Top 1200 International Business Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

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.

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.'

The importance of the term "genocide" for many Indigenous Peoples is that it is more than a term or an accusation; it is a word created in the wake of the Shoah in Europe to describe what happens when a people are targeted by a government for extermination, as were the Jews of Europe, and which is the term used in the most important international law related to concerned Indigenous Peoples, as the only international human rights law that pertains specifically to collectivities of people rather than individuals.

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.

What we're going to do is try to get TSA out of the human resources and personnel business and into the security business to connect the dots.

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 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.

I think I'm better than Jake (Shields), I think I should be fighting for the title, but I've been given a huge opportunity here to fight B.J. Penn and that's a big fight, belt or no belt. We're in a sport of selling fights right now, and the sport's growing, we're trying to get international, trying to get into every country, every household, and part of that is ticket sales is the idea that Jake Shields is coming over from Strikeforce with two belts. I understand that, it's a business decision.

When you're in show business no matter what you're doing it's an insecure business.

If they blow it [the world] up, that's not my business. My business is to work.

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

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.

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.'

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

God does business with those who mean business.

To me, the consumer-electronics business feels a lot like the PC business in the late 1980s. It's an inefficient market.

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.

I stayed in show business to pay for my animal business.

I strongly believe the business of a business is to improve the world.

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

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.

It's tough for people to get into business, especially a small 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.

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?'

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.

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.

Utah is America's best place for business because Utahns make it their business to succeed - and we have the track record to prove it.

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.

If you are in the world of business, that means you are in the business of making money.

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.

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.

Think about when a digital business marries up with what I'll call 'digital intelligence.' It is the dawn of a new era about being a 'cognitive' business. When every product, every service, how you run your company can actually have a piece that learns and thinks as part of it, you will be a cognitive business.

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

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.

There is indeed a business like show business. It's the news.

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.

We've been in the business of regional banking, and we understand what it is to make loans, and that's the engine of growth to small and medium sized business.

There's show and there's business. Business is a whole other beat.

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

Small business is big business in the state of Alabama.

It's a hard business this dating business! Love is complicated!

I don't want to be in the film business. I'm not even sure it's a 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.

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.

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.

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.

Education is extremely important, especially in my business, the music business.

The business end of business has never interested me.

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.

Business has always been cutthroat, no matter what the business is.

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

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

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.

Know the business, learn the business, own something.

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

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.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

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

Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.