Quotes About Business

#1. In the film business, when you're young, you just want to work. But when you're older, it has more to do with who's involved with the project - who you're going to get in the boat with.

Alec Baldwin

#2. The best decision I ever made, period, was to get into the music business.

Ja Rule

#3. When you create a business, you create something that improves the life of your customer, of another person, maybe of ten people, of a thousand people, of a million people. There's no higher calling.

Paul Zane Pilzer

#4. The more money I make...the more I focus on my marriage...the more I love...the more I forgive...the more I mind my business...the less fucks I give.

J'son M. Lee

#5. Profit is not the explanation, cause, or rationale of business behavior and business decisions, but the test of their validity.

Peter Drucker

#6. Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness.

Ben Casnocha

#7. Customers are the reason we open our doors every day, and keep the machines humming all night long. Customers determine what we eat, where we live, whether we stay in business.

Harvey MacKay

#8. Someone who lies for you will also lie to you. The occasional benefit your business may gain from a successful deception or concealment is always outweighed by the encouragement it provides to those willing to risk trust for success.

Michael Josephson

#9. The profession of the ministry is like matrimony: if it is possible for you to keep out of it, it's a sign that you've no business to go into it!

Margaret Deland

#10. Business crises energize me. Personal crises devastate me. The doctors call it an avoidance tendency. (Mirena to Eve)

J.D. Robb

#11. What brought me into the TV business is what keeps me here and happy. You can learn something new every day if you have a really positive attitude.

Katie Couric

#12. I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I'm certainly not going to write any sort of memoir.

Jamie Lee Curtis

#13. Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all ... good design must primarily serve people.

Thomas J. Watson

#14. Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

Ulrich Beck

#15. There is no question about that. Business is my hobby. It is not a burden to me. In any case Reliance now can run without me.

Dhirubhai Ambani

#16. There's a beauty of show business. It's the only business you can have a career in when you're dead.

Tom Waits

#17. When the Chinese told Google that they had to block sites or they couldn't do [business] in their country, they managed to figure out how to block sites.

Christopher Dodd

#18. You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.

Gary Hamel

#19. In a creative business, if you're happy, it will come out in your work. I don't see how you can be happy if you don't like the people you're working with and if they aren't a joy to have fun with.

Christian Louboutin

#20. The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.

Jack Markell

#21. If you are under the illusion that you can start a business and run it at your life's schedule, you are mistaken. The business is like a starving puppy - when it needs to eat, then it needs to eat regardless of what you have going on personally.

Robert Herjavec

#22. Speaker calls the Christian counselor to look at each person as soul embodied with unique challenges that move us. This is not, he says, the first step before we get on to important business but vital in and of itself.

Edward T. Welch

#23. It has become harder and harder in the United States to make films unhampered by outside influences. I've always been able to steer clear of that and keep the business people out of my hair completely.

Woody Allen

#24. Ideally, since 80 percent of your life is spent working, you should start your business around something that is a passion of yours

Richard Branson

#25. Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.

Eartha Kitt

#26. Great customer service is not just one part of your business, it should be in every part of your business!

Tom Kenemore

#27. Any path you take, if you commit with passion, you can be successful. By going to business school, certain opportunities may open up to you sooner. But it's who you are and how you take advantage of your opportunities that matter.

Dan Rosensweig

#28. I always switch off from the business when I go across the threshold. Home is home, and I try to keep it that way.

John Caudwell

#29. The business is so upside down now. It's not just about the bling-bling.

Tim Reid

#30. For those of us in the political business, generally, it's been pretty much an unwritten but understood rule that family and children are out of bounds, that you don't attack someone's family.

Michael Nutter

#31. If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

Bernard Meltzer

#32. I suddenly began to realize that to become an entrepreneur in the marijuana business would make me fairly well off. And I also liked the lifestyle, my own working hours.

George Jung

#33. Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.

Bertrand Russell

#34. I don't care if New York avoided bankruptcy by substituting tourism for the garment business.

