Business Quotes

My business is hurting people.

The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you're always asked to do what you've already done.

Most venture capitalists won't read a business plan unless the entrepreneur is introduced to them by a contact.

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

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out.

But you don't get into a business because of personal tastes.

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.

With the permanent elimination of this tax, farmers and business owners will have the sense of security they need to plan for the financial future of their business or farm and their family.

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.

No one on his deathbed ever said, I wish I had spent more time on my business.

Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

I want my testimony to stand on that point. But I would point out that Zona Research Inc. showed we have increased market share among business users, educational users, and government users over the past several months - and that's more recent than the IDC report.

So many people comment that I'm much more mature than average. In this business, you can get taken advantage of if you're not aware and you're not tough.

We have to make America the best place in the world to do business.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

I think a book is your calling card, your business card.

Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.

I've had 79 to 80 years of show business. I started when I was 5 with a man called Tom Mix. I didn't have time to go to school because I was in silent movies, I was in radio, I was in burlesque, I worked with the circus. I'm all show business!

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever.

Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.

You have to be a little unreal to be in this business.

I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.