Business Quotes

I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

I've been in the bargain basement of the movie business.

German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship.

If you have to forecast, forecast often.

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.

In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.

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.

Inflation is lower and more stable and the real business cycle fluctuations are more modest.

A rise in the level of saving can reduce aggregate activity temporarily but only a sustained high level of saving makes it possible to have the sustained high level of business investment that contributes to the long-run growth of output.

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

I was raised in Hollywood and knew, from as early as grammar school, classmates who were in the business.

I'm in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't have any plans. I don't have a map. If you did in this business, you'd destroy yourself.

Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.

I started out as a business manager for a national hotel chain based in Oklahoma. I got frustrated with what was happening in the state capital - the high cost of doing business and a lack of educated workers.

The regular hours necessary to be observed by those who follow country business, are perhaps of more consequence than any of the other articles, however important those may be.

I don't accept my business the way it is, to be honest. I don't like what it's become. I don't blame anyone for it becoming the way it has. It's got its own hideous natural progression, just like world events.

Its not really about the movie business, it's about staying in the picture.

My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.

Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later, I finally got a book published. It was hard. I had no skills. I knew nothing about the business of getting published. So I had to keep working at it.

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.

There's show and there's business. Business is a whole other beat.

I enjoy the creative side of the business side of being a restaurateur. That's my thing. The thing I'm constantly thinking about is, how do you create new, interesting situations that keep people coming back?

Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don't know. I think it's a medium that really is built for the male gaze and for a male sensibility.

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.

The business of being a popular entertainer in England is just too hard.

The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence.

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.

In every business, in every industry, management does matter.