Business Quotes

• Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Money
  • Start

• I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man!

  

  Jay-Z
  • Men
  • Businessman
  • Insightful

• One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Society
  • Community
  • Support

• If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Career
  • Strong
  • Hand

• I love design in general, the creativity. Whether it is golf courses, my apparel line, ads we do or our business with AriZona, design is fun.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Fun
  • Design
  • Creativity

• When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Believe
  • Change
  • Survival

• I really want to work for myself and build a business from nowhere.

  

  Ieva Laguna
  • Work
  • Business
  • Myself

• So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • People
  • Different
  • Money

• The film business has changed hugely. You seem to spend about 30 per cent of the time producing the films and 70 per cent talking about it.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • Time
  • Business

• I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Work
  • Business
  • Success

• Business today consists in persuading crowds.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Business
  • Today
  • Persuading

• Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Team
  • Communication
  • Management

• Stores don't order merchandise unless they think they can sell it right away. Manufacturers and builders don't produce unless they have buyers lined up. My business contacts describe this as a paradigm shift and they believe it's permanent.

  

  Janet Yellen
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Business

• I believe that starting any business should be as easy as a 10-year-old starting a lemonade stand.

  

  Mark Cuban
  • Believe
  • Business

• I hope we business people can invest more aggressively outside Metro Manila, whether in real estate, factories, or other enterprises, in order to give equal opportunities to all other regions.

  

  Andrew Tan
  • People
  • Real
  • Hope

• The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Music
  • Business
  • True

• I'm not in the news business and won't tell people how to do their job. I'd like to restore trust in the news business, though, and feel that restoring fact-checking will really help. News business realities mean that such fact-checking has to be practical, it has to be fast and cheap.

  

  Craig Newmark
  • People
  • Job
  • Help

• I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Up
  • Love
  • Proud

• I think the work on tax reform, the work that's being done on regulatory reform is very important. And just having a seat at the table, I think, is so important for business today as we think about what's going to benefit the economy of this country, how we're going to create great manufacturing jobs.

  

  Dennis Muilenburg
  • Work
  • Great
  • Important

• In business it's about people. It's about relationships.

  

  Kathy Ireland
  • People
  • Business

• Know your target audience. Always keep them at the forefront of your mind. Understand their lifestyle and what they are looking for. Gather their feedback and use it to tailor your approach. The voice of the consumer is an essential input into the development of any fashion business or blog.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Mind
  • Fashion
  • Feedback

• Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera.

  

  Teddy Sears
  • New
  • Luck
  • Year

• Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Attitude

• I never saw war, so that is still my vision of manhood: Unitas standing courageously in the pocket, his left arm flung out in a diagonal to the upper deck, his right cocked for the business of passing, down amidst the mortals. Lock and load.

  

  Frank Deford
  • Business
  • War
  • Vision

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