Quotes about: business

When I do concerts, because I've been in the business for a long time and certain pieces of music have become associated with me, I do some pieces from the past.
– Herbie Hancock
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
– Thomas Hardy
Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the laws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to be - and the non-necessity of it.
– Thomas Hardy
We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs.
– Stephen Harper
The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.
– Harry Harrison
Southeast Farallon will cure you of any notion of nature as pastoral. It's serious, deadly, full-time business here, none of it laid on for our amusement. That such a place should nonetheless be beautiful to us is one of the mysteries of evolution.
– John Hart
The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.
– William Hazlitt
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
– Ernest Hemingway
I love the gay community. Naturally having been in this business since I was 17, I came into contact with gay people very young in my life. To me they were always the most talented, the kindest, they have the most wicked senses of humor - I always felt comfortable. I was never threatened, ever, and I just embraced them and loved them.
– Florence Henderson
It's not my ideal place. Los Angeles is so much about Hollywood and the business is so much a part of your life. There's a different level of ego here and I don't really want that to become my daily concern. It's not a lifestyle I really want. I am still really sceptical about the whole thing and trying to remain realistic. I don't really go to any of the parties. It's not really my scene.
– Martin Henderson
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
– O. Henry
It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.
– Matthew Henry
It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.
– Katharine Hepburn
I don't consider stardom to be anything related with me. I hope that the only way this business will ever change me will be (giving me) a good life.
– Jennifer Love Hewitt
The last time I felt so confident and excited about a coming season was in 1996-the year I won my world title. There is a real air of expectancy surrounding the entire Jordan team, and I am itching to get down to business and race the new car in this weekend's curtain raiser in Melbourne.
– Damon Hill
If we're going to create the best business climate to create higher paying jobs and retain our young people, we're going to have to build a workforce prepared for the opportunities of the future.
– John Hoeven
Nowadays, business is all about productivity - and our folks produce.
– John Hoeven
I enjoy being part of the entertainment industry, although I'm the laziest person that I've met yet in this business.
– Paul Hogan
It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
– Horace
We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.
– Hubert H. Humphrey
Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
– Barry Humphries
The FBI is a fabulous crime-fighter, the best in the world, but they need to get out of the terrorism business. We need something to fight terrorism domestically that's not fighting banks. Maybe like the British MI-5.
– David Hunt
I was criticized at some level within the Republican Party by those who say government should not be in the economic development business at all. My response is that the only country I know that doesn't have an economic development plan is Papa New Guinea.
– Jon Huntsman, Jr.
It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater.
– John Hurt
Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.
– John Hurt
You've got to shout to make yourself heard in this business. It's unfortunate, but true-if you don't spell everything out in your contract, you've got only yourself to blame for the treatment you get. Otherwise, whether it's having a caravan-a dressing-room trailer-on the set each day, or whatever it is, you don't get it.
– John Hurt
They thought that I did conceive there was a difference between them and Mr. Cotton... I might say they might preach a covenant of works as did the apostles, but to preach a covenant of works and to be under a covenant of works is another business.
– Anne Hutchinson
The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.
– Aldous Huxley
Advertising has always been the Peck's Bad Boy of American business urging us to buy things we probably don't need and often can't afford.
– Andrew Hacker
The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.
– Matthew Hale
The business of government should be businesslike.
– Dorcas Hardy
'The bigtime for you is just around the corner.' They told me that first in 1952 - boy, it's been a long corner. If I don't hit the bigtime in the next 25 or 30 years, I'm gonna pack in the music business and become a full-time gigolo.
– Ronnie Hawkins
Know the business, learn the business, own something.
– Isaac Hayes
If you are in business and self-supporting you already have some kind of competitive advantage no matter how small or subtle.
– Bruce Henderson
If the business community and political elite want to go to war they find it easy to mobilize domestic consent.
– Edward S. Herman
All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.
– William Hewlett
I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now, so I consider myself one of the lucky ones. If I didn't think that, there would be something wrong with me. I'm grateful and thankful for what I've got.
– Philip Seymour Hoffman
There's also the fickleness of the business and the fickleness of this country. It's like everyone loves people to go down and go up again, and then go down again. It's the way the business stays afloat, in a weird way.
– Philip Seymour Hoffman
I feel like I almost didn't grow up in the business, because my parents worked so hard at sheltering us from that. I was raised in Connecticut. And I honestly wasn't aware that my dad was a celebrity until I moved to Los Angeles a year ago.
– Bryce Dallas Howard
All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.
– Richard Hughes
Putting a fighter in the business world is like putting silk stockings on a pig.
– Jack Hurley
If I would be in this business for business, I wouldn't be in this business.
– Sol Hurok
It is not good business to be just a non-news station.
– Mark Hyman
I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
– Henrik Ibsen
Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.
– Washington Irving
When I first started in the music business, I became estranged from my family and friends. Now I can enjoy a stress-free environment, be in control of my music and not have to worry about what's going on behind my back, because I'm surrounded by my people.
