Top 1200 Successful Business Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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

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.'

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.

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

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

I don't have regret about things I've done that are successful or not successful or what people perceive or don't know or whatever. I just know for me it had to be the right choice at the time. Sometimes that choice is just about getting a job.

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.

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.

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

God does business with those who mean business.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Well, I happen to believe all business is female 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.

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.

I grew up thinking of show business as a 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.

You can be burned out no matter how successful you are, and you can be unhappy no matter how successful you are.

Money is misunderstood. The fact is if you want to be successful - the money will follow you. If you are a doctor, something else will follow you. If you are successful there is an accompaniment. If your goal is just to make money you won't succeed. Money is a commodity to use, not to be dictated by.

But if they're so successful, why haven't parasites taken over the world? The answer is simple: they have. We just haven't noticed. That's because successful parasites don't kill us; they become part of us, making us perform all the work to keep them alive and help them reproduce.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Small business is big business in the state of Alabama.

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

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.'

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

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.

Know the business, learn the business, own something.

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

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

One of the big parts of my decision-making process is knowing that when you're signing up for something, you're signing up for multiple seasons, should it be successful, and in theory, you want it to be successful, but you also want to be doing something that you're enjoying.

The more successful you are as a man, the more you're liked. And the more successful you are as a woman, the more you're disliked.

Money is misunderstood. The fact is if you want to be successful - the money will follow you. If you are a doctor, something else will follow you. If you are successful, there is an accompaniment. If your goal is just to make money, you won't succeed. Money is a commodity to use, not to be dictated by.

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.

The business end of business has never interested me.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Many people ... prefer to describe themselves as progressives rather than liberals. To some extent that's a response to the decades-long propaganda campaign conducted by movement conservatives, which has been quite successful in making Americans disdain the word liberal but much less successful in reducing support for liberal policies.

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.

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

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.

Woodstock was a business. A very poorly run business.