Business Quotes

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.

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.

It's not government's business what people do in their private bedrooms.

I do that mostly because I believe that the fantasy business is in terrible trouble right now, for several reasons, not the least of which being the almost Democrat vs. Republican mentality of readers on the Internet.

I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

This is a business built on promotion. We've been giving music away to radio stations for 30 years.

If we are to succeed, we must recognize that the community redevelopment is not solely the rehabilitation of housing, or putting a mall in the business strips.

I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.