Business Quotes

I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it's so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business.

Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.

One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.

Well, California used to be in the dream-making business, and unfortunately what's happened I think we're now in the dream-breaking business.

The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

As you grow up and get educated in the business, you go from, 'I want to do movies' to 'I want to work. In whatever.'

For me I'm a luxury brand trying to prove to people and the industry that it's not about being a TV celebrity in any which way, it's about being a designer and having a business and being successful at that.

We will probably always be in business together.

A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts.

I guess I've never really been aggressive, although almost everybody else in show business fights and gouges and knees to get where they want to be.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

We're no longer a small business; we're a large organization spread around the world. I can't imagine Netscape growing as fast as it has if it weren't for the way we use our products.

The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'

I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.

Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.

In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.

We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs.

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

I don't think business news is just for old white men with money.

It's been an extraordinary journey. I have learned so much along the way. I entered the modeling industry as a business person already. I always knew I belonged on the other side of the camera.

Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.

How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to be true for most people in this business, what could I possibly tell them that they don't already know?

If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff.

Once you understand business models you can then start prototyping business models just like you prototype products.

In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business.

A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

Business is more exciting than any game.

It's been a rollercoaster ride. There have been some great moments and some low points... like when I was leaving Stax. That's when I actually thought of getting out of the business.