| Author | Quote | Rank |
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| Ivanka Trump | In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry. | 101 |
| Andrew Carnegie | And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department. | 101 |
| Marilyn Manson | If Satan wasn't around, churches would go out of business. | 101 |
| Mike Pence | If Planned Parenthood wants to be involved in providing counseling services and HIV testing, they ought not be in the business of providing abortions. | 101 |
| Alec Baldwin | To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough. | 101 |
| Anthony Hopkins | My philosophy is it's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier. | 101 |
| B. C. Forbes | If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.  | 101 |
| Bryan Cranston | I think naturally, if you're an actor, there's a high level of assertiveness that you need to have to survive this business. There's boldness in being assertive, and there's strength and confidence. | 101 |
| Calvin Klein | I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold. | 101 |
| Cecil Rhodes | So little done, so much to do. | 101 |
| Clayton M. Christensen | A disruptive innovation is a technologically simple innovation in the form of a product, service, or business model that takes root in a tier of the market that is unattractive to the established leaders in an industry. | 101 |
| Colin Quinn | You know, the funny thing about Lorne and that show is that, you can go over one million things, but in a business of bean counters, he still likes to laugh at small things and creates a show around it. | 101 |
| Colonel Sanders | There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there. | 101 |
| Dee Hock | An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it. | 101 |
| Edward Gibbon | Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. | 101 |
| Fabrice Grinda | Learn computer science. It's extraordinarily helpful. I like recommending learning economics as well so they think in terms of business, they have rational frameworks for looking at the world, but yeah, computer science is an amazing way to get into, even if you want to be CEO, having a tech background is helpful. | 101 |
| Geoff Mulgan | On the environment and climate change, I suspect that future generations will think there was too much timidity, too much fear of upsetting business. Basically, New Labour was very nervous about regulating business, or requiring it to do anything, even when there was a very clear social or environmental case for doing so. | 101 |
| Harbhajan Singh | Cricket is my passion; it is my first love. So I will not act in my movies, as they will just be a side business for me. | 101 |
| Isaac Brock | When I do write, it happens really easily. I'll just kind of sing along to whatever I'm playing, then find a line to build off of, then sit down and write. When I do write, I take care of business! | 101 |
| Jamie Dimon | If business doesn't thrive, it hurts America. We need improved relations, more collaboration, more thought and more consistency as we go about trying to make sure we have the best country in the world. Not scapegoating and finger-pointing. | 101 |
| Keira Knightley | Film is a much lonelier process than theatre. You really don't have any rehearsal time in film. You don't shape it together... with theatre, there is a complete kind of family atmosphere. The sociable side of this business is the theatrical side, it really isn't the film side. | 101 |
| Leah Busque | Since most startups operate at a break-neck pace, with a concept to prove or a product to launch within a rapidly shortening runway of financing, company culture often gets shoved aside. This is a big, big mistake: Nobody serious about their business should put culture in the corner. | 101 |
| Lisa Randall | I considered going into business or becoming a lawyer - not for the money, but for the thrill of problem-solving. | 101 |
| Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach | If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty. | 101 |
| Miroslav Volf | In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb. | 101 |
| N. R. Narayana Murthy | When you are in business for a long time, you go through good times and bad times. When you go through bad times, you learn to control costs, satisfy customers better, satisfy employees better and become more transparent. Therefore, you build character in the company. | 101 |
| Oliver North | We've been in the nation-building business since World War I, and especially since WWII. The goal is not a Jeffersonian Democracy in Afghanistan, but a representative government that respects human rights, protects its own people, and is a friend of the West. These are very realistic - and necessary - goals. | 101 |
| Omar Epps | I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs. | 101 |
| Oscar De La Hoya | There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business. | 101 |
| Owen Paterson | Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation. | 101 |
| Paul Cellucci | We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is closed to terrorists and drug pushers and smugglers and others who seek to break the law. | 101 |
| Rob Lowe | I have a friend who is very successful in business, and his motto is, 'Don't do what you can do. Do what only you can do.' First of all, you have to know what your specific, unique gift is and then you do that... every actor does that but every once in a while an actor plays a part that only they can play. | 101 |
| Sam Walton | There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else. | 101 |
| Sean Hannity | One of my producers said this business is like a hamster on that little wheel thing that goes around and around. You may have a great day and get great ratings, but then you've got another show to do - whatever moment of success or happiness you have you've got to keep grinding it out for the next day. | 101 |
| Steve Wynn | What we know about the destination resort business is clearly established. But it's all about one thing, and one thing only. All of the razzmatazz and jazz we hear about facilities and everything else doesn't amount to a hill of beans. It's customer experience that determines the longevity and endurance of these enterprises. | 101 |
