Top 1200 Business Person Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I'm probably the only person who goes to work and says 'Wow, it's really nice here and sweet,' even in the competitive movie business.

Nothing's worse than a business person who sells out to the left, if you're a capitalist, stand up and be counted.

When you're your own business, and my business is called Nita Strauss Incorporated, and I am my business, so it's not like I get to stop working at 5 p.m. and go home and do other things. It's a full-time job.

Everyone in show business makes these sweeping, "I'll never work with so-and-so again," because that's the way you feel at the moment. It's a business where there really is no point in ever saying never. There are people I've sworn that I would never go near again, and then you see an interesting role that would put you opposite that person and you think, "Well, we'll work together, maybe they were having a bad year."

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

For a male person bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes.

To fix the business, to bring it back to health, you must assimilate enough of the disruptive innovation to modernize the operating model without jettisoning your business model. This typically requires new leaders and definitely requires new (if temporary) rules. The CEO is the only person who can dictate the correct terms in a timely manner and maintain the enterprise's commitment to those terms for the duration of the rehabilitation effort.

Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That's not a criticism; they're passionate about cutting hair or cooking food, and that's why they got in the business, not because they have an MBA.

The people on the business side in the music business are kind of different from the theatre business. I think it's partly because there are different pressures on the industries.

I have sometimes, probably, forgotten - and I know I have - to pat the back of someone or said thank you enough times or maybe even once sometimes I wish I were perfect. I wish I were just the nicest, nicest, nicest person on Earth. But I am a business person.If I were a man no one would ever say that I was arrogant.

If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

Business is the force of change. Business is essential to solving the climate crisis, because this is what business is best at: innovating, changing, addressing risks, searching for opportunities. There is no more vital task

A wise person does not undertake any business with the risk of losing the capital money in search of making a profit.

Everything's a business. Love, truth, beauty. Conversation is a business. Spirituality is not a business, so it's going to go against the grain of people who are trying to exploit other people.

When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business.

Gavin Lambert was the first person in the movie business my wife and I met when we moved to Los Angeles in 1964.

I'm the kind of person that when I saw a lack of African Americans in the apparel business, that was something I set out to do, and I lead by example.

Businesses can lead with their values and make money, too. You don't have to simply be purely profit-driven. You can integrate social and environmental concerns into a business, be a caring business, be a generous business and still do very well financially.

Inside each of you is a rich person, a poor person & a middle class person. It is up to you to decide which person you become.

My family was in two businesses - they were in the textile business, and they were in the candy business. The conversations around the dinner table were all about the factory floor and how many machines were running and what was happening in the business. I grew up very engaged in manufacturing and as part of a family business.

Interest in business ethics courses has surged, and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making business serve long-term social values.

A successful business maximizes the present value of future earnings. The first requirement, therefore, of business success is sustainable profits. One-time winnings, in business as in casinos, are disappointing. We expect more from our investments than that.

I believe that business shouldn't be done in the public's eye anyway. And I believe that business shouldn't be handled in the magazines anyway. Business should be handled in the room amongst the people you're doing business with.

Winding up unfinished business with another person can give you a great burst of positive energy.

I entered the modeling industry as a business person already. I always knew I belonged on the other side of the camera.

As a business owner or manager, you know that hiring the wrong person is the most costly mistake you can make.

Since Im in the entertainment business, I think I have to hold a mirror up to myself and say, Am I complicit in miseducating and misinforming our youth by participating in this business, or can I use this business to re-educate and uplift?

I believe in evolution and I think when it comes to business and the roots of business and the fundamentals of business, I don't think that ever changes. I think the idea of change is an illusion, but in nature it's necessary to change and perhaps business is a part of nature. I'm not totally sure.

Money is not my business; my thinking is my business. I don't have any other business.

A mediocre person tells. A good person explains. A superior person demonstrates. A great person inspires others to see for themselves.

If you respond to pop music as an older person, then it's your game. But this business has a tremendously visual focus.

Charity itself consists in acting justly and faithfully in whatever office, business and employment a person is engaged in.

I can reinvent myself. This is why I've stayed such a long time in the business: because I always change; I'm never the same person.

A person who hasn't grieved a significant loss has unfinished business inside and can cause others great grief as a result.

We need a variety of input and influence and voices. You cannot get all the answers to life and business from one person or from one source.

Stop trying to protect, to rescue, to judge, to manage the lives around you... Remember that the lives of others are not your business. They are their business. They are God's busineess... Even your own life is not your business. It also is God's Business. Leave it to God.

A good leader is not necessarily the most popular person in their business, but the best ones are liked because they are respected for their clarity and vision.

Being Asian in this business is something you have to consider, because sometimes people aren't as open. They'll say, I can't see you with a Caucasian person.

The most important job of the entrepreneur begins before there is a business or employees. The job of an entrepreneur is to design a business that can grow, employ many people, add value to its customers, be a responsible corporate citizen, bring prosperity to all those that work on the business, be charitable, and eventually no longer need the entrepreneur. Before there is a business, a successful entrepreneur is designing this type of business in his or her mind's eye. According my rich dad, this is the job of a true entrepreneur.

One of the big failings of art schools is that students aren't given any teaching on how to survive as a one-person business, which is what it is.

When all is said and done, what must be remembered is a newspaper is a business. It used to be a fabulous business that made extraordinary margins. It's now a very good business with appropriate margins.

Our goal with the state's online business portal is to provide a seamless digital solution to current and potential business owners with full-service, personalized guidance about planning, starting, and operating a business in Connecticut.

It is true [the risk for travel is greater] for we now operate in a global market. Business travelers are conducting business all over the world as if they are conducting business in their own backyards.

There's no question that positive thinking has a place in business. [...just as it has in the the rest of a happy, successful person's life.]

I think 'Shoe Dog' by Phil Knight is the best memoir I've ever read by a business person.

A person in the business of defending criminal cases is going to live in controversy all of his or her life.

The humanities of business in this age have become more important than the techniques of business. Each business and industry has to sweep the public misunderstandings and the false notions off its own front walk. Thus will a pathway be cleared for popular appreciation of the important rule of business in our freedom and in our way of life.

It's a funny line when you're walking - the creativity, the subjectivity versus the objectivity, creativity versus the business, and recognizing that you are in the music business, so there are certain things that you have to acquiesce to on the business side and certain creative decisions that you have to make for the purposes of serving the business side of it.

The jewelry business is a very, very tough business - tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers.

The business of business is relationships; the business of life is human connection.

We should want small business, large business all doing well. We shouldn't want to punish them for the simple reason that they've gone into business, which is what the Democrats do.

The person who I admire most in business is Warren Buffett. He is a long-term investor and has brilliant ideas, and he sticks to them.

You know I think if the people who work for a business are proud of the business they work for, they'll work that much harder, and therefore, I think turning your business into a real force for good is good business sense as well.

I'm pretty open book, I'm also the kind of person that will say, 'That's none of your business,' too.

Anti-Semitism has no business infiltrating American politics, it has no business infiltrating our college campuses, and it has no business in the halls of Congress.

School taught me how to do a 9-5 job rather than be a person who wants to start a business.

Since I'm in the entertainment business, I think I have to hold a mirror up to myself and say, 'Am I complicit in miseducating and misinforming our youth by participating in this business, or can I use this business to re-educate and uplift?'

What I will say is that business is not a nice area. And you might say that I am a business woman, but I'm not into cut-throat business moves.

I was never one to seek out the spotlight. I am kind of a private person, so I don't miss that part of show business at all.

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