Quotes on Business

I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?

Author: Sheldon Adelson

I mean, that's kind of what this business is about in some ways. You're trying to make everybody like you. But you can't do that. You can't force everybody - anybody to like you if they're just not willing to do it.

Author: Clay Aiken

I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business.

Author: Carlos Alazraqui

When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this.

Author: Damon Albarn

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Author: Amos Alcott

You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.

Author: Alan Alda

Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.

Author: Samuel Alexander

When approved, the SAFE Port Act will make progress toward protecting the physical infrastructure of our seaports as well as our national economy which is so clearly dependent on the commercial shipping business.

Author: Lucille Allard

In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.

Author: Wayne Allard

We are pushing ahead as fast as we can for all audiences, whether for the business user, the child, or the digital music enthusiast.

Author: Jim Allchin

We're probably doing better business than we thought we would do especially considering the disappointing way the record company has handled the album.

Author: Rick Allen

The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not.

Author: Marc Almond

I'm an old-timer in the business from the sense that when you do something that you feel good about there might be another person out there who feels the same way, or a hundred or a couple million.

Author: Herb Alpert

You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.

Author: Herb Alpert

And I really believe good journalism is good business.

Author: Christiane Amanpour

You can say what you want to about a rapper in a movie, but look at what Ice Cube has done. Ice Cube has created more opportunities for other actors to get jobs in this business than some actors have.

Author: Anthony Anderson

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.

Author: Jack Anderson

And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.

Author: Pamela Anderson

I wouldn't be in a legitimate business for all the money in the world.

Author: Gennaro Angiulo

I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.

Author: Jennifer Aniston

In show business, you get chewed up and spit out.

Author: John Aniston

This is a business. Be smart. Choose wisely.

Author: John Aniston

I have never participated directly or indirectly in any business related to the United Nations.

Author: Kojo Annan

I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus.

Author: David Antin

I think the show has sort of given me a name in this business and allowed a lot of people the opportunity to see what I can do, and it's just sort of like a sweet starting point.

Author: Shiri Appleby

Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.

Author: Anne Archer

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

Author: Aristotle

I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.

Author: Alan Arkin

I want everybody in the news business to think of ABC before they go any place else. If it costs us an extra few thousand dollars to do that, what does it mean?

Author: Roone Arledge

Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.

Author: Roone Arledge

Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.

Author: Desi Arnaz

Touring is really a pretty lonely business.

Author: Eddy Arnold

The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.

Author: Tom Arnold

Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But again, those advantages won't mean much if we don't do a great job with the basics of our business.

Author: Gerard Arpey

At American Airlines, we have built a business around the love of travel that has lasted three quarters of a century. And I'm pretty sure we're just getting started.

Author: Gerard Arpey

Despite the painful changes we have had to make, we continue to believe in the St. Louis market. And we are hoping to add flights, in a careful way, as the economics of our business improve and the demands of the traveling public in St. Louis become clear.

Author: Gerard Arpey

However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions.

Author: Gerard Arpey

I think in just about any business the low cost competitor is always going to have an advantage.

Author: Gerard Arpey

Fortunately, we have a lot of really smart women in the business.

Author: Rosanna Arquette

It's unfortunate that music has become such big business.

Author: Rosanna Arquette

In Hollywood there are a lot of very insecure men running the business.

Author: Rosanna Arquette

After being in the business for such a long time, I've done everything but rodeo and porno.

Author: Bea Arthur

I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.

Author: Chester Arthur

Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me - I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the fun of it anymore. But it's an extremely happy and pleasureable business to run because people are generally buying cakes for celebrations.

Author: Jane Asher

I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.

Author: Peter Asher

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Author: Isaac Asimov

Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in.

Author: Mary Astell

You know, I never expected to enter the movie business.

Author: Christopher Atkins

And so I've always been fascinated by the technical end of theater, and a lot of my closest friends are not actors, but in the other end of the business.

Author: Rene Auberjonois

The mercantile business did not suit me.

Author: John Audubon

A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.

