Business Quotes

• The music business is very hard on women over 22. You really have to prove yourself every time you make a record. Are you as vibrant as you used to be? Are you as sexy? So I really want to prove that a woman in her 30s can be all those things and more.

  

  Jody Watley Shalamar
  • Time
  • Music
  • Women

• Prostitutes dress obviously, so as to draw attention. It's their business, isn't it? The last thing that a Christian woman is thinking of is being like a prostitute.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Thinking
  • Attention
  • Christian

• Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera. I thought, 'Hey, this will be a really fun story to tell my grandkids one day, that I auditioned for a soap!'

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Fun
  • Day
  • Luck

• I am passionate about what design can do - how far it can support the new ideas and the new ways of living of this 21st Century. Good design accelerates this exciting future where manufacturing is local, materials and processes are cradle to cradle, business models are both socially and financially driven.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Good
  • Future
  • Support

• Buzz and the right publicist are not only important but crucial in show business.

  

  Halston
  • Important
  • Business
  • Right

• Don't compare your career to anyone else's. It's tough when you're in a business that's competitive. I was having a difficult time with that in college. Now, I'm having to learn to be patient and be where I am.

  

  Danielle Brooks
  • Time
  • Career
  • College

• Cash flow is a problem for a small and developing company, and the lack of it is the reason why many small businesses fail. Ensure that you have enough money in your bank account to make you able to carry out daily basic needs for your business.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Money
  • Why
  • Small

• Everyone tries to talk you out of going to college. The consensus being that people are just gonna forget about you, you know, and that's the way the business works.

  

  Larisa Oleynik
  • People
  • Business
  • College

• Jail is big business, believe me. I'm in jail, I see the big business. You can feed a whole town off one jail. This jail is in the middle of a town that feeds everybody. Everybody works here, this is the main income. So if there were no criminals, nobody would work.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Work
  • Jail
  • Feed

• But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Art
  • Creative
  • Marketing

• My priority will continue to be that we maintain the optimal balance to be able to invest in education and infrastructure while encouraging business growth.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Education
  • Growth
  • Balance

• If the White House could do more to tell parents that getting children reading is their business too, we'd see a big difference. Hollywood and the NBA or NFL could step in, too. In England they have an event called Book Day, where every child receives a pound to use at any bookstore.

  

  James Patterson
  • Children
  • Book
  • House

• Boxing should not let - we should not let - the people in business of boxing should not let a person to just walk right in and get the grand prize of boxing. You can't do it in basketball, football, hockey.

  

  Bernard Hopkins
  • People
  • Football
  • Basketball

• That's part of show business: the moving.

  

  Carmine Coppola
  • Business
  • Moving

• The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Help
  • Small
  • Best

• My closest adviser is my wife. It's nice to have one of the smartest people in business as your life partner, and someone you have dinner with and breakfast with.

  

  Dave Goldberg
  • People
  • Life
  • Nice

• I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Heart
  • Business
  • Go

• The movie business is not about the money. Of course, you need money to make the movie. If you have a small budget, adapt yourself. Having $200 million dollars doesn't ensure that you're definitely going to make a good movie. There's so many examples that prove that.

  

  Marjane Satrapi
  • Good
  • Money
  • Movie

• If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Business
  • Man
  • Chance

• I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations....I have built my own factory on my own ground.

  

  Sarah Breedlove
  • Business
  • Hair
  • Kitchen

• The purpose of a business is to create customers.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Business
  • Purpose
  • Create

• Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• When you're still in the broadcast business, you're still trying to reach tens of millions. You're trying to still aim for a broader audience, and I think that's a more difficult task to spread yourself across that audience, connect with them, as opposed to a very, very small, pinpointed audience. Difficult to do.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Trying
  • Small
  • Yourself

• There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.

  

  Phil Knight
  • Life
  • Work
  • Success

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