Quotes About Business

I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.

It is important to this people to grapple with the problems connected with the amassing of enormous fortunes, and the use of those fortunes, both corporate and individual, in business.… No amount of charity in spending such fortunes in any way compensates for misconduct in making them.

The Church says: The body is a sin. Science says: The body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The body says: I am a fiesta.

I'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.

Your system was liable to periodical convulsions...business crises at intervals of five to ten years, which wrecked the industries of the nation.

Diplomacy: The business of handling a porcupine without disturbing the quills.

Study to be quiet, and to do your own business.

You're right, Mr. Thatcher. I did lose a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million dollars this year. I expect to lose a million dollars next year. You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I'll have to close this place in sixty years.

Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?

They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters.

Christianity is not a religion; it's an industry.

You can say what you want to about a rapper in a movie, but look at what Ice Cube has done. Ice Cube has created more opportunities for other actors to get jobs in this business than some actors have.

Having our own ambassador making these statements about Karimov is acutely embarrassing. It's bad for British business interests, it's bad for the stability in the region. I mean, he sends back these dossiers full of stories of what Karimov's security forces have supposed to have done, he sends them to the foreign office or whatever, he sends them directly to us, I mean does he think I'm going to read it, does he imagine that I'm interested in this stuff?

they would have learned that this plane belonged to a photographic company based in Jamaica

The dealer gives his blood-stained gold to support the pulpit, and the pulpit, in return, covers his infernal business With the garb of Christianity.

as Mayo and Nohria point out, business has impacted our twenty-first-century world more than perhaps any other sector has. As a result, In Their Time is not simply for those actively engaged in business but for anyone who seeks to have

I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music.

Technology has opened up the music business 100-fold and provided space for all kinds of new faces.

I'm a businessman, and I think there's nothing wrong with being a businessman provided you have the right headspace and do good things with the money you make.

I had no background in communications but what I did have was an excellent education from Providence College and a love of basketball. That afforded me the chance to be good on my feet and stay afloat while I learned the media business.

You just can't learn certain lessons until you get to different elbows of the curve in scale. With a business that most estimate is several times the size of the next nine providers combined, we've learned certain lessons that you just can't learn until you get to that level of scale.

Financial service providers act as the lubricating oil in the economy. They link consumers who want to invest their savings for a good return with companies who want to borrow on best terms for expansion.

Mueller is the leading North American provider of water infrastructure and flow control products - things such as fire hydrants, valves, pipes, fittings, and couplings. While this is no doubt a mundane business, it is also an excellent one.

I'm in this business to be creative - I'll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.