Business Quotes

The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting.

The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.

Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy.

God will forgive me; that's his business.

Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards. Wherever I go I meet innovators of wind power equipment, solar energy operators.

I think, as I've gotten older I have realized what a huge privilege it is to even be in this business. I, more than ever, love what I do.

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

The fact is that you could not be, and still cannot be, a 25-year-old homosexual trying to make it in the British film business or the American film business or even the Italian film business. It just doesn't work and you're going to hit a brick wall at some point.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

Knowing what I do now, I don't know if I'd ever have the balls to go to film school, with no connections and no knowledge of the business side at all.

This industry is 90 percent business, 10 percent talent.

Show business got really tainted for me.

And what most people don't understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business.

The battalion, the whole battalion was affected by the two killed just within a week of being there, and I think that that pulled everybody up to make them realise that this was a very serious business.

The only one that seems to be able to hold the business is Disney. They do it is because they have a fabulous philosophy about marketing- but even they wavered.

I'd get kicked out of buildings all day long, people would rip up my business card in my face. It's a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it.

I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.

I make decisions based on my work, not based on meetings with my business managers, who I don't like to meet.

I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.

I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

When I came to Congress, I came to bring what I thought was a real-world business perspective to government because, in the business world, I spent over 20 years in the high-tech industry, but it certainly was not unique.

I'm not a real social person - I'm shy - and a lot of the business is just social.

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.

You can't be halfway in this business. If you don't meet the fans, you lose all you've got.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

The business of being a popular entertainer in England is just too hard.

The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.

Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.

Business can be a source of progressive change.