Business Quotes

I struggled for 15 years in this business before Miami Vice came along.

The automotive corporations, including Ford, I think are in the business of trying to make cars that people will drive.

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

Along with our friends in the GCC, the first order of business is stability. Beyond the imperative of stability, the most important priority is job creation for all Bahrainis.

I'm grateful I've got my mind. I can take care of my own business.

You're not going to build private-sector jobs if you don't like business people.

It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

I love this company. I don't know how it was selected. It's a bunch of machers. They mean business.

We're going to march on Washington with a host of Republicans, Democrats, business leaders, legislators.

I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck.

And at that point, I think my experience in covering the subject helped me. I think editors felt comfortable with the idea of me telling this story because I had demonstrated that I know this business pretty well.

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

When I started in the business, I was told I had three good years in me.

Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person.

Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.

It's still a bottom-line business. You can be out of control, and if they want you, they'll pick you. And you can be a mensch, and if you're not the product they want, you won't get it.

The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.

I don't have more money. I won't have more money than any of the candidates, even the Republican candidates. We know that already. But we are building this campaign team like I would build a business. And that is, we are building it so far with no debt.

One thing I've learned about his business is this whole 'plan thing' - it doesn't work.

We have to spend a lot more time training people to be good advocates of U.S. business.

We need a new British business bank with a clean balance sheet and an ability to expand lending rapidly to the manufacturers, exporters and high-growth companies that power our economy. Today I can announce we will have one.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog.

If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.

Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls.

Any work that's worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That's true if you're running a business, it's true if you're trying to help on a campaign.

In my column series "The Main Thing," I often talk about how Internet technology can improve the way people communicate - both within a business and between a business and its customers and partners.

I would like to work with anyone in the business who wants to give respect back to the Jamaican vibe.