c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
— Will Rogers
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
— Thomas Carlyle
You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.
— An Wang
Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
— Ayn Rand
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
— Calvin Coolidge
The record industry is still pissed off that other people are making money off their business, even if it promotes their products and increases their sales. I think they're still mad about radio.
— Jonathan Potter
The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
— William James
Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.
— Steve Martin
If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
— Alexander Pope
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
— Sydney Biddle Barrows
All the things I love is what my business is all about.
— Martha Stewart
German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship.
— Suzanne Fields
Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business.
— John Moody
My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business.
— Frederick W. Smith
Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.
— Michael Gerber
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.
— Norman Ralph Augustine
That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.
— Morrissey
The government must do all it can to help reduce interest rates for business.
— Pauline Hanson
So often corporate America, business America, are the worst communicators, because all they understand are facts, and they cannot tell a story. They know how to explain their quarterly results, but they don't know how to explain what they mean.
— Frank Luntz
As you know, the business is cyclic with styles. It's no different from clothing styles.
— Juice Newton
One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it.
— Elmer Bernstein
The key to competing and surviving against Wal-Mart is to focus your business into a niche or pocket where you can leverage your strengths in the local marketplace.
— Michael Bergdahl
That's a rule in the business. No tongue. You can't really get into it, otherwise, it's weird. I think that particular scene made his (Adam Brody) girlfriend jealous. There were issues.
— Rachel Bilson
My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business.
— John Searle
What has been happening more lately - of course, I also put in my bio, I say I do the voice of Goliath, but some people go - you know, I say something, and it's a funny thing when you work in this business, people will talk out loud in front of you like you're not there.
— Keith David
Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city.
— Harold Washington
TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling.
— Tina Brown
The forefathers, including James Madison, felt very strongly that the duties that we owe to God were outside of government's prerogative, that government had no business interfering with the way we worship God.
— Roy Moore
More than 50% of significant new regulations that impact on business in the UK now emanate from the EU.
— John Hutton
I've found that in business opportunities will constantly emerge or situations develop that make you revise your plans along the way.
— Benjamin Cohen
We don't have titles on our business cards. No one really gets any special treatment. No one gets a corner office to put pictures of their family and their dog in.
— Jay Chiat
Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions.
— Ibrahim Babangida
Now everybody's got a crazy notion of their own. Some like to mix up with a crowd, some like to be alone. It's no one elses' business as far as I can see, but every time that I go out the people stare at me, with me little ukulele in me hand.
— George Formby
After hurting myself like that, I could not go back immediately to racing. I was in no condition, mentally or physically. That helped me to strengthen myself to go through the hard times that were ahead with my business, and to be successful.
— Nelson Piquet
I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.
— Carroll O'Connor
Just the fact that I've lived more, and I'm not concerned about when I am going to get my next job anymore. This business is free-lance and it's not a steady job. Younger, I would have been more preoccupied with myself.
— Raul Julia
I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
— David Byrne
Homeowners and business owners across the country agreed to pay premiums, communities agreed to adopt building codes to mitigate flood dangers, and the Federal Government agreed to provide insurance coverage to policyholders after a disaster.
— Bob Ney
You say he's childish, but he's very professional about business transactions.
— Martin Bashir
This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances.
— Ronnie Milsap
This Department of Treasury, run by this administration, using the same tried and true accounting methods that every business in America uses, cast new light on the fiscal severity that our Nation is facing, what some would call a mess.
— Jim Costa
They will therefore not be in a hurry to risk their entire business by expanding too rapidly, but they are the major indicator of whether the manufacturing industry accepts there is a sustainable business in RFID production.
— Mike Marsh
People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!
— Don Johnson
I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years.
— Gary Miller
And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.
— Shaquille O'Neal
I've been in this business my whole life. I'm pretty bulletproof as far as being hurt.
— Tina Yothers
I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.
— Marie de France
I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason.
— Jasper Johns
When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.
— Billie Jean King
Years ago I wanted to buy an apartment in New York City. I was a single female - I had gone through my divorce - I had three children, I was in show business and black. It was, like, impossible.
— Diana Ross
I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work for him in his business.
— Ernie Banks
If there's anything about the business that I love and that I'm extremely happy about, is that my career started at that time and that I met some of the greatest entertainers at that time and some are still here.
— Ben E. King
When approved, the SAFE Port Act will make progress toward protecting the physical infrastructure of our seaports as well as our national economy which is so clearly dependent on the commercial shipping business.
