Quotes About Business

The language of trade is, after all, perforce that of the customer, rather than of the merchant.

I had a drugstore wholesaler who had discount stores all over Long Island.

I was a complete anomaly in this business. I didn't fit into the Hema Malini-Zeenat Aman commercial cinema mould, neither the Shabana Azmi-Smita Patil art cinema mould.

If you're in business and you make a sales call and that lead doesn't buy from you, you don't sit there all day mourning the loss of that lead. You go out there and make 10 more sales calls!

Bottom line: government shouldn't be a bottleneck for entrepreneurs looking to design a better mousetrap.

When we first started Marquis Jet back in 2001, one of our first goals was to try to break into the Hollywood marketplace. We thought it was a good way to help build brand credibility and attract new customers by word of mouth.

I pretty much keep my mouth quiet and go about my business.

I can well imagine making acquisitions so long as these are complementary to Puma and move it forward.

What I will say is that business is not a nice area. And you might say that I am a business woman, but I'm not into cut-throat business moves.

In the beginning, we might have been focused on totally just music and being famous, just wanting to have fame and make hot music, but as we got older, we had to understand that this is a business and that our moves need to be calculated.

Technology moves so quickly; you can't get comfortable with the business you have today because technology will progress.

We do not talk enough about spirit in business, yet it is what moves employees, customers, and shareholders alike.

You know, I never expected to enter the movie business.

We live in the moment now where this whole movie business is crazy.

See, I'm fortunate that I get around a lot because of my movie business.

I feel I belong in the movie business and I belong in the security business. It's a natural for me.

Was it my lifelong ambition to be in the movie business? No.

Often, in the movie business, they need somebody who will garner box office because they need to pay for the movie. So the people who are in movies that make a lot of money are the people who most often get cast in studio pictures. In my career, I've never been a box office name.

The thing I always loved about the movie business is it is really a cowboy industry in the sense that there's no prescribed road into it or through it.

New York just feels real to me, and not everyone is in the movie business.

We manufacture a culture in the movie business, and whatever we put out creates a dark side and a bright side, too.

I think the movie business, you meet people, and you work intensely with them, and you have these relationships - there's an intimacy to it and a familiarity to the relationship because you're having to let go of all your barriers so you can let people in and work with them.

I always loved movies as a child, and I love story. I got my degree in English. Film and story seemed, to me, the vector of the movie business. I really didn't know what 'the film business' meant, but I decided I wanted to be in it.

Maybe I thought the movie business would be a little bit different than the rock n' roll business, but, in fact, they're the same animal, just packaged differently.