Business Quotes

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

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.

We must get into the picture business. This is a new industry and a gold mine. it looks like another telephone industry.

It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priority as unfinished business from the first Bush Administration. His agenda was clear: find a rationale to get rid of Saddam.

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.

I'm sure people in the business have said: She's too old for that part. I don't hear about it because your agent protects you from those negative things.

I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.

As a former small business owner, I recognize both the important role small businesses play in our economy and the broad universe of challenges that small business owners face in trying to make ends meet.

In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing right. Show business. I owe it everything - it owes me nothing.

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.

It was the business that made Pop go away, not our inability to create.

It was just a hobby. I didn't expect it to turn into a business.

Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network.

Compared to what they were, rock concerts now are like business meetings.

Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives.

Coming into the business, you'd pass through these little agencies until you got to understand what was happening in the business, unless you were really able to have a style strong enough to go directly to the publishers.

If you stay in this business long enough, you're liable to hit it big.

You see Democrats who will demonize business. I don't do that. You see Republicans who demonize labor. I don't do that.

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

From now on, I approach the cinema as a business woman.

I want to own an NFL franchise. I understand the business of football.

I feel I belong in the movie business and I belong in the security business. It's a natural for me.

Part of the film business is, if you want an apple, you buy an apple.

In this business, I don't know how you can have a plan or how you can orchestrate anything. But I've been lucky with my choices. I'm very strong-willed, so I've been able to stick with it. I'm lucky there.

I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.

Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.

We are a business, and you do a little of what you think's right, pay your bills, and attract... a single record attracts attention to your concerts and your albums.

Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.

I struggled for 15 years in this business before Miami Vice came along.

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.