Business Quotes

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
– Barry Goldwater
America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.
– Al Gore
Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.
– Michael Sheen
Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.
– William Shatner
All those lessons that I've learned on the court, I have applied them to my life outside of the court in business, my company, called V Starr interiors, an interior design company, and EleVen, which I wear on court.
– Venus Williams
After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through.
– Dee Dee Myers
After hurting myself like that, I could not go back immediately to racing. I was in no condition, mentally or physically. That helped me to strengthen myself to go through the hard times that were ahead with my business, and to be successful.
– Nelson Piquet
After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
– Calvin Coolidge
After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.
– Billy Sunday
After adding trillions to the debt on big-government policies most Americans didn't ask for and which we couldn't afford, Democratic leaders say they need more money, which they intend to take from small business, even though small businesses create the majority of new jobs.
– Mitch McConnell
After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.
– Tori Amos
According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third.
– Kit Bond
Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us.
– Arthur C. Nielsen
A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.
– Loretta Lynn
A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.
– Jack Kevorkian
A strategy is something like, an innovative new product globalization, taking your products around the world be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch you can motivate people with be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.
– Jack Welch
A shady business never yields a sunny life.
– B. C. Forbes
A rise in the level of saving can reduce aggregate activity temporarily but only a sustained high level of saving makes it possible to have the sustained high level of business investment that contributes to the long-run growth of output.
– Martin Feldstein
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.
– Norman Ralph Augustine
A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.
– James Cash Penney
A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play.
– Jon Meacham
A lot of people say I'd miss show business if I quit. I'd miss some of it. Now it's the only life I know.
– Loretta Lynn
A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts.
– Elvis Presley
A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.
– Lee Iacocca
A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.
– Bobby Darin
A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
– Honore de Balzac
A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services.
– Edward Sapir
A couple of months ago, I was down in Florida for the Food and Wine Festival. And this journalist grabbed me and said, 'How does it feel to be a TV guy? You're no longer in the restaurant business.' And I laughed. I asked him, 'How long do you think it takes me to do a season?' He said, 'Well, 200 days.' And I was like, '200 days? Try 20!'
– Tom Colicchio
A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.
– Marvin Bower
A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next.
– Amber Tamblyn
A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
– B. C. Forbes
A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments.
– Donny Osmond
Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.
– Dean Acheson
Christmas is over and Business is Business.
– Franklin P. Adams
In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
– Wayne Allard
I once loved this game. But after being traded four times, I realized that it's nothing but a business. I treat my horses better than the owners treat us. It's a shame they've destroyed my love for the game.
– Richie Allen
Sometimes the greatest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the decks.
– David Allen
A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered; in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life.
– Henri Frederic Amiel
And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
– Pamela Anderson
Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.
– Kofi Annan
Touring is really a pretty lonely business.
– Eddy Arnold
The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.
– Tom Arnold
I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.
– Chester A. Arthur
After being in the business for such a long time, I've done everything but rodeo and porno.
– Beatrice Arthur
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
– Jane Austen
Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
– Hank Azaria
Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth.
– James Randolph Adams
Business is the art of extracting money from another man's pocket without resorting to violence.
– Max Amsterdam
I wouldn't be in a legitimate business for all the money in the world.
– Gennaro Anguilo
In show business, you get chewed up and spit out.
– John Aniston
This is a business. Be smart. Choose wisely.
– John Aniston
So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
– Walter Bagehot
I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act.
– Kenny Baker
I was well aware of the fact that once you appeared in Doctor Who as something else, you were ruled out for the part of the Doctor: that was a kind of well known thing in the business.
– Colin Baker
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.
– Scott Bakula
On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married.
– Scott Bakula
The biggest challenge for everybody to realize out there is that we're in a very complicated business world and that were all under one umbrella and it's very challenging for everybody to figure out where the priorities lie and where the loyalties lie.
– Scott Bakula
The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age.
