Business Quotes (2135)

Quotes and citations about business

Small businesses are the economic drivers of our country, providing the stimulus our communities need... view

By: Melissa Bean

Even the best data security systems can't protect private taxpayer information from entrepreneurial foreign businesses than can make huge profits selling U.S. taxpayer information... view

By: Melissa Bean

I am excited to rise today to support National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day. This celebration honors the husband and wife business owner teams whose work helps drive the economy and fuel job growth... view

By: Melissa Bean

In fact, 80 percent of our domestic job growth comes from the small- and medium-sized business community... view

By: Melissa Bean

Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families... view

By: Melissa Bean

When I came to Congress, I came to bring what I thought was a real-world business perspective to government because, in the business world, I spent over 20 years in the high-tech industry, but it certainly was not unique... view

By: Melissa Bean

Oftentimes, small business owners are unable to obtain reasonably priced financing and instead turn to higher priced forms of capital, such as credit cards... view

By: Melissa Bean

I've been in this business for a long time, and I no longer think that anything that I do by way of clarification is ever going to eradicate the mistakes... view

By: Ann Beattie

Government is not show business... view

By: Warren Beatty

For too long, our country's version of an energy policy has consisted of Americans waking up every day and wondering how much it will cost to drive to work, how much it will cost to keep their business running, how much it will cost to heat or cool their homes... view

By: Bob Beauprez

When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?.. view

By: Glenn Beck

Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally... view

By: Ulrich Beck

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found... view

By: Samuel Beckett

I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way... view

By: Victoria Beckham

It's wonderful to have the most important thing in the world there first thing in the morning. And especially in this business, where the opportunity to think everything is about you is there every day, now I really know that it isn't all about me... view

By: Kate Beckinsale

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality... view

By: Henry Ward Beecher

Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember... view

By: Rand Beers

Politics is show business for ugly people... view

By: Paul Begala

Boxing is show-business with blood... view

By: David Belasco

The best part? Probably being able to portray such a respectable, ethical, intelligent, strong woman. That's still pretty rare in our business, unfortunately... view

By: Catherine Bell

I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded... view

By: Kristen Bell

It's been a rollercoaster ride. There have been some great moments and some low points... like when I was leaving Stax. That's when I actually thought of getting out of the business... view

By: William Bell

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture... view

By: Saul Bellow

Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box... view

By: Dirk Benedict

Affiliate marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires... view

By: Bo Bennett

I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today... view

By: Tony Bennett

The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the way the Business Profits Tax is calculated, it is highly dependent on how much sales and profits are generated in-state... view

By: Craig Benson

I have done things politically, and I've been running a business at the same time, but I sort of joke that to some extent I do more than most legislators have done in their whole careers, and I've been doing it as a part-time job... view

By: Craig Benson

California has set up regional collection offices around the world, staffed by California employees, specifically for out of state California businesses to collect the money and bring it back to California... view

By: Craig Benson

Even my agents say, We don't know what this business is anymore... view

By: Tom Berenger

These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business. Features don't even run in theaters very long anymore before going right to television... view

By: Tom Berenger

The key to competing and surviving against Wal-Mart is to focus your business into a niche or pocket where you can leverage your strengths in the local marketplace... view

By: Michael Bergdahl

There's no business like show business... view

By: Irving Berlin

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context... view

By: Carl Bernstein

One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it... view

By: Elmer Bernstein

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business... view

By: John Berryman

From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830's really through the 1950's, you had conventions that actually did real business... view

By: Michael Beschloss

Oftentimes during the period in which conventions really did business, you had situations where the delegates were divided and you would have ballot after ballot before there was a final nominee... view

By: Michael Beschloss

I fear this little episode does not speak very favourably for my business capacity in those early days, for I certainly ought to have made much more than I did by this really important invention... view

By: Henry Bessemer

The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept... view

By: Henry Bessemer