Business quotes

In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business.

The digital business is a fantastic business to be in. The only thing you have to do is build a cost structure for a declining business, which is different from the structure for a growing business.

If the English want a king, it is their business. If the Russians want communism, it is their business. If the Americans want our form of government, it is our business.

The people on the business side in the music business are kind of different from the theatre business. I think it's partly because there are different pressures on the industries.

I had business experience. I had made my living designing and building electronic equipment. Basic business was not new to me, but the music business was completely new to me. I knew nothing about distribution, or any of those things.

Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion.

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

It might take some here and there, but Apple's market share in the global computer business has really shrunk pretty far, and where they've been making success recently is not in the computer business but in the iPod music business.

Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.

I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still don't do it.

People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards.

Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.

Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth.

I'm a committed Christian. I worship in my own way. That's my business. That's not the business of the pharisees who are going to preach to me about what I do and then do something else.

Certainly there are bubble-like valuations of certain companies, but I don't think anyone out there believes that we're going to go back to doing business the way we used to do business.

Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many.

The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.

But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.

I want business to prosper and make a profit caused by business expansion and prosperity.

And what most people don't understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business.

I believe that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business... my business!

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.

Believe me when I say that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business. My business.

I did realise more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.

We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!

There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.

I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.

The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.

I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.

As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

I am not sure the others are as committed as Rob Hall and Scott Fischer. I think there is more business now, and I know it will be impossible to stop this Everest business.

I was put into this business by my parents as soon as I could walk. I was groomed by them for this business. I didn't wake up at the early ages of 5 or 6 and say I want to be a star.

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.

I never called my work an 'art' It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married.

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

I have known from the beginning one thing you need to know. That is, the music business is a business.

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.

And I thought I'd always like some form of business, I didn't know what kind of business I'd go in.

If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong, either with you or with your business.

When you are led by values, it doesn't cost your business, it helps your business.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.

We've been in the Mac software business for more than 20 years. And it's been a great business for us.

The main professional responsibility of a person in business is business.

I can't believe what I said about myself. What I said in my own private conversations with myself to an ESPN producer are my business, and I had no business saying them to someone else.