Business Quotes

"A gay man has no business leading on a heterosexual woman"

"The weird thing about this business - and I'm sure this operates in many other things, but it's very present and acute in this business - is that a lot of people don't realize that they have power. Particularly actors"

Lili Taylor, Actress

"Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business"

Leo Burnett, Businessman

"If the English want a king, it is their business. If the Russians want communism, it is their business. If the Americans want our form of government, it is our business"

Julius Rosenberg, Criminal

"I would like to work with anyone in the business who wants to give respect back to the Jamaican vibe"

Sean Paul, Musician

"Fortunately, we have a lot of really smart women in the business"

Rosanna Arquette, Actress

"In the business world and the volunteer world, each job has certain requirements that must be met in order for that job to be done properly and for that organization to survive and prosper"

Ron D. Burton, Businessman

"The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And, so they started to see a lot of that and there was, that maybe the leadership had its own cause. More so than the miners, you know, it was like a power struggle"

Richard Grimes

"Actually, everything has been said in print... it's a battle of giants and it's something that Walt would say is none of your business - go right on and create the best you can"

Joe Grant, Artist

"We're not in the business of shaping consumer demand. We respond to it"

Steve Largent, Athlete

"The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you're always asked to do what you've already done"

Jeremy Irons, Actor

"After hurting myself like that, I could not go back immediately to racing. I was in no condition, mentally or physically. That helped me to strengthen myself to go through the hard times that were ahead with my business, and to be successful"

Nelson Piquet, Celebrity

"In fact, 80 percent of our domestic job growth comes from the small- and medium-sized business community"

Melissa Bean, Politician

"With the permanent elimination of this tax, farmers and business owners will have the sense of security they need to plan for the financial future of their business or farm and their family"

Doc Hastings, Politician

"In six short years, small business owners and family farmers will once again be assessed a tax on the value of their property at the time of their death, despite having paid taxes throughout their lifetime"

Doc Hastings, Politician

"I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus"

David Antin, Poet

"Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency"

Wayne White

"Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world"

Gavin Newsom, Politician

"Big business has no party and never shall have"

Haley Barbour, Politician

"I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well"

Fareed Zakaria, Journalist

"We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives"

Robert Reich, Economist

"So you keep raising these taxes, and all of a sudden the business community says, 'Why are we here? We can go someplace else and use their phones.' That's one of the problems that directly affects the business community"

Richard M. Daley, Politician

"I've very proud to be mayor of our great city. It's a city with a heart and a soul. Chicago has a unique spirit. Our business community wants to give back"

Richard M. Daley, Politician

"We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else"

Ray Kroc, Businessman

"Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink"

Leo Burnett, Businessman

"Squash was my livelihood and as in business, I had to stay on top"

Jahangir Khan, Athlete

"Dad is my best mate and I can tell Mum absolutely anything. I really appreciate Mum and Dad. Why are we so close? Young parents, I think. The rock business keeps their minds young"

Kim Wilde, Musician

"Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city"

Harold Washington, Politician

"What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies"

Gerry Spence, Lawyer

"I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it"

Gene Wilder, Actor

"If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but, in the business of exploration, risk is part of the territory"

John L. Phillips, Astronaut

"Well, as a former small businessperson - I understand what's going on, I think in the business community. And businesspeople around the country are looking at all the spending and all the debt. They're looking at all the policies coming out of this Congress and this administration the last two years, and they - it's created all this uncertainty"

John Boehner, Politician

"The music business is very hard on women over 22. You really have to prove yourself every time you make a record. Are you as vibrant as you used to be? Are you as sexy? So I really want to prove that a woman in her 30s can be all those things and more"

Jody Watley, Musician

"I used to be in the real estate business, and I have three areas of interest: Chickamauga Lock, Chickamauga Lock, and Chickamauga Lock"

Zack Wamp

"Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change"

Ed Miliband, Politician

"If you stay in this business long enough, you're liable to hit it big"

Steve Kanaly, Actor

"My brother Larry. He taught me how hard work and dedication to the game was the only way to make it. He's taken care of all my business activities for me and my family for many years, and I thank him for that"

Robin Yount, Athlete

"Mr. Wrigley believed in this: Put all your eggs in one basket and watch the basket. They don't do that today. This is the old-fashioned way I'm talking about. He carried it on to his business. Do one thing and stay with it"

Ernie Banks, Athlete

"I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work for him in his business"

Ernie Banks, Athlete

"Seems to me that this business, for actors anyway, is not so much about whether or not you do good work. It's about whether or not you get the chance to do good work"

Hugh Laurie, Comedian

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