Strictly Business Quotes

#1. I have always looked upon a telephone as an official kind of machine which you prepared for with fasting and prayer, and only had recourse to when strictly necessary for important business.

C.N. Williamson

#2. They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.

Cormac McCarthy

#3. A country of a thousand war-chariots cannot be administered unless the ruler attends strictly to business, punctually observes his promises, is economical in expenditure, loves the people, and uses the labor of the peasantry only at the proper times of year.

Confucius

#4. I've played for teams that were family-oriented organizations. They made you feel like family. The Yankees are strictly a business. Baseball is your life and everything else is secondary.

Gary Sheffield

#5. At his desk, pen in hand, none was more articulate than Thomas. As soon as he found himself shut into the car with Sarah Ham, terror seized his tongue.

Flannery O'Connor

#6. "He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing," is one of the fundamental rules of defense.

Adolf Galland

#7. There are very few people that I deal with from a business side that it's just strictly a one-sided business relationship. I think that's important.

David Nail

#8. Having a phone call from Steven Spielberg was just a fantastic rite of passage. I loved it, and he was very focused, very likable, strictly business, and really sharp.

Peter Morgan

#9. We came here for a quiet, small, informal meeting - strictly business. We find you've turned it into a circus. Well, if you're going to have a circus, you've got to have elephants and there's no two ways about it.

Robert A. Heinlein

#10. Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business, or even a strictly online business, can form the same kind of friendly, loyal relationship with customers as a local retailer. I'm saying it's already been done because I lived it.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#11. When we went to Iraq, we stayed in one of Saddam's palaces. It was kind of creepy. If those walls could talk, there's no telling what stories they'd tell.

Kellie Pickler

#12. It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.

Mahatma Gandhi

#13. If there wasn't any business and it was just strictly basketball, then there would be no issue, it would probably be done by now. But the team has to protect.

Jason Kidd

#14. When I go into the studio, I'm strictly for business ... I don't like any fooling around in the studio.

Otis Redding

#15. It is not a bad thing to settle for the Little Way, not the big search for the big happiness but the sad little happiness of drinks and kisses, a good little car and a warm deep thigh.

Walker Percy

#16. Who knows if there are ghosts (sorry, Grandma) or just the living, breathing memories of your loved ones, inside you, speaking to you, trying to get your attention by any means necessary?

Jandy Nelson

#17. I like animals more than I like most people. They don't judge you. They're always happy to see you and they act like you're the most wonderful person in the world.

Chris Cannon

#18. It's not personal, it's strictly business

Al Pacino

#19. 'New Jack City' and 'Boyz 'N the Hood' are realities, but movies like 'Strictly Business' are realities, too.

Tommy Davidson

#20. The music business is strictly business.

Kenny Rogers

#21. Well, I think probably when I first got in the business, I wasn't thinking of being strictly a character actor. But I knew I wanted to be a working actor, and as the years have gone on, I just naturally evolved into that. Because, y'know, I'm not a leading guy. Never was.

Stephen Root

#22. Explain to me what the point of living is if you aren't willing to fight for the truths in your heart, to risk getting hurt.

Estelle Laure

#23. And when we come to search for God, Let us first be robed in night, Put on the mind of morning To feel the rush of light Spread slowly inside The color and stillness Of a found world.

John O'Donohue

#24. Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one; a global idea, not a strictly American one.

Reid Hoffman

#25. If you give people unlimited time and money, they'll do things the same old way. But if they have to achieve the goal in a brief time, they'll either give up or try something new.

Peter Diamandis

#26. Technology helps us become more efficient and productive but our business still has a lot of art as opposed to strictly science.

James Sinegal

#27. I used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fu*kin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,' and she threw the bast*rd stuff out. I never forgave her for not treating me like a fu*kin' genius or whatever I was when I was a child.

John Lennon

#28. To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#29. 'Strictly Business' is about a young black man who is learning about himself, and that applies to a lot of young black men, those who are trying to find jobs. This film gives them a good look at that situation.

Tommy Davidson

#30. Statistics don't lie. It's the people who make up the statistics that lie.

George W. Buck

#31. I tried to look presentable for a show, but not for sexual attraction. It was strictly for show business.

Little Richard

#32. Politicians do not enter into wars lightly. It is usually the military themselves who are keener to become involved.

Jonathan Powell