Business Quotes

"I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then"

"Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand"

"In today's world, marketers reach inside the home and attempt to figure out not what's good for your daughter, because that is not their business, but what deep desires they can manipulate, stimulate and ostensibly satisfy in order to produce cold, hard cash"

Maggie Gallagher, Writer

"As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving"

Tom Jones, Musician

"I can not, therefore, see how this can be imputed as a crime, or how any of the king's ministers can be blamed for his doing what the public has no concern in; for if the public be well and faithfully served it has no business to ask by whom"

Robert Walpole, Statesman

"Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business"

Paul Valery, Poet

"Here in the UK the government has decided to accept the recommendations of the Better Regulation Task Force to measure and make targeted reductions in the administrative costs - the red tape costs - that regulations impose on business"

John Hutton, Educator

"It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"There are two reasons why I'm in show business, and I'm standing on both of them"

Betty Grable, Actress

"I know what's best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody"

Claudette Colbert, Actress

"I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"When a business group tells us there is nothing wrong with the environment, naturally they may have good arguments, but we are also sceptical, because we know that they have an interest in these things"

Bjorn Lomborg, Scientist

"Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business"

Matt Drudge, Journalist

"The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows"

Aristotle Onassis, Businessman

"I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large"

Garry Shandling, Comedian

"I'm in the retail business, not the circus business"

Philip Green, Businessman

"I suppose the White House thinks it's doing what Big Business wants, but it will lead to vastly increased taxes, because all these guest workers are to be allowed to bring their children"

Peter Brimelow, Journalist

"The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business"

Clarence Darrow, Lawyer

"Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches"

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Royalty

"Golf isn't just my business, it's my hobby"

Lee Trevino, Athlete

"Insults are the business of the court"

Naguib Mahfouz, Novelist

"I think retirement's for old people. I'm still in the business, thank you. I have a young child of nine years old, and I want to live as long as I can to see him grow up. I'm enjoying my life and I want to stick around for as long as I can"

Harrison Ford, Actor

"But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent"

Sam Donaldson, Journalist

"Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world"

Marc Andreessen, Businessman

"Even the busboys at the restaurants have a script to give you. Everybody is in the business"

Robin Wright Penn, Actress

"The pressures having grown up in this business can be really rough. And it is a testament to you that you have remained focused and NOT lost your mind"

Keenen Ivory Wayans, Comedian

"He has a very extensive public relations apparatus that is paid for by the taxpayers of this state. They are some of the best in the business. and he is a master at getting not only television but other media exposure on the basis of confrontation and chaos"

Bill Scott, Actor

"Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather's, the National Restaurant Association, in each one of those situations, I had a daunting problem that I had to solve. And I used the same business principles to approach the problem and, more importantly, solve the problem in every one of the situations"

Herman Cain, Businessman

"I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business"

Orville Redenbacher, Businessman

"The mercantile business did not suit me"

John James Audubon, Scientist

"If you don't tour, you cannot expect to sell a huge numbers of your albums either. It was both a business - and an economical decision and we wanted to play anyway. We just wanted to get out for the tour when it was safe enough for us"

Kerry King, Musician

"I think it magnified it. For me, I wasn't sheltered so I think it was magnified. Especially when you're a teenager and you go to high school and you're in the business and you are known"

Heather Matarazzo, Actress

"I started my own little carpet and upholstery cleaning business. I've done it for 20 years. I live well"

Tommy Kirk, Actor

"But especially if you have the wrong people within your circle. Truthfully, at the end of the day, no one cares about you in this business whether they are your agent or your manager or your publicist"

Heather Matarazzo, Actress

"If you want to be in the automotive business, you go to Detroit, and you figure it out. If you want to be in entertainment, go to where it's at. Go to Hollywood, go to New York"

Nick Cannon, Musician

"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"

Kevin Ayers, Composer

"Getting back to the point, a guy like Jerry, he deals with the business, and he doesn't see it as being evil or ugly, it's what you have to do, and I mean I know there's some really ugly parts to it and parts which drive me nuts, but not in the same way as music business"

Trevor Rabin, Musician

"I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective"

Major Owens, Politician

"They thought that I did conceive there was a difference between them and Mr. Cotton... I might say they might preach a covenant of works as did the apostles, but to preach a covenant of works and to be under a covenant of works is another business"

Anne Hutchinson, Clergyman

"When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while and I said I want to act, that's all I want to do with my life and she said if you're serious then you need to hone every discipline you can"

Blair Underwood, Actor

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