Quotes about: business

I thought she'd [her mother] offer me some sympathy. Instead, she said, 'Don't you ever call me crying again! You wanted to be in this business, so you better toughen up!' And I did.
– Jennifer Lopez
Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.
– Al Lopez
I really always felt that I was going to be an actress. I had a lot of confidence in the fact that I would do well from a very early age. I didn't know how tough the business is.
– Susan Lucci
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
– Henry R. Luce
Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers.
– Henry R. Luce
Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.
– Henry R. Luce
You gotta get up early in the morning to mess with me. I mean, I'm a businessman first-you gotta let the business come before the music, because it's all about being a good person and your ego can't get bigger than yourself and the things you're your trying to do, especially when you're promoting an album. So I feel it's real important to be businesslike in anything I do.
– Ludacris
Oh, what a day-to-day business life is.
– Jules Laforgue
Movie making is the slowest business on earth next to fossil manufacture.
– Aaron Latham
We're making a major move of the Internet, and runway.polo.com is a natural extension of both polo.com and our collection business.
– Ralph Lauren
In this business, you can never wash the dinner dishes and say they are done. You have to keep doing them constantly.
– Mary Wells Lawrence
A politician taking campaign money from gamblers in Nevada is like one taking campaign money from the auto people in Michigan. Gambling is our legal business.
– Paul Laxalt
A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.
– Michael Leboeuf
Mainstream films have occupied Hollywood, but you can get bored very easily. It can be very repetitive, and I think now we want something fresh and something inspiring and different, daring. The mainstream film is very expensive to make and it scares people. It's made for the worldwide audience, you have to please so many people, and the business men start running the movies rather than artists.
– Ang Lee
I have been plodding away at this business for a very long time now. More often not so much facing danger, as resistance, disinformation, stubborn deception or just plain indifference that took a certain insistence and determination to overcome.
– Flora Lewis
In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death.
– Sam Llewelyn
Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.
– Mario Vargas Llosa
I only am in this business because I enjoy it. I think that is the only way to be in the business.
– Jake Lloyd
Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.
– Peter Lynch
The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.
– Archibald MacLeish
There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.
– Norman Mailer
No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.
– Orison Swett Marden
The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.
– Orison Swett Marden
It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc.
– Roger Maris
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
– Don Marquis
If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.
– Thurgood Marshall
Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.
– Steve Martin
I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.
– Steve Martin
Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
– Karl Marx
People say we are survivors but I don't see us as survivors of anything. We are still here, there's nothing that's come and tried to dislodge us. We just go about our business.
– Dave Mason
Business is a combination of war and sport.
– Andre Maurois
Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.
– Willie Mays
Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower.
– Phyllis McGinley
Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community.
– Marshall McLuhan
The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.
– Marshall McLuhan
You have no business being sick-every one of you should get well and get up and go to work, huh? Get up and go to work and earn some money and help send the gospel out! Amen!
– Aimee Semple McPherson
If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.
– Bernard Meltzer
The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.
– George Michael
There's no doubt about it, show business lures the people who didn't get enough love, attention, or approval early in life and have grown up to become bottomless, gaping vessels of terrifying, abject need. Please laugh.
– Dennis Miller
What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign.
– Dennis Miller
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
– A. A. Milne
The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.
– Margaret Mitchell
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
– Michel de Montaigne
All lasting business is built on friendship.
– Alfred A. Montapert
I've really gone into business since I got the 6 string, which was like starting all over.
– Wes Montgomery
Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business.
– John Moody
From that date forward, the history of the Vanderbilt railroads has been closely identified with the House of Morgan. J.P. Morgan and his business associates became the company's financial agents, and thereafter all plans of expansion or consolidation were handled directly by them.
– John Moody
The period of six years following the consolidation of 1853 was one of great prosperity for the New York Central system, and, notwithstanding the setbacks to business caused by the panic of 1857, large dividends were continuously paid on the capita stock.
– John Moody
The subsequent history of the Vanderbilt lines is chiefly a story of business expansion and growth. From 1885 to 1893, the great panic year, the New York Central each year added to its mileage, either by merger of smaller lines or by construction.
– John Moody
When business revived in the closing years of the nineteenth century, the history of American railroads began a new chapter.
– John Moody
While the New York Central was in an ideal position for handling all traffic destined for the New England States, the Pennsylvania could control practically none of this business, as its terminals were on the wrong side of the Hudson and necessitated... the much more expensive handling of freight.
– John Moody
It really isn't anybody's business how many people we have working for us. What's offensive is that I'm portrayed as this prima donna with these sycophants telling me how great I am all the time. Yes, they do work for me, but we're working together for a higher good.
