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When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is not a bad thing. Letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary is not a bad thing.
— Brit Hume
Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
— Plato
The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.
— Anna Sui
The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey.
— Kathryn Bigelow
Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.
— Tom Peters
You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.
— Rod Stewart
Business is a sprint until you find an opportunity, then it's the patience of a marathon runner.
— Robert Herjavec
Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual.' That is why it is effective.
— Naomi Wolf
This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.
— Lakshmi Mittal
A healthy society rests on three pillars: business, government and civil society, or non-profits. Each has a distinct and important role to play, and all three need to work together synergistically to create the most value for society.
— John Mackey
Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of the mouths of other people.
— Jane Austen
Think about when a digital business marries up with what I'll call 'digital intelligence.' It is the dawn of a new era about being a 'cognitive' business. When every product, every service, how you run your company can actually have a piece that learns and thinks as part of it, you will be a cognitive business.
— Ginni Rometty
Since I was 9 years old, I've been in the entertainment business, and everyone is always telling me what - and what not - to do... you just get a tough skin and have to not care about what people think, or you will not end up in a good place.
— Kylie Jenner
Your clients are critical to your business. Don't lose touch with who they are and why they've chosen to do business with you.
— Lewis Howes
Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
— David Ogilvy
The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.
— Henry R. Luce
Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.
— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: do more of what you do.
— David Joseph Schwartz
In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything.
— Harold Coffin
Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.
— Carly Fiorina
Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.
— Kofi Annan
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
— Thomas Paine
I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.
— Chester A. Arthur
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
— Abraham Lincoln
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
— Virginia Woolf
Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
— Thomas A. Edison
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
Almost anyone can be an author the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being. 
— A. A. Milne
It's incredibly difficult to keep a healthy body image in this business.
— Courtney Thorne-Smith
What other people think about me is not my business.
— Michael J. Fox
The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected.
— John McKinley
What I look for in a script is something that challenges me, something that breaks new ground, something that allows me to flex my director muscle. You have got to think fast in this business, you've got to keep reinventing yourself to stay on top.
— Michael Bay
I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice.
— George Mason
I don't believe we're the party of big business.
— Ed Gillespie
Fortunately, we have a lot of really smart women in the business.
— Rosanna Arquette
The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their faults and their - shortcomings, but they were not slothful in business and they were most fervent in spirit.
— Henry Cabot Lodge
Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.
— Nile Rodgers
But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.
— Erykah Badu
The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.
— Erykah Badu
My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.
— Harry Houdini
If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble.
— Henry Kravis
The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.
— Robert Anton Wilson
It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.
— Dolley Madison
When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age.
— Tim McGraw
When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected.
— Helen Thomas
Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.
— Matt Drudge
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
— Clarence Darrow
We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
— John Cage
Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.
— Jeff Bezos
The hurricane complicates things in that what would have been purely a business decision becomes a decision of the heart.
— Henry Cisneros
Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.
— Anita Roddick
For many my behavior has been a major disappointment, my behavior has caused considerable worry to my business partners, and everyone involved in my business, but most importantly to the young people we influence, I apologize.
— Tiger Woods
I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then.
— Mark Zuckerberg
I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions.
— Haley Barbour
It means a lot in my business and its a wonderful feeling to be recognized for what you have done over a lifetime, but I didn't go crazy. I still eat my cereal in the morning, have a sandwich in the afternoon, go to bed at night. You know, nothing really different.
— Regis Philbin
In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
— Barbara Corcoran
In business it is most often all about getting your foot in the door and once you do, everything opens up and things start to naturally progress into bigger and more opportunities.
— Lori Greiner
Even if the chef has a good business head, his focus should be behind kitchen doors. A business partner should take care of everything in front of the kitchen doors.
— Bobby Flay
The road to recovery is to stimulate small business and innovation by reducing taxation, regulation, and litigation.
— Sandy Adams
Writing is a lonely business.
