Top 1200 Retail Business Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

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.

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

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of 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'm pro-business! But business ought to make its own money.

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

Were the only major company in the U.S. that is solely in the professional beauty industry. We promised hairdressers when we started that we would stay with them. If I went retail tomorrow then we would be four times our size overnight, but Im going to be the one guy who kept his word.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

There's a beauty of show business. It's the only business you can have a career in when you're dead.

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

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

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

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

The business of feeding people is the most amazing business in the world.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Business is business, that is, you must do everything promptly; delay and shuffling won't do.

We are extremely focused on building some of the assets which are going into mid-India, semi-urban and rural, and that's our DNA. We are building a retail bank, and a lot of the deposit base is still in urban India.

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?'

It’s one thing if you are a luxury brand and have been around for 60 years and can weather the retail storm we’ve had, but if you are a new brand that’s just starting out — whether you are a writer or a retailer — innovating through social media is crucial. Those that are hidden and guarded will not progress.

When commercial banking opened up for the private sector, I set up the retail-banking division for ICICI and grew it substantially. I then ran the international side of the ICICI Bank for a few years.

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.

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

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

The right U.S. tax policy could positively impact decisions to develop or redevelop new retail and restaurant destinations that make a community great. Policy improvements can grow the economy in communities across the country, spurring investment and new development.

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

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