Business Quotes
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The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.
Jimmy Buffett
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This is a business meal. The calories do not count. I am mentally labeling these as 'business calories' so my body will know they were eaten in the line of duty and will process them differently.
Cathy Guisewite
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It's not about you, it's about the next person. The single best use of a business book is to help someone else. Sharing what you read, handing the book to a person who needs it... pushing those around you to get in sync and to take action-that's the main reason it's a book, not a video or a seminar. A book is a souvenir and a container and a motivator and an easily leveraged tool. Hoarding books makes them worth less, not more.
Seth Godin
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The wrestling business is my family.
Brooke Hogan
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Businesses and governments need to work together and make a joint commitment if we want to address climate change effectively and quickly.
Paul Polman
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There's one thing I've learned about entrepreneurs' business plans. Every one is wrong.
Josh Kopelman
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They should go back to the medieval tradition, which is that the nave of the church is always used for local business.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
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Basically, I come to Washington a couple of times a year, sort of on a strictly business basis: talk to my counterparts at the Federal Trade Commission, of the DOJ, give an occasional talk, very often in a lawyer or academic environment.
Margrethe Vestager
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When we started Skype, if you look at analyst reports, no one forecasted it as a big business. Also when Google started, it was not fashionable to be in search. It's not trying to do the obvious - that's the hard part.
Niklas Zennstrom
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I learned everything that I know about comedy and about show business and a lot about life from Carl.
Dick Van Dyke
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Did you know that Kodak actually invented the digital camera that ultimately put it out of business? Kodak had the patents and a head start, but ignored all that.
Peter Diamandis
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When you expand a business as fast as McDonald's did, part of the strength you have is the process and the efficiency.
Steve Easterbrook
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I feel fortunate every day I'm in this business. No matter how hard it is, no matter how ruthless some people are, I was born to do this; I was born for movies.
Lauren Shuler Donner
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All of those things are gradually coming true, so I'm cautiously optimistic about the way the business is developing in the United States.
Bob Lutz
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Margot Hentoff thinks - first of all, she - this I hear from a lot of people beside her. She thinks that men have no business getting into this argument at all unless they're going to be pro-choice. But it turns out that a fair number of fetuses are male, and besides that, we are all one part of humankind, it seems to me.
Nat Hentoff
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Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.
Clara Barton
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There is no greater country on Earth for entrepreneurship than America. In every category, from the high-tech world of Silicon Valley, where I live, to University R&D labs, to countless Main Street small business owners, Americans are taking risks, embracing new ideas and - most importantly - creating jobs.
Eric Ries
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Enthusiasm for conservation can be fashioned into a nasty weapon for those who dislike business on general principles.
William Francis Buckley
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If you want to get into the business of doing voices for cartoons, you've got to be a good actor. It's all about acting. It's not about the voice. The voice is just one part of what you bring to the character.
Bob Bergen
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Most entrepreneurs fail because they are working IN their business rather than ON their business.
Michael Gerber
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Some in the West suggest that Isam needs a separation of mosque and state. However, in the case of Iran at least what is needed is a separation lof religion and business.
Amir Taheri
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That's the trick in this business: if you want longevity, just keep people guessing a little bit.
Kelsey Grammer
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Putin has made life difficult for a lot of Russia's richest men; they don't like the sanctions; they don't like the war with the West. Many of them have houses and families and businesses in the West, and so I can see them being unhappy. But at the moment, the political system is so constructed that it would be very difficult for them to leave. That's not saying it couldn't change.
Anne Applebaum
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves; to break our own records; to outstrip our yesterdays by our todays; to bear our trials more beautifully than we ever dreamed we could; to give as we never have given; to do our work with more force and a finer finish than ever. This is the true idea: to get ahead of ourselves.
Carl Holmes