— Lucille Roybal-Allard
You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
— Harold S. Geneen
I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.
— Billie Holiday
I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.
— Garth Brooks
It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.
— Herbert Hoover
A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.
— Marvin Bower
All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.
— Thorstein Veblen
If you're soft and fuzzy, like our little characters, you become the skinny kid on the beach, and people in this business don't mind kicking sand in your face.
— Michael Eisner
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.
— Jerome K. Jerome
Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good.
— Thomas Wolfe
My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
— Thomas Huxley
I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
— Izaak Walton
Come to West Virginia and we'll show you how to live... how to treat people. We're open for business. West Virginia is truly on the move.
— Joe Manchin
There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media.
— Rush Limbaugh
This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and stabilize.
— Timothy Geithner
I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.
— Lucille Ball
I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded.
— Kristen Bell
Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These actors end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging.
— Matt Damon
Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.
— Richard Branson
The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially.
— Indra Nooyi
It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it's a - very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so well to finally get it done.
— Dick Cheney
The preppy lifestyle has gone global. We feel that our business has grown so well because preppy travels so well. It's all-American classic.
— Tommy Hilfiger
A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.
— Ann Bancroft
Don't solicit feedback on your product, idea or your business just for validation purposes. You want to tell the people who can help move your idea forward, but if you're just looking to your friend, co-worker, husband or wife for validation, be careful. It can stop a lot of multimillion-dollar ideas in their tracks in the beginning.
— Sara Blakely
The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.
— Barbara Corcoran
I think a book is your calling card, your business card.
— Kevin O'Leary
Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
— Nastia Liukin
Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.
— Elon Musk
Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I enjoy is running the business.
— Rupert Murdoch
The only thing harder than leaving show business is coming back.
— Dave Chappelle
To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels.
— Carl Hiaasen
I am especially grateful that I have been able to keep my own style over the decades, in spite of the many changes that have taken place in the world of fashion and in its business.
— Valentino Garavani
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
— Barack Obama
Well, basically I have a lot of friends because I've been in the business a long time and worked with a lot of people.
— Randy Jackson
The way you continue to be a successful business is you don't wait for the car to go off the cliff. You have to manage yourself. And make sure you do it in the right way so you are not making decisions in crisis.
— Roger Goodell
Success in business today requires real-time, mobile access to business opportunities.
— Bob McDonnell
I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.
— Dolly Parton
Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.
— Eminem
Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.
— Stephen Covey
Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.
— Cate Blanchett
In the political context fair means somebody that will vote for the unions or for the business. It can't mean that in the judicial context or we're in real trouble.
— Anthony Kennedy
When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!
— Chuck Norris
I believe there are three keys to success. For me it is keeping my priorities in order: It's my faith and my family, and then the business.
— Kathy Ireland
Film is a much lonelier process than theatre. You really don't have any rehearsal time in film. You don't shape it together... with theatre, there is a complete kind of family atmosphere. The sociable side of this business is the theatrical side, it really isn't the film side.
— Keira Knightley
Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.
— Muhammad Yunus
You go through this business and you meet people that you bond with, and you get to go make movies with them. It's wonderful. What I've always dreamt of, in my career, is to have a brotherhood of collaborators, and go in and out of working with them. I'm just starting to get that, and it's really lovely.
— Charlie Hunnam
You can have a wrestling idea, but you need to have these momentum-shifting moves. We had the Hulkamania movement, then it shifted to the beer-drinking, Stone Cold era, we reinvented the business with growing the black beard and becoming the bad guy, what's that next level.
— Hulk Hogan
I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.
— Tom Hanks
Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.
— Freeman Dyson
What other people think of me is none of my business.
— Gary Oldman
Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form - not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living.
— William Nicholson
You just don't have the time to worry about what others are doing. You just want to take care of your own business. You are focused on that tee shot on the 10th tee and making it to the finish line. It's one of the most stressful moments in professional golf, but you have worked so hard to get to that point, that it really is fun.
— Mike Weir
As a small business owner for the last 15 years, when I think of what truly changed my life, it was my faith, a strong family, my mom did a really, really good job of encouraging me in very clear and discernible ways.
— Tim Scott
Modelling is a silly, crazy business.
— Helena Christensen
Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
— Zig Ziglar
I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company.
— Elon Musk
If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.
— Will Rogers
No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.
— Orison Swett Marden
Your mission is to find a product or service that can positively impact the lives of 1 billion people because that's the game we're playing today.
