Top 1200 Purpose Of Business Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

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

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

For our family, the entire structure of our life, our home, our business relationships - the entire purpose is for everyone to be able to create in a way that makes them happy. Fame is almost an inconsequential by-product of what we're really trying to accomplish. We are trying to put great things into the world, we're trying to have fun, and we're trying to become the greatest versions of ourselves in the process of doing things we love.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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?'

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

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

Of course, you have politics, the Vietnam war and all that monkey business. There are all kinds of reasons. At every one of those demonstrations in the late Sixties about the Vietnam war, you could guarantee there'd be a series of speeches. The ostensible purpose was to protest the war. But then somebody came up and gave a black power speech, usually Black Muslims, then. And then you'd have a women's rights speech. It was terrible to listen to these things.

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

The purpose of ritual is to change the mind of the human being. It's a sacred drama in which you are the audience as well as the participant, and the purpose of it is to activate the parts of the mind that are not activated by everyday activity ... 'Magic' becomes the development of techniques that allow communication with hidden portions of the self, and with hidden portions of all other islands in this 'psychic sea.'

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

As we study the Word of God rightly divided we are to understand that God has arranged His dealings with mankind into two programs. We have His prophesied purpose and His secret purpose. Prophecy has to do with the earth and Christ's reign upon it during the millennial kingdom, while the Mystery concerns our exaltation with Christ in the heavenlies.

The purpose of affirmative action is to give our nation a way to finally address the systemic exclusion of individuals of talent on the basis of their gender, or race from opportunities to develop, perform, achieve and contribute. Affirmative action is an effort to develop systematic approach to open the doors of education, employment, and business development opportunities to qualified individuals who happen to be members of groups that have experienced long-standing and persistent discrimination.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

All things lead us to our innermost truth. That is their purpose. That is the purpose of Life itself. Life is truth, revealing Itself to Itself.

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

Given the challenges and adversity we face in business and life today, Jon Gordon provides a clear road map to navigate the negativity and pitfalls that too often sabotage individual and team success as he shines a light on the truths that define great leaders, great teams, and great energy. I especially loved the part about leading with purpose. I consider this a valuable book for anyone looking to bring out the best in themselves and their team.

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'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.

The degree to which the people of America are being dumbed down on purpose every day is striking. And all for the express purpose of maintaining in power a political party [the Democrats] which seeks a permanent underclass and as many dependent people on government as possible. As many uninformed, misinformed, know-nothings as they can get.

Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of human and animal species was entirely an illusion. The illusion could be explained by evolutionary processes that contained no such purpose at all. But the spread of ideas through imitation required the whole apparatus of human consciousness and intentionality

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 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 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.

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.

'Gonzo' means taking an unknown thing to an unknown place for a known purpose. But sometimes we're lost in an unknown place for no known purpose.

We must come to the Bible with the purpose of self-exposure consciously in mind. I suspect not many people make more than a token stab in that direction. It's extremely hard work. It makes Bible study alternately convicting and reassuring, painful and soothing, puzzling and calming, and sometimes dull - but not for long if our purpose is to see ourselves better.

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

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

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

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.

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

Civil rights is unfinished business. Make it your business.

Christ came to give us a justifying righteousness, and He also came to make us holy — not chiefly for the purpose of evidencing here our possession of a justifying righteousness — but for the purpose of forming and fitting us for a blessed eternity.

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.

The pursuit of your life is to come into [your] purpose. And the waste of your life is to miss that purpose.

There have been prophets and students who handle the Bible like a child's box of bricks; they explain to us the design and structure and purpose; but as time goes on things do not work out in their way at all. They have mistaken the scaffolding for the structure, while all the time God is working out His purpose with a great and undeterred patience.

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.

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

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

We tend to set up success in Christian work as our purpose, but our purpose should be to display the glory of God in human life, to live a life "hidden with Christ in God" in our everyday human conditions.

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

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