Business Quotes

You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life was in a real state of flux.

In D.C., I've passed amendments to allocate $6.3 million to keep our waterways open for business, $1 million as a down payment on our wetland restoration - our natural storm protection - and $5 million to ensure that drilling permits are reviewed thoroughly and efficiently.

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

I don't have the inclinations that other people seem to have as far as the business is concerned.

It takes time to love someone properly, and in this business, you get very wary of people.

Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.

If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble.

You have to remember a lot of business is very cyclical.

It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles.

Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

I know what's best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody.

Warren Spector is amazing, and his team is as good as any in the business. Shame to see all the revenues from their game entangled with all the madness of the Dallas office.

Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people.

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.

Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.

The weird thing about this business - and I'm sure this operates in many other things, but it's very present and acute in this business - is that a lot of people don't realize that they have power. Particularly actors.

I've got a wife, four kids, a business, and a baseball career.

All lasting business is built on friendship.

I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have.

Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.

I know that my fans want to know who I'm sleeping with, but it's really none of their business.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Slater's a big star and he's been in the business a long time. He's always in a good mood and easygoing but he takes his character very seriously.

It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.

I am co-writing a screenplay now and I'm working on the rights to another story I want to do. So I plan to produce and direct. So, for me, I don't really feel that I am vulnerable to that sad baggage that comes with the business of filmmaking.