Business Quotes

"There are men - now in power in this country - who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit"

John Lindsay, Politician

"I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling"

Nicholas II, Royalty

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

Kim Basinger, Actress

"So we have a commitment to the business and to its people"

John Kluge, Businessman

"You have to remember a lot of business is very cyclical"

James Daly, Actor

"There was never any danger of Business 2.0 ever going under"

James Daly, Actor

"The magazine was being started by a company that had no experience in business magazine publishing. It was a little difficult to get people to sort of buy into it and to join the staff, but we did"

James Daly, Actor

"Some couples could not work together but we enjoy working on our projects and building our art business"

Dwayne Hickman, Actor

"Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers"

Brian Lumley, Writer

"You have to stick out the toughness of the business and form relationships with the people in it"

Rocco DiSpirito, Celebrity

"Well, California used to be in the dream-making business, and unfortunately what's happened I think we're now in the dream-breaking business"

Meg Whitman, Businessman

"I support Democrats and Republicans. And I'm telling you that the business community in this company is frightened to death of the weird political philosophy of the President of the United States. And until he's gone, everybody's going to be sitting on their thumbs"

Steve Wynn, Businessman

"There are a lot of people in this business that don't work consistently"

Morris Chestnut, Actor

"Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business"

Walter Isaacson, Writer

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

Roy Ayers, Musician

"Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive"

Helen Reddy, Actress

"I couldn't do anything. I'd work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn't hack it. I couldn't even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business"

Helen Reddy, Actress

"It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style"

Gordon Getty, Businessman

"I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality"

Peter Fonda, Actor

"The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two"

Tony Snow, Journalist

"Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"All of us have read the stories about young people in Hollywood and all the challenges they have to confront there, and I think that artistically, I really didn't understand the commercial side of the film business, so I went back to a purely artistic setting"

Marisa Tomei, Actress

"This business switching styles can't be done honestly by one man. As soon as he can play his instrument well, he can express himself, and all his life he has only one self"

Jimmy Rushing, Musician

"This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency and at an accelerated pace"

Margaret Chan, Public Servant

"For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business"

Karl Liebknecht, Politician

"We have to get away from the class warfare and recognize that we are growing jobs by helping small business"

Norm Coleman, Politician

"You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business"

Jim Cantalupo, Businessman

"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"

Jim Barksdale, Businessman

"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"

Jim Barksdale, Businessman

"See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool"

James Daly, Actor

"Business people have been made into these rock stars because they've made a lot of money"

James Daly, Actor

"But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business"

Mark Cuban, Businessman

"I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest"

Marie de France, Poet

"I'm lucky to be in this business. I'm very grateful"

Steve Guttenberg, Actor

"I came from a real working-class show business family"

Sally Field, Actress

"My view is that, just as in many businesses, brands really matter. There will always be a role for destination sites. Eighty million users come to our destination. I think that will be the vast majority of our future business"

Meg Whitman, Businessman

"It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting"

Matthew Sweet, Musician

"When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality"

George William Russell, Writer

"It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to "discover" a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing"

Warren E. Burger, Judge

"No one has any idea what's next... the uncertainty of the business climate in America is frightening, frightening to everybody, and it's delaying the recovery"

Steve Wynn, Businessman

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