Top 1200 Business Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

The most important thing is that you make sure you follow the music, which is a musician's way of saying follow your heart. The two things are intertwined. You know, when you even mention the phrase "music business," the older you get, the sourer it sounds. It's a terrible business, you know. Music and business have nothing to do with each other; there's no correlation, so it's always a rub. I would encourage people, don't be swayed by the music business. If you're truly, in your heart, a musician, stay one, and let the business find you.

When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice.

I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. I take half-matured schemes for mechanical development and make them practical. I am a sort of a middleman between the long-haired and impractical inventor and the hard-headed business man who measures all things in terms of dollars and cents. My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but misdirected ideas of others.

I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man.

Girls that aren't cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man.

Anyone who critically analyzes a business learns this: that the success or failure of an enterprise depends usually upon one man.

If you want to know how a man stands, go among the people who are in his same business.

We very much hope that as we get growth that we can reduce the burden of taxation, that we can reduce income tax and increase the amount of genuine free enterprise and business enterprise... This is going... toward the restoration of the personal responsibility, the independence, with every man a property owner, every man a capitalist.

How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of all you need to know the business. After that you know the business, you can - the numbers tell you what is happening. You can read with the numbers.

You can invest to create the new growth business while the core business is still growing, because new business units don't need to get big fast. But when the core business stops growing, investing to create new growth businesses becomes impossible.

The studios basically, besides developing some material, their strength is distribution. Distribution in any other business is a cost that you incur. You know, in a trucking business, you eat it. In a film business, distribution is a profit center.

How many men ever went to a barbecue and would let one man take off the table what's intended for 9/10th of the people to eat? The only way you'll ever be able to feed the balance of the people is to make that man come back and bring back some of that grub that he ain't got no business with!

When it comes right down to it, whatever business you're in, you're in the people business. After all, people prefer to do business with people and companies they find likeable.

A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

Everyone wants to call wrestling 'the business.' Why don't you treat it like a business? I don't care if you're running a diner, if you're running a car wash or a wrestling company. It's all business.

As a man and as a sports figure, you have to set limits and set boundaries on what can and cannot happen. Once you do that, your family will start to respect you. 'OK, I get it, he's all about football and handling his business,' and that's what I've done. In the past, when I was a young man - a younger man - it was hard for me to say no. Since I'm older, wiser, I know how to handle people, know how to say no, know when something is right and something wrong. I use proper judgment.

One of biggest lies in politics is the lie that Republicans are the party of big business. Big business does great with big government. Big business is very happy to climb in bed with big government. Republicans are and should be the party of small business and of entrepreneurs.

Stripe makes it easy for anyone, be it an individual or a small business or a large business, to accept credit card payments on the Internet. We want to give control to the user or the business to define what the experience looks like. We work on a website or a mobile app, or whatever between that.

If Nora Roberts were a man, she'd be on the cover of big business magazines as the next Charles Dickens.

The music business has made a 360. It's a whole 'nother game. It's not nearly what it was. And I fear for it, because, you know, with the advent of the computer and online and downloading and all these things, they have destroyed - that stuff has destroyed the record business, not the music business, but the record business. The music business is well, and it's alive and thriving. Now, I hope something happens to turn it back around to the point whereas it's - you're earning a living from writing your songs, from your work, you know, because it's not like that anymore.

It is a matter of course and of absolute necessity to the conduct of business, that any discretionary businessman must be free to deal or not to deal in any given case; to limit or withhold the equipment under his control, without reservation. Business discretion and business strategy, in fact, has no other means by to work out its aims. So that, in effect, all business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.

A basically dishonest man can survive longer in the church or the classroom than he can in the grain exchange or the furniture business.

An underpaid man is a customer reduced in purchasing power. He cannot buy. Business depression is caused by weakened purchasing power. Purchasing power is weakened by uncertainty or insufficiency of income. The cure of business depression is through purchasing power, and the source of purchasing power is wages.

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

As a young man, I think I was in a bit of the revenge business for too many years of my life.

He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.

Our party [Republicans] has been focused on big business too long. I came through small business. I understand how hard it is to start a small business. That's why everything I'll do is designed to help small businesses grow and add jobs. I want to keep their taxes down on small business. I want regulators to see their job as encouraging small enterprise, not crushing it.

Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society.

What other people think of you is not your business. If you start to make that business your business, you will be offended for the rest of your life.

I'm a black man who grew up in America. I'm a father of four children. They don't all have the same mother. I own a business.

A man in business must put up many affronts if he loves his own quiet.

The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius.

Being general manager is like being the de facto owner. It's like wearing the crown of 'Restaurant Man' without being 'Restaurant Man.' You're trying to run the business, but you're running the ranch without riding the big horse.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.

The tourist business is a trap, it is a tained honey; Man clearly should have stayed in bed, and not invented money.

It is imperative to exercise over big business a control and supervision which is unnecessary as regards small business. All business must be conducted under the law, and all business men, big or little, must act justly. But a wicked big interest is necessarily more dangerous to the community than a wicked little interest. 'Big business' in the past has been responsible for much of the special privilege which must be unsparingly cut out of our national life.

I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still don't do it.

Without music I wouldn't have the ability to be in business. The opportunity to be in business came with the finances from music and the notoriety that comes with being successful as an artist. So I see myself as an artist first, but I'm absolutely conscious of business.

There is a kind of a cascading chain, ... If one can't sell, then that business doesn't buy and that means the next business doesn't sell, and the previous business doesn't sell, and so on.

I am a woman who, you know, I run my own business. I don't need a man financially, for anything, but just to be a companion.

Sometimes you got to put somebody in their place, let them know that you mean business and you're a grown ass man.

My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards.'

Every entrepreneur, whether man or woman, should start with a robust business structure.

If I had been thinking business since I was 21, I'd be a rich man right now.

A man occupied with public or other important business cannot, and need not, attend to spelling.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency, because if you don't become efficient, you don't run a business well, and you are out of business. And I think some of those principles could be applied to leadership in Washington.

I originally thought I'd be an ordinary business man, but I really like art, so that's how I became a manga artist.

The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has given no man ability to do much, that something might be left for every man to do. The business of life is carried on by a general co-operation; in which the part of any single man can be no more distinguished, than the effect of a particular drop when the meadows are floated by a summer shower: yet every drop increases the inundation, and every hand adds to the happiness or misery of mankind.

A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man.

It is incredibly important to set goals for your business, as if you have no direction for your business, your online business will be a failure.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul.

Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.

Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.

Wipe the tears away, stand up, be a man, run your business, find a way.

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.