Business Quotes
– Barry Goldwater
America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.
– Al Gore
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– Tori Amos
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According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third.
– Kit Bond
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– Loretta Lynn
A strategy is something like, an innovative new product globalization, taking your products around the world be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch you can motivate people with be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.
– Jack Welch
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– Norman Ralph Augustine
– Bobby Darin
A couple of months ago, I was down in Florida for the Food and Wine Festival. And this journalist grabbed me and said, 'How does it feel to be a TV guy? You're no longer in the restaurant business.' And I laughed. I asked him, 'How long do you think it takes me to do a season?' He said, 'Well, 200 days.' And I was like, '200 days? Try 20!'
– Tom Colicchio
– Amber Tamblyn
– B. C. Forbes
A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered; in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life.
– Henri Frederic Amiel
– Pamela Anderson
Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.
– Kofi Annan
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The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.
– Tom Arnold
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– Chester A. Arthur
– Beatrice Arthur
– Jane Austen
– Hank Azaria
– James Randolph Adams
– Max Amsterdam
– Gennaro Anguilo
– Kenny Baker
– Scott Bakula
– Scott Bakula
I was a guy who grew up with no money and no special qualities. When you become successful in this business and you've got a lot of money, it's a very potent blend. You meet beautiful women, you've got a lot of time on your hands, people pay attention to you a lot more than you deserve - I acted out on that as much as most young guys do who come to that place.
– Alec Baldwin
To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough. Denzel Washington's career is an enormous luxury. Compare him to Wesley Snipes. Do you think that they set out for it to be that way? All actors set out for the same thing: to make both entertaining films and important films.
– Alec Baldwin
– Hosea Ballou
American business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees who are educated enough that they can tell the difference between the men's room and the women's room without having little pictures on the doors.
– Dave Barry
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In the publishing business you have to learn to greet failure with the same handshake as you would success.
– Eddie Bell
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My friend Charlie McCarthy is, of course, much more of a celebrity than he was 13 years ago... They wanted to see McCarthy: striped pants, monocle, derby and Bergen's bald head. If that had happened in radio, the reaction would have been slow, diffused and debatable. I wouldn't learn anything from an audience sitting in a broadcasting studio in Hollywood, because those people all are in my business.
– Edgar Bergen
I walked out of the show business in 1968 because I thought that would be good for the family. It took me some time to decide but I wanted to spend more time with my wife and two daughters who were always beside me. I wanted to do everything I could for them.
– Pete Best
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– Rudolf Bing
– Aaron Brown
– John Bachar
– Louis Fabian Bachrach