Business Quotes

I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.

The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.

I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.

I take my personal upkeep real seriously; my sense of organization and attention to detail; my memory; my business - I love the business.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

My business has doubled in ways I couldn't have imagined.

Even if the chef has a good business head, his focus should be behind kitchen doors. A business partner should take care of everything in front of the kitchen doors.

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.

It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc.

Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

When you raise taxes on small business, from 35% to 40%, you will kill jobs.

Probably a mistake, you know, that people make in America, to think that all great chefs are a male... I'm still the only male in the family who went into that business.

Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.

The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.

We need comprehensive reform that will make America the best place in the world to invest and do business.

This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency and at an accelerated pace.

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

Foxes was a movie that didn't do a lot of business but it didn't do too badly critically and eventually they offered me other things. The interesting thing was that next I tried a film called Star Man, which Michael Douglas was producing.

To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels.

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

Oh, what a day-to-day business life is.

Inflation is lower and more stable and the real business cycle fluctuations are more modest.

The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.

I'm sure it's not great fun for them, or for any parent, when their child says they want to be an actor, 'cos it's quite an uncertain business and it can be terribly hard for most actors.

I'm definitely not getting married. In this business, you're either getting married or they want you to be pregnant. I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.

Carpe per diem - seize the check.