Business Quotes

I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

I'm interested in giving business an opportunity by improving the tax environment to invest and grow with Pennsylvania, to expand and put more money in capital investment and creating jobs.

I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue to succeed. But I think the business model of Microsoft is going to have to change.

It's wonderful to have the most important thing in the world there first thing in the morning. And especially in this business, where the opportunity to think everything is about you is there every day, now I really know that it isn't all about me.

There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions.

What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'

A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.

First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.

It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

I intentionally built a business that has absolutely nothing to do with appearance.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

You have to stick out the toughness of the business and form relationships with the people in it.

It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I don't know. But that's fine.

I have been blessed with working with the best in the business.

You've got to know business before you go to show business.

We built that into a wholesale business that became, really, one of the largest companies in the United States. We had success in building new markets, opening markets for competition, and that takes a personal toll.

Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.

I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.

The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.

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.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.

How do you explain the bond between man and wife? Well, for one thing, it's private. What people do in their own marriage is their own business.

I don't believe we're the party of big business.

One of the biggest problems out there that I hear from my friends in the business community is that there's no lending, that it's tough to get a loan today.

Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.

I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.