Author: Norman Augustine

Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base.

Author: Norman Augustine

In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires.

Author: Alan Autry

The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from what everybody else was doing in the business was the fact that you could tell that these people came from different reference areas.

Author: Kevin Ayers

I'm celebrating my 40th year in show business this year.

Author: Roy Ayers

Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.

Author: Hank Azaria

Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions.

Author: Ibrahim Babangida

The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of the nation's infrastructure.

Author: Joe Baca

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Author: Richard Bach

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Author: Francis Bacon

The business that people do in LA on the social level is amazing. You go to a restaurant, bump into this guy or that guy. The next day you get a call, and they want you in their movie.

Author: Kevin Bacon

I believe it is an important project, it makes the cost of doing business lower and they will make us more competitive at the same time, it will also provide some satisfaction to the people who demand services for them of the quality they want and also quickly.

Author: Abdullah Badawi

But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.

Author: Erykah Badu

Music and the music business are two different things.

Author: Erykah Badu

The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.

Author: Erykah Badu

Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.

Author: Erykah Badu

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

Author: Walter Bagehot

I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.

Author: Derek Bailey

Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.

Author: Fredrik Bajer

I was well aware of the fact that once you appeared in Doctor Who as something else, you were ruled out for the part of the Doctor: that was a kind of well known thing in the business.

Author: Colin Baker

I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act.

Author: Kenny Baker

The biggest challenge for everybody to realize out there is that we're in a very complicated business world and that were all under one umbrella and it's very challenging for everybody to figure out where the priorities lie and where the loyalties lie.

Author: Scott Bakula

On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married.

Author: Scott Bakula

I went into show business because I love to work with people, and what I enjoy most about acting is rehearsing and getting to know people and their talents, forming relationships. Working in this business, barriers drop and you get into people real quickly.

Author: Scott Bakula

My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.

Author: Bob Balaban

My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative.

Author: Bob Balaban

To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.

Author: Alec Baldwin

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.

Author: Hosea Ballou

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

Author: Honore Balzac

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

Author: Honore Balzac

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

Author: Honore Balzac

Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what's around them.

Author: Afrika Bambaataa

It's a dismally lonely business, writing.

Author: Toni Bambara

Mr. Wrigley believed in this: Put all your eggs in one basket and watch the basket. They don't do that today. This is the old-fashioned way I'm talking about. He carried it on to his business. Do one thing and stay with it.

Author: Ernie Banks

I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work for him in his business.

Author: Ernie Banks

We got extremely lucky. It's a tough business to work with.

Author: Lloyd Banks

Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years' business career, from which I had retired.

Author: William Banting

Friends don't necessarily made good business or creative partners.

Author: Joseph Barbera

Big business has no party and never shall have.

Author: Haley Barbour

I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions.

Author: Haley Barbour

We live in the moment now where this whole movie business is crazy.

Author: Javier Bardem

Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.

Author: Charles Barkley

That's the ultimate gratification in any business situation - do customers buy the product? And do they use it and do they come back and buy more of it?

Author: Jim Barksdale

We're no longer a small business; we're a large organization spread around the world. I can't imagine Netscape growing as fast as it has if it weren't for the way we use our products.

Author: Jim Barksdale

After all, it's the future of business communication that we're looking toward.

Author: Jim Barksdale

I want my testimony to stand on that point. But I would point out that Zona Research Inc. showed we have increased market share among business users, educational users, and government users over the past several months - and that's more recent than the IDC report.

Author: Jim Barksdale

I've tended to work at fast-growing companies that improve the way business gets done.

Author: Jim Barksdale

In my column series "The Main Thing," I often talk about how Internet technology can improve the way people communicate - both within a business and between a business and its customers and partners.

Author: Jim Barksdale

Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way we are worrying about government.

Author: John Barlow

Business and the state have a common interest; not an adversarial interest.

Author: Roy Barnes

I want business to prosper and make a profit caused by business expansion and prosperity.

Author: Roy Barnes

Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business.

