Business Quotes

"I recorded with Sinatra, but the recording business is a very strange strata right now"

"I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean"

Jimmy Dean, Actor

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

William Redington Hewlett, Businessman

"Well, Bill, I don't think you're going to find many shy people that are in the political business"

Scott McCallum, Politician

"What has been happening more lately - of course, I also put in my bio, I say I do the voice of Goliath, but some people go - you know, I say something, and it's a funny thing when you work in this business, people will talk out loud in front of you like you're not there"

Keith David, Actor

"My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and keep adding bits of business"

Ron Moody, Actor

"Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here"

Elizabeth Arden, Businessman

"There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster"

Jerry Della Femina, Businessman

"The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost"

Michael Gerber, Writer

"Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business"

Michael Gerber, Writer

"My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters"

William Standish Knowles, Scientist

"Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do"

John Oates, Musician

"The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark"

Jack Anderson, Journalist

"This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it"

Ugo Betti, Playwright

"Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut it down"

Francine Busby

"The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit"

Tom Petty, Musician

"And to do that not only for the war fighter, but also to help prepare the people in the acquisition, personnel and policy worlds who need to make adjustments in the department's business, which itself may take 10 or 15 years to accomplish"

Stephen Cambone, Politician

"I went into show business because I love to work with people, and what I enjoy most about acting is rehearsing and getting to know people and their talents, forming relationships. Working in this business, barriers drop and you get into people real quickly"

Scott Bakula, Actor

"'The bigtime for you is just around the corner.' They told me that first in 1952 - boy, it's been a long corner. If I don't hit the bigtime in the next 25 or 30 years, I'm gonna pack in the music business and become a full-time gigolo"

Ronnie Hawkins, Musician

"There was absolutely no strain in marriage. Marc and I understand that this is a business. We have no problem separating our personal life with our personal life. And we have a very strong relationship"

Rena Marlette Lesnar, Model

"Well, if you look back, in almost two and a half years, the biggest change probably was in late 2000 when we decided to totally change the CA business model"

Sanjay Kumar, Businessman

"The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor"

Tom Courtenay, Actor

"The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence"

Mohamed El-Erian, Businessman

"It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc"

Roger Maris, Athlete

"There is no telling what is going to happen in the music business in the next few years, hours, minutes, seconds. Giving artists the chance to produce and distribute their own material is great, very empowering. The technological changes that are happening so rapidly now, amongst all the opinions, are in truth, only two things, inevitable and unstoppable"

Pauley Perrette, Actress

"Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'"

Paul Graham, Scientist

"I'm in the business to push it. I'm not likely to be attracted to characters I've already done"

Mark Harmon, Actor

"I'm in this business because I despise honest labor"

Marty Robbins, Musician

"According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third"

Kit Bond, Politician

"When I finished school, I took my entire life savings - $5,000 - and invested it in a business. I was young. I was inexperienced. But I was an entrepreneur, and I was proud. And in six weeks, I was broke"

Mark Warner, Politician

"I've done the same thing in the world of business that winners do in the game. I watch them, admire them"

Marcel Dionne, Athlete

"My husband used to take care of the business part of this, and after he died I found I wasn't really any good at it. I hate remembering who owes me what and bugging them if they haven't paid me"

Jane Haddam, Writer

"It was my first big relationship and it was just very abusive. I wouldn't give him the credit of naming him, if he ever reads this. But he was older, in the music business - or so he said"

Lisa Snowdon, Model

"The FBI has always supported big business and big government"

Leonard Peltier, Activist

"I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood"

Liev Schreiber, Actor

"I've been in this business my whole life. I'm pretty bulletproof as far as being hurt"

Tina Yothers, Actress

"The William Morris Agency handled me. In that business, you're only as good as your last picture"

Johnny Weissmuller, Actor

"I'm grateful I've got my mind. I can take care of my own business"

John Morton, Clergyman

"Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting"

John Hurt, Actor

"Come to West Virginia and we'll show you how to live... how to treat people. We're open for business. West Virginia is truly on the move"

Joe Manchin, Politician

Page 35 of 46