| Tacitus | Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader. | 101 |
| Theodore Isaac Rubin | Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best. | 101 |
| Thomas J. Watson | Good design is good business. | 101 |
| Thomas Mallon | Of all Americans who have appeared on the nation's postage stamps, Ayn Rand is probably the only one to have thought that the United States government has no business delivering mail. | 101 |
| Ty Cobb | The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault. | 101 |
| Uday Kotak | I was not very keen on joining the family business... there were 14 family members working together, and it worried me that I would not have enough individuality. | 101 |
| Uwe Boll | Slater's a big star and he's been in the business a long time. He's always in a good mood and easygoing but he takes his character very seriously. | 101 |
| Walter Lippmann | The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. | 101 |
| Wes Anderson | I don't know what is in store for the movie business any better than anybody else does, but it does seem like my kind of movies are a little trickier than it used to be - or maybe a lot trickier. | 101 |
| will.i.am | You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics. | 101 |
| Yaphet Kotto | I like doing business in a black city. | 101 |
| Yuan T. Lee | We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world. | 101 |
| Yvon Chouinard | I'm kind of like a samurai. They say if you want to be a samurai, you can't be afraid of dying, and as soon as you flinch, you get your head cut off. I'm not afraid of losing this business. | 101 |
| Billy Porter | I love the community of theater. There is something about the camaraderie: People who show up eight times a week to do a show. It's unlike any other business. It's just lovely. You feel like you're in a family. | 101 |
| Bradley Cooper | Personally, I've made myself a very small window of what I enjoy in this business, which is I love being a big part of the storytelling process. | 101 |
| Bret Easton Ellis | Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don't know. I think it's a medium that really is built for the male gaze and for a male sensibility. | 101 |
| Charlie Pierce | The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large spectacles of mass entertainment. The fundamental absurdity of that notion requires the promulgation of the various deceits necessary to carry it out. | 101 |
| Christine Lagarde | You know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their ego, I sometimes think to myself, 'Come on, you know, there's life and there's death and there is love.' And all of that ego business is nonsense compared to that. | 101 |
| Claire Denis | When you have countries that have a lot of minerals and diamonds and oil and are in business with companies from all over the world - but these companies don't share, really, their profits - this is called post-post-colonial. | 101 |
| Dan Hill | To be sure, boxing has always been, at best, a shady and sometimes cutthroat business, buttressed by hype and tomfoolery rivalling, at times, that of carnival circuses. | 101 |
| David Rakoff | Everybody's got something. In the end, what choice does one really have but to understand that truth, to really take it in, and then shop for groceries, get a haircut, do one's work; get on with the business of one's life. That's the hope, anyway. | 101 |
| Don Yaeger | In sports and in business, the greatest leaders are those who make the best decisions in the most crucial of situations. They are the ones who focus their energy on turning tough decisions into winning decisions. | 101 |
| Donald Evans | I am going to be announcing today that we will have a business delegation come to this country sometime in the future where we will bring businesses from America to Morocco to show them the vast business opportunities here. | 101 |
| Felix Rohatyn | Investment banking is not a business; it is a personal service where bankers work hand in hand with their clients. And it is a service that must not simply be about making bigger and bigger deals that reap rewards for only a small group of executives. | 101 |
| Georgia Jagger | I want to be an entrepreneur too; I like the business side of things. When I was younger I wanted to be a vet or a tightrope walker. But I have no sense of balance and I can't bear animals dying, so I abandoned both ideas. | 101 |
| Glen Duncan | If being a werewolf is really a curse, you've got to treat it honorably. If werewolves are going to carry on, there has to be an incredibly powerful force. There is the business of the craving, the hunger for the kill. It has to be deeply pleasurable and more than an appetite for meat. There has to be a sensual dimension to it. | 101 |
| Henry R. Luce | Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. | 101 |
| Igor Sikorsky | The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork. | 101 |
| Janet Yellen | Stores don't order merchandise unless they think they can sell it right away. Manufacturers and builders don't produce unless they have buyers lined up. My business contacts describe this as a paradigm shift and they believe it's permanent. | 101 |
| Jeffrey Gitomer | My readers and my audiences have turned into my followers. They are more than interested in what I have to say in the subjects of sales, loyalty, attitude, networking, business social media, and becoming a trusted advisor. | 101 |
| Kamisese Mara | Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs. | 101 |
| Karen Mills | Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business plan. | 101 |
| Kim Alexis | Modeling is a lonely business... You don't speak. You don't really portray anything but an image... the business is so superfluous about dealing with the outside, it messes with your mind. | 101 |
| Leland Ryken | For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life. | 101 |
| Lindsay Fox | Personal relationships are always the key to good business. You can buy networking; you can't buy friendships. | 101 |
