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Business Quotes


"If we take care of the business and keep our eye on the goal line, the stock price will take care of itself."


"Closing the gap for women entrepreneurs should be a priority for the federal government - and yet the Small Business Administration has failed in their promise to women business owners."


"I'm not a kid. You don't get in this business for anonymity. It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall, but at the same time, I'm kind of ready for a little bit of it, but I worry for my little one, and my family - their privacy. That's what I'm more protective of."


"I used to be and I still am into psychology. I would like to be able to pursue something like that, but I don't know. The older I've gotten, the more endearing this business has become and I can't really imagine leaving it."


"CNN canceled all the shows I was on. They're going in a different direction, but that's their privilege. They own the business."


"Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business."


"We own 18 percent of just the PC business. Now that's only about 60 percent of our business today."


"Sometimes I think our problems are made worse by the kind of business we're in. Playing these road shows is a weird experience."


"And I trusted someone to look after me on the business side of life."


"Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships."


"There are two reasons why I'm in show business, and I'm standing on both of them."


"Films are hard to make and I think the word indulge really leads one to believe that it's an easy sort of business and it's really extremely difficult."


"I went into show business because I love to work with people, and what I enjoy most about acting is rehearsing and getting to know people and their talents, forming relationships. Working in this business, barriers drop and you get into people real quickly."


"I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business."


"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."


"I predict that many teams will go out of business and the size of the leagues will be greatly reduced."


"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."


"The business always gets in the way of basketball."


"I think it's a reflection of the music business in general, which to me seems very fragmented."


"The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music."


"As a member of the House Committee on Small Business and because of my own experience as a small business owner, I am appreciative of the impact these small businesses have on our local economies."


"A sour corporate culture can actually make an entire society unhappy. This means that a strong corporate culture can have a positive impact on a society."


"And our size: The company this year is going to be close to $50 billion, so if that's the case and you can continue to grow that fast, I would rather put my energies to solving customer problems and growing our business than worrying about integrating and laying people off."


"Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible."


"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."


"Several other aerospace and defense firms have announced plans to build facilities in north Mississippi in recent weeks. They join an impressive group of high-tech companies already doing business in our region."


"And the problem is once you get into this campaign business and begin to have a lot of money, then the person on the bench begins to think - what's going to happen if I decide the case this way or that way?"


"Jeff knew full well what he was walking away from. Again, he needed to deal with this right away."


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