– Cheryl James
You gotta have fun. Regardless of how you look at it, we're playing a game. It's a business, it's our job, but I don't think you can do well unless you're having fun.
– Derek Jeter
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves-to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.
– Stewart B. Johnson
In business, as most of it is constituted today, a man becomes valuable only as he recognizes the relation of his work to that of all his associates. One worker more or less makes little difference to most big organizations, and any man may be replaced. It is the cumulative effort that counts.
– W. Alton Jones
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
– Helen Keller
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.
– Edward Kennedy
We must get into the picture business. This is a new industry and a gold mine. it looks like another telephone industry.
– Joseph P. Kennedy
Whenever you're sitting across from some important person, always picture him sitting there in a suit of long red underwear. That's the way I always operated in business.
– Joseph P. Kennedy
It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business.
– Robert Francis Kennedy
More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
– Rose Kennedy
In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.
– Victor Kiam
You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.
– Victor Kiam
Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.
– Larry King
I can't believe what I said about myself. What I said in my own private conversations with myself to an ESPN producer are my business, and I had no business saying them to someone else.
– Don King
We need young farmers to buy land, enter the business and stay in our rural communities to raise their families. One of the most difficult challenges for beginning farmers is gaining access to adequate capital. As farming changes, we need to update the programs to meet the loan needs of those that are contemplating a farming career.
– Steve King
The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.
– Charles Kingsley
Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work.
– Ben Kingsley
There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.
– Philip Knight
My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education.
– John Knowles
If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.
– Ray Kroc
We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.
– Ray Kroc
It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.
– Louis Kronenberger
I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful filmmaker-in that a number of people speak well of me. But none of my films have received unanimously positive reviews, and none have done blockbuster business.
– Stanley Kubrick
Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.
– Milan Kundera
Years of training mean absolutely nothing. it's a disgusting, despicable business, and you should all know what you're up against.
– Robert Kass
Business is like sex. When it's good, it's very, very good; when it's not so good, it's still good.
– George Katona
I try to please people, to give them a good time, but I refuse to make my act conform to traditional show-biz standards of entertainment. There's a little voice that says, 'Oh, no, you can't do that, that's breaking all the rules.' That's the voice of show business. Then this other little voice says, 'Try it.' And most of the time, when the voice comes on and says, 'No,' that's the time it works.
– Andy Kaufman
Our business here is revelation. To reveal those objects Americans have kept on purpose in ways that permit them to be freshly perceived.
– Roger G. Kennedy
I'm very leery of show business, having been in Los Angeles for the last 10 years. Buzz is a dangerous thing that I've heard applied to a lot of people that I've since not heard of again.
– Greg Kinnear
When I started over 10 years ago, the business wasn't like it is today. Girls were not 12. They were a little bit older.
– Vendela Kirsebom
Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
– Grenville Kleiser
Our business practices are no different than those of our competitors, but we are bigger, and thus more visible, so we get more flack.
– Phil Knight
We're not in the fashion business, as the Wall Street Journal wrote the other day. We're in the sports business, and there's a big difference.
– Phil Knight
I like doing business in a black city.
– Yaphet Kotto
I don't think art is a goal orientated business. I don't do things for the challenges, I only do them because I love them, I'm not really a goal orientated, achiever type of person.
– Greg Lake
From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colorful past and its future.
– Mary Landrieu
I'm in the business where you get the business all the time.
– Cyndi Lauper
Anybody who has ever been in business, anybody who has ever paid bills, anybody who has ever lived in a serious adult life knows that indebtedness is a killer.
– Frank Lautenberg
I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.
– David Herbert Lawrence
I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
– David Herbert Lawrence
The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
– David Herbert Lawrence
The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers -- but to track it home.
– David Herbert Lawrence
OPEC nations openly conspire to violate the norms of our antitrust laws. And yet they expect to do business with the United States and to continue to reap the benefits of this relationship.
– Senator Patrick Leahy
Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
– Fran Lebowitz
All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all. I am just like everybody else.
– Vladimir Lenin
I would like to probably have my own business. I haven't decided in what areas - maybe a spa. I like a day spa, something like that. Always giving back to women. Or big shoes because there's a huge market there. People have big feet now. Start at maybe size 10 and end at 15 with some really nice, fashionable shoes.
– Lisa Leslie
I'll still be in school in-season. It's a big challenge for me, but I've learned so much already from just the business side of the Sparks organization as well as the WNBA organization.
– Lisa Leslie
If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.
– Abraham Lincoln
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
– Abraham Lincoln
As my mother and 1 were alone in the world, and as I was to be a business man, it was decided that I had better not waste time in going to college.
– Joseph C. Lincoln
There are men - now in power in this country - who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit.
– John V. Lindsay
The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.
– Walter Lippmann
It's been busier than ever I guess they were having a going-out-of-business sale.
– David Livingstone
For the past 32 years, I've done nothing outside the entertainment business. I've had some real highs and some real lows, but I love the work so much that I never once thought of quitting.
– Meat Loaf
Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.
– Anita Loos