— Peter Diamandis
The comic book world is a tough business.
— Shia LaBeouf
I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer money and then turn around and act like it's business as usual. I don't understand how they can't see that the world has changed in a fundamental way, that it is not business as usual when you take taxpayer dollars.
— Elizabeth Warren
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
— Ambrose Bierce
Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.
— Paul Ryan
I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.
— Jennifer Aniston
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
— Jane Austen
No, I did night clubs right here in Los Angeles. My partner, Phil Erickson, put me in the business, a guy from my home town, a dear friend who we just lost a couple of months ago.
— Dick Van Dyke
A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
— Stephen Covey
Business leaders cannot be bystanders.
— Howard Schultz
I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.
— Mark Cuban
Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.
— Andy Warhol
If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.
— James Surowiecki
I'll never forget that show season. It was completely mad. I was staying between Christy and Naomi's rooms and it was all limos and the Ritz Hotel and all that kind of business.
— Kate Moss
A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
— Alexander Pope
I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.
— Tiger Woods
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do.
— Paul Theroux
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
— Charles Dickens
At the end of drama school, I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I had seen enough small businesses to understand that that's what acting is: a small business.
— Hugh Jackman
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.
— Naveen Jain
There is a fundamental shift that social media necessitates in business today - the need to transition from 'Me First' to 'We First' thinking.
— Simon Mainwaring
In today's social business marketplace Facebook is one of the best places for nonprofits to be discovered and connect with a larger audience on the basis of shared values. So to get started, a non-profit should launch a Facebook page and invite your existing real world community to connect your cause and their networks.
— Simon Mainwaring
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
— Michael Korda
I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.
— Rihanna
When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.
— Michael Douglas
Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
— Gavin Newsom
The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person's e-mail and every single person's Twitter @ reply.
— Gary Vaynerchuk
Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.
— Maurice Sendak
I think, as I've gotten older I have realized what a huge privilege it is to even be in this business. I, more than ever, love what I do.
— Jeffrey Dean Morgan
In this business, if you don't pay your debts you're finished.
— Roger Stone
Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.
— Scott Adams
Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.
— James Dyson
To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.
— Paul McCartney
The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.
— Rupert Murdoch
If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something.
— Rupert Murdoch
We've got to lift our game tremendously. We'll sell our business news and information in print, we'll sell it to anyone who's got a cable system, and we'll sell it on the Web.
— Rupert Murdoch
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
— Jane Fonda
The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
— Jack Welch
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
— William Butler Yeats
It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.
— Harrison Ford
Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.
— Danica McKellar
My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, okay, if I really focus and become a key player in business, then I can build an empire.
— Nicki Minaj
Female rappers get it the hardest. You have to be a girl, yet you have to be just as hard as the guys. I think some female rappers get scared out of the business before they can make it.
— Nicki Minaj
Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it's our business.
— Gwyneth Paltrow
Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
— William S. Burroughs
And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
— Pamela Anderson
New Mexico is an environment where we are open for business.
— Susana Martinez
My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
— Ted Turner
I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone's got their own definition.
— Eric Clapton
There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.'
— Muhammad Yunus
It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I don't know. But that's fine.
— Chloe Sevigny
I founded Atari in my garage in Santa Clara while at Stanford. When I was in school, I took a lot of business classes. I was really fascinated by economics. You end up having to be a marketeer, finance maven and a little bit of a technologist in order to get a business going.
— Nolan Bushnell
When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?
— Glenn Beck
Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.
— Carlos Ghosn
Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.
— E. W. Howe
Netflix, Amazon, iTunes - whatever platforms emerge - we are looking at as having the same potential that home video had for the movie business. Which means there are entirely new opportunities to monetize our capital investment in content and do so in ways that work for distributors, for consumers and for creators.
— Bob Iger
I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
— Mel Brooks
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
— John Cleese
The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.
— Alton Brown
It is the business of the future to be dangerous and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties. 
— Alfred North Whitehead
The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like there's this one set of rules to follow to be a pop star and I think, 'Well, you say I'm a pop star, so maybe that's not true.'
— Kelly Clarkson
The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.
— A. N. Wilson
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
— Robert Browning
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.
— Robert Browning
The most important decision I've made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought everybody with me, my homies from the neighborhood, criminals. I just said, 'Come on everybody, we made it.' Then I had to realize we didn't make it. I made it.
— Snoop Dogg
I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.
— Calvin Klein
Exchange ideas frequently.