Fran Lebowitz

#35. I watch 'Shark Tank,' of course. It's very entertaining. I think it's actually good to help people think about the business they might start, and sometimes you get encouraged by looking at someone going into business and saying, 'Hey, I could do that.'

Fred DeLuca

#36. I have always been business minded, always been sorta an entrepreneurial guy; I played a character on 'Felicity' that was modeled after me, actually.

Greg Grunberg

#37. Google is not a media company by any traditional definition of the word, but it makes its billions from the media business model.

Chris Anderson

#38. From the country with limited hope to grow your own business and express your own personality, Russia has become the land of significant opportunity.

Roustam Tariko

#39. The business of writing is one of the four or five most private things in the world.

Ethel Wilson

#40. Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear.

Bill Gates

#41. Chaos is NOT a condition of doing business.

Karen Martin

#42. This is the difference between U.S. Latina/o letters and Latina/o Letters from Latin America: In the United States, writing is a business. In Latin America, writing is life and death.

Daniel Pena

#43. I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

John Irving

#44. Make thy recreation servant to thy business, lest thou become a slave to thy recreation.

Francis Quarles

#45. COMEDIAN: [ ... ] What is it you do for a living?
HECKLER: I mind my own business.
COMEDIAN: Self-employed, eh? No really, what do you do?
HECKLER: I try not to do.

J. Ross Clara

#46. Washington is politics! Somehow if people have political objectives, then those objectives are automatically disqualified? If that's the case, the Democrats have no business being legitimized about anything because everything they do is political.

Rush Limbaugh

#47. Build your own business team. Survival in business requires a synergy of skills.

Richard Branson

#48. Not everyone is born to run a $4 billion company. There is no magic formula. I've learned, and I've grown by learning. That's why I've enjoyed being in business so much: It's stretched me.

John Mackey

#49. For the most part, I think American armies are awfully good in the business of protecting civilians, of not going over the line.

Morley Safer

#50. For many of the most powerful people in the entertainment business, hostility to organized religion goes so deep and burns so intensely that they insist on expressing that hostility, even at the risk of financial disaster.

Michael Medved

#51. [On swinging for the fences] Ultimately, you have the potential to build a significant business with the potential to have a positive impact on millions of people's lives.

Steve Case

#52. In this business, it takes all the running you can do just to stay in the same place. The

Gerald M. Weinberg

#53. The music business has let me touch a lot of people with my talent.

Britney Spears

#54. What we need is political leadership which can give guidance to the development of global governance. We need business leadership which goes beyond shareholder value to understand the needs and fears of other stakeholders and their communities.

Juan Somavia

#55. Every business has two financial objectives: One is to make money; the other, more elusive, is to make money consistently.

Dave Liniger

#56. I wanted to entertain so badly that I kept at it until I was good. I just browbeat my way into show business.

Mel Brooks

#57. Regulation is strangling businesses of all sizes in California, and we've got to streamline regulation so it's easy, not hard, to do business.

Meg Whitman

#58. Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here.

Elizabeth Arden

#59. We are very fortunate to have Matt Carter join the Apollo board. Matt brings deep management, operations, marketing and international business expertise to the company, along with a track record of growing and strengthening well-known consumer brands.

Peter Sperling

#60. It's important to build a personal brand because it's the only thing you're going to have. Your reputation online, and in the new business world is pretty much the game, so you've got to be a good person. You can't hide anything, and more importantly, you've got to be out there at some level.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#61. Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.

David Ogilvy

#62. It ought to be the business of every day to prepare for our final day (attributed to Matthew Henry)

Francis Chan

#63. Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to men, then the use of such medicines should be restricted to physicians; private individuals have no business with them.

Plato

#64. Modern business must have its finger continuously on the public pulse. It must understand the changes in the public mind and be prepared to interpret itself fairly and eloquently to changing opinion.

Edward L. Bernays

#65. Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul.

Glen Cook

#66. We never have business meals at El Bulli. If it's about business, you're probably not paying much attention to the food.

Ferran Adria

#67. The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life

Jonathan Edwards

#68. Sometimes it is in the long-run interest of the business sector to restrict the freedom of individual firms so that they do not destroy the common pool of resources that all of them need, such as natural resources or the labour force.

