Business Quotes

Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.

I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.

I called my business manager in California and said, 'Sell all of my stock' - what little of it I had - and it's the only smart financial move I ever made.

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.

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.

I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.

International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood.

We're probably doing better business than we thought we would do especially considering the disappointing way the record company has handled the album.

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

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.

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.

Modeling is a lonely business... You don't speak. You don't really portray anything but an image... the business is so superfluous about dealing with the outside, it messes with your mind.

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.

If I didn't get a job, between 16 and 18, that wasn't significant, I was just going to go to college. I didn't want to be a struggling actor at 36 with five kids, doing something I hated. You see the story so much. It's such a vicious business to be in when you're not meant to be in it.

I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business.

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.

My father was never around. It was almost as if he didn't exist. I would tell my friends he was in Cleveland, on business. Sometimes, every six months or so, he would come by for dinner.

Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.

The road to recovery is to stimulate small business and innovation by reducing taxation, regulation, and litigation.

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.

If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.

Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth.