Business Quotes

"When you're eight years old nothing is your business"

"I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively"

R. A. Salvatore, Author

"I do that mostly because I believe that the fantasy business is in terrible trouble right now, for several reasons, not the least of which being the almost Democrat vs. Republican mentality of readers on the Internet"

R. A. Salvatore, Author

"The amateur porn business makes $11 billion a year. They don't get bad reviews"

Joe Pantoliano, Actor

"That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business"

Warren Zevon, Musician

"I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men"

Victoria Principal, Actress

"I have never had anything done. I've been asked if I had breast implants. Whether I did or not, it's nobody's business but my own"

Shannen Doherty, Actress

"Consequently, a young business often grows by large percentages. Mature businesses rarely do"

Roy H. Williams, Businessman

"Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves"

Jackson Browne, Musician

"Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me"

Ethel Waters, Musician

"I fear this little episode does not speak very favourably for my business capacity in those early days, for I certainly ought to have made much more than I did by this really important invention"

Henry Bessemer, Scientist

"We have to be a state where business is welcome and jobs are created. We have to demand value for what is spent and we need to continue to resist a lottery"

Jesse Helms, Politician

"I often thought I was in the wrong business. I was pretty seriously thinking of tossing it in before I shot Shine. I do not know why. I was pretty restless, I had been through a bad period of stress induced anxiety - panic attacks - and I was not sure of what I wanted to do"

Geoffrey Rush, Actor

"I believe in the Wal-Mart school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it"

Garth Brooks, Musician

"Business is difficult. But it could be approached two ways: Seriously, or with the same way you're doing your job, with entertainment aspect, with pleasure, with fun. And we decided to try to make it as fun that we do our creativity"

Guy Laliberte, Businessman

"And, you know, when you are a kid, everybody wants to be an actor. I think that everybody wants to be in show business, frankly"

Brent Spiner, Actor

"I would definitely stay in the business, be behind the camera maybe"

Devon Sawa, Actor

"I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still don't do it"

Dick Van Dyke, Actor

"I realize that the majority of people in the entertainment business happen to be Democrats. I have no problem with that. And they should have no problem with the fact that I'm a Republican"

Shannen Doherty, Actress

"But every company of the future is going to be in the business of exquisite care - which means quick turnaround time and convenience. To deliver exquisite care, you need an organization that coordinates well and listens well"

Fernando Flores, Politician

"I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine"

Barry Goldwater, Politician

"If the Europeans want to intervene, that's their business. But if I were president, I would remove every United States soldier from the Balkan peninsula"

Pat Buchanan, Journalist

"At the time I was growing up in the business I was very well established within the industry as a child actor and as I grew up and turned into a teenager there was less and less work"

Morgan Brittany, Actress

"When I'm asked how to succeed in show business, I always say I haven't the foggiest"

Ethel Merman, Musician

"We also never undercut representatives' prices. A representative will always be able to sell the discounts in our core business, which are not offered at retail. So it's never more advantageous to buy there"

Andrea Jung, Businessman

"Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared"

January Jones, Actress

"Business wise, I have always learned valuable lessons so I don't regret any decisions I have made"

Kiana Tom, Model

"Acting is a tough business, and you need to be in good shape mentally and physically"

Juliette Binoche, Actress

"In this business, I don't know how you can have a plan or how you can orchestrate anything. But I've been lucky with my choices. I'm very strong-willed, so I've been able to stick with it. I'm lucky there"

January Jones, Actress

"The real business of life is trying to understand each other"

Gilbert Parker, Politician

"Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone"

Luke Ford, Writer

"I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business"

Garth Brooks, Musician

"Fortunately we've been shooting in North Carolina which means we're not in LA where you can hear people talking about you and you know so much about what's going on in the business"

Katie Holmes, Actress

"A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services"

Edward Sapir, Scientist

"My theory is, if you can do comedy and you can be in a scene with someone like Brad Garrett and hold your own, you've really got a future in this business"

Faith Ford, Actress

"No, I did night clubs right here in Los Angeles. My partner, Phil Erickson, put me in the business, a guy from my home town, a dear friend who we just lost a couple of months ago"

Dick Van Dyke, Actor

"If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I'm trying to teach my daughter Chloe at an early age about investing and money so she's not afraid of it"

Donna Mills, Actress

"I just went into this business for laughs. I guess I don't mind being an actor so much now"

Chevy Chase, Comedian

"I am going to be announcing today that we will have a business delegation come to this country sometime in the future where we will bring businesses from America to Morocco to show them the vast business opportunities here"

Donald Evans, Public Servant

"I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him"

Jesse Helms, Politician

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