Top 1200 Business Opportunity Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

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

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.

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

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.

There will always be something down there that says, 'All right, you won the Bellator title but you never won the UFC title.' I've thought about that. I've never had the opportunity, and yes, a lot of it is my fault... but I never got that opportunity.

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

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

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

Being involved in competition is a privilege and an opportunity. Seek to make the most of that opportunity by pushing yourself to the limit of your abilities. When it is over, you will have earned the respect of your opponents, your coaches, and yourself.

The biggest thing for me with charity is awareness. Obviously as an athlete, I have an opportunity to make people more aware. The average person doesn't have that opportunity, so the best way is to spare some money, clothing, food - something. Most of us have a little excess of something that we can give.

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

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

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.

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

I never really think about my gender, first and foremost - until a door is closed to you. Until you can see a parallel opportunity with a man in a similar place in his career and you think, That opportunity is not open to me or my fellow actresses. That's interesting.

I felt that if there wasn't going to be a good opportunity, then I would just go back to second units which I love, keep working with great directors, keep learning and knowing that the opportunity would come when the time was right.

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.

Ice shows give us the opportunity to forget ourselves and just perform. They are amazing opportunities to be in front of audience to try out new material, to show new costuming. It's an incredible opportunity to do what we do without the stress of worrying about what a judge is going to say.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Football - it's not fun when you lose. That's a heartbreaking thing. But then there's a new week, and a new opportunity and I definitely get happier and happier as that new opportunity approaches. So 'win the next game,' that's my mindset.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.

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?'

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Challenge is the opportunity for greatness. People do their best when there is an opportunity to change how things currently stand. Maintaining the status quo facilitates mediocrity. Those who embrace this practice do not wish to rest on their laurels. They motivate others to exceed their limits and look for innovative ways to improve the organization.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

When I was in the business, when I was younger, it was more work for me. I didn't actually start to live my life until I left the business, and you don't want to do that.

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

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

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.

Becoming world champion is something I have worked at for my entire career. It doesn't matter to me that my first title shot is at a different weight. The opportunity is at super-middleweight and I am going to take it. But that doesn't mean I am forever going to be restricted to the super-middleweight division. I've still got a lot of work to do, a lot of unfinished business at middleweight.

Any performer would love to have the opportunity to be able to express themselves in many different areas. If you feel confident in those areas, you would hope to have the opportunity to do them, whether it's drama, comedy, musical, or whatever your interests are.