Ha-Joon Chang

#69. In the insurance business, 93 percent of those who become insurance agents don't stick it out past three years. These people who quit usually lack mental toughness. I've learned over the years that perseverance will win out - every time - over talent.

Jerry Hraban

#70. The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did.

Rand Paul

#71. I'm a huge romantic comedy fan and have been in this business for 17 years and I think for all 17 I'd hoped and dreamed and wished to some day be in a romantic comedy myself.

Katherine Heigl

#72. Business is like sex. When it's good, it's very, very good; when it's not so good, it's still good.

George Katona

#73. I don't want people ever to think I'm not in advertising. It's such a business of enthusiasm that if you're not totally excited about it, you should leave it.

Jerry Della Femina

#74. Above all, film is a business ... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do.

Mel Gibson

#75. Most business problems can be solved if you can teach yourself to look beyond the dollar sign.

Harvey MacKay

#76. The theater has to impose itself on the public, and not the public on the theater ... The word "Art" should be written everywhere, in the auditorium and in the dressing rooms, before the word "Business" gets written there.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#77. Writing is a lonely job. Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real business of his life, it is he and his type writer or word processor. No one else is or can be involved in the matter.

Isaac Asimov

#78. School programs the schooled to type a CV. Life inspires the unschooled to type a business plan.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#79. No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.

Elizabeth Bowen

#80. In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.

Barbara Corcoran

#81. I think that the problem with network television is that they cling to the whole business model like they are clinging to the side of a cliff.

Bill Lawrence

#82. I'm in the movie business; it's meant to be very cutthroat. But you won't find anybody that ever says I cheated them or manipulated them.

Jack Nicholson

#83. It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations.

Wentworth Miller

#84. When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right.

Bob Mould

#85. A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers, and opens doors. It is a key not only to starting a business but also to clarifying your own personal identity and choices. A

Blake Mycoskie

#86. I had to give Justin Bieber a lot of shirts - he's a friend of the team, and we got a lot of love for Justin Bieber. I like the apparel business. That's another $100 million per year, easy.

Birdman

#87. The sanctity of prayer is needed to impregnate business. We need the spirit of Sunday carried over to Monday and continued until Saturday. But this cannot be done by prayerless men, but by men of prayer.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#88. I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern.

Lev Grossman

#89. It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.

Plautus

#90. Mitt Romney knows America's prosperity didn't happen because our government simply spent more. It happened because our people used their own money to open a business.

Marco Rubio

#91. The customer reaction to Dell going private has been a lot more positive than I would have ever imagined. Customers see it as - 'You don't have to be distracted. Now you can totally focus on your business.' So they see it as a positive.

Michael Dell

#92. These people walk by a window deformed by leprosy begging for a few paise, walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, "Business as usual" But if they perceive a slight against God, it is a different story.

Yann Martel

#93. I didn't want to be a sweet boy's sweet girlfriend. I wanted to be Fawn's equal, the kind of girl who stood up for herself and took care of business, who cut guys loose when it was required.

Paula McLain

#94. I drove away from my mind everything capable of spoiling the sense of the presence of God ... I just make it my business to persevere in His holy presence ... My soul has had an habitual, silent, secret conversation with God.

Brother Lawrence

#95. Every corporate security may be best viewed, in the first instance, as an ownership interest in, or a claim against, a specific business enterprise.

Benjamin Graham

#96. As a company gets big, the information that informs decision-making gets massive. Depending upon the prism through which you view the business, your perspective will vary. If two people are in charge, this variance will cause conflict and delay.

Ben Horowitz

#97. My goal in this music business is to be here as long as I'm alive. I want my music to be here. I want to be the Michael Jackson and the Prince of hip-hop. I want to be a legend. I want to change the world. I want to give them songs that mean something.

Petey Pablo

#98. Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?

Sydney Madwed

#99. If I'm the poster boy for steroids, steroids is going out of business.

James Toney

#100. I'm strong and fearless and not afraid to take risks in business.

Khloe Kardashian