Business Quotes
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I get by mostly on speaking engagements, but as soon as I try to pay myself, I end up having to give it back to the business to cover operating expenses or other unplanned costs.
Angelica Ross -
Never compromise on hiring the best talent. Build value, not valuation. We have never used tactics like giving discounts, cashback to make customers use our product. This way no one can create a sustainable business.
Bhavin Turakhia
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Writing screenplays is not my business. I've written half a dozen, and maybe half of those were made. But it was never a satisfying experience. It was just work. You're an employee. You would be told what to do. Studio execs would cross out my dialogue and put in their dialogue.
Elmore Leonard -
Dick understands what I go through. He understands the difficulty and the brutality of the business.
Lauren Shuler Donner -
Remember the referendum on the Charlottetown constitutional accord? The more Canada's political and business elites threatened Canadians that the country would disappear into a black hole if the accord weren't passed, the more Canadians opposed it.
Preston Manning -
Ain't nobody's business, if I bark like a dog.
Muddy Waters -
Ive been a fashion model for 15 years and designing is just an extension of my career. I still plan on modeling lingerie, but at the same time this is a business transition that I plan to have around for a long time.
Alessandra Ambrosio -
I think the business affairs people at the studios get some kind of perverse satisfaction in finding the worst hotels for actors to stay in.
James Purefoy
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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 -
The Army is into every business in this country. Except hairdressing.
Asma Jahangir -
Truly brilliant marketing happens when you take something most people think of as a weakness and reposition it so people think of it as a strength.
Reed Hastings -
It's very important to stay creative and not simply to wait around for people to want you. It's the hardest thing about the business.
John Lithgow -
There are so many traps, so many ways of getting screwed in this business.
Max Martin -
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.
John Thune
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be in business or politics, like a CEO of a big corporation or a U.S. senator. There were also times I wanted to be an astronaut or a military officer. Yes, there were moments when I thought about doing this as a woman.
Chelsea Manning -
I'm in the entertainment business, and I make commercially entertaining animated features.
Kelly Asbury -
I don't judge. Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.
Twyla Tharp -
Quality for me is key, and this stands true in every facet of my business from real estate, hotels, and fashion.
Ivanka Trump -
The purpose of business is to make a reasonable return by making products and services that people want and value. If you are not, you are wasting resources.
Alan Mulally -
When I entered films, I rose to the top. In business, too, I want to be at the top.
Preity Zinta
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People are always saying that Hollywood messes up kids. I'm like, 'No, families mess up kids!' I grew up in Hollywood, and I'm perfectly fine. If my children want to go into the entertainment business, I won't stop them, as long as they're passionate about it.
Tori Spelling -
Modern man-whether in the womb of the masses, or with his workmates, or with his family, or alone-can never for one moment forget that he is living in a world in which he is a means and whose end is not his business.
Alberto Moravia -
It is the business of cavalry to follow up the victory, and to prevent the beaten army from rallying.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Mr. Trump had no political or military experience, the traditional routes to high political office. Virtually his only qualification was his business career, and a checkered one at that, considering his own brush with personal bankruptcy.
James B. Stewart