Business Quotes

At 13, I realized that I could fix anything electronic. It was amazing, I could just do it. I started a business repairing radios. It grew to be one of the largest in Philadelphia.

I've made upwards of a million bucks in the cops-and-robbers business.

Well, as a former small businessperson - I understand what's going on, I think in the business community. And businesspeople around the country are looking at all the spending and all the debt. They're looking at all the policies coming out of this Congress and this administration the last two years, and they - it's created all this uncertainty.

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.

I think in just about any business the low cost competitor is always going to have an advantage.

I predict that many teams will go out of business and the size of the leagues will be greatly reduced.

I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.

I love every aspect of show business and that includes both the show part of it and the business part of it.

We have to be a state where business is welcome and jobs are created. We have to demand value for what is spent and we need to continue to resist a lottery.

A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.

Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.

The music business can be very cold. And it doesn't honor its elders.

My theory is, if you can do comedy and you can be in a scene with someone like Brad Garrett and hold your own, you've really got a future in this business.

When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to go to Paris to do it. So I went there and that's how I really got into the music business. But I didn't like what I was doing when I got there, so I left, and I never did a record there.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

I see no business in life but the work of Christ.

Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?

Everything about it worked, and I don't mean just the movie, but in our experience, we realized there's also a component of luck involved in this business. We had absolutely the most competent people in the studio working on the release and ad campaign.

If an Internet company steals content, they shut it down. And let me tell you, Apple France, Yahoo France or Google France, none of them have gone out of business.

I hate how I've had the mantle set on my shoulders as being against the record label. We've had some issues, but that is the nature of business.

It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

I absolutely love what I do and thank my lucky stars for twenty-five years of full-time employment in this business.

I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera.

Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.

The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.

Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind.

So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!

Business today consists in persuading crowds.