Top 1200 Smart Business Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.

I started in the supermarket business in the early '70s. And by '75, '76, I realized you don't have a business unless you own the real estate.

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.

Every actor wants to direct and produce, but I made a conscious decision when I was in college to understand the 'business' of 'show business.'

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.

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

Slavery was incredibly prosperous for some people, at that time. It was not a bad business plan, but it was terrible and inhumane. But as a business it worked.

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.

Utah is America's best place for business because Utahns make it their business to succeed - and we have the track record to prove it.

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.

The best piece of advice I've ever been given was, 'Be in the business you're in.' Don't just be a satellite around it and expect it to come to you. Be in the business you're in.

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

We've been in the business of regional banking, and we understand what it is to make loans, and that's the engine of growth to small and medium sized business.

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

Think about when a digital business marries up with what I'll call 'digital intelligence.' It is the dawn of a new era about being a 'cognitive' business. When every product, every service, how you run your company can actually have a piece that learns and thinks as part of it, you will be a cognitive business.

Luck never built a business. Prosperity and growth come only to the business that systematically finds and exploits its potential.

What we're going to do is try to get TSA out of the human resources and personnel business and into the security business to connect the dots.

A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.

When you get on the court, it's business. And you take care of business.

Do you remember that old TV series, Get Smart? Do you remember at the beginning where Maxwell Smart is walking down the secret corridor and there are all of those doors that open sideways, and upside down and gateways and stuff? I think that everyone keeps a whole bunch of doors just like this between themselves and the world. But when you're in love, all of your doors are open, and all of their doors are open. And you roller-skate down your halls together.

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

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

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

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?'

I never aspired to be a public figure. I have always been interested primarily in real business and the development of business strategies.

An amazing piece of advice for a lot of kids, 50-year-olds, whoever is listening right now: Saving money is a good strategy. I didn't have stuff, but it was because my parents were saving. They were saving. We didn't get toys. They told us to go outside and paint a rock. It was very, very smart because after seven or eight years, he was able to buy a liquor store of his own in Springfield, New Jersey - Shoppers Discount Liquors. He built up a great business.

I wasn't always smart, I was actually very stupid in school [T]here was a boy who was very attractive who was even stupider than I was. And in order to ingratiate myself with this boy who was very beautiful, I began to do his homework for him – and that's how I became smart, I had to do all this work to just keep ahead of him a little bit, in order to help him. In a sense, all the rest of my life I've been trying to do intellectual things that would attract beautiful boys.

Woodstock was a business. A very poorly run business.

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.

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 like the mode of business of aviation. It's a risky business with difficulties which you can fill with innovative ideas and different things.

Meet regularly with your business team and brainstorm. Intricate business problems are mostly resolved at brainstorming sessions.

There's show business, and the business is sometimes in capital letters. You just have to give it your best shot when up at bat.

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

To me, the consumer-electronics business feels a lot like the PC business in the late 1980s. It's an inefficient market.

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

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

There are very few people that I deal with from a business side that it's just strictly a one-sided business relationship. I think that's important.

Education is extremely important, especially in my business, the music business.

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

If they blow it [the world] up, that's not my business. My business is to work.

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.

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.

The literary aspect of the film business excites me, but show business in general doesn't take any mental giant.

When I'm at home, I don't discuss business. I don't talk business. I don't answer the phone. It's just me, my wife, my children, my dogs. That's my world.

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

I ran for president. I ran for governor twice. And I've been the governor now for nearly seven years. I find that the people who are my best advisors are the people who are smart enough to give me really good advice and smart enough to keep their mouths shut about what advice they give me. And so if I want advisors that way, that's the kind of advisor I'm going to be for Donald Trump.

If you are in the world of business, that means you are in the business of making money.

I take my personal upkeep real seriously; my sense of organization and attention to detail; my memory; my business - I love the business.

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.

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.

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

It's tough for people to get into business, especially a small business.

My dad was always so strict that I was scared to speak to him. Haitian parents are very, 'This is adults' business; this is kids' business.'

When you're in show business no matter what you're doing it's an insecure business.