Business Quotes

The State of Virginia is similar to a great business corporation... and should be conducted with the same efficiency and economy as any private business.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality.

It's weird to have people so interested in your personal life. It's a part of the business that grosses me out. I'm always bummed out for people who just happen to be dating a celebrity, and they're also famous, and they can't live their life.

It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.

Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.

If you have a great business, if you're great at your craft people should be coming in there. It shouldn't be this secret.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

Today, currently, business owners can go out and find out if the person they are hiring is eligible to work here or if they are not. We need to think about how we are impacting workers.

County government can be simplified greatly by reorganizing and consolidating some of the offices, making others appointive, and reducing salaries in keeping with the salaries paid by private business for the performance of similar duties.

The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business.

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

My parents never got carried away with the extraneous elements of being in the business.

QuickBooks - the very fact that we could even dream to make something in the business arena, and that it would then succeed - was a total revolution to me.

In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever business acumen I have just got gleaned over the years.

The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault.

Yes, I would love to play one of the leads in one these movies and have all those challenges and deal with all those complications, but the business being what it is, there is a slot for me in these kinds of films, so I enjoy them, and I enjoy the people that I work with.

Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.

Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.

Arizona is now recognized as a premier place in which to locate, expand and grow a business.

I have never participated directly or indirectly in any business related to the United Nations.

Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work.

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort.

I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.

The most important decision I've made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought everybody with me, my homies from the neighborhood, criminals. I just said, 'Come on everybody, we made it.' Then I had to realize we didn't make it. I made it.

You know, I think the film business is its own worst enemy because it sells movies on DVD footage and 'behind the scenes,' and now it's a real struggle trying to keep storylines and plotlines a secret.

Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable.