Top 1200 Business Environment Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth.

A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the dollar, but is due to pride in one's work, the pride that makes business an art.

Models are a business, and they have to treat themselves as a business, which means they have to take care of themselves and give up all the young joys.

I think a lot of entrepreneurs think they need money to build the business faster when they actually haven't figured out the business equation yet.

Trump is bringing his business acumen to politics. That's something that politicians don't have: business acumen, many of them. And so they don't recognize it, and they don't understand it.

If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong either with you or with your business.

Every film may not be appropriate for a theatrical release, and the theatrical business is not a very good business for anybody except the distributor.

I never learned management. I never went to business school. I'm an artist. I happened to have really clear ideas of what I thought my business should be.

I left my business to run for the Senate because I believe the government needs to run more like a business.

The big thing I learned from Chris Rock was not to be a victim of show business. Don't let show business push you around.

The big business, Hollywood? I don't really work in that business. I peripherally work in it, but I'm not involved in it the way some people are.

I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.

Impact investment is an important business driver, and more importantly, it is a business driver because clients want it.

Marriage is work. Get it out of your thick skull that marriage is, 'Oh, we got married and now we just live forever wonderfully.' It's work. It's just like starting a business: You're going to bicker with your business partner, but you don't leave the business partner. You work it out.

The Rotary Club will do the work, because business people are busy. But the impact and the value of this will be to the business.

We see - every week or two, we see another story of a small business that went out of business because Donald Trump.

I don't think this business encourages you to be present. This is a business that's always pushing you to think about your next thing.

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war.

Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world.

I like the fact that now my understanding for entertainment and the entertainment business is completely different from what it was when I first came in. I get the business side of it.

Finance went from being a small business, effectively, to being a big business. In part, that's the growth of the world's wealth. That's called savings.

I have almost no interest in quarterly reports. Running a business or investing in a business based on quarterly earnings doesn't make any sense at all to me.

I'm about business. I'm going to handle business like a professional. Aside from that, I'm going to give you everything I've got on every snap.

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitude and expectations. If we feel that our environment could stand some improvement, we can bring about that change for the better by improving our attitude. The world plays no favorites. It's impersonal. It doesn't care who succeeds and who fails. Nor does it care if we change. Our attitude toward life doesn't affect the world and the people in it nearly as much as it affects us.

If I put myself on the side of those who see the world as warming up in a bad way, who see the general march of industrial culture as something undesirable, the one thing I must be beware of doing and which my colleagues on that side don't beware of doing, we must beware of saying we've got to stop changing the environment. There is no 'the' environment which we can change, the world is changing all the time.

Well, California used to be in the dream-making business, and unfortunately what's happened I think we're now in the dream-breaking business.

The business of Mr. Bennett's life was to keep his daughters alive. The business of Mrs. Bennett's was to get them married.

It's wherever business rules, business is going to get the politicians they want because they control the money and money controls the power.

When you're an adult designer, you're either running a business or you're helping someone else's business run. Either way, that's a lot of pressure.

The IT organization can't drive or lead a digital transformation. It has to come from the business and the business strategy, because they're fundamental to how a company or an organization evolves.

I'm 43 years old, and I know who I am, and I own my mistakes. They're my business. And when somebody who doesn't know me has an opinion, it's none of my business.

All too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.

The mixing of politics and business not only is detrimental to politics, as is frequently observed, but even much more so to business.

If you ask me, 'So what is your business model?' Our business model's always about shifting to higher value opportunities.

In the music business, especially the country music business, every 10 years or so you're going to have this changing of the guard, this wave of new artists that comes in.

The lens through which I view the media world is pretty simple: If you are in the business of sucking up attention, then you are in the media business.

When you start in that [model] business the rules are imposed upon you, but when you stay in the business long enough the rules could be broken.

We've been in the Mac software business for more than 20 years. And it's been a great business for us.

The theater business has allowed me, in a way the movie and TV business has not, to do very, very interesting work. So that's what I do.

Yes, green business is good business. But it's not just about making money. It's about being responsible.

I came to music and knowing a little bit about life, and I came to music knowing a lot about business - and that's a real advantage. By the time I came to music, I had purchased real estate, opened restaurants, and been in the business world, so the music business didn't blindside me.

It's very difficult for an entrepreneur to let go. It's very hard to sell a successful business. People sometimes hold on until the business has no value at all.

You sit here for days saying, this is a strange business. You're the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine.

I've done business with people I've met in politics, who I went to law school with, who I grew up with. Who do you do business with? People you meet in life.

If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong, either with you or with your business.

Man is suddenly becoming aware that by an ill-considered exploitation of nature he risks destroying it and becoming in his turn the victim of this degradation. Not only is the material environment becoming a permanent menace - pollution and refuse, new illness and absolute destructive capacity - but the human framework is no longer under man's control, thus creating an environment for tomorrow which may well be intolerable. This is a wide-ranging social problem which concerns the entire human family.

(Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation of profit, it is the avoidance of loss

Business plans are the tool existing companies use for execution. They are the wrong tool to search for a business model.

The television business, by virtue of what's happened to streaming, it's really turned the traditional television business upside down.

Sirius and XM went on air in 2001. It's taken 14 years for that to be a real business. It took them combining to be a real business.

If your business depends on you, you don’t own a business—you have a job. And it’s the worst job in the world because you’re working for a lunatic!

In my cheapest moments I am apt to think that it is n't my business to be "seeking the spirit," but as much its business to be seeking me.

When you're an adult designer, you're either running a business, or you're helping someone else's business run. Either way, that's a lot of pressure.

Yeah, me and Q-Tip is cool outside of the business, but you know, within the business sometimes it can get ugly, you know what I mean?

There are the fundamental core values of the Democratic Party, which is to work to grow the economy, to create jobs, to encourage small business, to encourage ownership, to expand access to quality health care, to enhance opportunity by making higher education more affordable to American's young people, to have our children live in safe neighborhoods, drug-free, crime-free, and a safe and clean environment, first and foremost to provide for the national defense, to protect and defend the American people, and to have accountability for our budget and for our spending.

The basic problem is with the business model of journalism. That business model is premised on the idea that talk is cheap and reporting is expensive.

We own 18 percent of just the PC business. Now that's only about 60 percent of our business today.

That's something you can't get off the wires in New York is people providing intelligent coverage of what your theater company in Podunk is up to. Many of the people who write what we call amateur criticism are professionals in anything other than name and receiving a paycheck. Very often, they know more than the professional critic who might be writing for their local newspaper. So, really, I'm all for it. It's changing the playing field, it's shaking things up, it's going to make the critical environment a healthier environment.

You must be very creative in our business. Creating in this business is making something new, but it is also touching on something old.

When you're in a commodity business, the only way to thrive is to be a low-cost producer. And when you're selling money, you're in a commodity business.