Top 1200 Smart Business Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

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

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.

I grew up thinking of show business as a business.

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

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

Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

There's show and there's business. Business is a whole other beat.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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?

Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it's integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards. And it's much easier to do business with someone when you look them in the eye and say, "This is what we're going to do," and you understand what you each mean, and you can go away and get it done.

Know the business, learn the business, own something.

Small business is big business in the state of Alabama.

Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.

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

We did not enter the search business. Google entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won't let them.

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

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

I know that the podcast is typically something I can do forever, because it's mine; it's just me and my producer and business partner, so it's our business.

Business has always been cutthroat, no matter what the business is.

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.

If small business goes, big business does not have any future except to become the economic arm of a totalitarian state.

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.

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'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.

I couldn't join my husband's business as, according to my father-in-law's unwritten convention, women of the house aren't allowed to meddle in the family business.

In business, you can have one massive success that earns $50 million overnight, and that's it. You're successful. End of story. But in the music business, you have to keep on doing it.

After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.

One thing I know in baseball is you should never be comfortable where you are. It doesn't matter who you are. It's a business. If I got traded tomorrow, no hard feelings; it's a business.

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

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'.

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

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

God does business with those who mean business.

The business end of business has never interested me.

I love spreadsheets. I do all the finances. I pay the publicists. I have to compartmentalize the creative and the business, so there are sacrifices. But ultimately, I get to be the CEO of my own business.

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.

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

There is indeed a business like show business. It's the news.

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

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

A well-trained workforce is critical to small-business success. What I hear from business is that it's hard to find help that meets their needs.

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

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

The commercial airplane business is an incredible growth business.

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

The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.

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.

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.