Top 1200 Small Business Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The likely economic effects [of the war in Iraq] would be relatively small... Under every plausible scenario, the negative effect will be quite small relative to the economic benefits.

As a small business or startup, one of the factors you should always consider when looking at a potential partnership is the incremental potential reach. Note that wider reach doesn't always mean a better partnership opportunity. Instead of sheer scale, take a look at which communities your potential partner can open up for you.

I'm not in show business; I'm in the communications business. That's what it's about for me.

From as early as I can remember, I wanted to have something to do with the acting business. I was a TV junkie as a kid and I think, because I grew up in a small town where I couldn't imagine myself staying there and couldn't see myself being any of the people that I was surrounded by in this town, I just knew that I wanted a different kind of a life, but I didn't know what that meant and I didn't know how.

Predictions are uttered by prophets (free of charge); by clairvoyants (who usually charge a fee, and are therefore more honored in their day than prophets); and by futurologists (salaried). Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist's business is lying.

The commercial airplane business is an incredible growth business.

I think that setting a novel in a small town taps into a sense of nostalgia among readers. People tend to believe life is different in small towns, and frankly, it is different.

The entertainment business remains a business of blockbusters, and increasingly so.

I know enough about the business to look after myself now. I don't trust anyone else to take care of business.

What's so wonderful about football and business and show business is that every time I start thinking I'm special, I get knocked on my ass.

You're not supposed to go into business with the sole purpose of putting your neighbor out of business. This is not the United States of Corporate America.

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

ICG wasn't an index fund so much as a collection of venture-capital investments focused on so-called business-to-business Internet companies.

The State of Virginia is similar to a great business corporation... and should be conducted with the same efficiency and economy as any private business.

To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'

I grew up thinking of show business as a business.

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.

If you are planning to start a business, and if you want that business to have a hope of succeeding, be sure you are approaching your venture from a true Entrepreneurial Perspective.

I would encourage someone to go to Brazil and try to do business there. BRIC countries get a lot of hype, but business there is brutal.

The main professional responsibility of a person in business is business.

The small are always dependent on the great; they are "small" precisely because they think they are independent. The great thinker is one who can hear what is greatest in the work of other "greats" and who can transform it in an original manner.

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

God does business with those who mean business.

I want to be in this business as long as this business will have me.

I don't want to be in the film business. I'm not even sure it's a business.

Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.

Honestly, I don't go out of my way to see animated movies. I'm mostly influenced by.. the films I tend to like are the small films, small personal stories. With characters you can believe.

I stayed in show business to pay for my animal business.

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

There will be no good business unless the majority comes to agree that we should demand more from business than large quarterly returns.

The profitable part of the online business is very likely several years away. Entering the business because it's the hot topic of the day doesn't make a profitable business nor satisfied customers. That's why it will be a part of Nintendo's strategy, not the mainstay, as other companies are attempting to do. There still are too many barriers for any company to greatly depend on it.

We want to help U.S. entrepreneurs, small business owners, and brands and companies of all sizes sell their goods to the growing Chinese consumer class. Chinese consumers will get to buy the American products they want. This, in turn, will help create American jobs and increase U.S. exports.

When you enter a casino, remember that you are entering a place of business run by very shrewd business people who understand human emotions.

Business creates jobs; government does not. Government creates a whole slew of jobs each time a new program or scheme is implemented, but always at the expense of the taxpayer. Small businesses invest in new businesses, which results in more jobs.

I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.

War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil.

Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities than in small villages.

At some point, practicality requires that you reach out to people in the business. You have to take care of business if you value your work.

This is the hardest thing I've ever done, being in fashion business, because that's what it is at the end of the day, a business, and you have to make sure it works.

A successful business is a good way to create significant wealth, but not every business will grow into a News Corporation or a McDonalds.

I believe the auto business is a highly comprehensive and complicated business. It's not that easy for people simply to enter and ruin the whole thing.

Remember,the press is a business: Newspapers and magazines are in business to make money - sometimes at the expense of accuracy, fairness and even the truth.

If you have so much business to attend to that you have no time to pray, depend upon it that you have more business on hand than God ever intended you should have.

For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.

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

It's a hard business this dating business! Love is complicated!

My biggest fear, that 27 percent of Americans under 65 have an existing health condition that, without the protections of the Affordable Care Act, would mean they would - could be automatically excluded from insurance coverage. Before the ACA, they wouldn't have been able to get insurance coverage on the individual market, you know, if you're a freelancer or if you had a small business or the like.

I started with shoes, and with hard work and discipline, the business prospered. I moved to the department store business and again, things went well.

I am a big believer that you can have a successful business and give back; it's just about the intention behind starting your business.

What business would judged on the first week that it's in business?

Rest in this - it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call... It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond.

I feel incredibly fortunate I walked away, took care of other business, and then came back to show business.

I would tell your generation, wherever you are on the totem poll - whether you're halfway there or at the bottom, don't despise small beginnings; small beginnings get you ready for great things.

You of the West are practical in business, practical in great inventions, but we of the East are practical in religion. You make commerce your business; we make religion our business.

I manage my business; politicians are doing their business. I can only work within their rules and regulations. I can't pick up a political fight.

I strongly believe the business of a business is to improve the world.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

I don't want to be partisan here. But please, tell me how you get out of a business recession by raising business taxes and regulations?

I'm not referring to an up-and-coming comedian. I am referring to the host of The Profit. He invests his own money into small businesses that need to be turned around. He becomes partners in them. And I love the way he does business, and I love his integrity, and I love where his head's at, and I love what he has to say, and I learn from him.

We now understand the distinction between startups - who search for a business model - versus existing companies - that execute a business plan.