Business Quotes

The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.

I'm in an environment where I have a lot of information about how to stay healthy and live a good life. I love vegan and raw food, I love to exercise. If I weren't in this business, I think I would be aging differently.

In fact, 80 percent of our domestic job growth comes from the small- and medium-sized business community.

Touring is really a pretty lonely business.

The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control.

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

In my career, people in the record business have been rockin' in the same ol' boat. They all crooks - I'll say it clear and loud - especially the big ones.

I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.

I really worked with icons in the music business, which really had a strong effect on me. It wasn't just pick-up gigs.

I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.

Music and the music business are two different things.

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.

The entire time I was modeling, I was trying and failing at businesses. In fact, we would have started our business much sooner had I been more successful.

When I'm asked how to succeed in show business, I always say I haven't the foggiest.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

If we take care of the business and keep our eye on the goal line, the stock price will take care of itself.

The same products, services or technologies can fail or succeed depending on the business model you choose. Exploring the possibilities is critical to finding a successful business model. Settling on first ideas risks the possibility of missing potential that can only be discovered by prototyping and testing different alternatives.

Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.

We need to stop apologizing for celebrating life. We need to stop apologizing for wanting to protect an individual's right to build a business.

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

Compared to what they were, rock concerts now are like business meetings.

In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires.

But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.

I'm not asking any of you to make drastic changes to every single one of your recipes or to totally change the way you do business. But what I am asking is that you consider reformulating your menu in pragmatic and incremental ways to create healthier versions of the foods that we all love.

I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business.

Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business.

I learned hard lessons, and I've taken that lesson and it's helped me become a better business person and a better leader.

I'm a mad lover of sport. You cannot say a bad word to me about sports. So I know business is involved and I know it can be cynical, and, of course, I watch it, but for me it's pure.

If the business community and political elite want to go to war they find it easy to mobilize domestic consent.

Well, Bill, I don't think you're going to find many shy people that are in the political business.