Business Quotes
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Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.
Carroll O'Connor
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It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster. There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.
Helen Keller
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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.
Joseph P. Kennedy
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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.
Ernst Fischer
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Affaires meant 'business.' How like the French to kill two birds with one stone.
Katherine Neville
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Business is a string of seemingly impossible problems looking for solutions. Each problem you solve creates a new barrier to entry for your next competitor.
Jon Oringer
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I grew up in a house where my father went on auditions, and he got some and he lost some, and there were good years and lean years. I didn't expect anything from the business, and that's often a danger in Hollywood, the notion that if you're pretty and have white teeth and just show up for the game then you'll win.
Chris Pine
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I love my business. I love my employees.
John Schnatter
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Traveling is a part of the business. I think it's really the hardest part of the business because the wrestling part is the easy part - something I love and enjoy doing.
Bobby Lashley
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I listen to a lot of audio books and business-related books. All of the great businessmen have one thing in common: they write down their goals. They keep a journal. Not only that, but I write down my goals, and I check it off: whether or not I ate right, work out, check it off.
Jinder Mahal
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The first mistake belonging to business is the going into it.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
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You can make anything into a play for the simple reason that the human mind is one of the best writers in the business. So, if you've got a writer who's clever enough to give you enough clues, you will fill out every blank spot in a play, every single one.
Morgan Freeman
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TV is an interesting business. You audition with a couple of little papers in your hand, and if you're lucky, you get to say those lines in the show. Then, once in a while, you get to do more.
Susan Blommaert
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This is a business, and I'll deal with it when it comes. If it comes, it comes.
Champ Bailey
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There's no show business in Canada, so everybody just did stand-up and we all thought, "Oh, we'll just keep doing stand-up." And then I'm like, "There's more work in the States."
Norm MacDonald
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I don't blame any director for wanting to do something more commercial. That's all part of the business. I certainly have done it, as an actor.
Steve Buscemi
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There's no difference in dealing with the music business with the majors than any other competition. The music business is way more cutthroat than any other business.
Suge Knight
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One capability every business is expected to have is the capability to make money. It requires a certain kind of discipline, a certain kind of mindset.
Steve Ballmer
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In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.
Bill Gates
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I was always excited by the idea of having my own company, but models are rarely serious when they venture off into something else, be it acting, singing, or starting their own business.
Coco Rocha
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There is no amount of money in the world that will make you comfortable if you are not comfortable with yourself.
Stuart Wilde
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There's been a big spur in downtown development with new business, restaurants and a lot of loft buying. The buses run, and there's a subway that runs through downtown.
Michael Ritchie
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We need to get to kids who have no idea what we do. We need to open the doors wide and let them in. There are many undiscovered voices out there - voices that, against all odds, can rise up and enrich this culture and perhaps change the very nature of the marketplace for the better.
Dan Wieden
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Whenever you see some business person quoted complaining about how he or she can't find workers with the necessary skills, ask what wage they're offering. Almost always it turns out what said business person really wants is highly educated workers at a manual-labor wage. No wonder they come up short.
Paul Krugman