Business Quotes

"Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends"

"Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business"

"It's not government's business what people do in their private bedrooms"

"Everybody would love to be mayor of Chicago. If you look at what we have done over many, many years and where we are today and the commitment by the business community, the commitment by the not-for-profit community - all this coming together - this is a wonderful city"

Richard M. Daley, Politician

"One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, let's all be friends in Washington philosophy"

Pete du Pont, Politician

"We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is closed to terrorists and drug pushers and smugglers and others who seek to break the law"

Paul Cellucci, Politician

"When your in the movie business you have a start date and a stop date"

Wayne Rogers, Actor

"A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence"

Marvin Bower, Businessman

"Even my agents say, We don't know what this business is anymore"

Tom Berenger, Actor

"However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions"

Gerard Arpey, Businessman

"I don't hang out with agents and producers and I'm not into the business side at all"

Winona Ryder, Actress

"Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. That's the equivalent of more than 1,200 police officer posts. These reforms are a watershed moment in policing. They show that we really mean business in busting bureaucracy"

Theresa May, Politician

"I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers"

Rod Stewart, Musician

"If there's anything disgusting in the movie business, it is the whoredom of my peers"

Sean Penn, Actor

"You've got to know business before you go to show business"

Patti LaBelle, Musician

"Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember"

Rand Beers, Soldier

"Show business is made up of disappointments, and it's through life's disappointments that you grow"

Minnie Pearl, Musician

"It's the most unglamourous glamour business in the world"

Minnie Pearl, Musician

"There are some very real areas where working together is critical, whether it's talking about public policy issues, enforcement, or how to work together to facilitate new business opportunities. The RIAA has gotten much more involved in that"

Hilary Rosen, Businesswoman

"These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business. Features don't even run in theaters very long anymore before going right to television"

Tom Berenger, Actor

"When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move"

Michael Douglas, Actor

"The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do"

Steven Soderbergh, Director

"That I would rather be in another business where a bad cold wouldn't put me out of work"

Merv Griffin, Entertainer

"I've been in this business so long, it just doesn't faze me. I know what's going to happen before it happens"

Dustin Diamond, Actor

"You gotta have fun. Regardless of how you look at it, we're playing a game. It's a business, it's our job, but I don't think you can do well unless you're having fun"

Derek Jeter, Athlete

"War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist"

M. F. K. Fisher, Writer

"It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself"

Karolina Kurkova, Model

"Slovakia's joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business"

John Mica, Politician

"The Gnostics were rapidly driven out of business by the hierarchical orthodox Christians"

Robert Shea, Author

"I've been doing this for seven and a half years. I've been just bustin' it, trying to break in as an artist in this business. For me, it's still just about the work. I get the scripts and I'm all about that. I don't really even have an idea what that's going to be like"

Josh Holloway, Actor

"If we are to succeed, we must recognize that the community redevelopment is not solely the rehabilitation of housing, or putting a mall in the business strips"

Jane Byrne, Politician

"When I came to Congress, I came to bring what I thought was a real-world business perspective to government because, in the business world, I spent over 20 years in the high-tech industry, but it certainly was not unique"

Melissa Bean, Politician

"I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody"

Jim Lehrer, Journalist

"Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me - I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the fun of it anymore. But it's an extremely happy and pleasureable business to run because people are generally buying cakes for celebrations"

Jane Asher, Actress

"The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing"

Jan Hammer, Musician

"There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success"

Philip Knight, Businessman

"I didn't want to wait around for some business entity to come around and give me money and tell me what to do. We just started releasing records as best we could"

Greg Ginn, Musician

"Coming into the business, you'd pass through these little agencies until you got to understand what was happening in the business, unless you were really able to have a style strong enough to go directly to the publishers"

Gil Kane, Artist

"Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base"

Gavin Newsom, Politician

"There's also, I think more so in the music business and especially for women, this ceiling that people put on you if you have children or a family and decide to spend time with them"

Juice Newton, Musician

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