Business Quotes
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The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius.
H. L. Mencken
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Though business conditions may change, corporations and securities may change, and financial institutions and regulations may change, human nature remains the same. Thus the important and difficult part of sound investment, which hinges upon the investor's own temperament and attitude, is not much affected by the passing years.
Benjamin Graham
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I think the music business is probably not happy with what we've done, because the people buying the record have actually got to pick what they want to buy, rather than being told what they should buy.
John Otway
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When most people ask about a business growing, what they really mean is growing revenue, not just growing the number of people using a service. Traditional businesses would view people using your service that you don't make money from as a cost.
Mark Zuckerberg
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Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other's business.
Robert Frost
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I don't think you should ever start a business and move in a direction where you can't see it becoming a business.
Kevin Systrom
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Whether it's his beloved game of polo or his magical success in business, Norman Brinker simply does not know how to lose.
Newt Gingrich
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After 39 years of business, I'm still learning. I go through this every year -identifying new strategies that are extremely important.
Fred DeLuca
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I'm much more of a realist. I'm really practical. I'm the kind of person that calls my business manager and says, OK, if it were all to end today, how many months do I have to live?
Courteney Cox
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The William Morris Agency handled me. In that business, you're only as good as your last picture.
Johnny Weissmuller
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To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise.
Dave Eggers
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I know so many girls that have felt like they've been taken advantage of. Not only in the music business, but in every single career out there.
Margo Price
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I've found that Hollywood's a really honest business. They don't pull any punches. They tell you exactly what you want-I want the fake breasts and the flat car and the big pool. You know, they're real up-front about it.
Val Kilmer
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I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me.
Alan Ladd
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Everything is interconnected. The moment you take philosophy, psychology, religion and business and look at the underlying commonalities, that's when you start looking at business in a different way.
Jochen Zeitz
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The illegal brokering of arms and weapons to our enemies is a serious and deadly business.
Christopher Wray
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It's actually shocking to me how hard it's been to get back into the movie business.
Lea Thompson
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My husband and I are small business owners.
Kathy Szeliga
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Now everybody who knows anything at all knows perfectly well that even a business letter does not deserve the paper on which it is written unless it contains at least one significant phrase that is worth waking up in the night to remember and think about.
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
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Pushing herself up to a sitting position, she rubbed the side of her face and then blinked at what seemed to be a solid Avail of business suits. She looked up. ‘Mount Rushmore,’ she said. ‘Little far west of home for this time of year?’ The
Pat Cadigan
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There was never any pressure on me to go into the business, but I was always aware of it. I'd go on the set with my father and he and my mother would always be singing.
Micky Dolenz The Monkees
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I don't think I should ask my kids to inherit my business, because they can't start where I did: I was from the street. I'm a very different make of person. I've been a fighter all my life.
Jimmy Lai
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Oh, I don’t know. That digression business got on my nerves. I don’t know. The trouble with me is, I like it when somebody digresses. It’s more interesting and all.
J. D. Salinger
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I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.
Dennis Farina