Business Quotes

You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance.

If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because no one can guarantee that we'll have them tomorrow.

What we're going to do is try to get TSA out of the human resources and personnel business and into the security business to connect the dots.

Now with all this movie business, everybody's coming around wanting to know everything that's happened since I was four. It's like going to an analyst.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.

Modeling is a lonely business... You don't speak. You don't really portray anything but an image... the business is so superfluous about dealing with the outside, it messes with your mind.

I've never considered myself a celebrity or even part of the entertainment business. I'm a cooking teacher.

I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business.

It's been a joy to be a part of other people's journey, to be able to inspire and be a part of new singers coming up in this business.

It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.

The record company really pissed me off when they told me to lose weight. I couldn't be bothered with looking a certain way. So I left the business. I don't regret it.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.

One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, let's all be friends in Washington philosophy.

After all, it's the future of business communication that we're looking toward.

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.

Thanks for the information about what we call business.

Years ago I wanted to buy an apartment in New York City. I was a single female - I had gone through my divorce - I had three children, I was in show business and black. It was, like, impossible.

No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.

I think one of the most difficult challenges in show business is the challenge of longevity and to constantly realize and reveal what's already been there - like doing stage and singing and dancing in New York. I haven't been that far out of my comfort zone in a while.

Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.

Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

When I got back into the film business after college, I started out as a production assistant.

It was just a hobby. I didn't expect it to turn into a business.

The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.