Business Quotes
-
Owning a popular sports team is very different than any other type of business. They don't throw parades when Apple has the biggest quarter in corporate history. People don't call and email asking for anyone from the team to come visit their sick child. They don't cry as they request a jersey of their child's favorite player to be buried with them.
-
That space between the white lines, that's my office. That's where I conduct my business.
-
Movies like 'Chef' are not really box-office monsters in the summertime and don't really fit into Hollywood's business model any longer. Even if 'Chef' is successful, it will be successful in the context of what it is. There's a limited upside to a film that's so small, but there's also limited exposure for the people who backed me.
-
The question arises whether private companies can bear responsibility when considering the large risks involved with nuclear business.
-
Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government.
-
I realised I had to work in something creative, but with a business and global element. And that I had to do it while I was still young and had an appetite for risk.
-
I think the big thing is to talk about getting people working again and addressing the issues that are keeping small business from being able to grow.
-
My father was never around. It was almost as if he didn't exist. I would tell my friends he was in Cleveland, on business. Sometimes, every six months or so, he would come by for dinner.
-
He has a very extensive public relations apparatus that is paid for by the taxpayers of this state. They are some of the best in the business. and he is a master at getting not only television but other media exposure on the basis of confrontation and chaos.
-
My business has doubled in ways I couldn't have imagined.
-
Nobody forces you to work at Wal-Mart. Start your own business! Sell something to Wal-Mart!
-
The music business is filled with some nice people but a lot of strange people, so when you come across someone who's really genuine at an environment as bizarre as an awards show, you typically gravitate to them.
-
It's important to have a really clear strategy so when you are in business, you only have to make micro-strategy changes.
-
I'm not conditioned to be an entertainer. An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself. The problem with that is artists are misunderstood by all. I'm not interested in the clarinet but in music. we speak our emotions into music. An artist should write for himself and not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away. My situation is the same. Let them concentrate on my music and not on me. I like the music. I love it and live it, in fact. But for me, the business part of music just plain stinks.
-
Our philosophy is that we want to be an ecosystem. Our philosophy is to empower others to sell, empower others to service, making sure the other people are more powerful than us. With our technology, our innovation, our partners - 10 million small business sellers - they can compete with Microsoft and IBM.
-
You have to be just as mistrustful of straightforward rationality in business as you do of a uniquely gut approach.
-
A lot of people are like, 'So you want to be famous.' And I'm like, 'No, I want to be good at my craft. I don't care about fame, I don't care if I even ever make it. As long as people know what I am as an actress in this business, I'm set for my career right now.'
-
So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
-
I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these calculations [of Pi], having no other business at the time.
-
In this business, you just never know from day to day. It's one reason I held off getting too involved in entertainment. I like being able to plan, I like to know what I'm going to be doing.
-
In life, you either watch TV or you do TV. I told my daughters that the only way you're going to make it in this business is to get in the game. That's the biggest advice I can give them.
-
See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool.
-
When pleasure is made a business, it ceases to be pleasure.
-
As for modern Journalism, its not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.
