Business Quotes

"Finally, gentleman, from the considerations above mentioned, as I cannot consistently with my own honor, nor with utility to my country, considering the manner in which Business is transacted here, remain any longer in this chair, I now resign it"

Henry Laurens, Politician

"You know how it is with drawers and labels in the music business. They don't want anything to be complicated. They just want it simple, as simple as possible"

Mark McGrath, Musician

"I got to show off in front of my husband, who married me as I was stepping out of the business, so he had no idea that I could strut my stuff on the stage"

Kim Wilde, Musician

"I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe"

Ed Helms, Comedian

"Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on"

Ed Rendell, Politician

"It's the business I'm in, I can't say that signing things is the favourite part of my career but you know that it has to be done and that there is no pain involved"

Cliff Richard, Musician

"I was a little hesitant at taking the job at Atari. I had never programmed for a living and I worried it might get boring (building circuits seemed more fun). But I would probably still be in the video game business"

David Crane

"Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording"

Charlie Daniels, Musician

"If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them"

Dan Glickman, Politician

"They're talking about a movie I don't want to hold to that because in this business you can talk about things for years before they get done - god knows if the financing would happen"

Caroline Dhavernas, Actress

"I'm in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't have any plans. I don't have a map. If you did in this business, you'd destroy yourself"

Colin Farrell, Actor

"Being in the music business is a totally different industry right there"

Christina Milian, Musician

"And, Mr. Speaker, if the Governor and Council don't see fit to fall in with us, I say let the general duty law, and all, go to the devil, sir, and go about our business"

Christopher Gadsden, Soldier

"It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large"

Chris Patten, Politician

"In every interview I've got to explain something about being white but still being into hip hop. It's gone way beyond the musical aspect of the business. And I'm as critical about music as everybody else is"

Brian Austin Green, Actor

"I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up there but I didn't stay that long because I went into show business"

Billy Eckstine, Musician

"You know honestly, I enjoy working with everyone because remember, these were all real pros that had been around the business a long time"

Burt Ward, Actor

"Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to play straight, if the children in our audience were the only audience"

Burt Ward, Actor

"The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music"

Bobby Vinton, Musician

"I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University"

Alan Greenspan, Economist

"To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved"

Paul McCartney, Musician

"Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness"

Anthea Turner, Entertainer

"Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business"

Eddie Bernice Johnson, Politician

"Business is in itself a power"

Garet Garrett, Journalist

"Christmas is over and Business is Business"

Franklin P. Adams, Journalist

"I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot"

Albert Brooks, Actor

"In business a reputation for keeping absolutely to the letter and spirit of an agreement, even when it is unfavorable, is the most precious of assets, although it is not entered in the balance sheet"

Lord Chandos

"I'm getting paid to do what I got in trouble for in the 7th grade. I absolutely love what I do and thank my lucky stars for twenty-five years of full-time employment in this business"

Rob Paulsen, Actor

"I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business"

Carlos Alazraqui, Actor

"My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside"

Aaron Klug, Physicist

"No praying, it spoils business"

Thomas Otway, Dramatist

"In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road"

Naveen Jain, Businessman

"Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society"

Taylor Hackford, Director

"That's one of the problems with making music your business, it becomes a business. You're no longer just this kid who is a fan and going to see every show. I've been in a bar every night for the last 15 years. Going to see bands for me is work"

Mojo Nixon, Musician

"I watch every day when we hit and take ground balls and the way we go about our business. If I saw any lackadaisical approach, that would concern me"

Mike Quade, Coach

"Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people"

Thomas J. Watson, Scientist

"When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right"

Bob Mould, Musician

"I really always felt that I was going to be an actress. I had a lot of confidence in the fact that I would do well from a very early age. I didn't know how tough the business is"

Susan Lucci, Actress

"Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business"

Sammy Sosa, Athlete

"This business is all about being seen, and the more people see you the better"

Debra Wilson, Comedian

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