Business Quotes

Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

Politics is just show business for ugly people.

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

One of the things I've really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are. Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.

I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side.

When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?

The film business has changed so dramatically from when I started.

I remember that Jack Lemmon, who is one of my favorite actors of all time, says that the day he stops being nervous is the day he should leave the business.

Consequently, a young business often grows by large percentages. Mature businesses rarely do.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Success in business today requires real-time, mobile access to business opportunities.

I feel I belong in the movie business and I belong in the security business. It's a natural for me.

I was bullied as a kid, and I got a job on television. And I had a camera. And so I wanted to go after those business bullies. And I just have been following that instinct.

In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.

At Current, television is all we do - that's our business. We don't have amusement parks I have to worry about, we don't have environmental cases against us, we don't have a series of outdoor-advertising companies.

Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.

If you're a global company you are going to have jobs overseas. The reality is if we start taxing those jobs at a rate that makes them noncompetitive in those markets, the reality is that we're going to lose business.

Being an actor gives you a chance to play all kinds of roles, very moving and dramatic on one project, silly and girlish on another. That's the most interesting thing out this business, you get to keep reinventing yourself.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

It's actually shocking to me how hard it's been to get back into the movie business.

Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.

Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!

Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That's not a criticism; they're passionate about cutting hair or cooking food, and that's why they got in the business, not because they have an MBA.

Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.

When approved, the SAFE Port Act will make progress toward protecting the physical infrastructure of our seaports as well as our national economy which is so clearly dependent on the commercial shipping business.

When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have to humiliate myself.

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.

Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate.

Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I think the ordinary guy has just as much right to say 'This is a good song' as somebody who is in the music business.