Business Quotes

"Ranchers need clean water for their stock, farmers need it for their crops, every employer needs it to stay in business, and every living thing needs it for life... The law needs to be clear to protect water quality and the rights of landowners"

Mark Udall, Politician

"From now on, I approach the cinema as a business woman. I intend to be in more action movies because, apart from Angelina Jolie, no other actress stands out in this genre"

Milla Jovovich, Model

"What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history"

Nancy Sinatra, Musician

"But then, you know, I'm very happy, I've got to this stage in my life and I'm not dead. I haven't got married and divorced and done all that palimony business, you know all that mess"

Michael Hutchence, Musician

"Ultimately, you know, I'm a grown-up, I've been in this business a long time. I've got kids. I've got to do my stuff. But I also need to keep it there so I can bring it up again the next day at work or whatever"

Kyra Sedgwick, Actress

"I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz"

David Geffen, Businessman

"I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man"

Charles M. Schwab, Businessman

"You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business"

Victor Kiam, Businessman

"The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis"

Theodor Herzl, Journalist

"In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you"

Victor Kiam, Businessman

"From the business point of view, always encouraging the people in our company to own stock in the company, and if we're going to build something great, to have a lot of people share in the benefits of that greatness"

Sanford I. Weill, Businessman

"And I thought I'd always like some form of business, I didn't know what kind of business I'd go in"

Sanford I. Weill, Businessman

"I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business"

Ted Turner, Businessman

"My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business"

Frederick W. Smith, Businessman

"My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that made sure we ate right and we had our cod liver oil, but didn't know a heck of a lot about what I did"

Sanford I. Weill, Businessman

"I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business"

Loretta Young, Actress

"When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make money. That's the first act of corporate citizenship. If you do that, you'll have to hire someone else, and you'll have enough profit to help one of those non-profits we're so proud of.'"

Mitch Daniels, Politician

"And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business"

Shaquille O'Neal, Athlete

"So it's the kind of business where you can't wait to get up in the morning and read the papers, or listen to what's on the news, and you know, how the world's going to change"

Sanford I. Weill, Businessman

"My business is can I create a world that's possible and could happen? I think that's the only thing that I have to do, and I think that I have done that each time"

Neil LaBute, Director

"I'm not in the advertising business, but I think it would be very nice if people went to see the film Hamlet, because it was made with love and integrity"

Julie Christie, Actress

"Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system"

Carly Fiorina, Businessman

"Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it's our business"

Gwyneth Paltrow, Actress

"Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation"

Milan Kundera, Writer

"As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life"

Loretta Young, Actress

"Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way we are worrying about government"

John Perry Barlow, Writer

"If I lose show business - I'll really be an orphan!"

Red Buttons, Comedian

"And what most people don't understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business"

Alphonso Jackson, Public Servant

"It doesn't interest me to be Harrison Ford. It interests me to be Mike Pomeroy and Indiana Jones and Jack Ryan. I don't want to be in the Harrison Ford business. I take what I do seriously, but I don't take myself seriously"

Harrison Ford, Actor

"Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth"

Dennis Weaver, Actor

"When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary"

Ezra Pound, Poet

"It's been said that government doesn't create jobs, business does. For the most part, this is true. But government creates the environment in which businesses can excel and expand"

Christine Gregoire, Politician

"My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her"

David Geffen, Businessman

"A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing"

Charles M. Schwab, Businessman

"Business must be the solution, not the problem"

Dennis Weaver, Actor

"Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking"

Bill Vaughan, Journalist

"Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world"

Bruce Barton, Author

"Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business"

Bruce Barton, Author

"Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business"

Calvin Coolidge, President

"The business of America is business"

Calvin Coolidge, President

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