Top 100 Quotes About Business Is
#2. The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands.
Bruce Lee
#4. Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it's integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards.
Kerry Stokes
#5. Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.
William Feather
#6. The work, the work, the work. This is what the business is all about. This is the fun, the glory, the pleasure. It's the only true measure of an agency. In the absence of great work, nothing else matters.
Phil Dusenberry
#7. Any good business person applies financial discipline to everything they do. The movie business is and should be no different; I don't believe you have to sacrifice creativity to have business success. To the contrary, great art requires discipline.
Paula Wagner
#8. I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
H.P. Lovecraft
#9. But, look; it also exists for acts that are really established. It's not always a guarantee that you're going to do something that's going to be of quality. It's not always in your control. That's sort of how the business is. Because for the moment - for the moment, we're blessed.
Steve Zissis
#10. The one thing about the music business is that there is no rulebook. It's not like the NFL or something where there's four downs to get ten yards or baseball where it's three strikes and you're out.
Zakk Wylde
#11. The satellite business is a very successful business, very profitable business, and serves the broadcast market in addition to the telecoms market.
Chua Sock Koong
#12. Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is
Elbert Hubbard
#13. The way our business is, the way it works out, we end up being residents of everywhere.
Don Johnson
#14. A successful business is created before there is a business.
Robert Kiyosaki
#15. The steel business is a local business. We do believe in the U.S. economy and would like to have a strong, balanced presence here.
Alexei Mordashov
#16. My business is creating fame and celebrity, and I'm one of the best in the world. I know it to the finest detail. I reflect what's out there, and if there's a demand for something, I recognise it. I don't think I'm crass. I stand by everything I do.
Simon Fuller
#17. Business is the real test of the moral life.
Ted Malloch
#18. The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.
Erykah Badu
#19. The way you continue to be a successful business is you don't wait for the car to go off the cliff. You have to manage yourself. And make sure you do it in the right way so you are not making decisions in crisis.
Roger Goodell
#20. A successful business is either loved or needed.
Ted Leonsis
#21. I think in certain areas the demand is greater than it has ever been, and my business is better than it's been in 30 years. The music business is so precarious, as you know-you've got to make it while you can make it, and that's exactly what we're doing.
George Shearing
#22. Business is the most important institution on the planet for furthering human flourishing.
Paul Gibbons
#23. What I'm doing in here isn't all that different from what I was doing outside. I'll hand you a pretty cynical axiom: the amount of financial help an individual or company needs rises in direct proportion to how many people that person or business is screwing.
Stephen King
#24. Business is like a wheel barrow. Nothing happens until you start pushing.
Robert Kiyosaki
#25. What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.
Nancy Sinatra
#26. You know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their ego, I sometimes think to myself, 'Come on, you know, there's life and there's death and there is love.' And all of that ego business is nonsense compared to that.
Christine Lagarde
#27. When I first came into baseball, people didn't want to hear that a team was a business. But it is. And the better the business is run, the healthier the team on the field is going to be.
Billy Beane
#28. I love to compete. To me, business is the ultimate sport. It's always on. There is always someone trying to beat me.
Mark Cuban
#29. Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
Tom Peters
#30. Launching a business is essentially an adventure in problem-solving.
Richard Branson
#31. Starting a business is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. In mid air, the entrepreneur begins building a parachute and hopes it opens before hitting the ground.
Robert Kiyosaki
#32. Engaging in social business is beneficial to a company because it leverages on business competencies to address social issues, involves one-time investment with sustainable results, and produces other positive effects such as employee motivation and improved organizational culture.
Muhammad Yunus
#33. Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.
Ben Stein
#34. I'm oddly not competitive. What I love about show business is there is a home for everyone.
Jay Mohr
#35. There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.
Wentworth Miller
#36. Business is a marathon, and most of society thinks it's a sprint.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#37. The best defence against mafia business is full declaration of assets and incomes.
Milos Zeman
#38. The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process.
