Quotes about: business

Of course this is Vegas and it is the melting pot for all over the world, but people from all over the world know Donny and Marie. It is amazing. I have been in the business a long time to realize careers can be fleeting. Five years is a long career nowadays for some people, and here we are still going strong after 40 years.
– Donny Osmond
Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists.
– Jerry Saltz
Obamacare has got everyone on edge. I mean, small business - men and women or big business are sitting out there saying we have no idea what this is going to cost, but we know it's going to cost us and cost us a lot.
– Rick Perry
Nowadays it seems more and more like the 'business' in 'show business' is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it's all part of getting people in to see the movies.
– Jeff Bridges
Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science.
– Arthur Machen
Now I know that Wal-Mart's policies do not reflect the best way of doing business and the values that I think are important in America.
– Hillary Clinton
Nothing drew me to the film business. I was propelled by the fear and anxiety of Vietnam. I had been drafted into the Marines. My brother was already serving in Vietnam. I bought, if you will, a stay of execution - both literally and figuratively - and went on to graduate school of business from the law school that I was attending.
– Peter Guber
Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.
– John Sununu
Not since the digital revolution in the early '90s has technology placed such a comprehensive burden on business, employees and individuals to reinvent their business plans, services and products, and themselves to keep pace with the changing marketplace.
– Simon Mainwaring
Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.
– William Feather
Nobody has wrestled everybody in the business like I have, especially not Bret Hart.
– Ric Flair
No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.
– J. K. Rowling
No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
– Samuel Beckett
No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.
– Jim Valvano
No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.
– Florence Scovel Shinn
No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community.
– Marco Rubio
Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't.
– Marc Andreessen
Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
– Ulrich Beck
Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.
– Carter G. Woodson
My whole family's been in the business. My whole family is crazy.
– Blake Lively
My whole family actually, but my parents. I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business and I still have stuff to do at their house.
– Kaley Cuoco
My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.
– Tony Blair
My strengths as a businessman lie in the design and sale of women's shoes, and I have never been comfortable with complicated or technical legal or business documents.
– Steve Madden
My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.
– Sara Blakely
My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.
– Phyllis Diller
My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.
– Harry Houdini
My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.
– Anthony Hopkins
My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.
– James Denton
My parents were both in show business. My father was an actor, my mom an actress, and both singers, dancers and actors. They met in Los Angeles doing a play together and so I grew up in a show biz family.
– Micky Dolenz
My parents started a business out of the living room of our home and, 30-plus years later, it was a multimillion dollar company. So, President Obama, with all due respect, don't tell me that my parents didn't build their business.
– Nikki Haley
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
– Benjamin Disraeli
My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.
– Rachael Ray
My mom has always said that if I get a big head, she'll take me out of this business as quickly as I got into it.
– Chloe Moretz
My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn't the end-all. They weren't out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about 'What can we do as a family.'
– Candace Cameron Bure
My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
– Barbara Corcoran
My home has always been show business.
– Sammy Davis, Jr.
My goal is to get another 30 years out of this business. So I need to figure out the fuel to do that. And so far, I think it's respect and quality and company, not celebrity or box office or stardom. It's not a sprinter's approach. It's more like a long-distance thing. You can stick around a lot longer if you kind of slow-play it.
– Jason Bateman
My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business.
– Nicholas Negroponte
My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, okay, if I really focus and become a key player in business, then I can build an empire.
– Nicki Minaj
My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge.
– Randy Quaid
My father was an inspiration to me I made a few movies with him and I loved working with him. Everything about him - his whole approach to work, as well as his love, enthusiasm and respect for it and other people in the business - was inspiring. I was very lucky to have him as a role model.
– Hayley Mills
My fastest time in high school was a 4:29 mile. I think cross-country has something to do with my longevity in my business. When you're in an eight-mile race, you never give up.
– Alice Cooper
My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.
– Woodrow Wilson
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.
– Bob Balaban
My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.
– Bob Balaban
My dad knows the business, and he tells me I've got to do what's best for me.
– Jamie Redknapp
My dad is very successful in his business. He's always been big in having hobbies and having little ways to get away. He always made time for hunting and fishing. He always encouraged me to do it.
– Luke Bryan
My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He's my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me.
– Gary Vaynerchuk
My dad has been a big influence on me, because he's always had his own business. He really taught me business sense and how to be a focused individual, but also how to have fun and make everyone around you have fun.
– Wiz Khalifa
My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business.