— James Cash Penney
I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier.
— James Cash Penney
No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized.
— James Cash Penney
It's getting better generally, daily, especially in TV, for women in acting; and age and looks count less. As more women come into the business. Change of any sort takes a long time to happen.
— Julie Walters
We kinda look at this as the second or third chapter of our lives. After college, most people figure out what they want to do with their lives. But we already know what we want to do in the future and that is to continue to further our business goals.
— Mary-Kate Olsen
I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun.
— Barbara Corcoran
After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.
— Billy Sunday
What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'
— Steve Ballmer
An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
— Fred Allen
Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.
— Emma Goldman
I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
We've been a bit too defensive about the European Union rules. We don't want to become protectionist and nationalist in the way we buy things but we think we could do a lot more to promote British business through procurement.
— Vince Cable
Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me.
— Justin Bieber
I've done business with people I've met in politics, who I went to law school with, who I grew up with. Who do you do business with? People you meet in life.
— Terry McAuliffe
I'm not gonna lie, I love Usain Bolt and Serena Williams. What I love about Serena is that she just gets on the floor and she dominates. She handles her business very well, I respect that.
— Gabby Douglas
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.
— Jon Bon Jovi
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
— Walter Lippmann
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
— Walter Lippmann
A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.
— Bobby Darin
Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.
— Michael Porter
Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.
— Larry Page
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
— Paul Valery
Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
— Norman Cousins
Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.
— Leland Stanford
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
— Robert Orben
It's a reality that in this business there's an expectation of being thin. But having a baby is a reality too, and it's more important for me to make milk than to fit into those tiny pants. So that's just going to have to wait.
— Emily Procter
I struggled for 15 years in this business before Miami Vice came along.
— Don Johnson
It's not government that creates jobs; it's small business. Our job is to make sure they have the access to capital, the access to contracting opportunities, and the help, advice and mentoring that they need to go out and be successful.
— Karen Mills
That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.
— Warren Zevon
You know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their ego, I sometimes think to myself, 'Come on, you know, there's life and there's death and there is love.' And all of that ego business is nonsense compared to that.
— Christine Lagarde
The one thing that's going to get you through this business is having strong roots, being grounded and knowing what is true.
— Sally Hawkins
If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing business at all.
— Leo Burnett
Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.
— Meg Whitman
Not only did I enjoy the creative side of Playboy and enjoy being surrounded by people who are curious about life, but I also love the analytical and hard business side of it.
— Christie Hefner
Never argue with a profit.
— Jeff Rich
I was raised with a sense of entrepreneurship - my father owned a roofing business, and I grew up with the idea that you never want someone telling you what you can and cannot do.
— Anthony Mackie
How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they've got that great business idea.
— Mark Burnett
Paying your employees well is not only the right thing to do but it makes for good business.
— James Sinegal
You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world.
— Alan Shepard
And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that you probably spend more time in planning and training and designing for things to go wrong, and how you cope with them, than you do for things to go right.
— Alan Shepard
Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.
— Tom Allen
I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress.
— Amber Tamblyn
To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.
— Alvin Toffler
Absolutely. I think that this is - politics is a tough business. I describe it as a full contact sport. You have to be prepared to get in there and mix it up.
— John Thune
There was never any danger of Business 2.0 ever going under.
— James Daly
Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
— Ulrich Beck
Don't simply retire from something have something to retire to. 
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.
— Grace Paley
Whenever one or more components of a company's business model changes, new business models are created for supporting companies. The changes might involve niches served, new marketing angles or improved value propositions.
— Marc Ostrofsky
After all, it's the future of business communication that we're looking toward.
— Jim Barksdale
A bankruptcy judge can fix your balance sheet, but he cannot fix your company.
— Gordon Bethune
The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
— Harold S. Geneen
Business can be a source of progressive change.
— Jerry Greenfield
Now, when we face a problem like global warming, and you understand that the biggest impacts on global warming come from business and industry, I think business needs to take a leading role.
— Jerry Greenfield
I can not, therefore, see how this can be imputed as a crime, or how any of the king's ministers can be blamed for his doing what the public has no concern in; for if the public be well and faithfully served it has no business to ask by whom.
— Robert Walpole
Movies are the shadiest business in the world.
— Jessica Alba
If you have to fight a crowd of boys, it's best to go for the biggest one. That way you won't have to fight them all. The others will see that you mean business and you will win their respect.
