Business Quotes

"I traveled the state of Florida for two years campaigning. I have never met a job creator who told me that they were waiting for the next tax increase before they started growing their business. I've never met a single job creator who's ever said to me I can't wait until government raises taxes again so I can go out and create a job"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. It kills the people trying to start a business"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"What I would have liked to do on that show was play a secretary of state who has huge personal business interests throughout the world. That, to me, seems to be more in synch with reality"

William Devane, Actor

"The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process"

William Devane, Actor

"I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap"

Robert Wyatt, Musician

"Some of the fans here were not too sure about their club signing a player from their biggest rivals. Fortunately, we had a great season and won the League title for the first time in four years. Now, I think, everyone can say it was good business"

Luis Figo, Athlete

"If you are a musician and you don't show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people will rip you off. They will sweet talk you into anything"

Michael Schenker, Musician

"Millions have been taken from me. If you are not on top of it and you make a lot of money, and you trust business managers, then, yes, money will be taken from you"

Stephanie Mills, Musician

"Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company"

Ornette Coleman, Musician

"Well, it is certainly not by choice at this time you don't see or hear about me. This business is very unpredictable. A lot of it is luck and being in the right place at the right time"

Erin Moran, Actress

"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"

Damon Albarn, Musician

"Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America"

Christina Aguilera, Musician

"The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world"

James F. Cooper, Novelist

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

Mikhail Baryshnikov, Dancer

"Show business is just like high school, except you get paid"

Martin Mull, Actor

"I do not believe that the government is in any position to say exactly how every single business and every single activity shall reach those performances"

Dixie Lee Ray, Politician

"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, Actress

"In other words, I'd say the whole story of Bob Dylan is one man's search for God. The turns and the steps he takes to find God are his business. I think he went to a study group at the Vineyard, and it created a lot of excitement"

T-Bone Burnett

"If you want to stay in the business then you've got to be a bit shrewd, haven't you?"

Katie Price, Model

"In my career, people in the record business have been rockin' in the same ol' boat. They all crooks - I'll say it clear and loud - especially the big ones"

John Lee Hooker, Musician

"Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone"

Esther Williams, Actress

"I believe we're the party of small business"

Ed Gillespie, Politician

"Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop"

Allen Klein, Businessman

"I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money"

Nat King Cole, Musician

"I'm a committed Christian. I worship in my own way. That's my business. That's not the business of the pharisees who are going to preach to me about what I do and then do something else"

Howard Dean, Politician

"Nobody wants to open a business near a Superfund site and risk being sued"

Fred Thompson, Politician

"I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship"

Aaron Eckhart, Actor

"Everyone in show business has had the experience of the fan who is so excited at recognizing their favorite star, they say, 'Oh my gosh, you're my biggest fan!'"

Audrey Meadows, Actress

"In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort"

Alvin Ailey, Dancer

"Well, actually, I had been working as a consultant to former companies of Enron, or predecessor companies of Enron and, so, I joined in 1990 to really start our wholesale merchant business"

Jeffrey Skilling, Criminal

"Our fathers were actually business partners in the same real-estate firm, and we got together and thought, How can we get a movie together and get distribution and create a new movie genre? We started by making satires of commercials"

David Zucker, Director

"I'm in the business where you get the business all the time"

Cyndi Lauper, Musician

"We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff"

Yahoo Serious, Director

"The main professional responsibility of a person in business is business"

Lee R. Raymond, Businessman

"He or she must be successful in economic terms, but always within an ethical framework. Whether his or her constituency is a corporation and its shareholders or the customers in a small and privately held business, his or her first responsibility is to serve that constituency"

Lee R. Raymond, Businessman

"The money isn't a lure. I've done very well out of this business"

Julie Walters, Actress

"In the commercial real estate business, brokers spearhead major accounts. But they wouldn't have customers without the people who oversee construction"

Roger Staubach, Athlete

"This Islam business kidnapped me"

Oriana Fallaci, Journalist

"I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where I can support my family and don't have to depend on writing fiction for my income"

George Stephen, Businessman

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