Business Quotes

"Hitting is business. With two strikes you really protect that plate"

"Our co-founder and company president, Jim Levy, came from a record industry background and understood the marketing and promotion of artists as well as products. So the video game business went from absolutely zero designer credit to something approaching rock star promotion"

David Crane

"Due to a big bust in Cuba, my father's business suffered badly, so I was free to choose my own career. I became a professional dancer, and I went on the road and started making real money"

Cesar Romero, Actor

"This is a very screwed-up business. Record labels don't sign a lot of bands these days. We just want to find a home and stay there and make records and do our thing and not have to look over our shoulder"

Andy Taylor

"Before I got in this business I was in the chicken business"

Chubby Checker, Musician

"To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough"

Alec Baldwin, Actor

"After working for 14 years on Wall Street and growing up in a family with strong roots in small business, I know how important the entrepreneurial spirit is to attaining the American dream"

Ellen Tauscher, Politician

"I know that my fans want to know who I'm sleeping with, but it's really none of their business"

Diana Ross, Actress

"Today the kids that are out now they make a hit record and they put them right out on the stage with 10,000 people out there and they don't know anything about the business yet"

Billy Eckstine, Musician

"I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn't think of it as being tough and things like that"

Billy Eckstine, Musician

"I think that some of our soldiers die in the battlefield and some come home to bad health and die prematurely, just by the nature of the kind of business they're in"

Christopher Shays, Politician

"The digital business is a fantastic business to be in. The only thing you have to do is build a cost structure for a declining business, which is different from the structure for a growing business"

Antonio Perez, Statesman

"I have this home in New York, I have a long-term relationship with my boyfriend, who's from Australia, and I had this business that I had maintain. Even though I wasn't actively shooting, there's a lot of peripheral work"

Claire Danes, Actress

"If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself"

Bernard Meltzer, Lawyer

"I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one"

Brian Clough, Athlete

"I know that Montana is the greatest place in the world to raise a family, to start and grow a business. You know it, and I know it and now we will tell the world"

Brian Schweitzer, Politician

"There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process"

Adam Duritz, Musician

"My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative"

Bob Balaban, Actor

"I've made upwards of a million bucks in the cops-and-robbers business"

Broderick Crawford, Actor

"The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones"

Bill Forsyth, Director

"You have to have a strong sense of self in this business - otherwise they're going to spit you out"

Charlene Tilton, Actress

"I believe it is an important project, it makes the cost of doing business lower and they will make us more competitive at the same time, it will also provide some satisfaction to the people who demand services for them of the quality they want and also quickly"

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Politician

"We spend more than a million dollars a year on our colleges and university, and it is money well spent; but we must have education that fits not the few but the many for the business of life"

Arthur Capper, Politician

"County government can be simplified greatly by reorganizing and consolidating some of the offices, making others appointive, and reducing salaries in keeping with the salaries paid by private business for the performance of similar duties"

Arthur Capper, Politician

"I believe - I'm not a political expert, but I believe there is a broad consensus, a middle ground if you will, that Democrats and Republicans, business people and workers can agree on, to get this - the economy growing faster, getting people back to work"

Austan Goolsbee, Public Servant

"You know, the fashion business is this legendary repository of young girls on their way to getting husbands. I really wanted to work"

Ali MacGraw, Actress

"Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what's around them"

Afrika Bambaataa, Musician

"The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out"

Jimmy Buffett, Musician

"We have to make America the best place in the world to do business"

Dick Cheney, Vice President

"But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record"

Adam Duritz, Musician

"Of course in show business there are two ways to play it and I am not politically correct so I am not going to get endorsements or anything like that"

Artie Lange, Actor

"I always smoked cigars. I've smoked cigars with everybody in show business"

Al Hirt, Musician

"Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business"

Zig Ziglar, Author

"No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won"

Jim Valvano, Coach

"I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles"

Zig Ziglar, Author

"I thought, if I went into business I'd be able to control my own destiny"

Tommy Hilfiger, Designer

"I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side"

Tommy Hilfiger, Designer

"The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business"

Margaret Mitchell, Novelist

"The regular hours necessary to be observed by those who follow country business, are perhaps of more consequence than any of the other articles, however important those may be"

William Falconer, Poet

"We need to stop apologizing for celebrating life. We need to stop apologizing for wanting to protect an individual's right to build a business"

Rick Perry, Politician

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