– Demi Moore
The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.
– Michael Moore
They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.
– John Viscount Morley
Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
– Van Morrison
I was a lifelong fan and a student of the wrestling business. When I got the call to come over as a consultant for that, to help with the production of a regular TV show, I was floored. It was a dream come true, like managing a football team would be for some people or whatever.
– Bob Mould
Maybe if I get off the road and stop playing with punk rock bands, there'll be a lot more records. It would probably involve me getting out of the conventional music business as we know it and heading more towards a self-sufficient, self-structured release-type thing. I wouldn't expect a regular label to keep up with the amount of stuff that I've got, or the amount of stuff I would have if I could just sit in a room and just write music.
– Bob Mould
When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right.
– Bob Mould
I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.
– Eddie Murphy
All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance.
– Bill Murray
We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business.
– Edward R. Murrow
You know, the fashion business is this legendary repository of young girls on their way to getting husbands. I really wanted to work.
– Ali MacGraw
Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.
– Ian MacKaye
Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?
– Sydney Madwed
Assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money or by teaching him a trade or by putting him in the way of business so that he may earn an honest livelihood and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding out his hand for charity. This is the highest step and summit of charity's golden ladder.
– Maimonides
I fully expect to be able to complete one more campaign goal - and that is to proudly report that signs have been erected as you enter our great state that say 'Welcome to Wild, Wonderful West Virginia: Open for Business!'
– Joe Manchin III
The neighbors could be as mad as they want, but I'm not running a business at the house. It's just a location. It will never get me out of here, because I don't have offices set up at my house, and that's what the township thinks.
– Bam Margera
F50? - The F40 still does the business.
– Nick Mason
It's against type in the sense of my background, but it's with type in the sense that I am a loner who's new to this business and sceptical about a lot of it.
– Ben McKenzie
The whole scene is very strange. It's a very strange town and a very strange business, and it has a tendency to creep me out.
– Ben McKenzie
Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.
– Scott McNealy
If the spirit of business adventure is dulled, this country will cease to hold the foremost position in the world.
– Andrew Mellon
There was absolutely no strain in marriage. Marc and I understand that this is a business. We have no problem separating our personal life with our personal life. And we have a very strong relationship.
– Rita Mero
Girls are able to reach their potential now. Once they are out of the sport, they can still continue in the business world of sports. The whole role of the female is changing. Times do change, but we still have to work through adversity and learn to live with the decisions we make.
– Debbie Meyer
Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.
– Clement Mok
I don't know of any other industry, except the movie business, that has so many stars. Every lawyer thinks he's special.
– Peter Morrison
Being in the microcomputer business is like going 55 miles an hour 3 feet from a cliff.
– George Morrow
I can still play this game at a high level; I've proven that. I want to be home. I want to be close to my family. I want to be close to my foundation and my business interests.
– Alonzo Mourning
Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.
– Martin Mull
There was a time when the contractual relationship between the employer and the employee was supposed to be none of the public's business. That time has passed.
– Frank Murphy
When I retire from tennis there are all kinds of things I want to do. I'd like to go to a business school or maybe take an artistic design course.
– Thomas Muster
We are content to place a statue of Francis of Assisi in the middle of a birdbath and let the whole business of the saints go at that.
– C. Kilmer Myers
I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.
– Ralph Nader
Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.
– Horatio Nelson
The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.
– Horatio Nelson
I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling.
– Nicholas II
I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
Four or five frigates will do the business without any military force.
– Lord North
Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
– Lord Northcliffe
When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
– Flannery O'Connor
That is the godawful thing about television today. Performers don't have any place to hit and miss. You're either in or you're out; you don't have a chance to become good at your craft. If you make three pictures in a row and they don't go over, you're out of the business.
– Donald O'Connor
Bill Moyers on PBS, he hides behind the label of objectivity. He's about as objective as Mao Zedong, all right. I mean he's a Far-Left bomb-thrower who actually runs a foundation that funds left-wing organizations. I mean the guy's a joke. Get out of the news business, Bill.
– Bill O'Reilly
Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.
– Olusegun Obasanjo
Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
– David M. Ogilvy
Everyone tries to talk you out of going to college. The consensus being that people are just gonna forget about you, you know, and that's the way the business works.
– Larisa Oleynik
To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
– Aristotle Onassis
Job creation in the 21st century economy can't be business as usual. Competition is global, and it's fierce. We must aggressively support Colorado's economic pillars. Tourism and Agriculture are superb economic generators and we are all proud of these key industries.
– Bill Owens
What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.
– Arnold Palmer
It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.
– Theodore Parker