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Quotations on Business 1744 Quotes Found Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure environment, always looking over your shoulder, knowing that some day somebody's going to knock on your door and it's going to be your last. Christmas is over and Business is Business. Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth. If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business. We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them. There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch. I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it? Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America. I mean, that's kind of what this business is about in some ways. You're trying to make everybody like you. But you can't do that. You can't force everybody - anybody to like you if they're just not willing to do it. In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort. When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this. A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay. You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school. Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily in the business of making controversial art. Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life. 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. In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs. We are pushing ahead as fast as we can for all audiences, whether for the business user, the child, or the digital music enthusiast. I once loved this game. But after being traded four times, I realized that it's nothing but a business. I treat my horses better than the owners treat us. It's a shame they've destroyed my love for the game. We're probably doing better business than we thought we would do especially considering the disappointing way the record company has handled the album. The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not. I'm an old-timer in the business from the sense that when you do something that you feel good about there might be another person out there who feels the same way, or a hundred or a couple million. You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage. In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business. And I really believe good journalism is good business. International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood. You can say what you want to about a rapper in a movie, but look at what Ice Cube has done. Ice Cube has created more opportunities for other actors to get jobs in this business than some actors have. The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark. I wouldn't be in a legitimate business for all the money in the world. 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. Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community. I have never participated directly or indirectly in any business related to the United Nations. I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus. I think the show has sort of given me a name in this business and allowed a lot of people the opportunity to see what I can do, and it's just sort of like a sweet starting point. Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds. Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here. 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. I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor. I want everybody in the news business to think of ABC before they go any place else. If it costs us an extra few thousand dollars to do that, what does it mean? 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. Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it. Touring is really a pretty lonely business. The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch. Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But again, those advantages won't mean much if we don't do a great job with the basics of our business. At American Airlines, we have built a business around the love of travel that has lasted three quarters of a century. And I'm pretty sure we're just getting started. Despite the painful changes we have had to make, we continue to believe in the St. Louis market. And we are hoping to add flights, in a careful way, as the economics of our business improve and the demands of the traveling public in St. Louis become clear. However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions. Fortunately, we have a lot of really smart women in the business. It's unfortunate that music has become such big business. In Hollywood there are a lot of very insecure men running the business.
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