Top 1200 Internet Business Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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.

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

I don't think I ever dreamt of going into business. No one in my family was in business.

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

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

We don't think at all about how the AWS business complements the Amazon business from a financial overview perspective.

What people do in their private lives is their business, and shouldn't be anybody else's business.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Book culture has also become something that's kind of incredible to younger people now, because of the Internet. If you go to any of the book fairs - PS1 or the MOCA Book Fair - none of the people are over the age of 40 years old there, and they trade and buy books, because they're almost antiquities at this point. They're not really important, in a way, because the Internet is how information is taken in.

The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.

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

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

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

There's a beauty of show business. It's the only business you can have a career in when you're dead.

Youth soccer is big business. If I don't win, it doesn't matter if I'm developing players, my business is going to hell.

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.

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

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

When the Internet came along, at first it was just a medium for moving text around - books first, then pictures, finally video. Each time the bandwidth expanded, so did the capabilities of the medium, and each time it happened, the Internet cannibalized preexisting formats. And each time, those formats had to adapt. Or die.

I have a business background. I have always wanted to open my own business.

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

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.

Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business.

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

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.

We had a show called NXT, and Daniel Bryan was my rookie, and I was his pro. And the object was for the pros teach the rookies what it's like to be a WWE Superstar. As soon as that hit the Internet, the Internet thought it was absurd: 'How dare WWE put Daniel Bryan as Miz's rookie? Daniel Bryan should be the pro.'

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

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.

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.

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.

Those who applaud social production and networked amateurism, the colorful cacophony that is the Internet, and the creative capacities of everyday people to produce entertaining and enlightening things online, are right to marvel. There is amazing inventiveness, boundless talent and ability, and overwhelming generosity on display. Where they go wrong is thinking that the Internet is an egalitarian, let alone revolutionary, platform for our self-expression and development, that being able to shout into the digital torrent is adequate for democracy.

I'm supposed to be on top of a lot of people who are past me, but their business is better than my business. It ain't the raps.

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

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

Civil rights is unfinished business. Make it your 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.

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.

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

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

The only currency isn't money. For me, it's about how can you build a good business that's also a social business.

If you don't invest in risk management, it doesn't matter what business you're in, it's a risky business.

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

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

If you're going to get into big time religion, these are the games you have to play. You go into it as a business and you work it as a business.

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

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.

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

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