Business Quotes

"Again, talent is the real import of being in the business"

"When I got back into the film business after college, I started out as a production assistant"

"A lot of record company people, even though they're our age, want to be perceived as young hip guys, and they're hurting the business"

John Mellencamp, Musician

"I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up"

Cameron Diaz, Actress

"My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever business acumen I have just got gleaned over the years"

Donna Mills, Actress

"It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe"

Hedy Lamarr, Actress

"Basically he never went to work and didn't have a job. Of course I thought he did. I thought he was on the phone doing business deals instead of borrowing money from people"

Christie Brinkley, Model

"I'm not out there trying to get press for myself nor am I trying to convince anybody that I'm living any kind of a life. I'm actually trying to convince people: I don't want you to know what I'm living, because it's none of your business"

Kevin Spacey, Actor

"This is not a business where you can hand off and run by remote control"

David Neeleman, Businessman

"Be it $15 million here and $11 million there, it takes hundreds of millions to be successful in this business"

David Neeleman, Businessman

"I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own"

Billie Holiday, Musician

"And I really believe good journalism is good business"

Christiane Amanpour, Journalist

"The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life"

John Hannah, Athlete

"At first I missed it, but it was the amazing energy thing that happened during shows, when a lot of people were like Yay Yay Yeah! I missed that for a while. But I don't miss the regular and the business side of that whole thing"

Bill Kreutzmann, Musician

"But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different"

Erykah Badu, Musician

"Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry"

Arthur Levitt, Public Servant

"Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.'"

Count Basie, Musician

"So if I die, somebody else from the corporation will take over the business"

Alex Chiu, Businessman

"Listen, little boy. In this business, there's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it"

Ben Hecht, Writer

"I'm quitting the business today. I'm going to open up an appliance store, I've always really been into toasters. I'm giving it all up"

Dane Cook, Comedian

"A shady business never yields a sunny life"

B. C. Forbes, Journalist

"You know, I never expected to enter the movie business"

Christopher Atkins, Actor

"For the last five years I've been in the production business"

Chico Hamilton, Musician

"Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you"

Alphonsus Liguori, Clergyman

"In show business, if you make a mistake, you can do it over again"

Bobby Sherman, Musician

"There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can"

Bob Woodward, Journalist

"First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids"

Bill Condon, Director

"In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job"

Billy Joel, Musician

"In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete"

Cher, Musician

"A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next"

Amber Tamblyn, Actress

"There is a real diversity of talent and background on the A list so as to better reflect our society in all walks. There are people who have been candidates before, Councillors, Doctors, business leaders, charity campaigners"

Adam Rickitt, Actor

"Firms need to ensure that their ability to provide effective customer service keeps pace with their growth. If you're marketing your firm to new customers, you better be able to provide them service when they do business with you"

Arthur Levitt, Public Servant

"I'm the first to admit I've had a sheltered life. I grew up in the country and went to a boarding school. It was all just part of the business - be nice to everyone and all that"

Adam Rickitt, Actor

"The way to write is well, and how is your own business"

A. J. Liebling, Journalist

"Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse"

Anita Loos, Writer

"I have to take time occasionally to get away from the pressures of this business. If I don't, I think I would get stale, and that would show in my music"

Andy Gibb, Musician

"My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness"

Woodrow Wilson

"That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up"

Steven Morrissey, Musician

"We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements"

Tony Scott, Director

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