Quotes about: business

I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people.
– Kevin Costner
I believe in incentivizing people. If you can incentivize people in anything, whether it's in politics in life in spirituality in business just take care of folks. Incentivize them and all of a sudden it's amazing the difference that you'll see.
– Zachary Levi
I believe Business Objects is on the cusp of becoming a multi-billion-dollar sales company. There is tremendous growth potential for business intelligence.
– Bernard Liautaud
I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life.
– Dick Schaap
I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal,' the 'New York Times,' constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.
– Barbara Corcoran
I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.
– Rutherford B. Hayes
I am kind of a private person, so I don't miss that part of show business at all. Looking back on my career in television and making a movie like 'The Sound of Music' from an adult point of view, it actually seems kind of unreal. I was involved in shows that people grew up with - that hold memories for them - and it's a cool feeling.
– Angela Cartwright
I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.
– Cameron Diaz
I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.
– Ron Paul
I am interested in a lot of things - not just show business and my passion for animals. I try to keep current in what's going on in the world. I do mental exercises. I don't have any trouble memorizing lines because of the crossword puzzles I do every day to keep my mind a little limber. I don't sit and vegetate.
– Betty White
I am excited to rise today to support National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day. This celebration honors the husband and wife business owner teams whose work helps drive the economy and fuel job growth.
– Melissa Bean
I am especially grateful that I have been able to keep my own style over the decades, in spite of the many changes that have taken place in the world of fashion and in its business.
– Valentino Garavani
I am co-writing a screenplay now and I'm working on the rights to another story I want to do. So I plan to produce and direct. So, for me, I don't really feel that I am vulnerable to that sad baggage that comes with the business of filmmaking.
– Kerry Washington
I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.
– Sylvester Stallone
I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.
– Rihanna
I always wanted to be a zookeeper when I was growing up, and I've wound up a zookeeper! I've been working with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years! I'm the luckiest old broad on two feet because my life is divided absolutely in half - half animals and half show business. You can't ask for better than two things you love the most.
– Betty White
I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.
– Jesse Ventura
How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they've got that great business idea.
– Mark Burnett
How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to be true for most people in this business, what could I possibly tell them that they don't already know?
– Marlee Matlin
How do you explain the bond between man and wife? Well, for one thing, it's private. What people do in their own marriage is their own business.
– Robin Gibb
Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!
– Robin Williams
Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.
– E. W. Howe
Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.'
– Carly Fiorina
Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.
– Kevin Mitnick
Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.
– Caitlin Rose
Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.
– Jesse Ventura
Golf isn't just my business, it's my hobby.
– Lee Trevino
Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared.
– January Jones
God will forgive me that's his business.
– Heinrich Heine
Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.
– Rand Paul
Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.
– Marilyn Monroe
Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
– Samuel Johnson
Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.
– Eddie Bernice Johnson
Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.
– David Brainerd
Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.
– Mitt Romney
For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.
– Wilfrid Laurier
For the first time we're allowing developers who don't work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That's a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.
– Mark Zuckerberg
For me, my business is my business and my house is my house. I don't want the public in my house.
– Heidi Klum
For many my behavior has been a major disappointment, my behavior has caused considerable worry to my business partners, and everyone involved in my business, but most importantly to the young people we influence, I apologize.
– Tiger Woods
For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.
– Karl Liebknecht
For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.
– Howard Nemerov
Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends.
– Janice Dickinson
Female rappers get it the hardest. You have to be a girl, yet you have to be just as hard as the guys. I think some female rappers get scared out of the business before they can make it.
– Nicki Minaj
Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.
– Desi Arnaz
Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.
– Jeff Goodell
Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.
– Russell Baker
Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
– Venus Williams
Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.
– Bret Easton Ellis
Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.
– Clara Barton
Everybody hangs out with everybody, which is very strange for a cast this large and this young. We're all cool and down to earth and not caught up in this maniacal business at all... . Everybody really, really likes everybody else.
– Lizzy Caplan
Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.
– Barbara Corcoran
Every night, half an hour before curtain up, the bells of St. Malachy's, the Actors' Chapel on New York's 49th Street, peal the tune of 'There's No Business Like Show Business.' If you walk the streets of the theatre district before a show and see the vast, enthusiastic lines it sounds like a calling: there is certainly no place like Broadway.
– Dan Stevens
Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.
– Lee Iacocca
Eventually I booked a 2-line role on a show called 'JAG' and slowly the parts got bigger and better. I'm very thankful that I had to appreciate how difficult the business is before I had any kind of success.
– Samuel Witwer
Even though I'm a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I'm looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it.
– Gary Vaynerchuk
Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.
– Herb Ritts
Even if the chef has a good business head, his focus should be behind kitchen doors. A business partner should take care of everything in front of the kitchen doors.
– Bobby Flay
Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.
– Christopher Lasch
Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.
– Herbert Simon
Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.
– John Sununu
Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.
– Stephen Covey
Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.
– Friedrich Durrenmatt
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
– Elbert Hubbard
Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington.
– John Boehner
Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions.
– Ibrahim Babangida
Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.
– Leland Stanford
During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.
– J. Paul Getty
Don't think of yourself as a woman in business.
– Carly Fiorina
Don't solicit feedback on your product, idea or your business just for validation purposes. You want to tell the people who can help move your idea forward, but if you're just looking to your friend, co-worker, husband or wife for validation, be careful. It can stop a lot of multimillion-dollar ideas in their tracks in the beginning.
– Sara Blakely
Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all.
– Peter Singer
Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.
– Dalton Trumbo
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
– Abraham Lincoln
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
– Tom Robbins
Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.
– Margaret Sanger
Detainee policy in this war is hard, it's complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business.
– Lindsey Graham
Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity. We think 'we're all in this together' is a better philosophy than 'you're on your own.'
– William J. Clinton
Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.
– John Cusack
Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here.
– Elizabeth Arden
Dad is my best mate and I can tell Mum absolutely anything. I really appreciate Mum and Dad. Why are we so close? Young parents, I think. The rock business keeps their minds young.
– Kim Wilde
Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.
– Charlie Sheen
Currently, I am overseeing the construction of the new Trump Tower in Chicago. I am involved in meeting with the construction crews, architects and sales teams. I am learning a lot and working with some of the best in the business.
– Bill Rancic
Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.
– Jim Carrey
Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations they are there to make money.
– Benjamin Carson
Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.
– Neil Young
Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
– William Congreve
Come to West Virginia and we'll show you how to live... how to treat people. We're open for business. West Virginia is truly on the move.
– Joe Manchin III
Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.
– Maurice Sendak
By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.
– Jonathan Kozol
By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.
– Lawrence Welk
But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.
– Jodie Foster
But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.
– Erykah Badu
But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.
– Steven Soderbergh
But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. It kills the people trying to start a business.
– Marco Rubio
But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it's virtually impossible. It's very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms.
– Donald Trump
But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.
– Steve Jobs
Business practices and how we treat the planet are also in desperate need of re-humanization.
– Simon Mainwaring
Business is other people's money.
– Delphine de Girardin
Business is tough you need tough guys.
– Carlos Ghosn
Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we're going to win.
– Kevin O'Leary
Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.
– James Dyson