Top 1200 Business Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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.

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

I am proposing to create another kind of business, based on "selflessness" that is in all of us. I am calling it social business.

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.

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.

If we're going to forecast the business cycle, surely it is a good idea to know the business cycle. Sounds reasonable, but it's not that easy.

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.

Once you understand business models you can then start prototyping business models just like you prototype products.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I have the disadvantage of not being sociable. Wall Street men are fond of company and sport. A man makes one hundred thousand dollars there and immediately buys a yacht, begins to race fast horses, and becomes a sport generally. My tastes lie in a different direction. When business hours are over I go home and spend the remainder of the day with my wife, my children, and books of my library. Every man has natural inclinations of his own. Mine are domestic. They are not calculated to make me particularly popular in Wall Street, and I cannot help that.

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

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

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.

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.

(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.

Remember, don't let the pressures of doing business get in the way of what doing business is truly about: building relationships with people.

I'm regularly speaking at London Business School and Harvard Business School. They're the next generation of leaders in the fashion industry.

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.

Most people that work in [show] business, if they're not gypsies by nature, become gypsies, just because of the reality of this business.

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

[Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external things—property, houses, money, concepts of power. He lives in his cities and his factories, in his business and job and art. But having projected himself into these external complexities, he is them. His house, his automobile are a part of him and a large part of him. This is beautifully demonstrated by a thing doctors know—that when a man loses his possessions a very common result is sexual impotence.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business.

I still like to play the guitar, but I rarely have anything to do with the music business these days. I mean, there is no music business anymore, is there?

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.

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

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.

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.

My business is not reading your messages. I don't have a business doing that. And it's against my values to do that. I don't want to read your private stuff.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

If you have a business model that relies on customers being misinformed, you better start working on changing your business model.

I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't die, it just moved to Nashville.

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

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

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.