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Quotes About Business

Many business intuitions and expertise are going to be valuable; they are telling you something useful, and you want to take advantage of them.
~ Gary A. Klein
There is never a bad time to start a business - unless you want to start a mediocre one.
~ Gary Vaynerchuk
Michael Moore put out a tweet. He said tell your senators and house members now, you want them to cease all business until they appoint a special committee on [Donald] Trump and the Russians.
~ George Stephanopoulos
Who cares about 17-21 year olds? Jack Myers does, and you should, too, if you want a front row seat on where the future of business and civilization is going.
~ Geraldine Laybourne
I think audiences ultimately want something new. I think the business model for a franchise is such that it's very low risk because you have data and studios love data.
~ Gore Verbinski
I've never tried to make a movie to pay an overhead. We're in a very creative business, and I want to make movies because I enjoy that movie or that material.
~ Graham King
I get a lot of return business. I think it's all those years I put in traveling around the country; people saw me before and had a good time so they want to see me again.
~ Rita Rudner
When you're running a company, creating jobs is the last thing you want to. When you're running a company you want to employ as few people as possible, and yet you inadvertently create jobs.
~ Robert Metcalfe
You can't write about a horrible restaurant - if it's a Ma & Pa restaurant no one wants to see you kick Ma & Pa in the chops.
~ Robert Sietsema
I have drive, for sure. You have to. It's a tough business; there are a lot of actresses and not a lot of great roles. I don't want to complain because I'm so grateful.
~ Rose Byrne
I'm sure there will be business ventures and things down the road, but I definitely don't want to be a team owner.
~ Scott Dixon
The idea that comics stores, distributors and publishers simply 'give the customers what they want' is nonsense. What the customers wanted they didn't get - and they left.
~ Scott McCloud
We have enough to do just trying to make our company what we want it to be. As far as whether I would like to own Marvel, sure, I'd like to own Marvel.
~ Stan Lee
I think the music business is changing. Artists that don't want to tour and just want to collect royalty checks and stay home are not going to be able to do that.
~ Steve Earle
I think that to a great degree, reggae companies have become very corporate and so maybe some don't have that freedom to say whatever they want to say.
~ Stevie Wonder
I'm the last person that wants to give away music for free.
~ Swizz Beatz
When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up.
~ Tamara Mellon
I always say that in investing you want to buy stock in a company that has a business that's so good that an idiot can run it, because sooner or later one will. We have a country like that.
~ Warren Buffett
President Coolidge said, 'I don't want the Government to go into business.' Well, if I was Mr. Coolidge I wouldn't worry over that. The Government never has been accused of being a business man.
~ Will Rogers
The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.
~ William Hazlitt
The theater business is very much about "Hey, if you want our big blockbuster at Christmas time, you'll play our piece of crap in April."
~ Harry Shearer
The longer they keep you waiting, the more they want to deal.
~ Harvey Mackay
I'm all in favor of banks that play their part in community endeavors, private individuals looking for loans, people who want to start up a little business, and that's what banks are for.
~ Ian Anderson
We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
~ Ice Cube