Top 1200 Business Environment Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Slavery was incredibly prosperous for some people, at that time. It was not a bad business plan, but it was terrible and inhumane. But as a business it worked.

When public figures think they can open a business even though they've got no business experience, it's a bad idea.

A well-managed business will have a high return on invested capital. But that's a consequence. It's not a way to manage a business.

I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.

Before I went into parliament I used to write business publications, and like many authors wrote under a business name.

I've always wanted to partner with a family business because their stories inspire me. One of my biggest hopes is that the family will invest in me, educating me about their business, and imparting many other valuable lessons. This process of helping an owner transition her business to trusted hands really excites me.

The literary aspect of the film business excites me, but show business in general doesn't take any mental giant.

The state of the economy is not the issue when it comes to growing a business. The relevant questions are always: 'What business are you in? Furthermore, is it adapting to the times?'

The common mistake that business people make is they're going to get drive-by business...Only gas stations are helped

When I was in the business, when I was younger, it was more work for me. I didn't actually start to live my life until I left the business, and you don't want to do that.

We've been in the business of regional banking, and we understand what it is to make loans, and that's the engine of growth to small and medium sized business.

The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher.

I have a lot of dislike for the business end of the music business, particularly what they call shopping for a label. It can be a real stupid thing.

Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle of our careers. It's the nature of the business.

A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.

The only currency isn't money. For me, it's about how can you build a good business that's also a social business.

I take my personal upkeep real seriously; my sense of organization and attention to detail; my memory; my business - I love the business.

The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.

It's tough for people to get into business, especially a small business.

There's only two things that I really care about - apart from family - one is business and the other is women in business.

There's show business, and the business is sometimes in capital letters. You just have to give it your best shot when up at bat.

What business would judged on the first week that it's in business?

I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.

Should a small business or a large business be able to pollute the water or the air or the food? No, I hope you don't believe that.

I want to show that you can be just as amazing as labels and compete as a business and work as a business even though you're an artist.

If you talk to anyone involved in business - forget banks and big business - talk to small businesses - do it yourself, don't ask me - they'll tell you it's crippling. Small-business formation is the lowest it has ever been in a recovery, and it's really for two reasons. One is regulations and the second is access to capital for people starting new businesses.

What was everybody's business in the end proved to be nobody's business. Each one looked to the other to take the lead, and the aggressorsgot away with it.

The music business is the most childish business in the world. Nobody knows what they're selling or why, but they sell it if it works.

What we are trying to do is to create a new business paradigm, simply showing that business can have a human face and a social conscience.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Business is usually a team sport. There isn't one great person sitting there directing things. You can't run an effective business like that.

You have to remember that Hollywood is in the business of making movies that they can sell tickets to, they're not in the business of finding great roles for actors.

I never aspired to be a public figure. I have always been interested primarily in real business and the development of business strategies.

The United States of American business pays the second-highest business taxes in the world, 35 percent. Ireland pays 11 percent. Now, if you're a business person, and you can locate any place in the world, then, obviously, if you go to the country where it's 11 percent tax versus 35 percent, you're going to be able to create jobs, increase your business, make more investment, et cetera. I want to cut that business tax. I want to cut it so that businesses will remain in the United States of America and create jobs.

It's far more difficult being a small-business owner starting a business than it is for me with thousands of people working for us and 400 companies. Building a business from scratch is 24 hours, 7 days a week, divorces, it's difficult to hold your family life together, it's bloody hard work and only one word really matters - and that's surviving.

Think about when a digital business marries up with what I'll call 'digital intelligence.' It is the dawn of a new era about being a 'cognitive' business. When every product, every service, how you run your company can actually have a piece that learns and thinks as part of it, you will be a cognitive business.

I like the mode of business of aviation. It's a risky business with difficulties which you can fill with innovative ideas and different things.

Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.

I started in the supermarket business in the early '70s. And by '75, '76, I realized you don't have a business unless you own the real estate.

There are very few people that I deal with from a business side that it's just strictly a one-sided business relationship. I think that's important.

My dad was always so strict that I was scared to speak to him. Haitian parents are very, 'This is adults' business; this is kids' business.'

God does business with those who mean business.

Every actor wants to direct and produce, but I made a conscious decision when I was in college to understand the 'business' of 'show business.'

There are fewer chemical pollutants in the air. Our drinking water is safer. Our food standards have been raised. We've cleaned up more toxic waste sites in three years than the previous administrations did in twelve. The environment is cleaner, and we have fought off the most vigorous assault on environmental protection since we began to protect the environment in 1970. We are moving in the right direction to the 21st century.

Oddly enough, government policy helped get the fast food outlets into the city. Very well-intentioned small business administration loans to encourage minority business ownership. The easiest business to get into is opening a fast-food franchise in the inner city.

We're not in the business of making doorknobs. We're in the business of people. There are things you have to do these days as a coach and as a teacher to deal with the modern athlete.

When you are in accord with nature, nature will yield its bounty. This is something that is coming up in our own consciousness now...recognizi ng that by violating the environment in which we are living, we are really cutting off the energy and source of our own living. And it’s this sense of accord, so that living properly in relation to what has to be done in this world one fosters the vitality of the environment.

The best piece of advice I've ever been given was, 'Be in the business you're in.' Don't just be a satellite around it and expect it to come to you. Be in the business you're in.

To me, the consumer-electronics business feels a lot like the PC business in the late 1980s. It's an inefficient market.

My father was a chef but hadn't owned his own business. I didn't like that. In my heart of hearts, I knew I wanted to be in business.

Luck never built a business. Prosperity and growth come only to the business that systematically finds and exploits its potential.

Meet regularly with your business team and brainstorm. Intricate business problems are mostly resolved at brainstorming sessions.

What we're going to do is try to get TSA out of the human resources and personnel business and into the security business to connect the dots.

It is evident that many wars are fought over resources which are now becoming increasingly scarce. If we conserved our resources better, fighting over them would not occur ... protecting the global environment is directly related to securing peace. Those of us who understand the complex concept of the environment have the burden to act. We must not tire, we must not give up, we must persist.

When I'm at home, I don't discuss business. I don't talk business. I don't answer the phone. It's just me, my wife, my children, my dogs. That's my world.

The First Amendment does not extend to corporations. It's a U.S. government thing. Companies can shut speech down all they want. But the thing is this is destructive. This is discriminatory. And what they're telling themselves is they're making a much more peaceful environment. "We are creating a much more conducive and productive and peaceful environment," when they're not. They're suppressing opinion. They are inflicting their own world view and demanding that it be agreed with and acceded to. And if it's not, you get fired.

How something important happens is the business of historians and newspapers, the effect it has is the business of philosophers and writers and especially poets.

We are kidding ourselves if we don't think of the drug business as a legitimate business. It's what funds governments. It's too much money to ignore.

Since I left the wrestling business and got in the Jim Cornette business, my blood pressure is down considerably.

Utah is America's best place for business because Utahns make it their business to succeed - and we have the track record to prove it.