| Max de Pree | The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. | 101 |
| Michael Dell | Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships. | 101 |
| Nicky Oppenheimer | America is a country of entrepreneurship and great business leaders. | 101 |
| Peter Guber | Think about all the great leaders. Think about Obama. Think about Clinton. Think about Nelson Mandela. Think about all the people that we know who are very successful in business, in politics and religion. What are they? They tell purposeful stories. They move people to action by aiming at the heart. | 101 |
| Rick Santorum | The more moral the people are in their business dealings, the less paperwork you need, the more handshakes you can have, the more the wheels of capitalism work better because there's trust in the marketplace. Business ethics is not a joke. And, in fact, I think most businesses that I've dealt with encourage exactly that type of behavior. | 101 |
| Steven Curtis Chapman | I've been here 21 years, and I literally did walk up and down Music Row trying to break into the business. I felt very free to go into any publishing company. | 101 |
| Warren Ellis | I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot. | 101 |
| Wayne Knight | There's an appreciation of the whole picture of life as opposed to just ambition and circumstance and all the stuff that happens in this business. You find yourself lucky enough to be working with somebody really talented who you know and who you trust. | 101 |
| William Bell | It's been a rollercoaster ride. There have been some great moments and some low points... like when I was leaving Stax. That's when I actually thought of getting out of the business. | 101 |
| Bob McDonnell | Success in business today requires real-time, mobile access to business opportunities. | 101 |
| Christie Hefner | I came to Playboy not expecting to stay. But after five years, I found myself really enjoying the business world, and I realized I had some skill. | 101 |
| Cyrus McCormick | Indomitable perseverance in a business, properly understood, always ensures ultimate success. | 101 |
| David Antin | I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus. | 101 |
| Dwight Henry | Baking is my business, and it will always come first. | 101 |
| Gary Wright | Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity. | 101 |
| George Akerlof | In New Classical theory, periods of declining employment - business cycle downturns - may be caused by an unexpected decline in aggregate demand, which leaves workers mistakenly holding out for nominal wages that exceed the new market-clearing level. | 101 |
| James Lankford | Our nation stands at the crossroads of liberty. Crushing national debt, rampant illegal immigration, insane business regulations and staggering national unemployment are pushing our nation into unchartered territory. | 101 |
| Kerry Stokes | Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it's integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards. | 101 |
| Melissa Bean | Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families. | 101 |
| Michael LeBoeuf | A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all. | 101 |
| Nicholas D'Agosto | The business can be frustrating. For me, Omaha is a rounding foundation. I was raised in a very faith-filled household, very hardworking. It made me aware of what privilege is. And it's a place I can go back to, spend time with nieces and nephews, celebrate the things that have nothing to do with the hubbub of Hollywood. | 101 |
| Patrice Motsepe | I've heard people say South Africans are arrogant, that they act no differently from their colonial masters. That needs to change. It's in your business interest as an entrepreneur to form meaningful partnerships. That's how you do well for your shareholders. | 101 |
| Peter Shilton | As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business. | 101 |
| Petter Stordalen | What is good for society is also good for business. | 101 |
| Randy Travis | I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business. | 101 |
| Richard Nelson Bolles | Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do. | 101 |
| Rob Kardashian | I feel like dress socks differentiate you in a different way - especially men in suits who just have the traditional business suit. The dress sock is the way to change it up in your mind and I like wearing my pants up higher so you see them. | 101 |
| Sanford I. Weill | My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that made sure we ate right and we had our cod liver oil, but didn't know a heck of a lot about what I did. | 101 |
| Shari Arison | It's important to think good, speak good, and do good. If we want to see positive change in the world, then we need to connect to goodness. I try in everything I do, both in business and philanthropy, to make a positive change and do that by doing good. | 101 |
| Thomas G. Stemberg | One of the people who most influenced me was Ben Shapiro, a marketing professor at the business school. He used to rant and rave and pound his fist: 'It's all about the customers!' And he was right. He was also right that, at that time, retailing was devoid of really talented people; he urged me to go in that direction. | 101 |
| Tony Fernandes | When I started my airline business, I didn't know everything, right? If I start up a newspaper tomorrow, I might get ripped off by journalists. You'd be naive to think you know everything from day one. | 101 |
| Travis Kalanick | After Scour, I started a company called Red Swoosh. The idea was to take those litigants who sued us for a huge amount of money and turn them into customers with the same technology. I wanted to get them to pay me. It was a revenge business. | 101 |
| Tony Shalhoub | I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week. | 101 |
| Amber Tamblyn | I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress. | 101 |
| Anthony Pratt | My company in the U.S., Pratt Industries U.S.A., has grown from scratch to become a billion-dollar business based on recycling, as well as the largest Australian-owned employer of U.S. citizens. | 101 |