— Sherman Alexie
Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified.
— John Sununu
I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.
— Daniel Craig
The jewelry business is a very, very tough business - tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers.
— Guy Kawasaki
In a business, you've got to move on.
— James Harden
You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'?
— Dick Gregory
Luckily, my husband is my business partner as well as my life partner, so I never had to do the heavy lifting alone, literally or figuratively.
— Josie Maran
Investment is crucial. Because the truth is, you only get jobs and growth in the economy when people invest money, at their own risk, in setting up a business or expanding an existing business.
— John Key
Many people you think are individual achievers in fact have either a strong spousal partner over many years or a business partner who's either in the background, not given enough publicity or less egocentric.
— Michael Eisner
If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him.
— Werner Herzog
If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.
— Fran Tarkenton
I have always been an honest trader. I come from a school of traders where there was honour in the deal. No contracts, just a handshake and that's it, done. That's the way I prefer to do business but it's not always possible these days, sadly.
— Alan Sugar
Set your business plan to win raise the bar or you're not going to be prepared. You need to think that what you're doing will make you $100 million. 
— Swizz Beatz
I don't care what straight people do, I don't care what gay people do. I don't care what nobody do. That's they business. I just care about what I do. You know what I'm saying?
— ASAP Rocky
Oh, I'm all about small business. I think what we've learned from big business and big Wall Street is that unchecked greed and the creation of false value gets us all in trouble. If we look at the American economy, who's really creating value? It's the small businesses.
— Robert Herjavec
The Internet is ultimately about innovation and integration, but you don't get the innovation unless you integrate Web technology into the processes by which you run your business.
— Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
If you are too proud, you don't do business.
— Marc Rich
You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
— Dale Carnegie
Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Know your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. Love what you do or don't do it.
— Mark Cuban
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
— Walter Scott
Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.
— Mark Twain
For me, it's about camaraderie. My whole life is like, if something's going on, nothing ever preceded fun. I always put my friends and the fun and the business ahead of everything.
— Ric Flair
It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
— Aristotle
We need to revise our economic thinking to give full value to our natural resources. This revised economics will stabilize both the theory and the practice of free-market capitalism. It will provide business and public policy with a powerful new tool for economic development, profitability, and the promotion of the public good.
— Paul Hawken
I love to compete. To me, business is the ultimate sport. It's always on. There is always someone trying to beat me.
— Mark Cuban
Raising the minimum wage represents a substantial financial burden for employers, particularly start-ups, early stage companies, and family-owned businesses. In response, business owners would be forced to either lay off workers or raise prices to offset the rise in labor costs.
— Fabrizio Moreira
Growing up in a very big family, working together and playing together, that is something that has been part of my life since ever I was born. It has advantages and disadvantages. It's like an older style of living where everyone works in the family business.
— Margherita Missoni
I think that if people realize that with an mp3, you're only getting five percent of the sound that's there. But when you hear the entire thing... I think it would save the music business. It's such a drastic change.
— Tom Petty
For me, the winning strategy in any start-up business is, 'Think big but start small.'
— Carmen Busquets
Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.
— Joyce Meyer
The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.
— Tom Petty
It can be easy to become 'friends' or 'connected' with someone in a digital world, but it requires thought and strategy to convert social media connections into rewarding business relationships.
— Lewis Howes
It's obviously unfair to paint with a broad brush here, but the germ of an idea for a breakthrough in technology doesn't come out of a business school curriculum. It comes out of a laboratory or a math lecture or a physics tutorial.
— Michael Moritz
The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.
— George Michael
Carpe per diem - seize the check.
— Robin Williams
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
— Woodrow Wilson
It is surprising how little most small business values the customers. A positive feedback from the customer is critical to your business, and what's more important is their referral.
— Fabrizio Moreira
The greatest asset, even in this country, is not oil and gas. It's integrity. Everyone is searching for it, asking, 'Who can I do business with that I can trust?'
