Business Quotes

"The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions"

"I have always abhorred the business end of music"

"I would like this to be a new day. I would hope now that we can focus on doing the people's business"

"If a rich person invests in a business, either directly or through stock purchases, it means business can grow and hire more people"

Terry Savage

"First and foremost, I would like to start off by saying that just because my husband is an entertainer, that does not mean that our personal business is for everyone's entertainment purposes"

Kim Mathers, Celebrity

"There's always a great deal of business to be transacted in one's office. There are always visitors it seems to me, an unending stream of them, who come with letters of recommendation, or come actually on substantive business"

David Bruce

"But this is called show business, not show family"

Alice Barrett, Actress

"When you are led by values, it doesn't cost your business, it helps your business"

Jerry Greenfield, Businessman

"Now, when we face a problem like global warming, and you understand that the biggest impacts on global warming come from business and industry, I think business needs to take a leading role"

Jerry Greenfield, Businessman

"Business can be a source of progressive change"

Jerry Greenfield, Businessman

"When you feel like this isn't your business, get out of the business"

Andy Lau, Actor

"All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties"

Charles W. Eliot, Educator

"A lot of the point mags are going out of business. They dropped the pay tremendously and it's all because of the internet. I used to go out once a month to LA and shoot for one week. I'd make a ton of money then come back to New York and do whatever I wanted"

Richard Kern

"It's the most ridiculous business to be in. It's full of people who have never grown up"

Nik Kershaw, Musician

"Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business"

Warren Spahn, Athlete

"The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected"

John McKinley, Politician

"I think we have lost our groove as a country. One of the reasons was the attack on 9/11. We got knocked off our game. From a country that always exported hope we went into the business of exporting fear"

Thomas Friedman, Journalist

"It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means"

Daniel Clowes, Author

"We have the right assets for a fast-growing digital business"

Bernie Ebbers, Businessman

"Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide, just take care of business here and now"

Jack Carroll, Politician

"My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it"

David Crosby, Musician

"I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for a shower of rain now and then, that ushers in the wet season"

William Dampier, Explorer

"I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you"

Tom Verlaine, Musician

"They planned this fair to bring business to Chicago, into the Loop. But you could have fired a cannon down state street and hit nobody, because everybody was out at the fair"

Sally Rand, Actress

"In 1979 I teamed up with my friend and business partner, Bill DeWitt, and together we formed an oil and gas company that invested through limited partnerships in oil and gas exploration"

Mercer Reynolds, Businessman

"We love our business. We have never been more enthusiastic about cable and its future"

Brian Roberts, Businessman

"I know that producing will ultimately mean more longevity in the business, so when I'm tired of everything else and want to be behind the cameras, I know that I can produce"

Maria Menounos, Actress

"You know, this is a business where only 15% make a living wage and only 9% of those are women. But I figured somebody has to be that 15%, somebody's got to be one of those women"

Marcia Wallace, Actress

"I used to be and I still am into psychology. I would like to be able to pursue something like that, but I don't know. The older I've gotten, the more endearing this business has become and I can't really imagine leaving it"

Lindsey Shaw, Actress

"Business is other people's money"

Delphine de Girardin, Novelist

"The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch"

Tom Arnold, Actor

"The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money"

Rudolf Bing, Musician

"Everyone tries to talk you out of going to college. The consensus being that people are just gonna forget about you, you know, and that's the way the business works"

Larisa Oleynik, Actress

"Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?"

Richard Corliss, Writer

"On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier"

Ken Olsen, Businessman

"Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics"

Herb Ritts, Photographer

"It's really impossible to project ahead even six months in this business"

Julie London, Musician

"Good design is good business"

Thomas J. Watson, Scientist

"Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops"

Thomas J. Watson, Scientist

"I love this company. I don't know how it was selected. It's a bunch of machers. They mean business"

Jeffrey Tambor, Actor

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