Business Quotes

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.'

I started in this business on soap operas.

Films are hard to make and I think the word indulge really leads one to believe that it's an easy sort of business and it's really extremely difficult.

Sometimes I think our problems are made worse by the kind of business we're in. Playing these road shows is a weird experience.

A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.

It was the business that made Pop go away, not our inability to create.

The preppy lifestyle has gone global. We feel that our business has grown so well because preppy travels so well. It's all-American classic.

I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business.

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

I don't think Apple has to own a content business.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.

I've made movies that I thought were good. I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, I wish more people saw that - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.

Absolutely. I think that this is - politics is a tough business. I describe it as a full contact sport. You have to be prepared to get in there and mix it up.

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

You can make great money in a utility type of business by borrowing cheaply and lending sensibly but that's not what's being done.

Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.

Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'.

The owners don't win by having a lockout. Shutting down your business is not good for anybody and it's certainly not good for the players, it's certainly not good for the fans. And that's most important to us.

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

I never hurt anybody in this business, ever.

The FBI has always supported big business and big government.

If you're an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job.

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!

You know, this is a business where only 15% make a living wage and only 9% of those are women. But I figured somebody has to be that 15%, somebody's got to be one of those women.