Business Quotes

"I know what's best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody"

"I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"When a business group tells us there is nothing wrong with the environment, naturally they may have good arguments, but we are also sceptical, because we know that they have an interest in these things"

Bjorn Lomborg, Scientist

"Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business"

Matt Drudge, Journalist

"There are two reasons why I'm in show business, and I'm standing on both of them"

Betty Grable, Actress

"I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large"

Garry Shandling, Comedian

"I'm in the retail business, not the circus business"

Philip Green, Businessman

"I suppose the White House thinks it's doing what Big Business wants, but it will lead to vastly increased taxes, because all these guest workers are to be allowed to bring their children"

Peter Brimelow, Journalist

"The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

"The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business"

Clarence Darrow, Lawyer

"Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world"

Marc Andreessen, Businessman

"The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows"

Aristotle Onassis, Businessman

"Golf isn't just my business, it's my hobby"

Lee Trevino, Athlete

"Even the busboys at the restaurants have a script to give you. Everybody is in the business"

Robin Wright Penn, Actress

"The pressures having grown up in this business can be really rough. And it is a testament to you that you have remained focused and NOT lost your mind"

Keenen Ivory Wayans, Comedian

"I think retirement's for old people. I'm still in the business, thank you. I have a young child of nine years old, and I want to live as long as I can to see him grow up. I'm enjoying my life and I want to stick around for as long as I can"

Harrison Ford, Actor

"He has a very extensive public relations apparatus that is paid for by the taxpayers of this state. They are some of the best in the business. and he is a master at getting not only television but other media exposure on the basis of confrontation and chaos"

Bill Scott, Actor

"But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent"

Sam Donaldson, Journalist

"The mercantile business did not suit me"

John James Audubon, Scientist

"I think it magnified it. For me, I wasn't sheltered so I think it was magnified. Especially when you're a teenager and you go to high school and you're in the business and you are known"

Heather Matarazzo, Actress

"But especially if you have the wrong people within your circle. Truthfully, at the end of the day, no one cares about you in this business whether they are your agent or your manager or your publicist"

Heather Matarazzo, Actress

"If you want to be in the automotive business, you go to Detroit, and you figure it out. If you want to be in entertainment, go to where it's at. Go to Hollywood, go to New York"

Nick Cannon, Musician

"The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from what everybody else was doing in the business was the fact that you could tell that these people came from different reference areas"

Kevin Ayers, Composer

"I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective"

Major Owens, Politician

"They thought that I did conceive there was a difference between them and Mr. Cotton... I might say they might preach a covenant of works as did the apostles, but to preach a covenant of works and to be under a covenant of works is another business"

Anne Hutchinson, Clergyman

"When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while and I said I want to act, that's all I want to do with my life and she said if you're serious then you need to hone every discipline you can"

Blair Underwood, Actor

"I prayed to God for help and I put myself in a recovery house called Studio 12. It was for people in the business and you didn't have to have any money to go, which was good because I was broke"

Brion James, Actor

"I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody"

Glenn Frey, Musician

"To be still standing 20 years in this business is a great feeling, I can't even tell you"

Blair Underwood, Actor

"Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather's, the National Restaurant Association, in each one of those situations, I had a daunting problem that I had to solve. And I used the same business principles to approach the problem and, more importantly, solve the problem in every one of the situations"

Herman Cain, Businessman

"I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue to succeed. But I think the business model of Microsoft is going to have to change"

Tim O'Reilly

"I'm rather old-fashioned about this video business. It's all relatively new. We really don't do videos, Fleetwood Mac. We've only done two"

Christine McVie, Musician

"Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country"

Norman Cousins, Author

"For the past 32 years, I've done nothing outside the entertainment business. I've had some real highs and some real lows, but I love the work so much that I never once thought of quitting"

Meat Loaf, Musician

"If you don't tour, you cannot expect to sell a huge numbers of your albums either. It was both a business - and an economical decision and we wanted to play anyway. We just wanted to get out for the tour when it was safe enough for us"

Kerry King, Musician

"When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us"

Bart Stupak, Politician

"I think a lot of developments start with the desire of the developer to get what he really wants so that he can use it. It's not just the technical fascination or the business opportunity"

Ray Dolby, Inventor

"Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment"

Grenville Kleiser, Author

"You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart"

An Wang, Businessman

"I think, as I've gotten older I have realized what a huge privilege it is to even be in this business. I, more than ever, love what I do"

Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Actor

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