Business Quotes

"I've got a couple of grays in my beard and maybe a little salt and pepper in my hair. If I let my hair down and go through it, you'd see a good bit of grays. Maybe from the stress of the road and the crazy business I'm in."

"We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on."

"Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business."

"Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market."

"I do not believe that government should be in the business of telling women what they should do with their bodies."

"Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close."

"I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together."

"It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way."

"Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed."

"Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business."

"Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business."

"The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'"

"Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other."

"It is not possible to have a strong, functioning business in a world of increasing inequality, poverty, and climate change."

"I want 'Vogue' to be pacy, sharp, and sexy - I'm not interested in the super-rich or infinitely leisured. I want our readers to be energetic executive women, with money of their own and a wide range of interests. There is a new kind of woman out there. She's interested in business and money."

"Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms."

"I love the business of business; I love the risk raking."

"People in business tend to have an instinctive reaction to people."

"When I was 11 years old, my family had to leave East Germany and begin a new life in West Germany overnight. Until my father could get back into his original profession as a government employee, my parents operated a small laundry business in our little town. I became the laundry delivery boy."

"Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world."

"Things in life change very frequently... things get thrown at you all the time. You just have to be ready for anything in this business - that's wrestling. It's just life, really."

"The Kingdom is the love of God prevailing in politics, in business, in government, in media. It is all the impact of the laws of God creating a social environment where the strong help the weak, where those who have give to those who don't. It's a society where relationships are built on love."

"I just know who I am as a person, comfortable in my own skin. And I guess that's just a testament to how I was raised. All credit to my parents. But yeah, I'm a humble guy, confident at the same time - just go about my business."

"Sustainability has to be a way of life to be a way of business."

"If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business."

"The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad."

"My vision is to build an e-commerce ecosystem that allows consumers and businesses to do all aspects of business online."

"You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone."

"If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance."

"I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can."

"I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service."

"All you have in business is your reputation - so it's very important that you keep your word."

"My happiness is not dictated on this business. Once I realized that, everything kind of changed."

"I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It's that simple."

"If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver."

"Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing."

"Politics is just show business for ugly people."

"In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement."

"I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously."

"By reading, you learn through others' experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men."

"I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front."

"Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business."

"To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else."

"The movie business is a big gamble."

"It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business."

"Every entrepreneur talks about the passion you have for your work, and I think that's what's missing with a lot of women in business."

"Basically he never went to work and didn't have a job. Of course I thought he did. I thought he was on the phone doing business deals instead of borrowing money from people."

"Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country."

"I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us."

"There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there."