Top 1200 Positive Business Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

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.'

Positive energy is attracted to positive energy.

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.

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.

Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect.

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.

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

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

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'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.

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

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 don't think the music business is a very good business to be in.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

Know the business, learn the business, own something.

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.

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

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

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.

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

If you engage in positive thinking to overcome negative thoughts, the negative thoughts are still there acting. That's still incoherence. It's not enough just to engage in positive thoughts when you have negative thoughts registered, because they keep on working and will cause trouble somewhere else.

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.

When you get on the court, it's business. And you take care of business.

Reggae is a message of consolation; a message of salvation. The youth are going to the school and they have to listen to the words. The parents have to listen to the words. God has to listen to the words. So, we have to make it positive. If you sing nursery rhymes, it is nothing. You just blow up tomorrow, and the record dies at the same time. But if you give positive words, that song lives forever.

Your mental diet largely determines your character and your personality and almost everything that happens to you in life. When you feed your mind with positive affirmations, information, books, conversations, audio programs, and thoughts, you develop a more positive attitude and personality. You become more influential and persuasive. You enjoy greater confidence and self-esteem.

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.

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

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

Washington has to become an ally of business, not the opposition of business.

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.

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.

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

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.

Woodstock was a business. A very poorly run business.

The commercial airplane business is an incredible growth business.

If you make it difficult to do business, there's not going to be any 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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?'

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.

I think setting goals is critical; having deadlines for ourselves- how much by when? Too many people have these big dreams where they want to have a big house on the ocean. But until we say what ocean, how big, what day, our conscience doesn't know what to do with that information. A positive expectancy, a positive attitude, a belief that your dream is possible is also helpful.

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.