Top 1200 Business Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

I don't want to be partisan here. But please, tell me how you get out of a business recession by raising business taxes and regulations?

We now understand the distinction between startups - who search for a business model - versus existing companies - that execute a business plan.

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

A successful business is a good way to create significant wealth, but not every business will grow into a News Corporation or a McDonalds.

I started with shoes, and with hard work and discipline, the business prospered. I moved to the department store business and again, things went well.

We did not enter the search business. Google entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won't let them.

Rest in this - it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call... It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond.

At some point, practicality requires that you reach out to people in the business. You have to take care of business if you value your work.

Making a profit is no more the purpose of a corporation than getting enough to eat is the purpose of life. Getting enough to eat is a requirement of life; life's purpose, one would hope, is somewhat broader and more challenging. Likewise with business and profit.

I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And when a good business partner supports them from the side, it creates great synergy. When someone's trying to do both, I think the music gets bad and the business gets bad, too.

What's so wonderful about football and business and show business is that every time I start thinking I'm special, I get knocked on my ass.

A well-trained workforce is critical to small-business success. What I hear from business is that it's hard to find help that meets their needs.

The urge to grow and develop, present in all forms of life, becomes perverted in the Bisy Backson's mind into a constant struggle to change everything (the Bulldozer Backson) and everyone (the Bigoted Backson) else but himself, and interfere with things he has no business interfering with, including practically every form of life on earth.

An all-out trade war with China would be damaging to Disney's business and to business in general. It's something I think we have to be very careful about.

There's no difference in dealing with the music business with the majors than any other competition. The music business is way more cutthroat than any other business.

This is the hardest thing I've ever done, being in fashion business, because that's what it is at the end of the day, a business, and you have to make sure it works.

Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it's integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards. And it's much easier to do business with someone when you look them in the eye and say, "This is what we're going to do," and you understand what you each mean, and you can go away and get it done.

I was a time bomb waiting to detonate, burned out, sick of the music business, out of touch with everything and heavily abusing various substances, disillusioned with life, and intensely needed to work on my character. The only way I could see to do that was to withdraw completely from public life as I had known it before.

My wife and I set up the business, we were always very open about it and had a business author's name as many authors do.

I know that the podcast is typically something I can do forever, because it's mine; it's just me and my producer and business partner, so it's our business.

War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil.

I can give you my personal opinion: love the music, hate the business. It's a screwball business, and there are a lot of players who will straight-up lie to you.

If small business goes, big business does not have any future except to become the economic arm of a totalitarian state.

I am a big believer that you can have a successful business and give back; it's just about the intention behind starting your business.

If you are planning to start a business, and if you want that business to have a hope of succeeding, be sure you are approaching your venture from a true Entrepreneurial Perspective.

The State of Virginia is similar to a great business corporation... and should be conducted with the same efficiency and economy as any private business.

I couldn't join my husband's business as, according to my father-in-law's unwritten convention, women of the house aren't allowed to meddle in the family business.

When you enter a casino, remember that you are entering a place of business run by very shrewd business people who understand human emotions.

One thing I know in baseball is you should never be comfortable where you are. It doesn't matter who you are. It's a business. If I got traded tomorrow, no hard feelings; it's a business.

I think probably my main advice to new artists is if you want to be in the music business, you need to be dang serious about it because it's a rough business.

There will be no good business unless the majority comes to agree that we should demand more from business than large quarterly returns.

The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.

Invitations to speak upon public occasions are among my most grievous embarrassments. Why is it inferred that one is or can be a public speaker because she has written a book? Writing is a very private business. I do not know any other occupation which requires so much privacy unless it is a life of prayer or a life of crime.

Remember,the press is a business: Newspapers and magazines are in business to make money - sometimes at the expense of accuracy, fairness and even the truth.

I know enough about the business to look after myself now. I don't trust anyone else to take care of business.

University is sheltered from the business world and they think they should not have any connection with the businesses because maybe the business is dirty or not very good.

After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.

I feel incredibly fortunate I walked away, took care of other business, and then came back to show business.

Organize around business functions, not people. Build systems within each business function. Let systems run the business and people run the systems. People come and go but the systems remain constant.

There may be a point in your life in which you are drowning so fast and fighting it so furiously that you don't have the strength left to call out for help. At that point don't expect one of your friends to jump into the water, if you've spent most of your life instructing them to mind their own business.

When you grow a business, it belongs to a lot of other people besides you. As much as you want to control it, the minute you go public, it becomes a business . . .

The fact that my father set out on his own to build Hyatt - a business the family was not in and a business he was learning about as he was building it - is instructive.

The venture business is a bit of an apprenticeship business, so the firm I worked for didn't let me make an investment until I was 30. That was probably a very smart thing.

I love spreadsheets. I do all the finances. I pay the publicists. I have to compartmentalize the creative and the business, so there are sacrifices. But ultimately, I get to be the CEO of my own business.

ICG wasn't an index fund so much as a collection of venture-capital investments focused on so-called business-to-business Internet companies.

To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'

If you have so much business to attend to that you have no time to pray, depend upon it that you have more business on hand than God ever intended you should have.

From what I've seen, you either get grounded in that kind of positive thinking early on in life or you don't. Establishing priorities and using your time well aren't things you can pick up at the Harvard Business School. Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to develop on your own.

In business, you don't necessarily need heart, whereas here, in government, almost everything affects people. So if you're talking about health care - you have health care in business but you're trying to just negotiate a good price on health care, et cetera, et cetera. You're providing health. Here, everything, pretty much everything you do in government, involves heart, whereas in business, most things don't involve heart. In fact, in business you're actually better off without it.

I believe the auto business is a highly comprehensive and complicated business. It's not that easy for people simply to enter and ruin the whole thing.

Wherever you are, that’s your stage, your circle of influence. That’s your talk show, that’s where your power lies. ... You have the power to change somebody’s life. Everyone has a calling, and your real job in life is to figure out what that is and get about the business of doing it.

The one true freedom in life is to come to terms with death, and as early as possible, for death is an event that embraces all our lives. And the only way to have a good death is to lead a good life. The more we do God's will, the less unfinished business we leave behind when we die.

I manage my business; politicians are doing their business. I can only work within their rules and regulations. I can't pick up a political fight.

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.

An investor should ordinarily hold a small piece of an outstanding business with the same tenacity that an owner would exhibit if he owned all of that business.

You can spend your life trying to be popular, and that's a tricky business. You can just try to be true to yourself.

I would encourage someone to go to Brazil and try to do business there. BRIC countries get a lot of hype, but business there is brutal.

Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.

You're not supposed to go into business with the sole purpose of putting your neighbor out of business. This is not the United States of Corporate America.

... thething I am proudest of in my whole business life is that I do not take, that I never took in all my life, and never, never! will take, one single penny more than 6% on any loan or any contract.