Top 1200 Good Business Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

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

I always wanted to try to be a teacher even before I was in the music business. I liked history, and good teachers made an impact on me.

Good wages are pro business, since they reduce turnover, increase morale, produce better-skilled employees, and improve productivity.

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

My first business was a retro-gaming site where you'd go and play all these cool old-school games. It was a good idea but ahead of its time.

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

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

A woman decides about her body and her God is her business. Women who are pro-life can be just a good a Christian as a woman who is pro-choice and vice versa. You can be a good Christian and be pro-life. You can be a good Christian and be pro-choice.

If you hear a good idea, capture it; write it down. Don't trust your memory. Then on a cold wintry evening, go back through your journal, the ideas that changed your life, the ideas that saved your marriage, the ideas that bailed you out of bankruptcy, the ideas that helped you become successful, the ideas that made you millions. What a good review-going back over the collection of ideas that you gathered over the years. So be a collector of good ideas for your business, for your relationships, for your future.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots, who, for a theory, risked a cause; Good kings, who disemboweled for a tax; Good Popes, who brought all good to jeopardy; Good Christians, who sat still in easy-chairs; And damned the general world for standing up. Now, may the good God pardon all good men!

I think the movie industry has to pay attention that we need to make good quality films, or we are never going to get the business back.

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.

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.

It takes a lot more to run a good business than just trailing commissions or kickbacks otherwise everybody would succeed, wouldn't they?

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.

Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.

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.

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

The status quo is a very powerful opiate and when you have a system that seems to be working and producing profits by the conventional way of accounting for profits. It's very hard to make yourself change. But we all know that change is an inevitable part of business. Once you have ridden a wave just so far, you have to get another wave. We all know that. For us, becoming restorative has been that new wave and we have been riding it for 13 years now. It's been incredibly good for business.

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

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.

I never had any feelings of hate towards the Southampton fans - they helped me and of course, they made some good business.

Ceawlin is good at both business and the fun side. We laugh at the same old jokes, and the boys get funnier every day.

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.

If you want to start or grow a business in the state of Missouri and hire more people with good jobs, I will be your friend and ally.

No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.

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 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?'

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.

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

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

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

I find that it's almost essential to fall in love with an idea to invest the time it takes to make it good and worth sharing. And then, the hard part: deleting that idea when it's just not what it could be. Too often, organizations are good at the first part, but struggle with the second. And so we defend expired business models, support the status quo and have a knee-jerk inclination to preserve what we've got.

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

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 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 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.

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

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

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

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 have known some good men who have been so addicted to their study, that they have thought the last day of the week sufficient to prepare for their ministry, though they employ all the rest of the week in other studies. But your business is to trade with your spiritual abilities. ... A man may preach a very good sermon, who is otherwise himself; but he will never make a good minister of Jesus Christ, whose mind and heart are not always in the work. Spiritual gifts will require continual ruminating on the things of the Gospel in our minds.

As we say at Year Up all the time, investing in our young people is not just a matter of economic justice. It's good business sense.

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.

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.

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've had fans and friends in the business say, 'Oh man, you've made it.' I still don't feel like I've made it. I still feel like I'm as good as my last show, as good as my last single.

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

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

To me, as A&R people and as managers, we're in the business of finding talent. It's no different than working with these engineers who just want to make good products.

I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.

Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.

So, being a good man is not an exam or a qualification, it changes, and it incorporates being a good friend, a good father, a good employee, a good boss, a good neighbour and a good citizen.