– Kim Cattrall
My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn't doing this I'd be making documentaries about wildlife and other subjects that interest me.
– John Cleese
My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business.
– John Searle
My business doesn't keep me warm at night.
– Bethenny Frankel
My business is the enforcement of the tax laws and the integrity of the tax code and making sure that trustees of charitable giving are true trustees.
– Chuck Grassley
My business is to prevent the future.
– Ray Bradbury
My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
– Thomas Huxley
My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.
– Melinda Gates
My approach to cutting spending as president, is to do a ten percent across the board cut of all federal agencies, and then ask each of my new agency heads to find another ten percent by drilling down. That's what you do in business to come up with approximately 20 percent cuts for the first fiscal year budget.
– Herman Cain
My agent says that I'm a 'repeat business guy.' If you hire me to come do a movie, I'll be on time, know all my material, be ready to go, have a good attitude. I'm here to work, so I get hired over and over again by the same producers. If you just be a team player on set you can work so much more often.
– Dean Cain
Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do.
– Bob Geldof
Music and the music business are two different things.
– Erykah Badu
Movies are an expensive business.
– Albert Brooks
Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That's not a criticism they're passionate about cutting hair or cooking food, and that's why they got in the business, not because they have an MBA.
– Andrew Mason
Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.
– Doug Coupland
Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don't really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don't really have very high, cultured conversations.
– Helena Bonham Carter
Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company.
– Ornette Coleman
Most employees want to be involved in a successful business and most employees are happy for people running successful businesses to be paid a reasonable wage and a market rate for it, provided they understand the reason. What they hate most of all is pay for failure.
– Stuart Rose
Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I enjoy is running the business.
– Rupert Murdoch
Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.
– Ayrton Senna
Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.
– Paul Ryan
Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.
– Ethel Waters
Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.
– Ethel Merman
Millions have been taken from me. If you are not on top of it and you make a lot of money, and you trust business managers, then, yes, money will be taken from you.
– Stephanie Mills
Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.
– Steve Jobs
Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food on the table, making sure everybody's socks match, the soccer gear is ready. I admire idealists, but they're usually enabled by someone who holds the tether on their balloon, who pays the bills and sweeps up after them.
– Geraldine Brooks
McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.
– Dave Eggers
Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families.
– Melissa Bean
Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.
– Stephen Fry
Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.
– Erykah Badu
Magic is the oldest part of the show business profession. It can now be used as a forward-thinking tool to build a child's confidence. It has been an amazing part in many entertainers' lives, including Steve Martin and the late Johnny Carson.
– Criss Angel
Luckily, my husband is my business partner as well as my life partner, so I never had to do the heavy lifting alone, literally or figuratively.
– Josie Maran
Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.
– Stendhal
Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.
– Venus Williams
Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult - it's the beast that must be fed. There's this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.
– Julia Roberts
Look, the media are trapped by changes in the technology and business of their industry.
– David Frum
Look, if I ever stop being grateful for gigs, I just need to stop. Because this business is... you know, it's just so kind of job-to-job, and the fact that I've continued working... I'm just incredibly thankful for it. And I never, ever take it for granted.
– Tony Hale
Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.
– Francis Ford Coppola
Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
– Ralph Nader
Like everybody in show business, you think you're going to wake up one day, and it's all going to be taken away from you. I think we all share an insecurity in that way, everybody in show business - the ones I talk to, anyway.
– Rod Stewart
Like any business, the oil industry runs on the basic premise of supply and demand. The more supply - the lower the price. The higher the demand - the higher price. In other words, the more people who can buy oil, the higher the price of oil.
– Ron Wyden
Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening to gospel band, The Blind Boys of Alabama. Hearing their lead singer Clarence made me connect the idea of church and show business and see how I could make a career singing music that stirred the soul.
– Daryl Hall
Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.
– Anita Brookner
Libraries function as crucial technology hubs, not merely for free Web access, but those who need computer training and assistance. Library business centers help support entrepreneurship and retraining.
– Scott Turow
Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.
– Herbert Hoover
Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Kids are brought into show business because they are cute and see truth and they're very bright. But there's a sense of doing it because you want the adults to be approving of you. You want to make them happy.
– Anna Chlumsky
Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
– Plato
Just really, really believe in what you're trying to do. Don't let people alter that. Let people advise you and lead you down paths to make smart business decisions. But trust your instinct and trust that overwhelming drive that made you put all your dreams and everything on the line.
– Luke Bryan
Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.
– Edward Norton
Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.
– Twyla Tharp