Business Quotes

"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 only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

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

Clarence Darrow, Lawyer

"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

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

Aristotle Onassis, Businessman

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

Lee Trevino, Athlete

"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

"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

"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

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

Sam Donaldson, Journalist

"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

"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

"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

"I prayed to God for help and I put myself in a recovery house called Studio 12. It was for people in the business and you didn't have to have any money to go, which was good because I was broke"

Brion James, Actor

"I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody"

Glenn Frey, Musician

"To be still standing 20 years in this business is a great feeling, I can't even tell you"

Blair Underwood, 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 think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue to succeed. But I think the business model of Microsoft is going to have to change"

Tim O'Reilly

"I'm rather old-fashioned about this video business. It's all relatively new. We really don't do videos, Fleetwood Mac. We've only done two"

Christine McVie, Musician

"For the past 32 years, I've done nothing outside the entertainment business. I've had some real highs and some real lows, but I love the work so much that I never once thought of quitting"

Meat Loaf, Musician

"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

"When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us"

Bart Stupak, Politician

"I think a lot of developments start with the desire of the developer to get what he really wants so that he can use it. It's not just the technical fascination or the business opportunity"

Ray Dolby, Inventor

"Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment"

Grenville Kleiser, Author

"You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart"

An Wang, Businessman

"I think, as I've gotten older I have realized what a huge privilege it is to even be in this business. I, more than ever, love what I do"

Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Actor

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

Tommy Kirk, Actor

"Singing is an arduous business and it needs sacrifices"

Lesley Garrett, Musician

"I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business"

Jeff Healey, Musician

"He asked my girlfriend if we could come over and sing some of the songs that we had written, which we did. After he heard the songs, he said that he knew someone in the record business by the name of Bob Shad"

Phil Harris, Musician

"I started The McCoys in 1962, so I'm approaching my 40th year in the entertainment business"

Rick Derringer, Musician

"A lot of show business, as you know, is about all the contacts you make and who you know"

Denise Crosby, Actress

"There's been a big spur in downtown development with new business, restaurants and a lot of loft buying. The buses run, and there's a subway that runs through downtown"

Michael Ritchie, Director

"The mayor has got to work closely with a wide variety of people, his city council, state legislature, governor, business community, labor community, president and the congress in order to be able to do this"

Marc Morial, Politician

"It means a lot in my business and its a wonderful feeling to be recognized for what you have done over a lifetime, but I didn't go crazy. I still eat my cereal in the morning, have a sandwich in the afternoon, go to bed at night. You know, nothing really different"

Regis Philbin, Entertainer

"Our success in this matter is important to all Americans. Whether you are in the forest land business or just enjoy the shade of a majestic oak gracing your lawn, we all have an interest in this important issue"

Leonard Boswell, Politician

"The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today"

Frederick Soddy, Scientist

"I never had a job. I bought my first house within a year of getting out of school, and I built a custom one four and a half years later. The Art Center didn't teach much about business, but I learned a lot from the Fortune 500 companies that were my clients"

Richard MacDonald, Sculptor

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