Business Quotes

"To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession"

"The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault"

Ty Cobb, Athlete

"I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week"

Tony Shalhoub, Actor

"I spent 26 years in the business without ever knowing what I was doing a month from now"

Stephen Collins, Actor

"I go out there to win. People don't care if you die in this business. The only way I get back is with success"

Michael Bay, Director

"It's still a bottom-line business. You can be out of control, and if they want you, they'll pick you. And you can be a mensch, and if you're not the product they want, you won't get it"

Judd Nelson, Actor

"I have known from the beginning one thing you need to know. That is, the music business is a business"

Steve Brown, Musician

"I've been in this business for a long time at my age, I've just turned 30, and I feel like my wife's career is going incredibly well, my kids are happy and healthy in schools, we've both been able to buy a house for our parents, respectively, in the places they live"

Ryan Phillippe, Actor

"You check to see the facts are correct where business is concerned but if I read everything that was written about me, I'd end up feeling totally insecure about myself"

Elle Macpherson, Model

"Everybody hangs out with everybody, which is very strange for a cast this large and this young. We're all cool and down to earth and not caught up in this maniacal business at all... . Everybody really, really likes everybody else"

Lizzy Caplan, Actress

"It's very different than it use to be. I think everybody has a lot more experience in how to be in a relationship - whether it's a marriage or a significant other or a business or a friend"

Kathy Valentine, Musician

"My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education"

John Knowles, Novelist

"I'm in a little bit of a different situation, because working in the business that I do and living in the city that I live in, I haven't had a problem with people who are gay. Since I was 10 I've been working alongside them, and some of my best friends are gay"

Jason Bateman, Actor

"This is one hell of a business I picked to be in"

Taylor Dayne, Musician

"My business is hurting people"

Sugar Ray Robinson, Athlete

"Oh, if people only knew how this business has grown"

Pearl White, Musician

"They keep the old business. We keep the ongoing business"

Harvey Weinstein, Producer

"Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country"

Olusegun Obasanjo, Statesman

"It was hard to watch, the business side is so big in the game"

Mats Sundin, Athlete

"QuickBooks - the very fact that we could even dream to make something in the business arena, and that it would then succeed - was a total revolution to me"

Scott Cook, Businessman

"The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not"

Marc Almond, Musician

"I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer money and then turn around and act like it's business as usual. I don't understand how they can't see that the world has changed in a fundamental way, that it is not business as usual when you take taxpayer dollars"

Elizabeth Warren, Public Servant

"I want to invest and have my own record label and artists. I want to have a business where my kids, kids, kids will still have something going on long after I'm gone"

Chingy, Musician

"If I was on the cover of Artforum and my photos were selling for lots of money. If I could be doing that I wouldn't be working for porn mags. But I got to make a living. I shoot for them only occasionally now because that business isn't what it used to be"

Richard Kern

"My desire to participate in the business is not to make more crap"

Lisa Bonet, Actress

"To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face"

Liza Minelli, Entertainer

"I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense"

Herb Ritts, Photographer

"That is the godawful thing about television today. Performers don't have any place to hit and miss. You're either in or you're out; you don't have a chance to become good at your craft. If you make three pictures in a row and they don't go over, you're out of the business"

Donald O'Connor, Musician

"It might take some here and there, but Apple's market share in the global computer business has really shrunk pretty far, and where they've been making success recently is not in the computer business but in the iPod music business"

Kevin Rollins, Businessman

"My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them"

Russell Simmons, Businessman

"My whole family actually, but my parents. I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business and I still have stuff to do at their house"

Kaley Cuoco, Actress

"Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving"

Penelope Leach

"All those years we'd spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you'd play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business"

Nick Lowe, Musician

"Being Asian in this business is something you have to consider, because sometimes people aren't as open. They'll say, I can't see you with a Caucasian person"

Lucy Liu, Actress

"I know we didn't make an anti-Semitic film. This is what the Gospels are. And it's none of my business what other people think of me"

Jim Caviezel, Celebrity

"Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money"

Ian MacKaye, Musician

"It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priority as unfinished business from the first Bush Administration. His agenda was clear: find a rationale to get rid of Saddam"

Edward Kennedy, Politician

"The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: do more of what you do"

David Joseph Schwartz, Businessman

"Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business"

Taylor Hackford, Director

"I can say that hands down from being in this business 32 years; we're going to be much better than we were last year just because there's eight new players that now have experience and Palacios will be healthy"

Rick Pitino, Athlete

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