Business Quotes

"To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them"

"Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base"

"I do most of my business on that dirty Internet that you were just talking about, where I find there is a lot of freedom to report exactly what I want"

Matt Drudge, Journalist

"I know a lot of people in the business recommend the many Story Structure seminars being offered here, but I point to them as the single biggest contributor to lousy scripts"

Douglas Wood, Writer

"Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?"

John Philip Sousa, Musician

"That said, I should also add that I learned a great deal from being allowed in these privileged circles and am grateful for the opportunity to have worked closely with some of the most powerful and successful people in the business including Steven Spielberg and Ted Turner"

Douglas Wood, Writer

"In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle"

Jacques Barzun, Educator

"I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command"

Billy Sunday, Clergyman

"Yeah, computers are going to take over the programming business because they have become so fast recently that they can solve the Halting Problem in five seconds flat"

Craig Bruce

"This marriage is no one's business but our own"

Bobby Darin, Musician

"Maybe I should quit the business. There's no one left for me to love. Mama's dead. Mr. Burns couldn't care less about me. What's left?"

Bobby Darin, Musician

"The sex element is the most important in the business. You must sell sex"

Bobby Darin, Musician

"It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession"

Katharine Hepburn, Actress

"Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art"

Andy Warhol, Artist

"When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business"

Maya Lin, Architect

"As I've said, in 2007, we're free to go and we'll just have to do what's best for the business"

Mario Lemieux, Athlete

"I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture"

Saul Bellow, Novelist

"Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business"

Clara Barton, Public Servant

"Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion"

Ernie Harwell, Celebrity

"Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"When you are in this business and this career, it's hard for any one thing to engulf you"

Nuno Bettencourt, Musician

"I don't have the inclinations that other people seem to have as far as the business is concerned"

Kristin Hersh, Musician

"Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls"

Carly Simon, Musician

"Slater's a big star and he's been in the business a long time. He's always in a good mood and easygoing but he takes his character very seriously"

Uwe Boll, Director

"I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can't ignore it, especially when you get into telecom"

Esther Dyson, Scientist

"For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again"

Howard Nemerov, Poet

"Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be"

Horatio Nelson, Soldier

"Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business"

Tom Robbins, Author

"From the business point of view - not to overstate it - intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance"

Esther Dyson, Scientist

"That business of relaxation, which is so terribly modern today, is all good and well, but my work interests me so much, and is so varied, that many times it seems relaxing when I go from one aspect to another"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit"

Andrew Carnegie, Businessman

"I'm not asking any of you to make drastic changes to every single one of your recipes or to totally change the way you do business. But what I am asking is that you consider reformulating your menu in pragmatic and incremental ways to create healthier versions of the foods that we all love"

Michelle Obama, First Lady

"God will forgive me; that's his business"

Heinrich Heine, Poet

"I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't"

Steve Martin, Comedian

"Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty"

Steve Martin, Comedian

"I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business. You're merchandised, you're a product. You're sold and it's based on sex. But that's okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded"

Megan Fox, Actress

"The best of life is the exercise of ingenuity-in design, in finance, in flying, in business"

Bill Lear, Inventor

"If you have to fight a crowd of boys, it's best to go for the biggest one. That way you won't have to fight them all. The others will see that you mean business and you will win their respect"

Suzanne Vega, Musician

"Of course, everybody makes mistakes, and we've all been young and stupid. But people need to have a sense of respect, particularly in this business, because hundreds of people are ready to take your place at any time. Maybe some people should think about that"

Sophia Bush, Actress

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