William Devane
#39. Something out of the ordinary course of business is taking place that creates an investment opportunity. The list of corporate events that can result in big profits for you runs the gamut - spinoffs, mergers, restructurings, rights offerings, bankruptcies, liquidations, asset sales, distributions.
Joel Greenblatt
#40. The entertainment business is to business what plastic flowers are to flowers.
Dov Davidoff
#41. The business is so international now; you'll be working on an American film, and you'll start chatting to someone, and it's like: 'Oh, you're English, too.'
Imogen Poots
#42. Every producer I have met has asked me to change my hair. I have always said 'No.' I finally change it for me ... and now everyone in the business is like, 'You have to go back to having brown hair.'
Marissa Jaret Winokur
#43. Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you.
Tommy Steele
#44. a deep love and passion for your business is having a plan. A plan is critical. Without this roadmap, you are apt to get lost.
Dennise Cardona
#45. Don't always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. "I will not Reason and Compare," said Blake; "my business is to Create." Besides, since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of Time, you are incomparable.
Brenda Ueland
#46. They say a year in the Internet business is like a dog year.. equivalent to seven years in a regular person's life. In other words, it's evolving fast and faster.
Vinton Cerf
#47. No matter how good or successful you are
or how clever or crafty, your business and its
future are in the hands of the people you hire. To
put it a bit more dramatically, the fate of your
business is actually in the hands of the youngest
recruit on the staff.
Akio Morita
#48. The core of the consulting business is going in and essentially making yourself indispensible by eating the brain of the organization, meaning that the consultants go in and assume key functions in the organization.
Matthew Stewart
#49. What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach.
Gilbert Stuart
#50. Our business is to be free of anything that separates us from God who has created us to simply be happy and to progress.
Toni Sorenson
#51. There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them.
C.S. Lewis
#52. A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.
Jean Renoir
#53. To stay cheerful when involved in a gloomy and exceedingly responsible business is no inconsiderable art: yet what could be more necessary than cheerfulness? Nothing succeeds in which high spirits play no part. Only excess of strength is proof of strength.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#54. Business is an establishment that gives you the legal, even though unethical, right to screw the naive-right, left, and in the middle.
W.C. Fields
#55. My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.
Robert Smith
#57. Business is many things, the least of which is the balance sheet. It is a fluid, ever changing, living thing, sometimes building to great peaks, sometimes falling to crumbled lumps.
Harold Geneen
#58. Your business is a part of yourself. Should it be? Who knows, but it sure feels that way. You can never really leave it.
Barbara Corcoran
#59. The key to successful business is self belief and application.
Felix Dennis
#60. Business is good right now, but now my personal life is a disaster.
James Packer
#61. The single and most dangerous word to be spoken in business is no. The second most dangerous word is yes. It is possible to avoid saying either.
Lois Wyse
#62. Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future.
Satya Nadella
#63. Business is as old as life. There is no living being that does not have a business.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#64. One of the benefits for me of starting late in this business is I realised that if acting was the only thing I could do, I would struggle, so I always wrote as well.
Sanjeev Bhaskar
#65. The Indian business has largely grown on the back of exports. The domestic markets, as far as our Indian business is concerned, actually have contracted because of the contraction in the medium and heavy commercial vehicle space.
Baba Kalyani
#66. First and foremost, I would like to start off by saying that just because my husband is an entertainer, that does not mean that our personal business is for everyone's entertainment purposes.
Kim Mathers
#67. Search is the means through which we navigate the Web. If your business is not visible in search it is difficult for it to be found by your customers. Search, above all else, is marketing, and it is undergoing a massive change.
David Amerland
#69. I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.
Kurt Vonnegut
#70. What does it take to be a successful entrepreneur? It takes willingness to learn, to be able to focus, to absorb information, and to always realize that business is a 24/7 job where someone is always out there to kick your ass.
Mark Cuban
#71. The music business is really, really small. The real music is becoming almost extinct, if you don't stay true to who you are.
