Business Quotes

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next.

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.

Squash was my livelihood and as in business, I had to stay on top.

Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.

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

It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either. A man of business should always have his eyes open, but must often seem to have them shut.

I came to Playboy not expecting to stay. But after five years, I found myself really enjoying the business world, and I realized I had some skill.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

I'm someone who loves to enjoy life and tries to focus on real things and real friendships. That's why I live very simply. I'm a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl. I don't spend much time fixing myself up or trying to look cool. I live like a normal person and even though I'm in a very high-profile business, I really don't let it affect the way I live.

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

I've never been in this business for the recognition or the awards. I just want to do good work, grab a decent paycheck, and move onto the next job.

Unfortunately, since the Sept. 11 tragedy, our business is not doing too well.

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

The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

The music is fun and all that, but first and foremost it is a business, it's about money.

The studios are very much business. Maybe it was always that way. It is really commercial now. Judgments are made and directions are given to make the cash register ring.

My father was adamant in his disapproval of my interest in show business.

Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.

We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

I've been in this business for years and I'm still befuddled by the ways of this town.

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

Four or five frigates will do the business without any military force.

Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many.

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.

I know what it's like to start a business. I know how extra ordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing. I know how government kills jobs and, yes, I know how it can help from time- to-time.

I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company.

As far as show business, it's the gratification of doing something that pleases the fans.