Quotes About Business

Lies that do not hurt, which are different from lies that protect oneself or hurt another person. That is not my business. But the truth is mostly very boring, and you can help it along with lies. There is no harm in that.

The truth is, the 'Fortune' 500 prefer lobbying to campaigning.

The truth is, if I was maybe better or funnier or prettier, wouldn't I have starred in a movie? I can see it objectively as a businesswoman - if no one's buying your product, then there's not a desire for it.

When you come through a business education, a lot of what they teach you is to make decisions through analysis, and logic and rationale, and I'm a big believer in that. But I also believe in the power of instinct. The truth is you're never going to have a perfect answer or view of how it is going to work.

The press aren't willing to wait for whatever the truth is - the truth never catches up with the lie... Destroying people ought not to be a competitive business.

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

Basketball is a business. Pure and simple. If you want to have fun, go to the YMCA.

Generally, health is just so heavily regulated. It's just a painful business to be in. It's just not necessarily how I want to spend my time.

If I could direct it [films] I would be very happy. But the economics of business don't always allow you to do what you want.

All things being equal, people want to do business with their friends.

To succeed in business you need to be original, but you also need to understand what your customers want.

How to get rich ... whenever I meet people, that's usually what they want to know from me. You ask a banker how he makes bread. You ask a billionaire how he makes money.

Don't just give me an advance. I want a percentage.

I know that producing will ultimately mean more longevity in the business, so when I'm tired of everything else and want to be behind the cameras, I know that I can produce.

I would use the power of procurement, I would say if you want to do business with the mayor of London, you must pay your staff a London Living Wage.

We did not enter the search business. Google entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won't let them.

If a player demonstrated that he is the best, and a team decides, even so, we don't want to pay him, as in any other business, he should be able to play elsewhere.

Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working.

I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.

Part of the film business is, if you want an apple, you buy an apple.

Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.

There is a well known saying among designers in the educational games business: 'If you want to take all of the fun out of it, get a bunch of educators involved.

If the company depends entirely on you - your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or charisma - nobody will want to buy it. The risk and the dependency are too great.

I do most of my business on that dirty Internet that you were just talking about, where I find there is a lot of freedom to report exactly what I want.