Business Quotes

Independent film is almost nonexistent right now, because all the distributers that used to love to put out these little art films are all out of business right now, because it costs so much to open a movie.
– Ron Perlman
In today's social business marketplace Facebook is one of the best places for nonprofits to be discovered and connect with a larger audience on the basis of shared values. So to get started, a non-profit should launch a Facebook page and invite your existing real world community to connect your cause and their networks.
– Simon Mainwaring
In this business, my business, I get to meet all kinds of incredible people, fascinating people, glamorous people and sexy people and highly intellectual people. And you meet them and you go 'interesting, interesting, interesting'. They're interesting, but not very many people stop you in your tracks.
– Madonna Ciccone
In this business, if you don't pay your debts you're finished.
– Roger Stone
In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.
– Taylor Swift
In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.
– Bill Gates
In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
– Noam Chomsky
In the social business marketplace, brands that hope to build loyal and growing communities do so most effectively when they demonstrate their core values and allow a community to build and engage around it.
– Simon Mainwaring
In the NFL a lot of times everyone gets caught up in the business side of things. For them it's all about money and it really leaves a sour taste in your mouth.
– Brett Favre
In the music business, especially the country music business, every 10 years or so you're going to have this changing of the guard, this wave of new artists that comes in.
– Jason Aldean
In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.
– Terry Eagleton
In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.
– Lee Iacocca
In the coming years, if not sooner, social media will become a powerful tool that consumers will aggressively use to influence business attitudes and force companies into greater social responsibility - and, I suggest, move us towards a more sustainable practice of capitalism.
– Simon Mainwaring
In terms of the technology I use the most, it's probably a tie between my Blackberry and my MacBook Pro laptop. That's how I communicate with the rest of the world and how I handle all the business I have to handle.
– John Legend
In terms of having a business, I wanted to let it go beyond what my personal taste is. Basically, I'm in a kilt and a white shirt every day. So, you know, I don't have a lot of scope, and I'm really picky about what I wear.
– Marc Jacobs
In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn about cooking from the best chefs in the business.
– Ted Allen
In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: consumer spending, business investment and exports and trade.
– Evan Davis
In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.
– David Mamet
In my business, if I get too close to you and you die, it hurts me. And so you develop a natural inclination not to be close to the patient, so that if things don't work out ideally, you can still get up the next day and care for the next patient.
– Mehmet Oz
In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
– Barbara Corcoran
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
– William James
In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done - and this is especially true in the cultural realm.
– Thomas Frank
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
If you're an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job.
– Guy Kawasaki
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
– Barack Obama
If you want to stay in the business then you've got to be a bit shrewd, haven't you?
– Katie Price
If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and you'll have a good life.
– Adam Carolla
If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
– Marilyn Monroe
If you say, 'I'm going to cut this song because I know the teenagers are going to love it,' well, then you're going to alienate everybody else. When I cut my record, I'm just going to cut the things that I like, and whoever likes it, likes it. That's too much work to try to figure out the demographic. That's too much like a business.
– Jason Aldean
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
– Robert H. Schuller
If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.
– Brian Tracy
If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.
– Carly Fiorina
If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.
– Jeff Bezos
If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.
– Lee Kuan Yew
If you create something that is asking for people to respond as they're going to respond, you have to allow them to respond as they're going to respond. Some of the people are going to be uninterested and some people are going to be mad for some reason, which is their business. That's just the way the world is.
– Charlie Kaufman
If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because no one can guarantee that we'll have them tomorrow.
– Kathy Ireland
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
– Abraham Lincoln
If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
– Thomas Sowell
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.
– Barbara Corcoran
If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months.
– Evan Bayh
If bad things are going to be said about me, I have to bear that. If I don't understand that it's part of being in show business, then I'd better go work in a bank.
– Antonio Banderas
If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff.
– Chris Christie
If an Internet company steals content, they shut it down. And let me tell you, Apple France, Yahoo France or Google France, none of them have gone out of business.
– Harvey Weinstein
If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
– George Bernard Shaw
I've set the model of showing fighters how they should conduct their business.
– Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.
– Jimmy Dean
I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
– Manuel Puig
I've never chased fame. I came into this business to be a theatre actress. I was nine when I first appeared on stage. But I can't say I would turn my back on fortune. I'm someone who enjoys the benefits of money.
– Joan Collins
I've made movies that I thought were good. I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, I wish more people saw that - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.
– Christopher Walken
I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them.
