Top 1200 Business Person Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I only do business with the people I do business with. The people I do business with find out I do business with the people I don't do business with.... I can't do business with you.

One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.

I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice' was a business book. I'm very surprised and gratified that the business world thought it was one.

I'm the best person ever to have a column in this business. There's never been anybody in my league.

No matter what business you're in, business is business, and financing and money are critical. I would have made a lot fewer mistakes if I had more schooling in that area.

I want to be remembered as the football player I was. The private person is nobody's business.

Tyra the businesswoman is very close to - and I hate third person, but you said it, oh, chiiild, you said it - but me the businessperson and me the person: very similar. I can be in a business meeting and be all 'Wooo!' and 'Oh, child!' and still be talking revenues and profits and cash flows.

The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn't happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.

Retire for what? What would I do? I made my name as a person that is helping. I'm like Moses in the music business.

I think it's really important to have a life outside of this [movie] business and just be the best person you can be.

A problem with school is that you often become what you study. If you study, let say cooking, you become a chef. If you study law, you become an attorney, and a study of auto mechanics makes you mechanics. The mistake in becoming what you study is that, too many people forget to mind their own business. They spend their lives minding someone else's business and making that person rich

I think I probably got a lot of my father's natural security or ego or whatever. I can be my own person and not have to live under his shadow. I definitely look up to him in many ways - I'd like to be more like him when it comes to business - but I think I'm such a different person, it's hard to even compare us.

Governments should not be able to bulldoze a person's home or business to benefit other individuals.

I can find only three kinds of business in the universe: mine, yours and God's. Much of our stress comes from mentally living out of our business. When I think, "You need to get a job, I want you to be happy, you should be on time, you need to take better care of yourself," I am in your business. When I'm worried about earthquakes, floods, war, or when I will die, I am in God's business. If I am mentally in your business or in God's business, the effect is separation.

If you can't admit a failure, you're not an entrepreneur. You are not a good business person. There's nothing brilliant about what you are doing.

I'd go nuts. Because people look at the same passage and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person will say it's absolutely idiotic. I mean, there's no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.

The business (and person) who tries to be everything to everyone ends up being nothing to anyone.

I enjoy being part of the entertainment industry, although I'm the laziest person that I've met yet in this business.

But what we know, we who are either observers of a business we once were in and loved, or are people within it now, our business as a whole, when it is not obsessed with the business of business, is eaten up with a form of cultural conservatism which is truly amazing. Indeed, more often than not it is eaten up with pure reactionary-ism.

The strongest argument for free enterprise is that it prevents anybody from having too much power. Whether that person is a government official, a trade union official, or a business executive. If forces them to put up or shut up. They either have to deliver the goods, produce something that people are willing to pay for, are willing to buy, or else they have to go into a different business.

For a long time, the film business was a single-digit business on investment return. Now, because of home video, it's a low double-digit business, and the studios want to make sure it doesn't go back into the single-digit business.

When I started my last business, I didn't receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can't handle that pressure.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

In the restaurant business, if you break even, you're lucky. It's a really hard business, it's a survival business.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10 percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

As it turns out, I can see I'm quite a business-minded person as I've developed.

I see top business schools working to bridge this gap [between academic research and business application] by respecting executive education, by having more mature students who proactively draw from faculty what they know they need, and by having faculty who are willing to leave their ivory towers for the murky world of business reality. Unfortunately, at other times, business professors have little or not interest or savvy about business issues.

Yes, I love the movie business. In fact, there's no business like show business.

This industry is a business - I'm a business myself, and I want to be able to run my own business.

It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style.

Growth does not always lead a business to build on success. All too often it converts a highly successful business into a mediocre large business.

Honestly, if I could be anything, I'd love to be a small-business authority type of person.

It's very rare that a person, especially in his twenties and thirties, can do more than one business and do it well.

It was very important to me that I be my own person. That's why I chose show business.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

If you own a wonderful business...the best thing to do is keep it. All you're going to do is trade your wonderful business for a whole bunch of cash, which isn't as good as the business, and you got the problem of investing in other businesses, and you probably paid a tax in between. So my advice to anybody who owns a wonderful business is keep it.

I hope that I have gained some wisdom, but I don't know. I have kids, and that certainly puts things into perspective. I think I'm a more patient person. I hope I'm a more patient person. I'm a little more relaxed about the peripheral side of this business, which I used to find very confusing and alarming.

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

When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.

You can't do a good business with a bad person. Find the right people to work with and you can't go wrong.

Yes, some banks will only float good companies. But others could not give two hoots if you have a business, a business plan or any business experience.

I've never been a business person, nor have I ever pretended to understand the first thing about it.

If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff.

I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.

I personally, only work with people in my business who show excellence. I have a business, the business of enlightenment.

It is a business. I know we, as athletes and owners and people involved with the NBA, never want to say that it's a business and things like that. It is a business.

I must be the only person of my age who doesn't have a bloody gong. They are so common in show business.

I've been a business person for 30 years. I started my own companies; I've invested in others.

Meanwhile, the empty forms of social behavior survive inappropriately in business situations. We all know that when a business sends its customers 'friendly reminders,' it really means business.

If you are going to survive in business, show business or any business, then you have to be bold.

Business is not a science; it is not susceptible to experiments that can be controlled and replicated. Everything in business is too unpredictable for that - every business, employee, product, market is different and keeps changing.

I'm not good at doing show business; I'm a theatre person. I don't reveal anything about my life.

The person who insists on using yesterday's methods in today's world won't be in business tomorrow

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

We need government and business to work together for the benefit of everyone. It should no longer be just about typical "corporate social responsibility" where the "responsibility" bit is usually the realm of a small team buried in a basement office - now it should be about every single person in a business taking responsibility to make a difference in everything they do, at work and in their personal lives.

I am a very hands-on person, and I like to be involved in driving my business.

Business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important cause of business frustration and failure.

Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.

Will Ferrell is my new favorite person in the business. He's a completely adorable man.

A person who willingly goes into business for themselves - and intentionally seeks out 'solopreneurship' - is insane!