Top 1200 Global Business Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I can give you my personal opinion: love the music, hate the business. It's a screwball business, and there are a lot of players who will straight-up lie to you.

A successful business is a good way to create significant wealth, but not every business will grow into a News Corporation or a McDonalds.

There will be no good business unless the majority comes to agree that we should demand more from business than large quarterly returns.

I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And when a good business partner supports them from the side, it creates great synergy. When someone's trying to do both, I think the music gets bad and the business gets bad, too.

The State of Virginia is similar to a great business corporation... and should be conducted with the same efficiency and economy as any private business.

You're not supposed to go into business with the sole purpose of putting your neighbor out of business. This is not the United States of Corporate America.

Organize around business functions, not people. Build systems within each business function. Let systems run the business and people run the systems. People come and go but the systems remain constant.

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.

Almost every business is regulated by the state. So if you're going to say, 'If you own any business, you shouldn't run for public office,' I don't think that's what we want.

The venture business is a bit of an apprenticeship business, so the firm I worked for didn't let me make an investment until I was 30. That was probably a very smart thing.

For Central Virginia small business owners, their business is more than a building, a sign out front, or an income - it's their lifelong dream.

I would encourage someone to go to Brazil and try to do business there. BRIC countries get a lot of hype, but business there is brutal.

I think probably my main advice to new artists is if you want to be in the music business, you need to be dang serious about it because it's a rough business.

Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.

As business moves forward, you realize that God has his hand on the whole business and that he brought people to you who are like-minded. It starts with faith.

After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.

An all-out trade war with China would be damaging to Disney's business and to business in general. It's something I think we have to be very careful about.

I believe Business Objects is on the cusp of becoming a multi-billion-dollar sales company. There is tremendous growth potential for business intelligence.

The denigration of business hurts America, because the secret sauce for our economy is confidence. I don't want to hear that nonsense that all business is bad.

Rest in this - it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call... It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond.

I am personally interested in more than just business schools. However, life has been good to me, and it's been good to me through a business career. I think the chance to help strengthen the foundation of young people going into business, as I did, just appeals to me.

There's the trope about an impending "global-warming encyclical." The pope is preparing an encyclical on nature and the environment, including the human environment (which includes the moral imperative of a culturally affirmed and legally recognized right to life from conception until natural death). So what happens? A low-ranking Vatican official for self-promotion gives an interview to the Guardian in which he claims that this is a global-warming encyclical - which he couldn't possibly have known, as the document wasn't drafted yet.

I know enough about the business to look after myself now. I don't trust anyone else to take care of business.

The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.

This is the hardest thing I've ever done, being in fashion business, because that's what it is at the end of the day, a business, and you have to make sure it works.

I believe the auto business is a highly comprehensive and complicated business. It's not that easy for people simply to enter and ruin the whole thing.

In business, you don't necessarily need heart, whereas here, in government, almost everything affects people. So if you're talking about health care - you have health care in business but you're trying to just negotiate a good price on health care, et cetera, et cetera. You're providing health. Here, everything, pretty much everything you do in government, involves heart, whereas in business, most things don't involve heart. In fact, in business you're actually better off without it.

ICG wasn't an index fund so much as a collection of venture-capital investments focused on so-called business-to-business Internet companies.

When you enter a casino, remember that you are entering a place of business run by very shrewd business people who understand human emotions.

The fact that my father set out on his own to build Hyatt - a business the family was not in and a business he was learning about as he was building it - is instructive.

I know that the podcast is typically something I can do forever, because it's mine; it's just me and my producer and business partner, so it's our business.

I love spreadsheets. I do all the finances. I pay the publicists. I have to compartmentalize the creative and the business, so there are sacrifices. But ultimately, I get to be the CEO of my own business.

Business, properly understood, is so central to every aspect of our civilization that Republicans should proudly announce that they are indeed the party of business.

What's so wonderful about football and business and show business is that every time I start thinking I'm special, I get knocked on my ass.

I started with shoes, and with hard work and discipline, the business prospered. I moved to the department store business and again, things went well.

My message to business leaders is clear: If you are looking to expand your business and boost the bottom line, there is no better place than Utah to do it.

An investor should ordinarily hold a small piece of an outstanding business with the same tenacity that an owner would exhibit if he owned all of that business.

I'm a committed Christian. I worship in my own way. That's my business. That's not the business of the pharisees who are going to preach to me about what I do and then do something else.

When you grow a business, it belongs to a lot of other people besides you. As much as you want to control it, the minute you go public, it becomes a business . . .

Like most business people, I want every aspect of my business to be perfect. I know that this goal is unachievable, but it is nevertheless what I strive to achieve .

Most people who get into the business are social animals by nature, but do they have the financial abilities to manage a business? A great bar owner has both.

We have boys now, and men, in the rock and roll business and all the show business, who have this reaction on women. They scream. They yell. They do all sorts of wild things.

'Business,' properly understood, is so central to every aspect of our civilization that Republicans should proudly announce that they are indeed 'the party of business.'

I don't want to be partisan here. But please, tell me how you get out of a business recession by raising business taxes and regulations?

A well-trained workforce is critical to small-business success. What I hear from business is that it's hard to find help that meets their needs.

I am a big believer that you can have a successful business and give back; it's just about the intention behind starting your business.

Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it's integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards. And it's much easier to do business with someone when you look them in the eye and say, "This is what we're going to do," and you understand what you each mean, and you can go away and get it done.

Leaders must (1) define the business of the business, (2) create a winning strategy, (3) communicate persuasively, (4) behave with integrity, (5) respect others, and (6) act.

Obama doesn't know how to invent the iPhone; he can't start a successful business. He's never really worked in a business except for the briefest of times.

At some point, practicality requires that you reach out to people in the business. You have to take care of business if you value your work.

University is sheltered from the business world and they think they should not have any connection with the businesses because maybe the business is dirty or not very good.

My wife and I set up the business, we were always very open about it and had a business author's name as many authors do.

There's no difference in dealing with the music business with the majors than any other competition. The music business is way more cutthroat than any other business.

In business, you can have one massive success that earns $50 million overnight, and that's it. You're successful. End of story. But in the music business, you have to keep on doing it.

No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.

To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'

One thing I know in baseball is you should never be comfortable where you are. It doesn't matter who you are. It's a business. If I got traded tomorrow, no hard feelings; it's a business.

I picked up business skills along the way, but there are things you learn at school like speaking the language of business so you can speak with CEOs.

I manage my business; politicians are doing their business. I can only work within their rules and regulations. I can't pick up a political fight.

I have found, whether you have a tiny business or a big business, if you don't jump on something right away, it's like a bird flying by-it flies off.