Business Quotes

"The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business"

John Steinbeck, Author

"Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs"

Herbert Hoover, President

"It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business"

Herbert Hoover, President

"It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent"

Barack Obama, President

"I'm not so much interested in the music business as I am in music as a business"

Wayne Shorter, Musician

"The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of the nation's infrastructure"

Joe Baca, Politician

"For many my behavior has been a major disappointment, my behavior has caused considerable worry to my business partners, and everyone involved in my business, but most importantly to the young people we influence, I apologize"

Tiger Woods, Athlete

"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business"

Michael J. Fox, Actor

"Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying"

J. Paul Getty, Businessman

"What other people think about me is not my business"

Michael J. Fox, Actor

"To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business"

J. Paul Getty, Businessman

"No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist"

J. Paul Getty, Businessman

"I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business"

Bette Davis, Actress

"Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success"

Dale Carnegie, Writer

"In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing"

William Wordsworth, Poet

"Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"Music is something I must do, business is something I need to do, and Africa is something I have to do. That's the way it breaks down in my life"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

"Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one"

Stendhal, Writer

"We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost"

Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician

"Negative things, and they were all deliberate and I'm not going to say who they were but I know who they were and it was in the business, and that's not a good sign"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct"

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

"I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected"

Barry White, Musician

"The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should have"

Willie Mays, Athlete

"I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and you'll never have a problem. That's what I did"

Willie Mays, Athlete

"Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps"

Willie Mays, Athlete

"I love making people laugh and feel good, and that's awesome and special for me to be able to do that, but there really is nothing like kicking ass whether it's on a major scale, or whether it's in more of a dramatic fashion. Being physical and taking care of business the old-fashioned way is something that I love doing"

Dwayne Johnson, Actor

"In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it"

Hillary Clinton, Politician

"Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father's business as a farmer; I was brought up in the kitchen and ended up becoming a chef"

Martin Yan, Celebrity

"I've never considered myself a celebrity or even part of the entertainment business. I'm a cooking teacher"

Martin Yan, Celebrity

"The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"I'm in this business for too long to be halfhearted about anything"

Lou Reed, Musician

"A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist"

Norman Ralph Augustine, Author

"If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down"

Ray Bradbury, Writer

"I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear"

Billy Sunday, Clergyman

"After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world"

Billy Sunday, Clergyman

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