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Business Quotes
"I've done the same thing in the world of business that winners do in the game. I watch them, admire them."
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"People don't know how hard it is to have your own business."
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"We are going through tough economic times but things are looking up, and the indicators are improving not only for large corporations but also for small business."
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"I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business."
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"He has a very extensive public relations apparatus that is paid for by the taxpayers of this state. They are some of the best in the business. and he is a master at getting not only television but other media exposure on the basis of confrontation and chaos."
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"No partnership between two independent companies, no matter how well run, can match the speed, effectiveness, responsiveness and efficiency of a solely owned company."
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"The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress."
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"If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business."
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"I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself."
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"I can not, therefore, see how this can be imputed as a crime, or how any of the king's ministers can be blamed for his doing what the public has no concern in; for if the public be well and faithfully served it has no business to ask by whom."
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"Starbucks represents something beyond a cup of coffee."
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"TiVo and other digital recording devices have confounded advertisers. The ad industry sees the technology as a threat to their product."
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"We mean by "politics" the people's business - the most important business there is."
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"It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do."
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"Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand."
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"I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality."
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"You know, the funny thing about Lorne and that show is that, you can go over one million things, but in a business of bean counters, he still likes to laugh at small things and creates a show around it."
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"I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business."
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"When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun."
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"A lot of times in this business, we are taking advantage of hot times in our career to do a lot of TV and a lot of radio and that sort of thing, and George is able to be so humble that he can get away with not doing those things."
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"I sold my most valuable possession, but I knew that because I worked at Hewlett Packard, I could buy the next model calculator the very next month for a lower price than I sold the older one for!"
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"It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priority as unfinished business from the first Bush Administration. His agenda was clear: find a rationale to get rid of Saddam."
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"You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything."
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"In a competitive crowded world market, it's the well positioned brands that Stands Out!"
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"In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later."
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"Somewhere along the line, Bob said I'd better begin taking this business seriously, because, whether I liked it or not, I had a career."
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"Entrepreneurs are all unique. One way to build a business and turn it into a brand is to know who you are."
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"So many people comment that I'm much more mature than average. In this business, you can get taken advantage of if you're not aware and you're not tough."
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"No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business."
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"Once upon a time it took many years of hard work to establish a winning business, but today that time scale has been cut down to months - not years."
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"Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships."
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"It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business."
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"If I was on the cover of Artforum and my photos were selling for lots of money. If I could be doing that I wouldn't be working for porn mags. But I got to make a living. I shoot for them only occasionally now because that business isn't what it used to be."
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"When I got back into the film business after college, I started out as a production assistant."
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"I'm in this business because I despise honest labor."
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"Month after month, Wizard Academy equips people who want to make a difference. This is why journalists and scientists and artists and educators and business owners and advertising professionals and ministers are attracted to our little school."
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