Quotes About Business

It's a given that if you start your own business, you're going to be (1) in control of your destiny, and (2) real busy.

I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.

I recorded with Sinatra, but the recording business is a very strange strata right now.

I make films as a business, not as a cultural endeavor.

I have always been convinced that one can be more successful in business with honest, fair and legal behavior than with tricks.

I'm very hard on the art world just being a big business.

I'm excited about the old songs. That's a nice place to be after grinding out the music business for twenty years.

Everyone faces challenges from the fierce competition as well as the manipulative crooks that are rampant throughout the music business.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.

Every depression is a challenge to every manufacturer to put more brains into his business.

Now I know that Wal-Mart's policies do not reflect the best way of doing business and the values that I think are important in America.

[Donald Trump] actually advocated for the actions we took in Libya and urged that [Muamar] Gadhafi be taken out, after actually doing some business with him one time.

'No business before breakfast, Glum!' says the King. 'Breakfast first, business next.'

The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it.

Managing a business, small or large, today requires an extremely disciplined, thoughtful approach with regard to the pressure that people are under.

We have to make sustainable living convenient, sustainable business profitable & sustainable change fashionable

I believe that if you don't have systems, you don't have a business - you simply have a job for yourself. My challenge has been to build those systems in a new restaurant setting.

It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.

Now remember, kids, the internet is serious business.

The best thing a company can do for the communities in which it operates is to have a vibrant and sustainable business.

What business could be mature when you have economies with more than 2 billion people in India, China and Southeast Asia?

Real change agents comprise less than 10% of all business people.

So it's worth some real up front time to think through the long term value and the defensibility of the business.