Business Quotes

It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

I believe that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business... my business!

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

Washington has to become an ally of business, not the opposition of business.

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.

I think that if you can achieve a balance, then you appease a lot of yourself and your career and what it takes to maintain in this business for a while.

If we want to secure the best jobs in the future, we must make America the best place in the world to do business.

I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the City of Boston.

The basic principle which I believe has contributed more than any other to the building of our business as it is today, is the ownership of our company by the people employed in it.

The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.

The one thing a lifetime in the newspaper business teaches you is pace - you spend all your time trying to make sure that the reader's going to finish what you're writing.

People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'

Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.

As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business.

The sex element is the most important in the business. You must sell sex.

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

But then, you know, I'm very happy, I've got to this stage in my life and I'm not dead. I haven't got married and divorced and done all that palimony business, you know all that mess.

The worst thing in this business is to be thought of as a no-talent.

I want to tell my jokes. I want to have time with my children. I want to entertain people. And at one point, I'll walk away from show business. But I don't want to walk away empty-handed.

Politics is a highly tribal business.

I'm in the business to push it. I'm not likely to be attracted to characters I've already done.

No one has any idea what's next... the uncertainty of the business climate in America is frightening, frightening to everybody, and it's delaying the recovery.

When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom.

If the power goes out, business stops... whether you sell roses or you're a big manufacturer.

In show business, if you make a mistake, you can do it over again.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.