logo

Quotes About Business

My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn't doing this I'd be making documentaries about wildlife and other subjects that interest me.
~ John Cleese
Farming in America soon became less a family enterprise than a business endeavor, and by the year 2000, 80 percent of America's beef was produced by just four main companies. The plains and the range had given way to concrete and steel.
~ John Connell
Anyway, so he bounces in on his white horse like a big perfumed tea cozy, getting involved in affairs that are none of his business, and next thing you know she wakes up and—ooooh!—was she in a bad mood.
~ John Connolly
Dobey was all for the Second Amendment, but even at the best of times he regarded anyone who entered a restaurant, store, or public park while flaunting a gun as a cocksucker of the highest order, and that went double for Dobey's own place of business.
~ John Connolly
If it is true that nature abhors a vacuum, then criminality regards it as a business opportunity.
~ John Connolly
convictions, as it did by requiring the Hahns and Greens in Hobby Lobby to lose millions, or their business. Corvino
~ John Corvino
As philosophy professor Dale Miller asks, "if the business owner is willing to accept less responsibility for her decisions, then why should she expect as much freedom in making them?
~ John Corvino
The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.
~ John Cusack
The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen.
~ John Cusack
Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.
~ John Cusack
I don't want to produce anymore small or independent movies because it's just too hard these days.
~ John Cusack
A friendship founded on business is a good deal better than a business founded on friendship.
~ John D. Rockefeller
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship
~ John D. Rockefeller
As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
~ John Dewey
I've been happy with my life. Also very lucky. I lead two lives - businessman and racer - and it feels like the best of both worlds.
~ Connie Kalitta
Filling a need is not merely good business; it's a basic attitude towards life. If you see a need, do whatever you can to meet that need.
~ George Foreman
With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming," To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life, And then to come out empty--it is a tragic error. (116) trans by Robert Thurman
~ Huston Smith
Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.
~ William Feather
The business of life is learning that you can't lay down the terms.
~ Julian Fellowes
The life of Liverpool is commerce; it is a city of warehouses and shops.
~ Katharine Lee Bates
If you're not spending 80 percent of your time marketing and selling, you are headed for trouble.
~ Mark M. Ford
The real business of your life as a saved soul is intercessory prayer.
~ Oswald Chambers
Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one; a global idea, not a strictly American one.
~ Reid Hoffman
If you really want to be successful in the business, you have to make that your priority, above family and everything else. It takes up every minute of your life.
~ Ben Schwartz