Business Quotes

"Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce"

Leland Stanford, Businessman

"I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business"

Juliana Hatfield, Musician

"Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion"

Robert Redford, Actor

"The worst thing in this business is to be thought of as a no-talent"

Jerry Stiller, Comedian

"Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster"

Josiah Strong, Clergyman

"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"

Roone Arledge, Journalist

"With over 1 billion users and counting worldwide, the Internet has quickly become a critical place for individuals, business communities and governments to share and distribute information"

Robin Hayes, Politician

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

Jim Barksdale, Businessman

"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, Athlete

"You have to be a star to be in this business"

Jenifer Lewis, Actress

"One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act"

Roger Wicker, Politician

"I have been blessed with working with the best in the business"

Al Roker, Entertainer

"For every sleazeball in the business there are plenty of decent and wonderful people"

Kathie Lee Gifford, Entertainer

"Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine"

Isak Dinesen, Writer

"Thought, not money, is the real business capital"

Harvey S. Firestone, Businessman

"Our company is built on people - those who work for us, and those we do business with"

Harvey S. Firestone, Businessman

"We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!"

Richard Curtis, Writer

"Business money is limitless"

Muhammad Yunus, Economist

"A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business"

Loretta Lynn, Musician

"You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don't sell out for money, fame, or notoriety"

Morgan Brittany, Actress

"The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit"

John Buchanan Robinson, Politician

"It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles"

John Buchanan Robinson, Politician

"I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife"

Haile Gebrselassie, Athlete

"If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble"

Henry Kravis, Businessman

"There was a time when the contractual relationship between the employer and the employee was supposed to be none of the public's business. That time has passed"

Frank Murphy, Politician

"We cannot afford to have any large section of the business world in doubt whether they have broken the laws or not, and we cannot let the laws become a dead letter through vagueness. In this view it is clear that an administrative commission can render invaluable service"

John Bates Clark, Economist

"I kept bugging them about making it more upscale, because I felt Abby, through her cleverness and business sense, was a character who would move up. And that's what she did"

Donna Mills, Actress

"I do like to work with young directors because it's such a difficult business that I think after directors have been around a while sometimes, not always, but sometimes their passion gets siphoned off because they get hurt"

Ellen Burstyn, Actress

"The music business can be very cold. And it doesn't honor its elders"

Brenda Lee, Musician

"By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family"

Lawrence Welk, Musician

"Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas"

Harvey S. Firestone, Businessman

"Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort, and I resent the way the business aspects interfere with my space for creative writing"

David Knopfler, Musician

"The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern"

John B. S. Haldane, Scientist

"Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up"

Joan Didion, Author

"The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the way the Business Profits Tax is calculated, it is highly dependent on how much sales and profits are generated in-state"

Craig Benson, Politician

"As far as show business, it's the gratification of doing something that pleases the fans"

Bobby Sherman, Musician

"When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally"

Carroll Quigley, Writer

"In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business"

Carlos Alvarez

"There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up"

Billie Holiday, Musician

"Music and the music business are two different things"

Erykah Badu, Musician

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