Business Quotes

"We try to say it's creative and in a manner it is creative, but it is a business, because today, with the cost factor in crossing the boundaries that you do"

Skitch Henderson, Musician

"We would rather have our employees running our business"

James Sinegal, Businessman

"Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term"

J. Irwin Miller, Businessman

"In simple terms, we are aligning our business today with the way we believe future systems are going to be designed, acquired and maintained"

Phil Condit, Businessman

"Don't wallow in brainstorming. Time spent fiddling with a business plan or filling up whiteboards with ideas is time that you could spend actually launching your business and seeing if the idea floats. Launching gives you real, solid feedback, instead of the imaginary 'what if' scenarios dreamed up in a conference room"

Naveen Jain, Businessman

"Knowing what I do now, I don't know if I'd ever have the balls to go to film school, with no connections and no knowledge of the business side at all"

Michael Patrick Jann, Actor

"It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away"

Jim Cooper, Politician

"The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older"

Hume Cronyn, Actor

"I love the challenge of show business. It keeps me on my toes"

Henry Darrow, Actor

"It's the No.1 issue with people I talk to, whether Republican, Democrat or independent. They want to see the way business is done in Washington change"

Francine Busby

"I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of"

Daniel Clowes, Author

"I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have"

Ginger Baker, Musician

"We've got a low turnover management group and executive group who've grown up in the business"

Fred L. Turner, Businessman

"At American Airlines, we have built a business around the love of travel that has lasted three quarters of a century. And I'm pretty sure we're just getting started"

Gerard Arpey, Businessman

"Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way"

Jesse Ventura, Politician

"I'd like to see myself married with a child and hopefully still involved in the entertainment business as an actor who is also able to write a bit and direct some projects"

Fred Savage, Actor

"I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business"

Sydney Pollack, Director

"People in the record business would say, Well, Pras, you know, you haven't been out in a while, maybe you should get today's hottest producer or rapper to do something"

Pras Michel, Musician

"So in 2000, when we changed the business model and started really focusing on that triangle and putting the customer in the center, we decided we should hold off - we've done enough consolidation; we've got enough critical mass"

Sanjay Kumar, Businessman

"He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession"

Clifton Paul Fadiman, Writer

"I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck"

Ron Perlman, Actor

"The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business"

Charlton Heston, Actor

"That's a rule in the business. No tongue. You can't really get into it, otherwise, it's weird. I think that particular scene made his (Adam Brody) girlfriend jealous. There were issues"

Rachel Bilson, Actress

"So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities"

Arthur Rock, Businessman

"People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards"

Arthur Rock, Businessman

"Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science"

Arthur Machen, Author

"All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them"

Richard Hughes, Writer

"The industry does have some influence on who gets other awards. With the Mercury Prize, they don't. Jon comes from the business, but his heart is still very much in the music. Currently, we have about 12 major names that have said they want to be a part of MUDDA"

Peter Gabriel, Musician

"Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look for bugs and things"

Peter Weir, Director

"You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school"

Alan Alda, Actor

"In business everyone is out to grab, to fight, to win. Either you are the under or the over dog. It is up to you to be on top"

Alice Foote MacDougall

"Four or five frigates will do the business without any military force"

Lord North, Statesman

"When you are new to the business, you think if you give a really bad performance, that's one they will print. You will be judged. You just have to be brave"

Robbie Coltrane, Actor

"I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed"

Lisa Kudrow, Actress

"Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence"

Lewis H. Lapham, Editor

"I think it's a reflection of the music business in general, which to me seems very fragmented"

Kathy Valentine, Musician

"The big missing part of the jig-saw is to get the assembly back up and running here in Northern Ireland, to get shared government back in business, that is my objective, and we await the IRA statement to see if this will trigger a new dawn"

Peter Hain, Politician

"The record industry is still pissed off that other people are making money off their business, even if it promotes their products and increases their sales. I think they're still mad about radio"

Jonathan Potter, Psychologist

"I need to keep my story count high. I'm trying to get as many stories in my hour as is humanly possible. We're telling more stories in our hour than any national newscast has in the history of this business, I think"

Shepard Smith, Journalist

"Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business"

Jesse Ventura, Politician

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