Top 1200 Global Business 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Civil rights is unfinished business. Make it your 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.

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

I have a lot of dislike for the business end of the music business, particularly what they call shopping for a label. It can be a real stupid thing.

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.

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.

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.

I like the mode of business of aviation. It's a risky business with difficulties which you can fill with innovative ideas and different things.

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

I never aspired to be a public figure. I have always been interested primarily in real business and the development of business strategies.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

We know it (meat eating) is indisputably the number one cause of global warming. So what does it mean exactly to be an environmentalist on a daily basis if you are not thinking about the number one cause of global warming or one of the top two or three causes of all other environmental problems? Does it mean you are necessarily someone who doesn't care about the environment? Obviously not, but it might mean you have a blind spot for something big.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Getting global innovation projects right is really important as they create competitive advantage two ways. When the knowledge for an innovation is from different sites around the world, it's very much more difficult for competitors to copy these innovation - they'd have to access the same knowledge from the same places. Secondly, costs and time to market can be significantly reduced leading to first mover advantage through parallel development in global projects.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Every actor wants to direct and produce, but I made a conscious decision when I was in college to understand the 'business' of 'show business.'

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

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

What was everybody's business in the end proved to be nobody's business. Each one looked to the other to take the lead, and the aggressorsgot away with it.

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

My dad was always so strict that I was scared to speak to him. Haitian parents are very, 'This is adults' business; this is kids' business.'