Business Quotes

"Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us"

"The 9-9-9 plan would resuscitate this economy because it replaces the outdated tax code that allows politicians to pick winners and losers, and to provide favors in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions and loopholes. It simplifies the code dramatically: 9% business flat tax, 9% personal flat tax, 9% sales tax"

Herman Cain, Businessman

"Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it"

Jennifer Garner, Actress

"More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause"

Rose Kennedy, Author

"I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business"

Celine Dion, Musician

"ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business"

Robert Sternberg, Educator

"I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company"

Don Henley, Musician

"The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer/songwriter, or find a singer to develop"

Cynthia Weil, Musician

"I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing"

James Earl Jones, Actor

"There are many programs specifically aimed at helping people in poverty start a business"

Matthew Lesko, Entertainer

"So if there is a government grant offered for anything, like starting a business or going to school, they cannot discriminate because of your age"

Matthew Lesko, Entertainer

"My business has doubled in ways I couldn't have imagined"

Matthew Lesko, Entertainer

"I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet!"

Robert Duvall, Actor

"Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business"

Pete Seeger, Musician

"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"

Maria Bartiromo, Journalist

"We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life"

John Cage, Composer

"I don't have any love for this business or the game or for acting. This is my day job"

Terrence Howard, Actor

"I wanted to be in this business, and once I got into the business I knew I enjoyed it, and I liked it, and I wanted to continue, but I never had a five year plan"

Sam Donaldson, Journalist

"Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day"

Sam Donaldson, Journalist

"We're all in the service business. If you hire me to do a job I expect everybody else to be where I am. A little bit of crazy is good. It keeps things - balanced"

Nia Long, Actress

"Banks properly established and conducted are highly useful to the business of the country, and will doubtless continue to exist in the States so long as they conform to their laws and are found to be safe and beneficial"

Martin Van Buren, President

"My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day"

Johnny Carson, Comedian

"So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it"

Gerald Scarfe, Artist

"I can't help thinking if she - the director of a government agency - is this ignorant about what funding is available and where the money comes from - how often lower-level bureaucrats must give wrong answers when people are looking for help to start a business"

Matthew Lesko, Entertainer

"A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy"

Rod Blagojevich, Politician

"In a system where the cost of care is hidden by taxes levied on your income, property, and business activities, it is no wonder why so many Americans rely on Medicaid to pay their long term care"

Michael Burgess, Congressman

"Inflation is lower and more stable and the real business cycle fluctuations are more modest"

Martin Feldstein, Economist

"The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for"

Sam Donaldson, Journalist

"The American economy has always been driven by the entrepreneurial nature of its citizens, and blocking access to affordable health care will only suffocate growth within the small business sector of our economy"

Paul Gillmor, Politician

"I'm sure it's not great fun for them, or for any parent, when their child says they want to be an actor, 'cos it's quite an uncertain business and it can be terribly hard for most actors"

Ewan McGregor, Actor

"The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business"

Raymond Chandler, Writer

"My undergraduate degree is in business, so I'm trying to get a bit of a background before I go in"

Shannon Miller, Athlete

"During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures"

Paul Getty, Businessman

"And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner"

Tom Hanks, Actor

"I got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law"

Shannon Miller, Athlete

"I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers"

Michael Bloomberg, Politician

"It's whatever sells; it's the business of it"

Don Bluth, Artist

"A rise in the level of saving can reduce aggregate activity temporarily but only a sustained high level of saving makes it possible to have the sustained high level of business investment that contributes to the long-run growth of output"

Martin Feldstein, Economist

"The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device"

Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Director

"Regardless of how me or this man right here or anybody else in this business get, when we walk on an airplane in first-class looking like this, we're gonna get searched"

Method Man, Musician

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