Business Quotes

People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.

Well, you can't trust most people in this game, period; it can be a very shady business.

When the government gets involved in pricing, I don't think it's the right way to look at a business.

I'm sure there will be business ventures and things down the road, but I definitely don't want to be a team owner.

I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

The business end of business has never interested me.

I think the show has sort of given me a name in this business and allowed a lot of people the opportunity to see what I can do, and it's just sort of like a sweet starting point.

So you keep raising these taxes, and all of a sudden the business community says, 'Why are we here? We can go someplace else and use their phones.' That's one of the problems that directly affects the business community.

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.

In 2009, South Carolina was blessed to welcome a great American company that chose to stay in our country to continue to do business. That company was Boeing.

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

Well, actually, I had been working as a consultant to former companies of Enron, or predecessor companies of Enron and, so, I joined in 1990 to really start our wholesale merchant business.

I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.

The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business.

If you don't operate it as a business, you aren't going to be around very long.

By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway.

Because of the economic crisis, China and the United States are bound together. This is a totally new phenomenon, and nobody will fight for ideology anymore. It's all about business.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

We're not show-business people. We have a life.

Selling cookies helped me to realize that you needed to have a certain way to communicate with people. You also needed business skills. You knew you needed to sell a certain amount of boxes, so that gave me some business sense.

I think it's being thrown at the wolves, we call it in our business.

I find the business world hard.

Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.

Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.

Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.

Kids are brought into show business because they are cute and see truth and they're very bright. But there's a sense of doing it because you want the adults to be approving of you. You want to make them happy.

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

Everyone tries to talk you out of going to college. The consensus being that people are just gonna forget about you, you know, and that's the way the business works.

Hitting is business. With two strikes you really protect that plate.