Business Quotes

But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose.

I couldn't do anything. I'd work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn't hack it. I couldn't even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business.

The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in court against those who put products on the market that are dangerous to their buyers.

The key to competing and surviving against Wal-Mart is to focus your business into a niche or pocket where you can leverage your strengths in the local marketplace.

As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post, while a small business in rural Oregon can use the Internet to find customers around the world.

We didn't know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent.

I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that.

The road to recovery is to stimulate small business and innovation by reducing taxation, regulation, and litigation.

Doing a residency in any particular city requires a large repertoire to ensure repeat business.

Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.

There is no such thing as a 'free' government benefit. Ask small-business owners who are footing skyrocketing bills for bottomless jobless benefits.

We are a business, and you do a little of what you think's right, pay your bills, and attract... a single record attracts attention to your concerts and your albums.

We wish that all countries around the world honor our wishes and our Jihad, and we avoid interfering in their business.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

In this business, if you don't pay your debts you're finished.

We got extremely lucky. It's a tough business to work with.

We've got to lift our game tremendously. We'll sell our business news and information in print, we'll sell it to anyone who's got a cable system, and we'll sell it on the Web.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.

In business, you try to solve problems.

I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations.

Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. That's the equivalent of more than 1,200 police officer posts. These reforms are a watershed moment in policing. They show that we really mean business in busting bureaucracy.

Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.

I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.

Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you.

Well there's nobody who has a more supportive husband than I do, and he has a business that he runs, and it's his own business, so he has work to do, my kids have school to do, I mean, people have - there are other things in life besides politics.

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.