Business Quotes

"One is that that's the way we started and we thought there would be more value and less confusion if the business model was just based on delivering news that's of value to Web sites"

Jay Chiat, Businessman

"I'm not going to give up doing interesting things. I'm going to do it as long as I possibly can and hopefully have longevity in this business"

Jessica Biel, Actress

"People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!"

Don Johnson, Actor

"I've fallen back on this periodically, although I must say that getting out of the grocery business ranked right up there with getting out of the army as one of the happier experiences of my life"

David Eddings, Author

"Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time"

Edgar Watson Howe, Editor

"I've been doing TV for fourteen years, and I've always had a fascination with the political business side. It's ruled my life. Ratings or no ratings have decided where I live, who I work with, and how long I'll be doing that particular job"

Charlotte Ross, Actress

"If my father's business hadn't gone broke, I'd be exporting nuts, bolts and sugar machinery right now. What an awful thought!"

Cesar Romero, Actor

"When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe. And I think that's a really dangerous, limiting mindset"

Ed Helms, Comedian

"I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart and soul"

Conrad Veidt, Actor

"They realize that spending millions to save billions is just good business"

Jack Abramoff, Criminal

"We are going through tough economic times but things are looking up, and the indicators are improving not only for large corporations but also for small business"

George Pataki, Politician

"I've spent about that amount of time trying to tell the public that there was purpose in... my business, my career and the roller coaster ride... how the people I associated with worked together"

Diahann Carroll, Actress

"No business in the world has ever made more money with poorer management"

Bill Terry, Athlete

"It's a clique and I think a clique exists in every business. There's a circle of people that are guaranteed to open a movie and we all know their names and whether they're right or wrong for the role"

Elizabeth Pena, Actress

"If the planters carry politics into the fields they will find it bad business"

Charles E. Merrill, Businessman

"That space between the white lines, that's my office. That's where I conduct my business"

Early Wynn, Athlete

"I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business"

Diana Ross, Actress

"I took business classes as a back up but I made movies all the time. I would get my classes done in two days and then spend the rest of the time making my movies"

Dennis Muren, Artist

"I am constantly asked why I never made other films after 'There's No Business Like Show Business,' the answer is I was never asked"

Johnnie Ray, Musician

"My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business"

Bob Balaban, Actor

"We are in the entertaining business, they want to get autographs, they want to take something home, whether it's a signed hat or, you know, program or whatever it might be"

Bernhard Langer, Athlete

"I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years"

Gary Miller, Politician

"If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they're receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole so that it's not counting as corporate income, that is what this is counting as a small business"

Austan Goolsbee, Public Servant

"For policy makers interested in using tax policy to stimulate investments or especially to smooth business cycle fluctuations, the results are not promising"

Austan Goolsbee, Public Servant

"I make decisions based on my work, not based on meetings with my business managers, who I don't like to meet"

Chris Robinson, Musician

"The studios are very much business. Maybe it was always that way. It is really commercial now. Judgments are made and directions are given to make the cash register ring"

Dianne Wiest, Actress

"It's incredibly difficult to keep a healthy body image in this business"

Courtney Thorne Smith, Actress

"I can still play this game at a high level; I've proven that. I want to be home. I want to be close to my family. I want to be close to my foundation and my business interests"

Alonzo Mourning, Athlete

"This business is about working. It's really not about glamour. For me, the most glamorous thing about it is to b able to get on stage and perform my music for people. That's the privilege. And that's what all the work leads up to, and that's why it's worth it to me"

Debbie Gibson, Musician

"It's like night and day... to do business, in Europe, there is no bull, they are pretty straightforward"

Caprice Bourret, Model

"The United Nations has no business in our elections"

David Vitter, Politician

"I've never been good in the financial and business arenas. I handle the creative side of things"

Daryl Hannah, Actress

"The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past"

Bud Selig, Celebrity

"There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills"

Douglas Hurd, Politician

"It is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who you are writing songs for and what your goals are as a songwriter. So believe me, if you think I've got it down I don't it is a constant struggle"

Christine Lavin, Musician

"It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected by studios, he borrowed money and did movies with his own money. You're either courageous or not. You have to find a way"

Ben Gazzara, Actor

"When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills"

Daniel Goleman, Author

"It's a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force"

Brit Hume, Journalist

"That's just the way this business works. You're a reliable commodity"

Christy Romano, Actress

"I struggled for 15 years in this business before Miami Vice came along"

Don Johnson, Actor

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