Business Quotes

I suppose that by being absent from the music business, it appeared that I just dropped out, but really I never did. I was continuously working and doing various things.

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.

In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything.

Some of the greatest actors have turned superheroes into a serious business: Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson in 'Batman'; Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, the first venerable knights of the X-Men, who have now passed the baton to Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age.

I never had tons of friends on tour. I was quiet and went about my business.

If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.

When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym - I chose the gym.

A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.

I'm a committed Christian. I worship in my own way. That's my business. That's not the business of the pharisees who are going to preach to me about what I do and then do something else.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

Everybody would love to be mayor of Chicago. If you look at what we have done over many, many years and where we are today and the commitment by the business community, the commitment by the not-for-profit community - all this coming together - this is a wonderful city.

I don't hang out with agents and producers and I'm not into the business side at all.

Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Being properly prepared is one of the biggest assets in business and in athletic competition.

The movie business is very twisted, out of site, out of mind, you know.

After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.

Business is in itself a power.

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.