Business Quotes

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

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.

The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of the nation's infrastructure.

I called my business manager in California and said, 'Sell all of my stock' - what little of it I had - and it's the only smart financial move I ever made.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

The business that people do in LA on the social level is amazing. You go to a restaurant, bump into this guy or that guy. The next day you get a call, and they want you in their movie.

I believe it is an important project, it makes the cost of doing business lower and they will make us more competitive at the same time, it will also provide some satisfaction to the people who demand services for them of the quality they want and also quickly.

But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.

The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.

Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.

Music and the music business are two different things.

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.

Business is a risk-reward proposition.

Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.

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.

I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act.

The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.

There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.

Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married.

The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I don't think it ever does any harm in any business to feel that there is someone there who cares about it. If you look at any business, fashion being the most obvious, the aura, or the reality of the designer, is part of what creates it. It's true in luxury goods stores and in good food stores. It leaves a palpable sense that someone cares.

To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.

I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.

We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.

What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what's around them.

It's a dismally lonely business, writing.

A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.

In 1989, I started the National Association of Business Women. We incorporated microfinance and different job training for women. We did a survey, with USAID, that found women lacked training, credit and information.

Lula da Silva was my hero when he was president. I Googled him so many times. The fact that he got 20 million people out of poverty... that happened by encouraging entrepreneurship, by supporting small business.

Overall, I have formed three major organizations: the National Association of Business Women, the Young Women's Leaders Network, and the Joyce Banda Foundation. Under the foundation, we have a huge program that targets women to teach them about HIV and other diseases and to give them economic empowerment.

If bad things are going to be said about me, I have to bear that. If I don't understand that it's part of being in show business, then I'd better go work in a bank.

You have got to have an agent. It's a business. But I think there is a way to be artful and commercial at the same time.

I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work for him in his business.

Another friend hired me to open doors for him in the moving and relocation business. I did that for 10 years, am still doing it. And I do some work for the Cubs, in community relations.

Mr. Wrigley believed in this: Put all your eggs in one basket and watch the basket. They don't do that today. This is the old-fashioned way I'm talking about. He carried it on to his business. Do one thing and stay with it.

We got extremely lucky. It's a tough business to work with.

I'm trying to build a strong business. I want to create new stars, new shows and new products for my audience and create a legacy that outlives me. There are so many other ways I want to reach women besides doing a talk show.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

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.

War is the business of barbarians.

My business is to prevent the future.

In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.

In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

Sometimes I wish I didn't have somebody in my family who's in the business.

When I was 17-years-old, I was in the music business.