Business Quotes
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When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family - not even my mother - who I could look to and be like, 'I know you've never said anything homophobic.' So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you've heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.
Frank Ocean
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My charity is in the business of helping firefighters in any way that we can. For instance, after 9/11 we were the second-fastest charity to raise and distribute money to the widows and surviving family members of the 343 firefighters who died that day.
Denis Leary
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When you are just starting out with an online business, there's a good chance that you'll be making several mistakes. Because of the mistakes that can be made with starting an online business, many people decide to quit or think that online businesses are just a scam.
Fabrizio Moreira
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Show business is made up of disappointments, and it's through life's disappointments that you grow.
Minnie Pearl
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[Government] is apprehended, not as a committee of citizens chosen to carry on the communal business of the whole population, but as a separate and autonomous corporation, mainly devoted to exploiting the population for the benefit of its own members.
H. L. Mencken
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You need to create a place where young students can flesh out their business plans and further develop their research projects and then have a fund to help students get started in their businesses.
Jean-Philippe Courtois
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Don't go in and tell somebody else how to run their business.
Carl Icahn
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I want to be able to make sure that we have enough capital to survive at least three consecutive failures. If you want to make a small fortune in the launch vehicle business, start with a large one.
Elon Musk
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God has blessed me with a wonderful family, a successful business, and outstanding employees. I do not take these blessings lightly.
David Green
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Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created People in the history of the world. And their manners were their own business. And so were their politics. And so, but ten times so, were their souls.
Archibald MacLeish
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Lots of small business men have been contacting me to say they wish they had the nerve to say what I said.
David A. Siegel
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We have been fighting for solutions that will spur economic growth and create jobs for all Americans because we have been listening to what small business owners and employees have been telling us all along.
Sam Graves
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When we started out, there was so much cash involved that it attracted an element you'd rather not do business with.
Bob Weir Grateful Dead
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I always wanted to be a medical doctor, and I never thought of business.
Jochen Zeitz
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I'm not in the business of holding people's hands after I've expressed to them my needs numerous times.
Brad Goreski
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We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel.
Lakshmi Mittal
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In business, in the music world, people know that I can be very friendly and warm but that, after a certain moment, the business is closed. I like to be alone: in order to concentrate on my work, the social life does not exist. It has never existed for me, really. I have chosen instead the working life because I prefer that.
Pierre Boulez
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In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
Alexandre Dumas
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The sex element is the most important in the business. You must sell sex.
Bobby Darin
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In today's world, social media, people get judged so much by the last thing that happened, I almost feel, in a way, young people get to see that not only is it OK to fail - that's the way you get to championship success, whether it's sports or business or life.
Dan Gilbert
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Mentorship is really important. I really like to talk to people who have been in the music industry much longer than me about artists' block, things I'm struggling with, or the music business. It's really important for artists to have a community. Sometimes you can feel quite isolated.
Bat for Lashes
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The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.
Olivia De Havilland
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Having something that makes money changes everything. I'm from England, and it's very much about credibility there. And yeah, it is about that. But the money can change things. And so you understand it's a business.
Daniel Kaluuya
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The question arises whether private companies can bear responsibility when considering the large risks involved with nuclear business.
Naoto Kan