Business Quotes

I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.

Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.

We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

I'm very happy to be employed. I always contend that in show business that if you're employed, then you're successful.

War is the business of barbarians.

We kinda look at this as the second or third chapter of our lives. After college, most people figure out what they want to do with their lives. But we already know what we want to do in the future and that is to continue to further our business goals.

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

I am not embarrassed to be a banker. I am not embarrassed to be in business.

There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses.

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

I struggled for 15 years in this business before Miami Vice came along.

The automotive corporations, including Ford, I think are in the business of trying to make cars that people will drive.

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

Along with our friends in the GCC, the first order of business is stability. Beyond the imperative of stability, the most important priority is job creation for all Bahrainis.

I'm grateful I've got my mind. I can take care of my own business.

You're not going to build private-sector jobs if you don't like business people.

It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

I love this company. I don't know how it was selected. It's a bunch of machers. They mean business.

We're going to march on Washington with a host of Republicans, Democrats, business leaders, legislators.

I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck.

And at that point, I think my experience in covering the subject helped me. I think editors felt comfortable with the idea of me telling this story because I had demonstrated that I know this business pretty well.

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

When I started in the business, I was told I had three good years in me.

Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.