Business Quotes

I hope the business sense that artists like Jay-Z and Nelly are showing rubs off on the young players. I want somebody to stand up and say, Look, these kids got it going on. We want to be a part of them.

Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.

At that time, the people that were in the animated film business were mostly guys who were unsuccessful newspaper cartoonists. In other words, their ability to draw living things was practically nil.

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.

Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.

I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody.

No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

I've been talking to certain wrestlers on the phone lately, and certain female wrestlers that were huge stars ten years ago, and the first thing I ask them is 'do you still want to work?' Do they want to talk, or do they want to wrestle or do something else in the business?

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

There are too many games being developed by people that have no business creating games.

It's very eclectic, the way one chooses subjects in the movie business, especially in the commercial movie business. You need to develop material yourself or material is presented to you as an assignment to direct.

Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.

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.'

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.

It's the most ridiculous business to be in. It's full of people who have never grown up.

That business of relaxation, which is so terribly modern today, is all good and well, but my work interests me so much, and is so varied, that many times it seems relaxing when I go from one aspect to another.

The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

In a business, you've got to move on.

This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.

If I get married, it's something you really have to work at. It's hard enough to work at having a relationship with best friends and girls that are in the business.

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.

When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is not a bad thing. Letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary is not a bad thing.

Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.

When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun!

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home.

The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.

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.

If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.