Business Quotes (2135)

Quotes and citations about business

We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches... view

By: Kit Bond

The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses... view

By: Kit Bond

My desire to participate in the business is not to make more crap... view

By: Lisa Bonet

Governments should not be able to bulldoze a person's home or business to benefit other individuals... view

By: Henry Bonilla

Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see... view

By: Edward de Bono

What is qualified? What have I been qualified for in my life? I haven't been qualified to be a mayor. I'm not qualified to be a songwriter. I'm not qualified to be a TV producer. I'm not qualified to be a successful businessman. And so, I don't know what qualified means... view

By: Sonny Bono

There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area, all of them formed by MIT faculty and all had gone public... view

By: Amar Bose

At 13, I realized that I could fix anything electronic. It was amazing, I could just do it. I started a business repairing radios. It grew to be one of the largest in Philadelphia... view

By: Amar Bose

Being a father to my family and a husband is to me much more important than what I did in the business... view

By: Tom Bosley

Our success in this matter is important to all Americans. Whether you are in the forest land business or just enjoy the shade of a majestic oak gracing your lawn, we all have an interest in this important issue... view

By: Leonard Boswell

To be in the right is often an expensive business... view

By: Phyllis Bottome

There are many questions, but I cannot answer because I'm not a businessman, I am a climber... view

By: Anatoli Boukreev

I am not sure the others are as committed as Rob Hall and Scott Fischer. I think there is more business now, and I know it will be impossible to stop this Everest business... view

By: Anatoli Boukreev

It's like night and day... to do business, in Europe, there is no bull, they are pretty straightforward... view

By: Caprice Bourret

A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge... view

By: Marvin Bower

A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence... view

By: Marvin Bower

Business leaders shape public opinion... view

By: Marvin Bower

The course of business shapes public opinion... view

By: Marvin Bower

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down... view

By: Ray Bradbury

I'd watch my father get up at 5 o'clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping for his restaurant, and get that business going and then go out on his vending machine business... view

By: Ed Bradley

I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash... view

By: Billy Bragg

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God.. view

By: David Brainerd

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line... view

By: Richard Branson

I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer... view

By: Richard Branson

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts... view

By: Richard Branson

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming... view

By: Richard Branson

I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire... view

By: Toni Braxton

But, at the same time, I think that there is room for economic stimulus in terms of accelerated depreciation to encourage businesses to invest and to grow and ultimately to hire more people again... view

By: John Breaux

Continuing economic growth requires both recruitment of new companies and expansion of existing businesses... view

By: Phil Bredesen

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt... view

By: Gerald Brenan

And the problem is once you get into this campaign business and begin to have a lot of money, then the person on the bench begins to think - what's going to happen if I decide the case this way or that way?.. view

By: Stephen Breyer

I suppose the White House thinks it's doing what Big Business wants, but it will lead to vastly increased taxes, because all these guest workers are to be allowed to bring their children... view

By: Peter Brimelow

I resent the fact that people in places like Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco believe that they should be able to tell us how to live our lives, operate our businesses, and what to do with the land that we love and cherish... view

By: Wilford Brimley

Basically he never went to work and didn't have a job. Of course I thought he did. I thought he was on the phone doing business deals instead of borrowing money from people... view

By: Christie Brinkley

You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don't sell out for money, fame, or notoriety... view

By: Morgan Brittany

At the time I was growing up in the business I was very well established within the industry as a child actor and as I grew up and turned into a teenager there was less and less work... view

By: Morgan Brittany

TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract... view

By: Tom Brokaw

Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of... view

By: Anita Brookner

I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot... view

By: Albert Brooks

Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support the free enterprise system and are unsupportive of big government... view

By: Arthur C. Brooks