— George Foreman
If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
— J. Paul Getty
As a business person, I want the world to share the prosperity together.
— Jack Ma
More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
— Rose Kennedy
The business end of business has never interested me.
— Hugh Hefner
Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.
— Herbert Simon
A large social-media presence is important because it's one of the last ways to conduct cost-effective marketing. Everything else involves buying eyeballs and ears. Social media enables a small business to earn eyeballs and ears.
— Guy Kawasaki
So much of life is a negotiation - so even if you're not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you.
— Kevin O'Leary
Doing good business - being ethical, being transparent, being caring, implementing values in your business - makes a difference, and you make money at the same time.
— Shari Arison
The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
— Warren Buffett
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
— Coco Chanel
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'.
— Paul Graham
This industry is 90 percent business, 10 percent talent.
— Pitbull
Companies that grow for the sake of growth or that expand into areas outside their core business strategy often stumble. On the other hand, companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time.
— Jamie Dimon
Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.
— Scott Adams
So we really need jobs now. We have to take jobs away from other countries because other countries are taking our jobs. There is practically not a country that does business with the United States that isn't making - let's call it a very big profit. I mean China is going to make $300 billion on us at least this year.
— Donald Trump
Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
— Lord Northcliffe
The way it works in our family is, it's the family business. Much like in the Mafia. Every child is given the opportunity to act at a young age and to learn what it's like to be in the business.
— Jordan Bridges
Business requires understanding financial matters, but management is different from running the financial aspects of the business - it requires understanding complex systems, how they operate, the nature of organisations, what happens when people interact in groups and how to motivate and guide people.
— Rosabeth Moss Kanter
When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
— Warren Buffett
Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.
— Ayrton Senna
I'm no longer an artist, I'm a business partner.
— Pitbull
Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.
— Venus Williams
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.
— Morrissey
Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.
— Howard Schultz
The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business.
— Clayton M. Christensen
Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
— Fran Lebowitz
When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That's when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.
— Vera Wang
When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make money. That's the first act of corporate citizenship. If you do that, you'll have to hire someone else, and you'll have enough profit to help one of those non-profits we're so proud of.'
— Mitch Daniels
Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.
— Danny Huston
If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.
— Bernard Meltzer
All business is basically about customers and marketing and making money and capitalism and winning and promoting it and having something someone really wants.
— Roger Ailes
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
— Howard Aiken
Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
— Thomas J. Watson
I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.
— Elvis Presley
The idea that you can create a template that will work forever doesn't happen in any business. There's some really, really bright people in this business. You can't do the same thing the same way and be successful for a long period of time.
— Billy Beane
Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy.
— James Stockdale
I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy - it's serious business.
— Maya Angelou
In business, you have to be strong. If you are weak, people are going to take advantage.
— Ivana Trump
My father was a great business leader and humanitarian who dedicated his life to the company and the community. He also was a wonderful family man, a loving husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather. He will be greatly missed by everyone who knew him, yet he will continue to inspire us all.
— William Clay Ford, Jr.
It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.
— Barack Obama
This is a business of love and labor.
— Chester Bennington
I started in the restaurant business at the age of 19 as a waitress. I loved the atmosphere and the camaraderie of the restaurant business. I loved not having to go to an office. I loved making people happy.
— Anne Burrell
You gotta have fun. Regardless of how you look at it, we're playing a game. It's a business, it's our job, but I don't think you can do well unless you're having fun.
— Derek Jeter
Sometimes, we need an obstacle to challenge us and push us further than we would if things were always status quo. I'd say one example is the market crashing. It's like, just when we started to get into a rhythm, everything changed! But, it taught us a great deal about how we do business and how we can improve.
— John Varvatos
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
— William Blake
I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.
— Eddie Huang
I have learned the hard way to mind my business, without judging who people are and what they do. I am more troubled by the lack of space being provided for the truth to unfold. Humans cannot seem to wait for or honor the truth. Instead, we make it up based on who we believe people should or should not be.
