Business Quotes

Being tiny has been difficult for me in a business that regarded physicality as the most important part of your life.

People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us.

There is no question that knowing someone in the business will get you in the door. But it is your skill that will keep you in the room.

I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.

I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife.

My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.

The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.

The people that are running the bulk of the comic shops in North America aren't business people and they don't understand sales. They don't understand good product.

If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.

I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.

The Arena League is the best thing that could have happened to me because I get to run the whole process. I'm seeing not only the football side but the business side.

They planned this fair to bring business to Chicago, into the Loop. But you could have fired a cannon down state street and hit nobody, because everybody was out at the fair.

From a relatively early age I got interested in business.

And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.

Well, the rollout of new technology always affects how wizards do business.

I got through college realizing business was repugnant.

That's the ultimate gratification in any business situation - do customers buy the product? And do they use it and do they come back and buy more of it?

I suppose that by being absent from the music business, it appeared that I just dropped out, but really I never did. I was continuously working and doing various things.

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.

In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything.

Some of the greatest actors have turned superheroes into a serious business: Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson in 'Batman'; Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, the first venerable knights of the X-Men, who have now passed the baton to Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age.

I never had tons of friends on tour. I was quiet and went about my business.

If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.

When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym - I chose the gym.