Business Quotes

"This is a business built on promotion. We've been giving music away to radio stations for 30 years"

"I am not in this business as a calling. I don't do what I do to right any wrongs"

"I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions"

Haley Barbour, Politician

"I had business experience. I had made my living designing and building electronic equipment. Basic business was not new to me, but the music business was completely new to me. I knew nothing about distribution, or any of those things"

Greg Ginn, Musician

"Well, I happen to believe all business is female business"

Eddie Bernice Johnson, Politician

"The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income"

Dee Hock, Businessman

"For far too long, the people of Northern Ireland have been denied an equal voice and equal representation in government. It is time for the Assembly and Executive to be up and running and the people's business to be addressed"

James T. Walsh, Politician

"I've lectured at the Harvard Business School several times"

Christie Hefner, Businessman

"I came to Playboy not expecting to stay. But after five years, I found myself really enjoying the business world, and I realized I had some skill"

Christie Hefner, Businessman

"I hope that the Senate acts quickly to pass this legislation so that Americans will no longer worry about having to sell the family farm or business to pay taxes after the death of a loved one"

Doc Hastings, Politician

"There are so many great things about this business. Almost everybody is on the same team. It is all for one-friendly competitiveness. No one is out to hurt anyone"

Bobby Flay, Celebrity

"America has global trade with plenty of nations that provide inexpensive labor, but it's better for us when they're in our own hemisphere, rather than sending that business halfway around the world"

Ernest Istook, Politician

"Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily in the business of making controversial art"

Jane Alexander, Actress

"Not only did I enjoy the creative side of Playboy and enjoy being surrounded by people who are curious about life, but I also love the analytical and hard business side of it"

Christie Hefner, Businessman

"Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate"

Christie Hefner, Businessman

"What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the same - regular people doing their thing and separating the music from the business"

Ed O'Brien, Musician

"I like Biggie. Like 'Pac, he was one of the best rappers in the business. Why would I try to do something to him?"

Suge Knight, Producer

"If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business"

Ray Kroc, Businessman

"We have boys now, and men, in the rock and roll business and all the show business, who have this reaction on women. They scream. They yell. They do all sorts of wild things"

Minnie Pearl, Musician

"Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn't want to give up my pursuit of a career in the business as an artist"

Michael Bolton, Musician

"A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge"

Marvin Bower, Businessman

"I do not think I'm a great talent. I think I'm a medium talent, but I think I understand the business and enjoy the business"

Alex O'Loughlin, Actor

"Part of it has to do with this business of being approached in public. I have a distinctive look - it's partly the glasses I wear - and people seem to remember me once they've seen me"

Todd Solondz, Writer

"For the whole of Western Europe, I know the business community quite good"

Anatoly Chubais, Politician

"What helps people, helps business"

Leo Burnett, Businessman

"The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders"

Leo Burnett, Businessman

"The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on"

Albert J. Nock, Philosopher

"The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business"

John Berryman, Poet

"I don't want people poking around in my private stuff. They've no business in it. My work is what I give to people, that's my job, and that's where it stops"

Brendan Gleeson, Actor

"Our friends have nothing to do with the business. Some of our closest friends in Florida are not stars"

Kelly Preston, Actress

"The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on"

Albert J. Nock, Philosopher

"The biggest disappointment has been seeing the number of people in this business with very shortsighted views"

Greg Ginn, Musician

"The rest of the world cares about how we conduct our affairs because they then take that lead. We're the only leader in the world today. Some are wishing us well, others think that we're down and are not going to get back up again, but they are all watching with great interest to see how we conduct our business over the next couple of years"

Jon Huntsman, Jr., Politician

"My name was originally John Collins, but I just didn't think it had the flair I needed. I found out the poet laureate of Poland was named Krasinski and so it seemed like a shoe-in for show business"

John Krasinski, Actor

"I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office"

John Boehner, Politician

"I knew I wanted to be a journalist ever since I was a teenager. While it is interesting and gratifying to be on the business side and to see how that all works, the main reason I kept a business role here was to protect the editorial integrity of Salon"

David Talbot, Journalist

"I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life"

Dick Schaap, Journalist

"I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business"

Derek Bailey, Musician

"For me, my business is my business and my house is my house. I don't want the public in my house"

Heidi Klum, Model

"My business is not to show anybody anything; my job is just to do it"

Eddie Marsan, Actor

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