— Iyanla Vanzant
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
— Dale Dauten
A company is only as good as the people it keeps.
— Mary Kay Ash
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
— William Wordsworth
There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.
— Jeff Bezos
When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.
— Robert Kiyosaki
We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.
— Yuan T. Lee
Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I think I learned from my father the unspoken business language or instincts that go back thousands of years.
— Hamdi Ulukaya
Whenever you're sitting across from some important person, always picture him sitting there in a suit of long red underwear. That's the way I always operated in business.
— Joseph P. Kennedy
No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community.
— Marco Rubio
I'm strong and fearless and not afraid to take risks in business.
— Khloe Kardashian
The American people don't believe politicians. They don't believe business leaders or Hollywood celebrities or athletes or other supposed role models. And they certainly don't believe the news media.
— John Yarmuth
I've seen this over and over again: people love it if you step up their experience. No one turns down an upgrade to business class in a plane.
— Robert Scoble
I've never gone into business to make money. Every Virgin product and service has been made into a reality to make a positive difference in people's lives. And by focusing on the happiness of our customers, we have been able to build a successful group of companies.
— Richard Branson
It is indeed true that the stock market can forecast the business cycle.
— Paul Samuelson
It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc.
— Roger Maris
When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.
— George William Russell
It's show business. No show, no business.
— Dick Wolf
When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
— Eartha Kitt
With the growing reliance on social media, we no longer search for news, or the products and services we wish to buy. Instead they are being pushed to us by friends, acquaintances and business colleagues.
— Erik Qualman
I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal', the 'New York Times', constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.
— Barbara Corcoran
If I succeed in business but fail as a father, then I've failed.
— Mark Wahlberg
Now, when it's time to get down to business, I get down to business.
— Juan Pablo Montoya
The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.
— P. T. Barnum
Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain.
— P. T. Barnum
In business, you can have one massive success that earns $50 million overnight, and that's it. You're successful. End of story. But in the music business, you have to keep on doing it.
— Noel Gallagher
The more people you help and the more value you create, the more your business will fly - and the quicker you'll win.
— Robin S. Sharma
Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.
— Sam Walton
The chief executive officer is also the chief sales officer. He or she is responsible for the success of the company and making a profit. The closer the CEO is to the everyday selling process, bringing in business, the more successful the company will become.
— Jeffrey Gitomer
During my pre-college years, I went on many trips with my father into the oil fields to visit their operations. On Saturday mornings, I often went with him to visit the company shop. I puttered around the machine, electronics, and automobile shops while he carried on his business.
— Robert Woodrow Wilson
I think if we get freedom for women, then they are probably going to do a lot of things that I wish they wouldn't do. But it seems to me that isn't our business to say what they should do with it. It is our business to see that they get it.
— Alice Paul
Brethren, let us mind our own business - that is, the calling the Lord has called us to - to do everything we can to promote the good of the Cause of Truth, and never ask how big we are, or inquire who we are; but let it be, 'What can I do to build up the Kingdom of God upon the Earth?'
— Brigham Young
We're in the space exploration business, and the outer solar system is a wild, wooly place. We haven't explored it very well.
— Alan Stern
If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.
— Ernst Fischer
What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.
— Arnold Palmer
The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of the nation's infrastructure.
— Joe Baca
Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll always have some clean air to breathe.
— Julia Child
In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
— Noam Chomsky
If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.
— Brian Tracy
Producing suits me because I have a business mind and a business sensibility. I was a street hustler. I did whatever it took. I sold whatever I could sell. I'm a good organiser.
— Mark Wahlberg
Just like any business is a living, breathing thing, an entrepreneur has to be able to adapt over time.
— Robert Herjavec
I have a friend who is very successful in business, and his motto is, 'Don't do what you can do. Do what only you can do.' First of all, you have to know what your specific, unique gift is and then you do that... every actor does that but every once in a while an actor plays a part that only they can play.