— Suzanne Vega
The reason why I take my life is because I want to go to my wife and boy. My usefulness in this world is at an end. I can not be satisfied in any business and can not be without their companionship.
— Alex Campbell
Advertising holding companies used to boast about their share of the advertising market. Now they are proud of how much of their business is not in advertising.
— Maurice Saatchi
I believe it is an important project, it makes the cost of doing business lower and they will make us more competitive at the same time, it will also provide some satisfaction to the people who demand services for them of the quality they want and also quickly.
— Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.
— David Geffen
As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business.
— Rocco DiSpirito
The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.
— James F. Cooper
We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and Speechless and we'd been performing that, but we don't do that any more.
— Fred Frith
Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.
— Peter Lynch
I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.
— Herb Ritts
If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
First-rate people hire first-rate people second-rate people hire third-rate people. 
— Leo Rosten
This is a business built on promotion. We've been giving music away to radio stations for 30 years.
— Hilary Rosen
Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.
— Roone Arledge
They thought that I did conceive there was a difference between them and Mr. Cotton... I might say they might preach a covenant of works as did the apostles, but to preach a covenant of works and to be under a covenant of works is another business.
— Anne Hutchinson
The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.
— Archibald MacLeish
Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.
— Olusegun Obasanjo
As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
No partnership between two independent companies, no matter how well run, can match the speed, effectiveness, responsiveness and efficiency of a solely owned company.
— Edward Whitacre, Jr.
Well, you can't trust most people in this game, period; it can be a very shady business.
— Marvin Hagler
There are too many games being developed by people that have no business creating games.
— John Romero
Business? It's quite simple it's other people's money. 
— Alexandre Dumas
I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.
— Brian Clough
Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.
— William Wycherley
It was my first big relationship and it was just very abusive. I wouldn't give him the credit of naming him, if he ever reads this. But he was older, in the music business - or so he said.
— Lisa Snowdon
I think one of the main reason's Rick Rosenthal and Whitewater PIctures decided to 'get in bed with me' on 'Fat Kid' was because I came in with a strong business plan as well as a creative vision on how to make the film.
— Matthew Lillard
Business is in itself a power.
— Garet Garrett
At CNN, our view is that good journalism equals good business.
— Jim Walton
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
— A. C. Benson
In 'The General Strike,' we celebrate those who bring a new vision for the world to the table. People who stand for workers rights, human rights, a just representative political system, and a new mode of doing business where sustainability is the norm not the exception.
— Justin Sane
There's no business like show business.
— Irving Berlin
We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
— Evan Esar
Our new attitude is how can we put you in front of our customer.
— Terry Semel
Small business in America is booming. The job creator in America, small business, is absolutely moving ahead.
— Pete Domenici
It's been a rollercoaster ride. There have been some great moments and some low points... like when I was leaving Stax. That's when I actually thought of getting out of the business.
— William Bell
I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week.
— Tony Shalhoub
Any business that is looking for new customers needs to understand the Internet and how to market their goods or services through it.
— Eric Lefkofsky
Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.
— John Ray
It's a clique and I think a clique exists in every business. There's a circle of people that are guaranteed to open a movie and we all know their names and whether they're right or wrong for the role.
— Elizabeth Pena
What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.
— Paul A. Volcker
A manager doesn't hear the cheers.
— Alvin Dark
It doesn't matter how successful you are in this business, it's tough to get through the next door.
— Kevin Sorbo
This business switching styles can't be done honestly by one man. As soon as he can play his instrument well, he can express himself, and all his life he has only one self.
— Jimmy Rushing
My father told me, never have partners.
— Howard Hughes
You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog.
— Carl Icahn
Today's business climate is not for me.
— Berry Gordy
For me, the most fun is change or growth. There are definitely elements of both that I like. Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast.
— Tony Hsieh
Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.
— Hans Eysenck
Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.
— An Wang
Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.
— Scott McNealy
Once you understand business models you can then start prototyping business models just like you prototype products.
— Alexander Osterwalder
We love our business. We have never been more enthusiastic about cable and its future.
— Brian Roberts
Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.
— Stanislaw Lem
Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.
— Stanislaw Lem
Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business!
— Roger Corman
It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
— Owen D. Young
The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
— Edgar Fiedler
Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these puppy mills out of business.
— Shelley Morrison
Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network.
— Mitchell Kapor
If you fire people, you fire customers.
— Ferdinand Piech
The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
— Blaine Lee
What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.
— Blaine Lee
This is a business. Be smart. Choose wisely.
— John Aniston
My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.
— Michael Gerber