99. Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.
Erma Bombeck
#100. Independent film is almost nonexistent right now, because all the distributers that used to love to put out these little art films are all out of business right now, because it costs so much to open a movie.
Ron Perlman
