Business Quotes

"I've kept my sanity in this business by trying out for a role and then going home and trying to forget about it"

"I want to democratize business news"

"The facts are the vice president's company that he was CEO of, that did business with sworn enemies of the United States, paid millions of dollars in fines for providing false financial information, it's under investigation for bribing foreign officials"

John Edwards, Politician

"What I look for in a script is something that challenges me, something that breaks new ground, something that allows me to flex my director muscle. You have got to think fast in this business, you've got to keep reinventing yourself to stay on top"

Michael Bay, Director

"I can be very reserved about things. My business side isn't shy. I can be like a general. But I've got a shy side. I'm also a lot deeper than people think, and a lot more sensitive. But I don't let people in too much.'"

Michael Bay, Director

"Only nine States have been represented since my arrival 'till within three days. There are now Eleven States barely represented. This tardiness in the States or their Delegates, besides retarding the most important Business makes it exceeding fatiguing to those that do attend"

William Whipple, Politician

"I'm sure some people will say, 'Why do this?' And my response is, 'Why wouldn't you?' The film business in general is using a model that is outdated and, worse than that, inefficient"

Steven Soderbergh, Director

"But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses"

Steven Soderbergh, Director

"I feel like I almost didn't grow up in the business, because my parents worked so hard at sheltering us from that. I was raised in Connecticut. And I honestly wasn't aware that my dad was a celebrity until I moved to Los Angeles a year ago"

Bryce Dallas Howard, Actress

"I hate how I've had the mantle set on my shoulders as being against the record label. We've had some issues, but that is the nature of business"

Sheryl Crow, Musician

"I hate show business"

Joni Mitchell, Musician

"Later, at Stanford University, I thought I'd become a lawyer or businessman, but my father came to me and said he thought there was a big future in the fine-wine business"

Robert Mondavi, Businessman

"Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?"

Sydney Madwed, Businessman

"TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling"

Tina Brown, Editor

"I think you need a really strong businessperson running the state, a person who's used to turning negatives into positives, which is what happens in business"

Mike Curb, Musician

"Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in court against those who put products on the market that are dangerous to their buyers"

Stanley Crouch, Critic

"Secure our borders first. Let us know and let us make sure the American people know that we're taking care of the important business of dealing with the illegal immigration into this country. You cannot begin to address the concerns of the people who are already here unless and until you have made certain that no more are coming in behind them"

Michael Steele, Politician

"I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit"

Shirley Bassey, Musician

"One of the biggest problems out there that I hear from my friends in the business community is that there's no lending, that it's tough to get a loan today"

Alexi Giannoulias, Politician

"I've always tried to be an actor who... I just plod on and try to keep my mouth shut, mind my own business. I find the whole thing about people's lives... I can't understand it. I'm always astonished that people want to know anything about me"

Michael Gambon, Actor

"That my business success is equal to my personal life"

Merv Griffin, Entertainer

"That's why I never took this business too seriously, thinking I was something special, when I knew the truly great performers in motion pictures. pictures"

Robert Stack, Actor

"Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it"

Al Lopez, Coach

"I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but I think I am getting wiser in how to use my physical skills. That's the frustrating part when you put so much heart and desire into things and feel like you are not wanted"

Randy Moss, Athlete

"I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good"

Peter Cooper, Inventor

"The music is fun and all that, but first and foremost it is a business, it's about money"

Steve Brown, Musician

"I don't live in as much fear as I used to. I'm not afraid of the music business. Life is too damn short. I know what's important, and the tasks are very clear"

Kathy Mattea, Musician

"I am excited to rise today to support National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day. This celebration honors the husband and wife business owner teams whose work helps drive the economy and fuel job growth"

Melissa Bean, Politician

"As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer"

Mel Torme, Musician

"Under the AHP approach, the average small business might be able to offer their employees one or two insurance plans, and that employee of the small business would have no idea whether their doctor was going to be a apart of one of those plans"

Jim Cooper, Politician

"It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails"

Romain Rolland, Novelist

"The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men and professional men"

Robert E. Howard, Writer

"In many ways, that affection is the real reward for 56 years in the business. Although the money ain't exactly bad either"

Perry Como, Musician

"Closing the gap for women entrepreneurs should be a priority for the federal government - and yet the Small Business Administration has failed in their promise to women business owners"

Ruben Hinojosa, Politician

"From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward"

John Pople, Scientist

"You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings"

Norman Lear, Producer

"Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record"

Nile Rodgers, Musician

"I'm done in this business, that's for sure"

Marc Wallice, Actor

"The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business"

Larry King, Entertainer

"If our republican form of government is perishing because communications - the infrastructure of that republic - is under the yoke of international business how, at last, do we save it? We must build a confrontational movement to reclaim our democracy, a movement committed to active and sustained protest against the present order"

Mark Lloyd, Public Servant

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