Business Quotes

We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.

The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit.

With a lot of kids in the business, the parents get as twisted as they do, and there's a lot of opportunities to go their own way, but anyone has that opportunity.

I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.

I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.

We love our business. We have never been more enthusiastic about cable and its future.

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

I am not in this business as a calling. I don't do what I do to right any wrongs.

There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in business, but are essential to governing, like keeping a kid in school or helping someone get and hold a job. The value of those skills can't easily be measured against a bottom line.

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

The biggest challenge for everybody to realize out there is that we're in a very complicated business world and that were all under one umbrella and it's very challenging for everybody to figure out where the priorities lie and where the loyalties lie.

Our nation stands at the crossroads of liberty. Crushing national debt, rampant illegal immigration, insane business regulations and staggering national unemployment are pushing our nation into unchartered territory.

I don't accept my business the way it is, to be honest. I don't like what it's become. I don't blame anyone for it becoming the way it has. It's got its own hideous natural progression, just like world events.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

If I was coming into the business today, I wouldn't be in it. Knowing what I know, absolutely not.

Again, talent is the real import of being in the business.

When I graduated from college I thought I was over with show business and was pursuing other things.

I traveled the state of Florida for two years campaigning. I have never met a job creator who told me that they were waiting for the next tax increase before they started growing their business. I've never met a single job creator who's ever said to me I can't wait until government raises taxes again so I can go out and create a job.

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

I guess that my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did was the biggest record that I'll ever have.

Everybody is watching you every minute anyways. If they think the message you're sending out is phony, they're going to say, 'Who does he think he is?' It's again good business. But it is also an obligation.

I've always leaned toward a feminine, funky style, even in business settings. I used to paint my nails blue in 1993, before it was mainstream.

By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.

I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.

He has a very extensive public relations apparatus that is paid for by the taxpayers of this state. They are some of the best in the business. and he is a master at getting not only television but other media exposure on the basis of confrontation and chaos.

Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box.

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.'

I started in this business on soap operas.

Films are hard to make and I think the word indulge really leads one to believe that it's an easy sort of business and it's really extremely difficult.