Top 1200 Business Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

Look, I've had four kicks at the can. You've had a tremendous career. We're also happy. We've loved. We've lived. We don't starve. We haven't been shot in the gut. So at that point, I started getting a little more serious about the content we were making and the business and building the business. I also became more serious about life and being happy. I got married, I have kids - I'm happy at a cellular level now.

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.

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.

It is important to remember that life is not a dress rehearsal and that none of us should waste our time on doing things that don’t spark fires within us. My golden rule for business and life is: We should all enjoy what we do and do what we enjoy.

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.

I've worked with and talked to poor people my entire life, being in the pawn shop business.

For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

If your primary focus is to get over your health problems or get past a relationship crisis so that you can return to your former life and old patterns- that is, get back to business as usual-you are not really living. The distinction is paradoxical and sometimes subtle. It's the difference between walking through your life on your way to somewhere, and walking as your life. Even if you believe that where you want to get is extremely important, that destination is secondary. Your immediate experience is what really matters. It is your life.

Everything in life and business, you only earn more if you become more valuable. Because if you can do more for people than anybody else does, you can prosper. But you can't do that unless you're constantly educating yourself with the cutting edge. My whole life, even when I had no money, I would invest in education.

The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.

You can still have a very productive, crime-free life when you're growing up in show business.

Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium, and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.'

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Life is getting better, but that won't stop a war if politicians and business people decide it's to their advantage to have one.

Ego problems are endemic in every walk of life, but in the movie business egomaniacs are megalomaniacs.

Business, like life, is about how you make people feel. It's that simple, and it's that hard.

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

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

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.

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?'

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Creativity is what will separate the winners from the also-rans in the emerging world of business - and life.

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

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.'

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