– Eli Wallach
I've got a wife, four kids, a business, and a baseball career.
– Curt Schilling
I've drunk Amazon's free Diet Coke. Nothing makes more sense to me than a company trying to make bookselling into a profitable business. I'm not anti-Amazon, and I'm not pro-publishers either. I'm pro-books.
– Lev Grossman
I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.
– Curt Schilling
I've always leaned toward a feminine, funky style, even in business settings. I used to paint my nails blue in 1993, before it was mainstream.
– Sara Blakely
I've always been able to keep my private life separate from my business.
– Ashley Tisdale
I'm very free-spirited and crazy. I love to have fun, and I like doing stupid things. At the same time, I'm like a 35-year-old. I have a house. I have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business, and I have to make serious decisions.
– Avril Lavigne
I'm trying to build a strong business. I want to create new stars, new shows and new products for my audience and create a legacy that outlives me. There are so many other ways I want to reach women besides doing a talk show.
– Tyra Banks
I'm someone who loves to enjoy life and tries to focus on real things and real friendships. That's why I live very simply. I'm a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl. I don't spend much time fixing myself up or trying to look cool. I live like a normal person and even though I'm in a very high-profile business, I really don't let it affect the way I live.
– Cameron Diaz
I'm quitting the business today. I'm going to open up an appliance store, I've always really been into toasters. I'm giving it all up.
– Dane Cook
I'm probably the only person who goes to work and says 'Wow, it's really nice here and sweet,' even in the competitive movie business.
– Harvey Weinstein
I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.
– Patti Smith
I'm not really in the excuse business.
– Bill Parcells
I'm not into business at all.
– Freddie Mercury
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
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.
– Hugh Jackman
I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.
– Francis Ford Coppola
I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife.
– Haile Gebrselassie
I'm in the acting business. That's the ego business.
– Betty White
I'm in show business... I want to hang out with Janet Jackson, not Jesse Jackson.
– Chris Rock
I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business. I mean I get loads of money, all from different sources. You give it to your accountant. They manage it.
– Kenneth Robert Livingstone
I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.
– Calvin Klein
I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern.
– Lev Grossman
I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it.
– James Taylor
I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.
– Roy Rogers
I'm a mad lover of sport. You cannot say a bad word to me about sports. So I know business is involved and I know it can be cynical, and, of course, I watch it, but for me it's pure.
– Hugh Jackman
I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.
– Bill Rancic
I'll never forget that show season. It was completely mad. I was staying between Christy and Naomi's rooms and it was all limos and the Ritz Hotel and all that kind of business.
– Kate Moss
I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet!
– Robert Duvall
I'd get kicked out of buildings all day long, people would rip up my business card in my face. It's a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it.
– Sara Blakely
I would absolutely, definitely never sell my wedding pictures to a magazine. I'd like it to be a special day, not a photo shoot. And once you've done that, your marriage becomes everybody else's business.
– Katherine Jenkins
I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.
– Tupac Shakur
I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.
– Lucille Ball
I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.
– V. S. Naipaul
I went onto reality TV as a business decision.
– Bethenny Frankel
I wasn't looking to get into TV. My family was in the movie business, so I was never interested in that world.
– Giada De Laurentiis
I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.
– Jennifer Aniston
I was bullied as a kid, and I got a job on television. And I had a camera. And so I wanted to go after those business bullies. And I just have been following that instinct.
– John Stossel
I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home.
– Cat Stevens
I was always a singer. But I was always focused on being an actor as my trade. Music I do just for me. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible.
– Jeremy Renner
I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
– Alan Greenspan
I want to tell my jokes. I want to have time with my children. I want to entertain people. And at one point, I'll walk away from show business. But I don't want to walk away empty-handed.
– Dave Chappelle
I want to put a ding in the universe.
– Steve Jobs
I want to own an NFL franchise. I understand the business of football.
– Jon Bon Jovi
I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.
– Rod Stewart
I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others.
– Kate Moss
I used to work for a management consulting company, so I dressed differently - business casual, probably a lot of things from Banana Republic. My wardrobe now is definitely more expensive, but I always dress for the occasion.
– John Legend
I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap.
– Snoop Dogg
I traveled the state of Florida for two years campaigning. I have never met a job creator who told me that they were waiting for the next tax increase before they started growing their business. I've never met a single job creator who's ever said to me I can't wait until government raises taxes again so I can go out and create a job.
– Marco Rubio
I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.
– Margaret J. Wheatley