Mary J. Blige
#72. The only one that seems to be able to hold the business is Disney. They do it is because they have a fabulous philosophy about marketing- but even they wavered.
Don Bluth
#73. The art business is a rarified business and appeals to an audience capable of spending money on a luxury. Too often the atmosphere in a gallery borders on snobbishness.
Scott Kahn
#74. Succeeding in business is all about making connections
Richard Branson
#75. The restaurant business is something that you have to treat like a baby. You have to constantly be there. You can't trust it to anybody else, because no one's going to love it like you do.
Action Bronson
#76. Surviving in business is like surviving in the jungle;
you must look for prey while on the lookout for predators.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#77. Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it's full of surprises, and you're constantly getting fucked.
David Mamet
#78. the brain's business is not to give us an accurate or objective view of the world, but to give us a useful view - one we can act on
Robin Fox
#79. 'Night of the Comet' established me as a strong woman. And let's face it, this business is very surface and one dimensional - so it's easy to get typecast.
Catherine Mary Stewart
#80. Our business is all about helping someone - a founder, a CEO - building a great business. It's not about seeing our names in the press.
Douglas Leone
#81. One of biggest lies in politics is the lie that Republicans are the party of big business. Big business does great with big government. Big business is very happy to climb in bed with big government. Republicans are and should be the party of small business and of entrepreneurs.
Ted Cruz
#82. The problem with venality in business is that getting outraged about it makes it easy to miss the systemic problems that venality often disguises.
James Surowiecki
#83. Business is where you practice your human skills. It's where you grow.
Andrew Cherng
#84. All business is capitalistic. You require capital for any sort of business endeavour.
P. J. O'Rourke
#85. Success in any field, but especially in business is about working with people, not against them.
Keith Ferrazzi
#86. There is also a schedule to fashion - the deadline is always set. So maybe the fashion business is a good business for me in that way because I'm basically lazy, man.
Yohji Yamamoto
#87. Look, if I ever stop being grateful for gigs, I just need to stop. Because this business is ... you know, it's just so kind of job-to-job, and the fact that I've continued working ... I'm just incredibly thankful for it. And I never, ever take it for granted.
Tony Hale
#88. Writers to some extent are childish, and it's at the childish level that one really engages with any experience. What really moves you is at the very personal, childish level of the imagination. My business is the imagination, and my imagination is engaged by Asia.
Christopher Koch
#89. Business is the ultimate sport. In business, as in sport, the one thing you can control is effort.
Mark Cuban
#90. Every film may not be appropriate for a theatrical release, and the theatrical business is not a very good business for anybody except the distributor.
Alex Gibney
#91. The hardest thing to do in this business is to still be around. When music changes, when labels' resources have dried up, it becomes harder and harder to continue to make a living at this.
Brian McKnight
#92. Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
Tamara Tunie
#93. What I learned from my years in Silicon Valley is that design can have a primary role in how a business is shaped, how a company can be design-driven. In my experience of large industry in Europe, that knowledge has been lost.
Yves Behar
#94. This is important stuff, so it's crucial not to get too serious, to realize that this is all fun and games. The attitude 'business is serious, it's not fun and games' leads to financial failure, and I won't tolerate it in my company.
Martha N. Beck
#95. I have always understood that money made in the patent medicine business is a practical bar to social success.
George Presbury Rowell
#96. The music business is rougher than the movie business. In film you get noticed in a small role, even in a movie that bombs. But in records you better have that hit or else it's 'See you later.'
Amy Madigan
#97. There's no difference in dealing with the music business with the majors than any other competition. The music business is way more cutthroat than any other business.
Suge Knight
#98. Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.
Larry Page
#99. Has it ever occurred to you that business as you think of it may have outlived its usefulness? Business has made its contribution and the world moves on. Business is just another dodo ...
Clifford D. Simak
#100. The reality of our business is that for every actor who's rolled up his tent and given up and gone home, the next day you hear about some shoe salesman at Macy's who had this audition and now he's Harrison Ford. There's always that carrot out there in our business.
Scott Bakula