– Scott Bakula
I was a guy who grew up with no money and no special qualities. When you become successful in this business and you've got a lot of money, it's a very potent blend. You meet beautiful women, you've got a lot of time on your hands, people pay attention to you a lot more than you deserve - I acted out on that as much as most young guys do who come to that place.
– Alec Baldwin
To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough. Denzel Washington's career is an enormous luxury. Compare him to Wesley Snipes. Do you think that they set out for it to be that way? All actors set out for the same thing: to make both entertaining films and important films.
– Alec Baldwin
I like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There's vision, patience, and execution.
– Steve Ballmer
The lifeblood of our business is that R&D spend. There's nothing that flows through a pipe or down a wire or anything else. We have to continuously create new innovation that lets people do something they didn't think they could do the day before.
– Steve Ballmer
No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
– Hosea Ballou
American business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees who are educated enough that they can tell the difference between the men's room and the women's room without having little pictures on the doors.
– Dave Barry
Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.
– Dave Barry
Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting.
– Bruce Barton
In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal.
– Jacques Barzun
All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel... and that's what I've been doing all my life.
– Count Basie
I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.'
– Count Basie
Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.
– Jean Baudrillard
It's wonderful to have the most important thing in the world there first thing in the morning. And especially in this business, where the opportunity to think everything is about you is there every day, now I really know that it isn't all about me.
– Kate Beckinsale
In the publishing business you have to learn to greet failure with the same handshake as you would success.
– Eddie Bell
Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.
– William John Bennett
I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.
– Tony Bennett
I would like to see a vaudeville world of three-a-day. Five-a-day is too many. Managers who are trying to profit at that rate will gorge themselves right out of business. You can't put entertainment on a production line basis.
– Edgar Bergen
My friend Charlie McCarthy is, of course, much more of a celebrity than he was 13 years ago... They wanted to see McCarthy: striped pants, monocle, derby and Bergen's bald head. If that had happened in radio, the reaction would have been slow, diffused and debatable. I wouldn't learn anything from an audience sitting in a broadcasting studio in Hollywood, because those people all are in my business.
– Edgar Bergen
There's no business like show business.
– Irving Berlin
I walked out of the show business in 1968 because I thought that would be good for the family. It took me some time to decide but I wanted to spend more time with my wife and two daughters who were always beside me. I wanted to do everything I could for them.
– Pete Best
The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.
– Rudolf Bing
I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.
– Michael Bloomberg
Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.
– Erma Bombeck
War is the business of barbarians.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
– Ray Bradbury
You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.
– Gerald Brenan
The only reason this country is different from any place else is that once in a great while, this huge, snobbish, generally untalented news reporting business stops covering stories of interest only to itself and actually serves the public.
– Jimmy Breslin
One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.
– Charlotte Bronte
Some people have a tendency to get knocked down in this business and sulk and whine, and they just create a rod for their back, really. You have to have broad shoulders and get through it.
– Pierce Brosnan
We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.
– Aaron Brown
The world is still the world according to the New York Times business section. It's all about mergers, the Dow. But there's a movement coming. And capitalism is definitely shaky now. It's shaky because it's based on insatiable desires in a biologically limited world.
– Jerry Brown
The reason I'm in this business, I assume all performers are - it's Look at me, Ma! It's acceptance, you know - Look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma. And if your mother watches, you'll show off till you're exhausted; but if your mother goes, Ptshew!
– Lenny Bruce
There's always a great deal of business to be transacted in one's office. There are always visitors it seems to me, an unending stream of them, who come with letters of recommendation, or come actually on substantive business.
– David Bruce
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
It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to discover a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing.
– Warren E. Burger
Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.
– Edmund Burke
Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.
– Leo Burnett
If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing business at all.
– Leo Burnett
The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders.
– Leo Burnett
What helps people, helps business.
– Leo Burnett
Soloing is serious business, because you can be seriously dead.
– John Bachar
In the business of portrait photography, one must combine the artist and the craftsman.
– Louis Fabian Bachrach