Top 1200 Minding My Own Business Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

There are twenty-four characters in this book named Max. Let there be an end to this silly business of authors never giving their own names to characters in their novels. False modesty, faugh!

Writing is a grueling process for us, and once we finish an album, we go on tour for a couple of years. Plus, we're always very involved in our own business, so we need a break when we come back.

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.

I know I have been lucky in business, and I am keen now to spread goodwill to others, of course not forgetting that very often, you make your own luck by making use of every opportunity.

Disney's clearly in the business of doing giant tent pole movies based on properties that they own. And that's what they should be doing because they're great at doing that.

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 tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own 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.

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.

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

The surest way to make ourselves crazy is to get involved in other people's business, and the quickest way to become sane and happy is to tend to our own affairs.

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.

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

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

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.

The only condition a library asks its users to honor is to do justice to their own imagination, their own curiosity and their own thirst for knowledge, and in the process, to achieve their own independence of mind and spirit.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Church and State, Soul and Body, God and Man, are all one at Mont Saint Michel, and the business of all is to fight, each in his own way, or to stand guard for each other.

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.

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

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

I looked at what my talents and desires are and decided to start my own business. I like the advantage of being able to work at a slower pace if I need to do that and there is no one pressuring me to work faster

Authority is granted to people who are perceived as authoring their own words, their own actions, their own lives, rather than playing a scripted role at great remove from their own hearts.

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.

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.

It's a business when the NBA cuts you, trades you or waives you. But you're a villain, as a player, when you take your future and your happiness in your own hands and it's unfortunate.

I have long been a critic of Social Security, basically because I believe that it is not the business of government to tell people what fraction of their incomes they should devote to providing for their own or someone else's old age.

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

We are seeing with great grief that America remains quiet as Turkey struggles against terrorism. Because there were promises given to us, and they need to be kept. If not, we can take care of our own business.

The Social License is fundamentally about accountability to people and not just powerful interests. John Morrison’s book reminds all organizations – governments, business and civil society – to focus on the legitimacy of their own actions.

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.

No matter how confident you are in your own abilities, you can't build and run a business alone. You need your army pulling you ahead, rather than holding you back.

The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis.

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.'

Judges should be in the business of declaring what the law is using the traditional tools of interpretation, rather than pronouncing the law as they might wish it to be in light of their own political views.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 know from my own life that you can’t move forward unless you reach out and deal honestly with the past. The truth is that when it comes to race and class, Boston has a lot of unfinished business. We must not be afraid to talk about it.

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

I take my personal upkeep real seriously; my sense of organization and attention to detail; my memory; my business - I love the 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 common mistake that business people make is they're going to get drive-by business...Only gas stations are helped

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.'

You know, I think the film business is its own worst enemy because it sells movies on DVD footage and 'behind the scenes,' and now it's a real struggle trying to keep storylines and plotlines a secret.

Just imagine how fast, innovative and excellent your business will be once every single teammate - from the janitor to the executive - begins to see themselves as the CEO of their own area of responsibility.

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.

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

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

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.

Objectively speaking, Traf-O-Data was a failure as a company. Right as our business started to pick up, states began to provide their own traffic-counting services to local governments for free.

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