Business Quotes

Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.

In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.

We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs.

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

I don't think business news is just for old white men with money.

It's been an extraordinary journey. I have learned so much along the way. I entered the modeling industry as a business person already. I always knew I belonged on the other side of the camera.

Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.

How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to be true for most people in this business, what could I possibly tell them that they don't already know?

If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff.

Once you understand business models you can then start prototyping business models just like you prototype products.

In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business.

A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

Business is more exciting than any game.

It's been a rollercoaster ride. There have been some great moments and some low points... like when I was leaving Stax. That's when I actually thought of getting out of the business.

I wanted to be in this business, and once I got into the business I knew I enjoyed it, and I liked it, and I wanted to continue, but I never had a five year plan.

Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

We cannot certainly, have any excuse either for taking any thing that belongs to our masters without their leave, or for being unfaithful in their business.

The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress.

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

This is a business of love and labor.

We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.

When I was growing up, I said I wanted to be a model, but people said I had no chance and when I realized my ambition, people in the business still continued to state negative stuff.

I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation.

Anybody who has ever been in business, anybody who has ever paid bills, anybody who has ever lived in a serious adult life knows that indebtedness is a killer.

I've tended to work at fast-growing companies that improve the way business gets done.

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

I wasn't looking to get into TV. My family was in the movie business, so I was never interested in that world.