Business Quotes
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Only nine States have been represented since my arrival till within three days. There are now Eleven States barely represented. This tardiness in the States or their Delegates, besides retarding the most important Business makes it exceeding fatiguing to those that do attend.
William Whipple
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The self-anointed media elite among us believe, somewhat self-servingly, that not only the act, or process of making a profit is positively sinister, but also that the very desire to do so is.
Lachlan Murdoch
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What drives intellectuals and professors crazy is somebody with a high school diploma who made a fortune in business. They agree with Lenin, who thought success in business was a matter of luck, when in reality it is a matter of genius.
James Cook
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As Danand Ian over at the Lifestyle Business Podcast say: Rush to failure.
Thomas A. Edison
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The Internet produces new business models and also reinvents traditional business models.
Marc Ostrofsky
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I'm just going about my business. Am I going to bend over backwards to assure everybody that I'm a good guy? No, I'm not going to do it.
Corey Dillon
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If you look at my business record, I basically love to do turn-arounds. That's where I made all of my money.
Michael Heisley
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I understand that show business people can wear the public a bit thin when it comes to politics. I know they wear me thin.
Clint Howard
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A willing, cheerful worker, with his heart in his job, will turn out more work and more satisfactory work in 44 hours than an unwilling worker, dissatisfied with his conditions, will turn out in 54 hours. It is good business, therefore, for every employer to go as far as he possibly can in reaching a schedule agreeable to his people.
B. C. Forbes
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It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
Ernest Hemingway
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There has been an effect of business rap on the output of today's rap music. But I don't think that's the modern day rapper's fault.
M.I.A.
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Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business.
P. T. Barnum
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My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Thomas A. Edison
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I couldn't have predicted the business would be worth so much. I could see that we would have this sort of market share, but I didn't realise the numbers would be so large.
Peter Hargreaves
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I don't think there is room for 'artistic temperament.' Professional artists understand art is a business. If businesses ran their companies like many artists do their careers, they would not stay open a year.
Jack White The White Stripes
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Indomitable perseverance in a business, properly understood, always ensures ultimate success.
Cyrus McCormick
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Remain true to yourself while practicing this business of being an actor. And it is a business.
Carrie Preston
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If you have 50 years in the business, you can probably count on only five good movies.
Peter Finch
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Sport is an entertainment, in one sense. But it's also a business.
Alastair Cook
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I am the luckiest guy in the world. All my dreams came true. I was in a wonderful business, and I met great people all over the world.
Van Johnson
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If you are doing well, your business will pay more in tax; if you're not doing well, you pay less.
Matt Gonzalez
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Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along.
Marc Maron
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The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.
John Lasseter