Business Quotes
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The thing about being an actor is that you're in the business of not growing up.
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Given that all our lives rest on work that defines us, the business of labor, the wealth that work manifests itself to, I find it odd that not much is written about it. We talk about relationships, damage, adultery, revolution, but we don't talk about work.
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Instant, soluble coffee has long been the unspeakable wasteland of the coffee business. Conventional wisdom would be that no premium brand should go near it. But Howard Schultz's vision from day one has been to bring quality coffee to the mass market.
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We must get into the picture business. This is a new industry and a gold mine. it looks like another telephone industry.
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You know the one with the big ears? Wait a minute, he ain't my president, he might be yours, he ain't my president. You know that woman he had singing for him, singing my song - she's gonna get her a- whipped. The great Beyoncé But I can't stand Beyoncé. She has no business up there, singing up there on a big ol' president day singing my song that I've been singing forever.
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It's increasingly apparent that the absence of purpose - or of a moral language - within government, media or business, could become one of the most dangerous own goals for capitalism and for freedom.
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The goal of every startup experiment is to discover how to build a sustainable business around that vision.
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There's something to be taken from every job, whether it's crap or good. Sometimes, on the awful ones, I get more of an education about other areas of my business.
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It is only the densest ethical ignorance that talks about a "Christian business" life; for business is now intrinsically evil.
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The business of thinking ... undoes every morning what it had finished the night before.
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It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.
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I want to own my own business because then I can be in control of everything.
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When I graduated from college I thought I was over with show business and was pursuing other things.
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'No business before breakfast, Glum!' says the King. 'Breakfast first, business next.'
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I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.
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I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I'm certainly not going to write any sort of memoir.
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I think adidas really understands that it's cool to be in business with the right people. It really feels like a bunch of creative minds rather than some rap guys stamping their names on a sneaker. We're arguing over shoes, ideas, and everything - it's like a tug of war.
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I think the movie business and film crews are a little bit like the circus, in that we travel around like a pack and we're a big family for a finite period of time. We roll into someplace, cause a bunch of damage, and then roll out.
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There is much that public policy can do to support American entrepreneurs. Health insurance reform will make it easier for entrepreneurs to take a chance on a new business without putting their family's health at risk. Tort reform will make it easier to take prudent risks on new products in a number of sectors.
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My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business.
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If those who give are conscious of their own generosity and those who receive feel indebted, they are no longer family but rather strangers doing business.
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I founded Atari in my garage in Santa Clara while at Stanford. When I was in school, I took a lot of business classes. I was really fascinated by economics. You end up having to be a marketeer, finance maven and a little bit of a technologist in order to get a business going.
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When I was a kid, a lot of my parents' friends were in the music business. In the late '60s and early '70s - all the way through the '70s, actually - a lot of the bands that were around had kids at a very young age. So they were all working on that concept way early on. And I figured if they can do it, I could do it, too.
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Business models that are relevant today are not relevant tomorrow and were not in existence yesterday.
