Top 1200 Positive Business Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war.

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.

I like the fact that now my understanding for entertainment and the entertainment business is completely different from what it was when I first came in. I get the business side of it.

Business plans are the tool existing companies use for execution. They are the wrong tool to search for a business model.

When you're an adult designer, you're either running a business or you're helping someone else's business run. Either way, that's a lot of pressure.

When you're an adult designer, you're either running a business, or you're helping someone else's business run. Either way, that's a lot of pressure.

When you're in a commodity business, the only way to thrive is to be a low-cost producer. And when you're selling money, you're in a commodity business.

We own 18 percent of just the PC business. Now that's only about 60 percent of our business today.

I have almost no interest in quarterly reports. Running a business or investing in a business based on quarterly earnings doesn't make any sense at all to me.

I came to music and knowing a little bit about life, and I came to music knowing a lot about business - and that's a real advantage. By the time I came to music, I had purchased real estate, opened restaurants, and been in the business world, so the music business didn't blindside me.

We've been in the Mac software business for more than 20 years. And it's been a great business for us.

Yeah, me and Q-Tip is cool outside of the business, but you know, within the business sometimes it can get ugly, you know what I mean?

When you start in that [model] business the rules are imposed upon you, but when you stay in the business long enough the rules could be broken.

Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.

The lens through which I view the media world is pretty simple: If you are in the business of sucking up attention, then you are in the media business.

If you ask me, 'So what is your business model?' Our business model's always about shifting to higher value opportunities.

The Rotary Club will do the work, because business people are busy. But the impact and the value of this will be to the business.

The American journalist Barbara Ehrenreich has written about this in her book Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World (2009) . She talks about the happiness industry, the rise of medication to make us happy and of self-help books, and the influence of all this on religion. In many ways religion has become another form of self-help. We all suffer from over-exposure to positive thinking.

There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.

A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the dollar, but is due to pride in one's work, the pride that makes business an art.

If your business depends on you, you don’t own a business—you have a job. And it’s the worst job in the world because you’re working for a lunatic!

I think that's the reality of the business. It's not about what you did. It's what have you done for me lately. We're in the production business. What you did before is irrelevant. Everyone knows that.

(Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation of profit, it is the avoidance of loss

It's wherever business rules, business is going to get the politicians they want because they control the money and money controls the power.

You must be very creative in our business. Creating in this business is making something new, but it is also touching on something old.

Every film may not be appropriate for a theatrical release, and the theatrical business is not a very good business for anybody except the distributor.

The big thing I learned from Chris Rock was not to be a victim of show business. Don't let show business push you around.

The business of Mr. Bennett's life was to keep his daughters alive. The business of Mrs. Bennett's was to get them married.

In the music business, especially the country music business, every 10 years or so you're going to have this changing of the guard, this wave of new artists that comes in.

A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.

I'm about business. I'm going to handle business like a professional. Aside from that, I'm going to give you everything I've got on every snap.

Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth.

Positive self-expectancy is the first, most outwardly identifiable quality of a top-achieving, winning human being. Positive self-expectancy is pure and simple optimism: real enthusiasm for everything you do... [while] expecting the most favorable result from your own actions. There never was a winner who didn't expect to win in advance. Winners understand that life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. And they know that you usually get what you expect in the long run.

I left my business to run for the Senate because I believe the government needs to run more like a business.

Impact investment is an important business driver, and more importantly, it is a business driver because clients want it.

When I started in the business, the minimum wage was $1.25. I've seen an enormous number of wage increases. Basically, it applies evenly to everyone in the business.

The mixing of politics and business not only is detrimental to politics, as is frequently observed, but even much more so to business.

I don't think this business encourages you to be present. This is a business that's always pushing you to think about your next thing.

I am not in the business of predicting general stock market of business fluctuations. If you think I can do this, or think it is essential to an investment program, you should not be in the partnership.

Yes, green business is good business. But it's not just about making money. It's about being responsible.

It's very difficult for an entrepreneur to let go. It's very hard to sell a successful business. People sometimes hold on until the business has no value at all.

I feel bad that I'm the one always blamed for the failure of the space business - even though there are problems with government policy toward the space business.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game - if I put everything into the fight business - then I would eventually run the fight business.

Models are a business, and they have to treat themselves as a business, which means they have to take care of themselves and give up all the young joys.

Sirius and XM went on air in 2001. It's taken 14 years for that to be a real business. It took them combining to be a real business.

Finance went from being a small business, effectively, to being a big business. In part, that's the growth of the world's wealth. That's called savings.

The television business, by virtue of what's happened to streaming, it's really turned the traditional television business upside down.

Marriage is work. Get it out of your thick skull that marriage is, 'Oh, we got married and now we just live forever wonderfully.' It's work. It's just like starting a business: You're going to bicker with your business partner, but you don't leave the business partner. You work it out.

Any other business, you want your competitors to go out of business. In sports, you just don't want them to have as good a record as you do.

Trump is bringing his business acumen to politics. That's something that politicians don't have: business acumen, many of them. And so they don't recognize it, and they don't understand it.

The IT organization can't drive or lead a digital transformation. It has to come from the business and the business strategy, because they're fundamental to how a company or an organization evolves.

The big business, Hollywood? I don't really work in that business. I peripherally work in it, but I'm not involved in it the way some people are.

In my cheapest moments I am apt to think that it is n't my business to be "seeking the spirit," but as much its business to be seeking me.

The theater business has allowed me, in a way the movie and TV business has not, to do very, very interesting work. So that's what I do.

We, as wrestlers, need to remember that this is a business. We started because we love the business, and we stay in it because we have a lot of passion for it, but you have to be rewarded for your work.

I never learned management. I never went to business school. I'm an artist. I happened to have really clear ideas of what I thought my business should be.

We see - every week or two, we see another story of a small business that went out of business because Donald Trump.

I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side.

I think a lot of entrepreneurs think they need money to build the business faster when they actually haven't figured out the business equation yet.

If you're in the WWE, it's like show business boot camp. You learn a little bit about everything as far as show business is involved.