Business Quotes

Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable.

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.

Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs.

If my daughter wants to get into this business, I would support that decision. She's going to have a hard time not being in it. She loves food and she's around it all the time.

In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

Believe me when I say that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business. My business.

The business is a very tricky obstacle course, and you should be very clear about work begetting work. If you're not working, you're not interesting.

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

My business is not to show anybody anything; my job is just to do it.

There's nobody in show business that I dislike so I wouldn't want to get in there to hurt anybody.

Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.

That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.

Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox.

A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

If our republican form of government is perishing because communications - the infrastructure of that republic - is under the yoke of international business how, at last, do we save it? We must build a confrontational movement to reclaim our democracy, a movement committed to active and sustained protest against the present order.

You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.

Nobody has wrestled everybody in the business like I have, especially not Bret Hart.

Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

Politics is just show business for ugly people.

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

One of the things I've really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are. Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.

I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side.

When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?

The film business has changed so dramatically from when I started.

I remember that Jack Lemmon, who is one of my favorite actors of all time, says that the day he stops being nervous is the day he should leave the business.

Consequently, a young business often grows by large percentages. Mature businesses rarely do.