Author: Chuck Barris

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Author: Sydney Barrows

Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.

Author: Dave Barry

Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.

Author: Dave Barry

Michael Eisner let it be known last week that he had no intention of leaving the entertainment business once he steps down as CEO of Disney in October.

Author: Peter Bart

Selling cookies helped me to realize that you needed to have a certain way to communicate with people. You also needed business skills. You knew you needed to sell a certain amount of boxes, so that gave me some business sense.

Author: Maria Bartiromo

Business news is sexy.

Author: Maria Bartiromo

Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.

Author: Bruce Barton

Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business.

Author: Bruce Barton

Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.

Author: Clara Barton

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

Author: Mikhail Baryshnikov

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal.

Author: Jacques Barzun

You say he's childish, but he's very professional about business transactions.

Author: Martin Bashir

I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.'

Author: Count Basie

All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel... and that's what I've been doing all my life.

Author: Count Basie

You have to be a little unreal to be in this business.

Author: Kim Basinger

I'm not a real social person - I'm shy - and a lot of the business is just social.

Author: Kim Basinger

I remember that Jack Lemmon, who is one of my favorite actors of all time, says that the day he stops being nervous is the day he should leave the business.

Author: Kim Basinger

I'm in a little bit of a different situation, because working in the business that I do and living in the city that I live in, I haven't had a problem with people who are gay. Since I was 10 I've been working alongside them, and some of my best friends are gay.

Author: Jason Bateman

What I look for in a script is something that challenges me, something that breaks new ground, something that allows me to flex my director muscle. You have got to think fast in this business, you've got to keep reinventing yourself to stay on top.

Author: Michael Bay

I can be very reserved about things. My business side isn't shy. I can be like a general. But I've got a shy side. I'm also a lot deeper than people think, and a lot more sensitive. But I don't let people in too much.'

Author: Michael Bay

If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months.

Author: Evan Bayh

As a member of the House Committee on Small Business and because of my own experience as a small business owner, I am appreciative of the impact these small businesses have on our local economies.

Author: Melissa Bean

I am excited to rise today to support National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day. This celebration honors the husband and wife business owner teams whose work helps drive the economy and fuel job growth.

Author: Melissa Bean

In fact, 80 percent of our domestic job growth comes from the small- and medium-sized business community.

Author: Melissa Bean

Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families.

Author: Melissa Bean

When I came to Congress, I came to bring what I thought was a real-world business perspective to government because, in the business world, I spent over 20 years in the high-tech industry, but it certainly was not unique.

Author: Melissa Bean

Oftentimes, small business owners are unable to obtain reasonably priced financing and instead turn to higher priced forms of capital, such as credit cards.

Author: Melissa Bean

I've been in this business for a long time, and I no longer think that anything that I do by way of clarification is ever going to eradicate the mistakes.

Author: Ann Beattie

Government is not show business.

Author: Warren Beatty

For too long, our country's version of an energy policy has consisted of Americans waking up every day and wondering how much it will cost to drive to work, how much it will cost to keep their business running, how much it will cost to heat or cool their homes.

Author: Bob Beauprez

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

Author: Samuel Beckett

I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

Author: Victoria Beckham

It's wonderful to have the most important thing in the world there first thing in the morning. And especially in this business, where the opportunity to think everything is about you is there every day, now I really know that it isn't all about me.

Author: Kate Beckinsale

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

Author: Henry Beecher

Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember.

Author: Rand Beers

Politics is show business for ugly people.

Author: Paul Begala

The best part? Probably being able to portray such a respectable, ethical, intelligent, strong woman. That's still pretty rare in our business, unfortunately.

Author: Catherine Bell

I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded.

Author: Kristen Bell

The key to success is not just working hard, but also working smart.

Author: Taylor Nguyen

It's been a rollercoaster ride. There have been some great moments and some low points... like when I was leaving Stax. That's when I actually thought of getting out of the business.

Author: William Bell

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

Author: Saul Bellow

Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box.

Author: Dirk Benedict