Business Quotes

In the business world, lower profits reflect less demand for your product. But in government the opposite is true - demand for our services increases in hard times.

I believe we're the party of small business.

There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area, all of them formed by MIT faculty and all had gone public.

I don't really think that there is anyone in the modern pop business who I feel I want to spar with.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.

My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business.

I didn't go into this business to do action because I'm a classically trained actor. But I'm good at kicking and punching.

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.

Confidence is everything in this business.

We don't have titles on our business cards. No one really gets any special treatment. No one gets a corner office to put pictures of their family and their dog in.

He works his business and manipulates and keeps himself in front of the world.

Leave the President's family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help.

Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these puppy mills out of business.

I'm in the retail business, not the circus business.

Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city.

I'll never forget that show season. It was completely mad. I was staying between Christy and Naomi's rooms and it was all limos and the Ritz Hotel and all that kind of business.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?

Nobody wants to open a business near a Superfund site and risk being sued.

To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.

A business is good if it gives a decent day's reward for a decent day's work, treats people decently, and gives them a voice at the top.

I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.

I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.

It's like night and day... to do business, in Europe, there is no bull, they are pretty straightforward.

My kids - even though it's a family business - they don't even know what day or time 'Survivor' is even on. They just know it's on TiVo.

Maybe I should quit the business. There's no one left for me to love. Mama's dead. Mr. Burns couldn't care less about me. What's left?