Business Quotes

There was a time when the contractual relationship between the employer and the employee was supposed to be none of the public's business. That time has passed.

The jewelry business is a very, very tough business - tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers.

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs.

I started in the restaurant business at the age of 19 as a waitress. I loved the atmosphere and the camaraderie of the restaurant business. I loved not having to go to an office. I loved making people happy.

Like any business, the oil industry runs on the basic premise of supply and demand. The more supply - the lower the price. The higher the demand - the higher price. In other words, the more people who can buy oil, the higher the price of oil.

Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science.

If I've learned anything in this business, it's that you have to be fearless.

If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they're receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole so that it's not counting as corporate income, that is what this is counting as a small business.

All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.

I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.

There's a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can't write. It's a big business.

In six short years, small business owners and family farmers will once again be assessed a tax on the value of their property at the time of their death, despite having paid taxes throughout their lifetime.

I do not believe that the government is in any position to say exactly how every single business and every single activity shall reach those performances.

That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

I never want to discourage anyone who chooses the arts as a path because it's hard enough to make it in this business or even get ahead.

We are going through tough economic times but things are looking up, and the indicators are improving not only for large corporations but also for small business.

Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I enjoy is running the business.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

In a system where the cost of care is hidden by taxes levied on your income, property, and business activities, it is no wonder why so many Americans rely on Medicaid to pay their long term care.

Business must be the solution, not the problem.

Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company, which was obviously a rather successful enterprise.

I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies.

It is important to remember that all business has an impact on the lives of real people.

In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships.

I'm quitting the business today. I'm going to open up an appliance store, I've always really been into toasters. I'm giving it all up.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.