Top 1200 Business Model Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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.

If you don't invest in risk management, it doesn't matter what business you're in, it's a risky business.

There's a beauty of show business. It's the only business you can have a career in when you're dead.

If you talk to anyone involved in business - forget banks and big business - talk to small businesses - do it yourself, don't ask me - they'll tell you it's crippling. Small-business formation is the lowest it has ever been in a recovery, and it's really for two reasons. One is regulations and the second is access to capital for people starting new businesses.

I don't think I ever dreamt of going into business. No one in my family was in business.

I have a business background. I have always wanted to open my own business.

Oddly enough, government policy helped get the fast food outlets into the city. Very well-intentioned small business administration loans to encourage minority business ownership. The easiest business to get into is opening a fast-food franchise in the inner city.

We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.

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.

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?'

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.

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

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.

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

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.

Basketball is a business to me. It's entertainment; it's a business, it's very serious.

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

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

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.

Higher education is a business that doesn’t know it’s going out of business.

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

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.

When it's your own name that is the business, the business never stops.

I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life.

The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.

Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business.

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

We are not in the business of being original. We are in the business of reusing things that work.

I like to mind my business when it comes to other people's business, especially when it comes to beef.

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

I'm pro-business! But business ought to make its own money.

On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married.

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 business of feeding people is the most amazing business in the world.

Business is business, that is, you must do everything promptly; delay and shuffling won't do.

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.

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.

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.

The only currency isn't money. For me, it's about how can you build a good business that's also a social 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.

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.

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.

We need a president who realizes that there's no government business in show business.

On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married

To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.

Civil rights is unfinished business. Make it your business.

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

It's far more difficult being a small-business owner starting a business than it is for me with thousands of people working for us and 400 companies. Building a business from scratch is 24 hours, 7 days a week, divorces, it's difficult to hold your family life together, it's bloody hard work and only one word really matters - and that's surviving.

You've got to know business before you go to show business.

Working a model liberated me from ever having to hold a day job. I transitioned from doing that to working full-time as an artist. If you're 19 and living cheap, being an artist model can sustain you. I dropped out of college at 21 and my illustration hadn't yet taken off. It is more than working in a store. It is a hard way to make a living but you earn more than in a similarly unskilled job.

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 always wanted to partner with a family business because their stories inspire me. One of my biggest hopes is that the family will invest in me, educating me about their business, and imparting many other valuable lessons. This process of helping an owner transition her business to trusted hands really excites me.

When you feel like this isn't your business, get out of the business.

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.

It's a "keep your fingers crossed" business, the entertainment business.

What people do in their private lives is their business, and shouldn't be anybody else's business.

The irony is that we've seen this model work really well in Massachusetts because Gov. Romney did a good thing, working with Democrats in the state to set up what is essentially the identical model and, as a consequence, people are covered there. It hasn't destroyed jobs. And as a consequence, we now have a system in which we have the opportunity to start bringing down costs as opposed to just leaving millions of people out in the cold." "Gov. Romney said this has to be done on a bipartisan basis

The music business is really a spiritual business whether we know it or not.

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.