Business Quotes

"The most important thing for small businesses is getting the economy back on its feet. That - the key driver of small business activity is demand for their product, and that is what we are trying to do, getting the economy back on its feet. That's far more important than other factors"

Peter Orszag, Economist

"But you don't get into a business because of personal tastes"

Peter Munk, Businessman

"Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier"

Paula Nelson

"I'd fired anyone who was involved with Creed. I didn't want anything to do with the music business. The entire press and industry hated me, so what was the point?"

Scott Stapp, Musician

"My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business"

John Searle, Philosopher

"You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term"

James Sinegal, Businessman

"Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable"

James Rouse, Businessman

"As a member of the House Committee on Small Business and because of my own experience as a small business owner, I am appreciative of the impact these small businesses have on our local economies"

Melissa Bean, Politician

"I see no business in life but the work of Christ"

Henry Martyn, Clergyman

"Thanks for the information about what we call business"

Dashiell Hammett, Author

"I've always just adored music. It's my first love, really. I admire and respect people in the music business. You really have to work hard and diligently. Sometimes actors can be lazy and get away with it, but you can't do that if you're a musician"

Blythe Danner, Actress

"IBM decided they were going to enter the copying business in 1968"

Arthur Rock, Businessman

"Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere"

Arthur E. Waite

"That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life"

Victoria Jackson, Comedian

"The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit"

George Grosz, Artist

"Anybody who has ever been in business, anybody who has ever paid bills, anybody who has ever lived in a serious adult life knows that indebtedness is a killer"

Frank Lautenberg, Politician

"Unfortunately, since the Sept. 11 tragedy, our business is not doing too well"

Hunter Tylo, Actress

"For me, the most fun is change or growth. There are definitely elements of both that I like. Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast"

Tony Hsieh, Businessman

"I've been around the music business for a long time now, and I've had a lot of chances to do movies. But I didn't really want to do any until I found stuff that started to hit me in the right place"

Tim McGraw, Musician

"I don't think business news is just for old white men with money"

Neil Cavuto, Journalist

"One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it"

Elmer Bernstein, Composer

"I don't know anything about cars. A business is a business, and I think I can learn about cars. I'm not that old, and I think the business principles are the same"

Edward Whitacre, Jr., Businessman

"We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel"

Lakshmi Mittal

"In this business you break a leg and 150 other people are out of work while production is shut down. It's not like you were an accountant and could still work with your leg in a cast"

Ken Curtis, Actor

"We cannot certainly, have any excuse either for taking any thing that belongs to our masters without their leave, or for being unfaithful in their business"

Jupiter Hammon, Poet

"Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But again, those advantages won't mean much if we don't do a great job with the basics of our business"

Gerard Arpey, Businessman

"I think in just about any business the low cost competitor is always going to have an advantage"

Gerard Arpey, Businessman

"If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military"

Bruce Sterling, Writer

"For too long, our country's version of an energy policy has consisted of Americans waking up every day and wondering how much it will cost to drive to work, how much it will cost to keep their business running, how much it will cost to heat or cool their homes"

Bob Beauprez, Politician

"The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business"

Thomas Kinkade, Artist

"When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life was in a real state of flux"

Rachael Leigh Cook, Actress

"I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is"

Pat Roberts, Politician

"The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsoft's business practices"

Orrin Hatch, Politician

"How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to be true for most people in this business, what could I possibly tell them that they don't already know?"

Marlee Matlin, Actress

"Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for prescription drugs, and too many frivolous lawsuits driving our physicians out of state or out of business"

Judy Biggert, Politician

"We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business"

Jeff Bezos, Businessman

"Alcohol and drug addiction are problems, and we should use outside agencies that know the business. They do business all over the country. Why don't we contract them to do it? See, we should be in certain businesses"

Richard M. Daley, Politician

"Less emphasis on inventories, I think, may tend to dampen business cycles, because business cycles are typically in the grasp of inventory cycles and heavy industry cycles"

Paul A. Volcker, Economist

"The course of business shapes public opinion"

Marvin Bower, Businessman

"Business leaders shape public opinion"

Marvin Bower, Businessman

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