Top 1200 Small Business Owners Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

There's often a big difference between business considerations as opposed to the business of the heart.

Many hybrid owners realize how sharply fuel efficiency goes down over 55 mph because they get instant mileage feedback.

Hopefully folks will look at the good things that I've done over the years, you know, my 10 years in Congress, my 12 years in state legislature, my many years of community organizing for the environment, for police accountability, for criminal justice reform, economic empowerment, trying to fight for small-business people, all these things.

Owners want to make their team a winner so they can get more fans in the stands, and that's why they go after the best ball-players and pay 'em what they're worth.

When I was in government, I urged Congress to require that information about the actual owners of companies registered in the U.S. be disclosed to the Treasury Department, and made available on request to law enforcement.

It's not my business to think about the business; it's my business to think about the character. Sure, there have been times in my career where I wished I was more popular or more this or more that - but that's just stupid.

My Tris should look pale and small--she is pale and small, after all--but instead the room is full of her.

When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do in every situation because it's a very, very fast paced business. You do ninety pages a day on a Soap Opera. It's insane. It's such a small world, the soaps. It's all contained in one little studio.

Most entrepreneurs fail because they are working IN their business rather than ON their business.

I came to the Braves on business, and I intended to see that business was good as long as I could.

If General Motors can't survive and run their business like a business, let them go under.

My first advice is to keep God first in everything you do. Second is stay in shape, stay ready and learn about the business because you don't want to be in a business you know nothing about, because they will take advantage of you, in this business.

The government shouldn't be in the business of subsidizing a business by allowing people to be paid starvation wages.

It's really hard to run a business against somebody who is not acting as if it were in business.

If you’re a responsible business, you don’t let things like that happen in your business that have an impact on the country.

Archie was an expert at dividing the affairs of life into men's business and women's business. An empty cupboard and a full plate were the man's business, a full cupboard and an empty plate the concern of the woman.

I want business to prosper and make a profit caused by business expansion and prosperity

The humanities of business in this age have become more important than the techniques of business.

Love is woman's business,and in "business" we all lay aside our natural weaknesses.

American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security... or every loan they made?

I was raised in a small town. It was so small that our school taught driver's education and sex education in the same car.

Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.

The Federal Government is achieving its stated goal of helping more minorities go from being renters to being owners.

Owners never paid my salary. I always recognized that it was the people in the seats who did. I always wanted to give my best.

I've been in this league a long time. The league's not perfect. But I'm definitely proud of a lot of my teammates, coaches, trainers, owners.

Movies like 'Chef' are not really box-office monsters in the summertime and don't really fit into Hollywood's business model any longer. Even if 'Chef' is successful, it will be successful in the context of what it is. There's a limited upside to a film that's so small, but there's also limited exposure for the people who backed me.

If anybody in my business knew as much about their business as the public did, they'd be all right!

I don't know anything about cars. A business is a business, and I think I can learn about cars. I'm not that old, and I think the business principles are the same.

I was 27 when I uploaded my first YouTube video. I had a master's degree and was running a small business. I had had good jobs and bad jobs and was fairly secure in my identity and understood who I was. When my audience or the algorithm wanted me to be something, I knew with a fair amount of certainty whether I wanted to be that thing or not.

Remain true to yourself while practicing this business of being an actor. And it is a business.

For years and years, people would say, 'The business is changing.' And I would say, 'The business is not changing. It's exactly the same as it was in the '70s, the '80s and the '90s.' But all of a sudden, the business changed, and it really did change.

The transaction will enable us to become a single source of integrated products and services that building owners want in order to optimize comfort and energy efficiency

I believe that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business... my business!

As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.

It is quite clear that compelling content, which is made available on economic terms that respect the intellectual rights of owners, can be a tremendous spur to the growth of broadband networks.

If your business is the right business, then money will never be an issue.

I think that anyone who wants to start their own business can, but not any type of business.

In school I studied international business and marketing, so I've always been attracted to business.

We continued to build the business, even in the worst of times. We do business all over America.

I was in the world of business for 25 years. If you didn't balance your budget, you went out of business.

You don't need Math to do business reporting. Business is all about choices that consumers make.

When there were not very many Internet companies, the supply of Internet companies to the market was small and the appetite for them was large. Therefore, if you were in the business of creating Internet companies in 1996-98, you had a market that provided massive demand for that.

It's hard to make a clear line between what is political business and what is state business.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

The property of the estate owners (pomeshchiks) doesn't belong to any particular detachment, but to the people as a whole. Let the people take what they want.

If it's OK to register cars and license drivers, why is it not OK to impose similar legal responsibilities on gun owners?

The common class of mankind are actuated by no nobler principle than that of self-interest; this and this alone determines all adventurers in privateers: the owners, as well as those whom they employ.

I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.

You can't run a business based on sympathies; otherwise our business would be hampered.

So many of the new nations which were established as democracies after the second world war, during the decolonizing process, have now changed their system to state-socialism. Small elites run them, and they aren't sharing societies. They aren't even socialist. The power of the state has been merged with business property and you have the greatest concentration of power that's possible.

I want business to prosper and make a profit caused by business expansion and prosperity.

It was while starting my business that I saw my first glimpse of government's impact on business.

If you are going to try and convince somebody to travel, do it with a small map - the distances look like nothing on a small map.

Roughly speaking, I think it's accurate to say that a corporate elite of managers and owners governs the economy and the political system as well, at least in very large measure.

I didn't have the drive; I never wanted to be in show business. I went into my father's business because of osmosis.

One of my bosses happened to be one of the early architects of some of the ways Internet providers work. He taught me how the cables connect, how the telecom providers work... I learned how to make my own Ethernet cables, all the way up to running a small business.

When I was 11 years old, my family had to leave East Germany and begin a new life in West Germany overnight. Until my father could get back into his original profession as a government employee, my parents operated a small laundry business in our little town. I became the laundry delivery boy.

There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.

I should be getting photographs of me with my arm around these people like restaurant owners do, because eventually I am going to have to prove to my kids that once I was an actor!

The government is a tyrant living by theft, and therefore has no business to engage in any business.