Top 1200 Business Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

There?s no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that he?s chosen the wrong business is to let him try it.

Predictions are uttered by prophets (free of charge); by clairvoyants (who usually charge a fee, and are therefore more honored in their day than prophets); and by futurologists (salaried). Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist's business is lying.

I don't think the music business is a very good business to be in.

Be not too presumptuously sure in any business; for things of this world depend on such a train of unseen chances that if it were in man's hands to set the tables, still he would not be certain to win the game.

I stayed in show business to pay for my animal business.

I don't want to be in the film business. I'm not even sure it's a business.

Unless a man has pity he is not truly a man. If a man has not wept at the worlds pain he is only half a man, and there will always be pain in the world, knowing this does not mean that a man shall dispair. A good man will seek to take pain out of things. A foolish man will not even notice it, except in himself, and the poor unfortunate evil man will drive pain deeper into things and spread it about wherever he goes.

I strongly believe the business of a business is to improve the world.

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.

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.

Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?

The business end of business has never interested me.

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?

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

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.

The main professional responsibility of a person in business is business.

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

Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

Regardless of how me or this man right here or anybody else in this business get, when we walk on an airplane in first-class looking like this, we're gonna get searched.

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

I'm not in show business; I'm in the communications business. That's what it's about for me.

If you make it difficult to do business, there's not going to be any business.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

I grew up thinking of show business as a business.

I'm a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I'm no cheek turner. I got no respect for a man who won't hit back. You kill my dog, you better hide your cat.

Small business is big business in the state of Alabama.

When you're in show business no matter what you're doing it's an insecure business.

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

The commercial airplane business is an incredible growth business.

You of the West are practical in business, practical in great inventions, but we of the East are practical in religion. You make commerce your business; we make religion our business.

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.

I don't trust a man who talks about ethics when he is picking my pocket. But if he is acting in his own self-interest and says so, I have usually been able to work out some way to do business with him.

This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men; inasmuch as I am prone tocount myself relieved of any responsibility to behave well and nobly to that person who I pay with money, whereas if I had not that commodity, I should be put on my good behavior in all companies, and man would be a benefactor to man, as being himself his only certificate that he had a right to those aids and services which each asked of the other.

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

James Brown was the Monday-to-Friday guy. He was the hardest man in show business. He was like your dad and your uncle: He showed up, and he hit hard.

The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.

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.

A woman may be beautiful but have poor character. A man may be a business genius, making money left and right, but lack common courtesy, sensitivity, and compassion.

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.

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.

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

If they blow it [the world] up, that's not my business. My business is to work.

For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.

If you are in the world of business, that means you are in the business of making money.

One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other men.

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

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 want to be in this business as long as this business will have me.

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.

There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.

When a man is willing to set aside the legitimate appetites of the body to concentrate on the work of praying, he is demonstrating that he means business, that he is seeking with all his heart, and will not let God go unless He answers.

Though inclination be as sharp as will, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect.

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.

Washington has to become an ally of business, not the opposition of business.

Know the business, learn the business, own something.

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

The profitable part of the online business is very likely several years away. Entering the business because it's the hot topic of the day doesn't make a profitable business nor satisfied customers. That's why it will be a part of Nintendo's strategy, not the mainstay, as other companies are attempting to do. There still are too many barriers for any company to greatly depend on it.

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