Business Quotes

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

It's tough because a lot of my friends in normal life, a lot of my friends in the entertainment business, and a lot of my friends in the wrestling business are gay. Just to say something spiteful and hurtful, I don't get it... if it was true and I was gay, I'd embrace it, and I'd tell you guys about it and I'd celebrate it.

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.'

When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.

The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

The growth of Stewart Airport creates new jobs for area residents, brings new business and new travelers to the region, and brings new convenient travel options to those of us living in the Hudson Valley.

If a rich person invests in a business, either directly or through stock purchases, it means business can grow and hire more people.

When you are led by values, it doesn't cost your business, it helps your business.

Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.

I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.

I went through a period of pulling away from everything - acting, people - not sure if I would ever have a voice in this business.

'Handsome' means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business.

From now on, I approach the cinema as a business woman.

I hate show business.

I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.

Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.

My home has always been show business.

I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.

Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.

You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

What consenting adults do behind closed doors is not my business.

From now on, I approach the cinema as a business woman. I intend to be in more action movies because, apart from Angelina Jolie, no other actress stands out in this genre.

You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.

When you're eight years old nothing is your business.

My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.