Business Quotes

Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.

My fastest time in high school was a 4:29 mile. I think cross-country has something to do with my longevity in my business. When you're in an eight-mile race, you never give up.

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

IBM decided they were going to enter the copying business in 1968.

When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right.

But especially if you have the wrong people within your circle. Truthfully, at the end of the day, no one cares about you in this business whether they are your agent or your manager or your publicist.

A lot of people say I'd miss show business if I quit. I'd miss some of it. Now it's the only life I know.

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business.

The biggest disappointment has been seeing the number of people in this business with very shortsighted views.

Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.

I owe a lot to my dad, just for having provided the wrestling business for us to get into.

The older you get, and the more you're in this business, the more you kind of feel like, 'Why don't we just do it my way?'

We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!

Yeah, there was a six-year period where I was pretty much done with show business. During college and then for about two years after college.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily in the business of making controversial art.

Modeling is a lonely business... You don't speak. You don't really portray anything but an image... the business is so superfluous about dealing with the outside, it messes with your mind.

I've never considered myself a celebrity or even part of the entertainment business. I'm a cooking teacher.

I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business.

It's been a joy to be a part of other people's journey, to be able to inspire and be a part of new singers coming up in this business.

It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.

The record company really pissed me off when they told me to lose weight. I couldn't be bothered with looking a certain way. So I left the business. I don't regret it.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.

One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, let's all be friends in Washington philosophy.

After all, it's the future of business communication that we're looking toward.

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.