Business Quotes (2135)
Quotes and citations about business
I walked out of the show business in 1968 because I thought that would be good for the family. It took me some time to decide but I wanted to spend more time with my wife and two daughters who were always beside me. I wanted to do everything I could for them... view
By: Pete Best
When you are in this business and this career, it's hard for any one thing to engulf you... view
By: Nuno Bettencourt
This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it... view
By: Ugo Betti
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable... view
By: Aneurin Bevan
There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward... view
By: Jeff Bezos
We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business... view
By: Jeff Bezos
Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me... view
By: Justin Bieber
I'm not going to give up doing interesting things. I'm going to do it as long as I possibly can and hopefully have longevity in this business... view
By: Jessica Biel
You've got to love this business. You have to be able to take rejection... view
By: Jessica Biel
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling... view
By: Ambrose Bierce
Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for prescription drugs, and too many frivolous lawsuits driving our physicians out of state or out of business... view
By: Judy Biggert
That's a rule in the business. No tongue. You can't really get into it, otherwise, it's weird. I think that particular scene made his (Adam Brody) girlfriend jealous. There were issues... view
By: Rachel Bilson
The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money... view
By: Rudolf Bing
Acting is a tough business, and you need to be in good shape mentally and physically... view
By: Juliette Binoche
I have watched people who have nothing to do with the film business, but who have become part of the circle for a short period of time. They can be truly devastated when the film wraps and people leave... view
By: Jacqueline Bisset
This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America... view
By: Jacqueline Bisset
Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon joined them on the throne. It was during this period that the cycle of dietary and planetary destruction began, the thing we're only realizing just now... view
By: Mark Bittman
The sad thing is, when it comes to diet, is that even when well-intentioned Feds try to do right by us, they fail. Either they're outvoted by puppets of agribusiness, or they are puppets of agribusiness... view
By: Mark Bittman
I can imagine that Rod Stewart likes giving autographs because he's pure showbusiness... view
By: Ritchie Blackmore
Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and a state government designed for efficient use of fewer tax dollars... view
By: Kenneth Blackwell
A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy... view
By: Rod Blagojevich
If you can run one business well, you can run any business well... view
By: Alan Bleasdale
I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career... view
By: Orlando Bloom
I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers... view
By: Michael Bloomberg
When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry... view
By: Don Bluth
The only one that seems to be able to hold the business is Disney. They do it is because they have a fabulous philosophy about marketing- but even they wavered... view
By: Don Bluth
We started getting the script to different people and we were in the business of trying to fund it so we could get it off and running, and all the characters and sets designed and everything... view
By: Don Bluth
You just can't keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It's got to be a business... view
By: Don Bluth
Well, as a former small businessperson - I understand what's going on, I think in the business community. And businesspeople around the country are looking at all the spending and all the debt. They're looking at all the policies coming out of this Congress and this administration the last two years, and they - it's created all this uncertainty... view
By: John Boehner
Listen, I think what's best for the economy and to create jobs is to extend all of the current tax rates - for all Americans. It - it begins to reduce the uncertainty. And for small businesspeople, they can look up and begin to plan... view
By: John Boehner
I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office... view
By: John Boehner
Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington... view
By: John Boehner
If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong, either with you or with your business... view
By: William J. H. Boetcker
The nation will benefit in the long term if it continues to be open to foreign expertise. This will help the country to establish its business culture and environment faster, based on international best practice... view
By: Hassanal Bolkiah
Slater's a big star and he's been in the business a long time. He's always in a good mood and easygoing but he takes his character very seriously... view
By: Uwe Boll
Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn't want to give up my pursuit of a career in the business as an artist... view
By: Michael Bolton
Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago... view
By: Erma Bombeck
War is the business of barbarians... view
By: Napoleon Bonaparte
It is time that we take control and find a way to curtail the explosive costs of health care. Small businesses deserve a chance to channel these funds toward other needs, such as expanding and creating more jobs for the economy... view
By: Christopher Bond
According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third... view
By: Kit Bond
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