— Rob Lowe
If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.
— Charles Kettering
I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
— Walt Disney
The beauty of the Internet is there's a niche market for everything, and if you can focus on it, you can build a sustainable and viable business of it.
— Michelle Phan
I have no idea what the economics of the movie business is, especially with all the new Amazon, Netflix, Showtime, AMC, SyFy, and HBO series. But I am intrigued with what feels like a new type of show - the six-to-eight-hour movie. It's a little too long to watch in one setting, but you can watch it over a three- to five-day period.
— Brad Feld
It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.
— Thorstein Veblen
Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
— Bill Cosby
My kids - even though it's a family business - they don't even know what day or time 'Survivor' is even on. They just know it's on TiVo.
— Mark Burnett
All lasting business is built on friendship.
— Alfred A. Montapert
So little done, so much to do.
— Cecil Rhodes
An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
— Will Rogers
You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.
— Steve Ross
I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.
— Margaret Thatcher
We must get into the picture business. This is a new industry and a gold mine. it looks like another telephone industry.
— Joseph P. Kennedy
Business today consists in persuading crowds.
— T. S. Eliot
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
For the past 32 years, I've done nothing outside the entertainment business. I've had some real highs and some real lows, but I love the work so much that I never once thought of quitting.
— Meat Loaf
I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people.
— Kevin Costner
I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.
— Michael Jackson
A government of, by and for the people is obligated to conduct the nation's business in a manner that respects dissent.
— Jim Leach
I wanted to be a writer, to write these stories that would make people see the world in a different way. But I ended up going to business school because I thought I could ultimately get to where I wanted to go faster that way.
— Jeffrey Skoll
People in business generally have a responsibility to the community. They have to put back into the community from which they take. I think I've adopted that all through my life. Caring and sharing are two major fundamentals of life.
— Lindsay Fox
Companies are bought for their revenue, customer base, technology, or people. A few great companies offer all of these, but any valuable business offers one.
— Margaret Heffernan
Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
— Warren Bennis
Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
— Ben Horowitz
I don't set out to be connected. My business has allowed me to meet lots of interesting people, some of whom have become friends; but you can't force it. This terrible word - 'networking' - I really hate.
— Ben Elliot
In show business, you had levels. I was at the top of the TV end of it.
— Gabe Kaplan
The best defence against mafia business is full declaration of assets and incomes.
— Milos Zeman
The NFL is a performance-based business, so you should have to perform to earn some of your money. At the same time, I realize that my success isn't just because of what I do out there.
— Colin Kaepernick
Everybody had to go to some college or other. A business college, a junior college, a state college, a secretarial college, an Ivy League college, a pig farmer's college. The book first, then the work.
— Sylvia Plath
CIOs have earned a strategic seat at the table, but now they've got to hold that seat - and the only way they can do that is to converse in the language of business value and business benefits and business outcomes that all align perfectly with the strategic agenda of the company.
— Mark V. Hurd
Stoutly pro-tax-cut and libertarian on social issues like abortion, Trump is a Republican with the business know-how to turn the country's economy around.
— Roger Stone
Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
— Edna Ferber
Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
— Robert Frost
I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.
— Richard Bach
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
— E. Joseph Cossman
In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.
— Bette Davis
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
— Winston Churchill
Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.
— Washington Irving
The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.
— Roy L. Smith
War is the business of barbarians.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
There's always a great deal of business to be transacted in one's office. There are always visitors it seems to me, an unending stream of them, who come with letters of recommendation, or come actually on substantive business.
— David K. E. Bruce
Ranchers need clean water for their stock, farmers need it for their crops, every employer needs it to stay in business, and every living thing needs it for life... The law needs to be clear to protect water quality and the rights of landowners.
— Mark Udall
I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good.
— Peter Cooper
We didn't know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent.
— Ruth Handler
Less emphasis on inventories, I think, may tend to dampen business cycles, because business cycles are typically in the grasp of inventory cycles and heavy industry cycles.
