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Quotes About Business

I was always a singer. But I was always focused on being an actor as my trade. Music I do just for me. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible.
~ Jeremy Renner
Don't have any opinions. They're bad for business.
~ Jerome Lawrence
We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us.
~ Jerry Garcia
Business can be a source of progressive change.
~ Jerry Greenfield
I have several computer companies. One of them I have a program for wide-format printing. I have a beauty program. So I have several different programs that I own for printing.
~ Jerry Mathers
Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists.
~ Jerry Saltz
Many say an art dealer running a museum is a 'conflict of interest.' But maybe the art world has lived an artificial or unintentional lie all of these years when it comes to conflicts of interest.
~ Jerry Saltz
I wonder which is the more useful to a nation, " he asked rhetorically, "a well-powdered nobleman who knows exactly at what minute the King gets up and goes to bed, and who gives himself grand airs while playing the part of a slave in some Minister's antechamber, or a business man who enriches his country, issues orders from his office to Surat or Cairo, and contributes to the well-being of the world.
~ Jerry Z. Muller
Podnikání je výrazným fenoménem reálného svÄ›ta, jenž je ve stavu v??né nerovnováhy, a nem?že tudíž hrát žádnou roli v rovnovážných modelech pÃ…â"¢itahujících pozornost neoklasických autor?.
~ Jesús Huerta de Soto
Despite a $4 million cash settlement, King could never quite get his life in order. In the ensuing years he was arrested multiple times for driving under the influence – in several cases after causing accidents and once after knocking his wife down with his car. His businesses failed. His marriages failed.
~ Jesse Lee Peterson
Profits always take care of themselves but losses never do.
~ Jesse Livermore
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.
~ Jesse Ventura
Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.
~ Jesse Ventura
Takt" is business jargon. Defined as "the desired time that it takes to make one unit of production output," it is used to regulate the pace of work.)
~ Jessica Bruder
Steve did a prepayment on royalties to make sure we had the resources to stay in business
~ Jessica Livingston
I think business at all costs is just wrong. I think there are certain things that you just don't do, and that acting with integrity and decency in business to me is just a given. I simply don't compromise on those things.
~ Jessica Livingston
The first business plan is there to make sure you can use Microsoft Word.
~ Jessica Livingston
Der Stolz mancher französischer Hoteliers besteht darin, daß sie die Fremden hassen, von denen sie leben.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
I tell you it is the vilest business to use horses in the war.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Through the years our business has been killing;—it was our first calling in life. Our knowledge of life is limited to death.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
But Zimmermann surprised him. On Friday, March 2, during a press conference, Zimmermann himself confirmed that he had sent the telegram. "By admitting the truth," Lansing wrote, "he blundered in a most astounding manner for a man engaged in international intrigue. Of course the message itself was a stupid piece of business, but admitting it was far worse.
~ Erik Larson
These were men, wrote Lincoln Steffens, "who will not have an office unless it is up where the air is cool and fresh, the outlook broad and beautiful, and where there is silence in the heart of business.
~ Erik Larson
There's a lot of telepathy, not individual telepathy so much as group telepathy, mind beating on mind, chaining you into a convention of business humdrum.
~ Erle Stanley Gardner
It was necessary that I leave Schruns and go to New York to rearrange publishers. I did my business in New York and when I got back to Paris I should have caught the first train from the Gare de 1'Est that would take me down to Austria. But the girl I was in love with was in Paris then, and I did not take the first train, or the second or the third.
~ Ernest Hemingway