Top 1200 No Business Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.'

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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?'

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

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

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

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

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

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

God does business with those who mean business.

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

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

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

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.

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.'

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.