— Paul A. Volcker
The business always gets in the way of basketball.
— Jason Kidd
I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
— Irvine Welsh
In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.
— Billie Jean King
There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.
— Billie Holiday
The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.
— Charlton Heston
All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.
— Mark McCormack
It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.
— Romain Rolland
Never believe people in this business who say they don't read what's written about them.
— Ryan Seacrest
Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.
— Mitt Romney
Because of the economic crisis, China and the United States are bound together. This is a totally new phenomenon, and nobody will fight for ideology anymore. It's all about business.
— Ai Weiwei
In terms of the technology I use the most, it's probably a tie between my Blackberry and my MacBook Pro laptop. That's how I communicate with the rest of the world and how I handle all the business I have to handle.
— John Legend
If I was in a situation where it wasn't working and I had a choice with another man, I'm gonna assess it like a business deal: who is the better person for me?
— Patti Stanger
It's the uncertainty, the challenge and the willingness to put it all on the line that draws a lot of people to climb mountains. That can also apply to a lot of other challenges in life, whether it's running for office, starting a family, going to grad school or taking all of your cash and assets and starting a business.
— Mark Udall
I began painting well before I started doing comedy. In fact, when I came out of the war in 1946, I enrolled in art school in Dayton, Ohio. I painted for three years, and then show business took hold.
— Jonathan Winters
We live in a world where there are a hell of a lot of new inputs that need to be factored in to your business. It used to be just about your employees and your customers. Now there are all the issues about global warming, about sustainability, about ethics and now about gender and the distribution of wealth.
— Stuart Rose
If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.
— Carlos Slim
It's weird because my parents don't really understand my business. I get fan mail all day long, but if a piece happens to get to their house, they're like, 'Oh, my God, you've got a fan! You have to write them back. You have to do it!'
— Idris Elba
It is human nature, especially as we get older, to look for stability in our lives. But if you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you have to fight against that somewhat, as starting a business requires movement. You cannot stay still.
— Robert Herjavec
The movie business can be very frustrating and very circuitous; there's no straight path. You have to have tremendous perseverance, dedication and passion. You have to want it very, very badly and you have to deal with a lot of rejection.
— Denise Di Novi
My sweet spot is figuring out how to make a product that people love and how to refine it to make them love it more. All the rest is business noise.
— Nolan Bushnell
I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
— Edward Appleton
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
— Abraham Lincoln
Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
— William Arthur Ward
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
— Charles Dickens
I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.
— Ric Flair
I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.
— Jesse Ventura
I didn't realize how hard it was to run a small business.
— Andrew Mason
Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.
— John Sununu
What I tell founders is not to sweat the business model too much at first. The most important task at first is to build something people want. If you don't do that, it won't matter how clever your business model is.
— Paul Graham
In every business, in every industry, management does matter.
— Michael Eisner
You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other.
— Gary Vaynerchuk
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
— Andre Maurois
Business is a combination of war and sport.
— Andre Maurois
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
— Andre Malraux
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
— Blaine Lee
The consumer isn't a moron she is your wife. 
— David Ogilvy
If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative.
— David Ogilvy
The characteristic of great innovators and great companies is they see a space that others do not. They don't just listen to what people tell them; they actually invent something new, something that you didn't know you needed, but the moment you see it, you say, 'I must have it.'
— Eric Schmidt
Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers.
— Ross Perot
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
— Lord Acton
I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.
— Ralph Nader
Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.
— Ted Turner
If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.
— Thomas J. Watson
Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
— Thomas J. Watson
Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
— Tim Berners-Lee
Word of mouth is the best medium of all.
— William Bernbach
There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.
— Marc Andreessen
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
— Tom Robbins
I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
— Vince McMahon
There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.
— Bob Woodward
The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs what you have. The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe.
— Simon Sinek
Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business.
— Bruce Barton
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald