Business Quotes

"I figure anything over 13 weeks in this business is pretty good"

"I'm not a real social person - I'm shy - and a lot of the business is just social"

"I remember that Jack Lemmon, who is one of my favorite actors of all time, says that the day he stops being nervous is the day he should leave the business"

Kim Basinger, Actress

"If we deliver on those promises, we'll have done our job, and we did it with PSOne, and we certainly did it with PS2, and we are about to do it very rapidly with PSP. This is a whole new business for us, in terms of the handheld market, and we're going about it the right way"

Ian Jackson, Scientist

"This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and stabilize"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing America, that we finance these additional support for the unemployed as well as the support for small business. We think there's a good case for doing it now. We want to do it in an overall fiscally responsible way"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that"

George P. Shultz, Public Servant

"I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers"

Jack Kilby, Scientist

"Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good"

Thomas Wolfe, Novelist

"It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method"

Edward Hopper, Artist

"I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done"

Meg Whitman, Businessman

"Believe me when I say that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business. My business"

Mark Russell, Writer

"To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart"

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

"If I was coming into the business today, I wouldn't be in it. Knowing what I know, absolutely not"

Jason Patric, Actor

"Music is spiritual. The music business is not"

Van Morrison, Musician

"The nation will benefit in the long term if it continues to be open to foreign expertise. This will help the country to establish its business culture and environment faster, based on international best practice"

Hassanal Bolkiah, Statesman

"I mean, sports are big, big, big business"

Phil Lesh, Musician

"When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into"

Terri Windling, Artist

"I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now, so I consider myself one of the lucky ones. If I didn't think that, there would be something wrong with me. I'm grateful and thankful for what I've got"

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Actor

"I missed so many opportunities along the way to do what I wanted to do because I didn't have the confidence to tell myself, much less anybody else, 'Yes, this is the business I wanted to be a part of, and not feeling that I had the talent... and letting it go all the way through Notre Dame and then through two years of Navy service"

Regis Philbin, Entertainer

"There's nobody in show business that I dislike so I wouldn't want to get in there to hurt anybody"

Robert Goulet, Musician

"I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism"

Peter Hook, Musician

"Our ultimate goal is to stay in business. We are not here with a specific plan. That's kind of how our entire career has evolved. We will figure things out as we go along"

Mary-Kate Olsen, Actress

"When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it"

Daniel Day-Lewis, Actor

"As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom"

Linda Fiorentino, Actress

"This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better"

John Sergeant Wise, Author

"There certainly was a lot of potential in the air for doing a magazine which focused on the way business, in particular, was being transformed by the Internet"

James Daly, Actor

"If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business"

Lee Kuan Yew, Statesman

"I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand"

Jason Patric, Actor

"Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket"

Jerry Pournelle, Journalist

"You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything"

James Cameron, Director

"If we take care of the customers and associates and grow the business, Wall Street will be pleased"

Lee Scott, Businessman

"I started at a very early age in this business and I'm sure most of you have read stories about people who have started as children and ended up in very difficult lives and bad consequences"

Dean Stockwell, Actor

"The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context"

Carl Bernstein, Journalist

"Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support the free enterprise system and are unsupportive of big government"

Arthur C. Brooks, Author

"I'm not a kid. You don't get in this business for anonymity. It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall, but at the same time, I'm kind of ready for a little bit of it, but I worry for my little one, and my family - their privacy. That's what I'm more protective of"

Hugh Jackman, Actor

"I predict that many teams will go out of business and the size of the leagues will be greatly reduced"

Will McDonough, Writer

"I've been in the bargain basement of the movie business"

Linda Fiorentino, Actress

"I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people"

Kevin Costner, Actor

"I was immature the way I handled the business. I saw myself as a tribune of the people"

Ron Silver, Actor

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