Business Quotes

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.

Our friends have nothing to do with the business. Some of our closest friends in Florida are not stars.

It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes.

It's a reality that in this business there's an expectation of being thin. But having a baby is a reality too, and it's more important for me to make milk than to fit into those tiny pants. So that's just going to have to wait.

The bill that job creators and out-of-work Americans need us to pass is the one that ensures taxes won't go up - one that says Americans and small-business owners won't get hit with more bad news at the end of the year.

We mean by "politics" the people's business - the most important business there is.

I've found that in business opportunities will constantly emerge or situations develop that make you revise your plans along the way.

Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.

Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.

My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn't the end-all. They weren't out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about 'What can we do as a family.'

I've fallen back on this periodically, although I must say that getting out of the grocery business ranked right up there with getting out of the army as one of the happier experiences of my life.

My undergraduate degree is in business, so I'm trying to get a bit of a background before I go in.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife.

I think that focusing on the money, on the business, is not enough.

Well as I said in France I didn't get auditions, and it's very difficult to get an agent in France because they conduct the business in a strange way.

I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people.

Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

At 13, I realized that I could fix anything electronic. It was amazing, I could just do it. I started a business repairing radios. It grew to be one of the largest in Philadelphia.

I've made upwards of a million bucks in the cops-and-robbers business.

Well, as a former small businessperson - I understand what's going on, I think in the business community. And businesspeople around the country are looking at all the spending and all the debt. They're looking at all the policies coming out of this Congress and this administration the last two years, and they - it's created all this uncertainty.

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.

I think in just about any business the low cost competitor is always going to have an advantage.

I predict that many teams will go out of business and the size of the leagues will be greatly reduced.

I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music.

The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.

I love every aspect of show business and that includes both the show part of it and the business part of it.

We have to be a state where business is welcome and jobs are created. We have to demand value for what is spent and we need to continue to resist a lottery.