| Benjamin Cohen | I've found that in business opportunities will constantly emerge or situations develop that make you revise your plans along the way. | 101 |
| Catherine Bell | The best part? Probably being able to portray such a respectable, ethical, intelligent, strong woman. That's still pretty rare in our business, unfortunately. | 101 |
| Debbi Fields | I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience. | 101 |
| Elliott Bisnow | There is no greater feeling in business than building a product which impacts people's lives in a profound way. When we look around at the thousands of people who have attended Summit gatherings, it makes us smile to see the new friendships, business partnerships and philanthropic initiatives that each event produces. | 101 |
| Ernie Fletcher | I would like this to be a new day. I would hope now that we can focus on doing the people's business. | 101 |
| Hank Ketcham | Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out. | 101 |
| John Tesh | The world is full of people who have dreams of playing at Carnegie Hall, of running a marathon, and of owning their own business. The difference between the people who make it across the finish line and everyone else is one simple thing: an action plan. | 101 |
| Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan | Thanks to the competence, love of God, our country's security and stability, endowed wealth, integrated infrastructure and quality services, the U.A.E. turned into the world's renowned destination for tourism, investment and business management: the interface of choice for hosting major cultural events, artistic and sports, in the world. | 101 |
| Lionel Barber | The advent of the Internet exposed the fact that the old business model for newspapers was broken. The world wide web fundamentally changed the media eco-system, challenging established journalistic practice in what is known as the mainstream media: radio, television, newspapers and magazines. | 101 |
| Meredith Whitney | You're either making money or you're not. If you're not making money get out of the business. | 101 |
| Paul A. Volcker | What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life. | 101 |
| Robin Leach | It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich. | 101 |
| Rocco DiSpirito | As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business. | 101 |
| Ron Jaworski | Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass. | 101 |
| Scott McNealy | Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products. | 101 |
| Steve Tisch | My father was a guy who, because of the businesses he was in - the hotel business, the hospitality business - he didn't differentiate between the waiter serving you dinner, from the maitre d from the guy who owns a restaurant. Everybody was the same to him. He didn't look at who you were. He didn't look at your wallet. | 101 |
| Sugar Ray Robinson | My business is hurting people. | 101 |
| Tate Taylor | People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me. | 101 |
| Terry Semel | Our new attitude is how can we put you in front of our customer. | 101 |
| Thomas Chandler Haliburton | Punctuality is the soul of business. | 101 |
| Alain Wertheimer | We're in the business of selling pleasure. We don't sell handbags or haute couture. We sell dreams. | 101 |
| Andrea Jung | There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change? | 101 |
| C. Thomas Howell | My father got a phone call to bring me in to meet with Spielberg for 'E.T.,' partially because they knew I was a physical kid, and I was known in the business somewhat as a stunt kid, and I could do all the bicycle riding. | 101 |
| Carmen Busquets | For me, the winning strategy in any start-up business is, 'Think big but start small.' | 101 |
| David Arquette | I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that. | 101 |
| Diane Mott Davidson | Catering is extremely demanding financially and physically. It's a business. | 101 |
| Dick Bruna | I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist. | 101 |
| Edgar Fiedler | Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard. | 101 |
| George Sidney | I've had 79 to 80 years of show business. I started when I was 5 with a man called Tom Mix. I didn't have time to go to school because I was in silent movies, I was in radio, I was in burlesque, I worked with the circus. I'm all show business! | 101 |
| Gordon Gould | But certainly the laser proved to be what I realized it was going to be. At that moment in my life I was too ignorant in business law to be able to do it right, and if I did it over again probably the same damn thing would happen. | 101 |
| Kevin P. Ryan | I used to think business was 50 percent having the right people. Now I think it's 80 percent. | 101 |
| Lee Kun-hee | Korea can't become a 'first-class' nation unless regulation and 'a sense of power' disappear. The nation's politics is the fourth-class, bureaucratic are the third-class, and business is the second-class. | 101 |
| Mark McCormack | All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend. | 101 |
| Michael Eisner | It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime. | 101 |
| Robert Lopez | I don't know if I have good habits, but I'm very devoted to writing. I'm very compulsive about having a project, at least one, and trying to follow the business as much as I can. I keep on top of all the entertainment business news. | 101 |
| Robin Yount | My brother Larry. He taught me how hard work and dedication to the game was the only way to make it. He's taken care of all my business activities for me and my family for many years, and I thank him for that. | 101 |
| Stana Katic | My parents were European immigrants. They came to the States with $1,500, two suitcases, and me, and they managed to build a business, a family, and a future for their family. They didn't have any of the resources of people who have lived here for two or three generations. | 101 |
| Carol Roth | Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place. | 101 |
| Claudette Colbert | I know what's best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody. | 101 |
| George Formby | Now everybody's got a crazy notion of their own. Some like to mix up with a crowd, some like to be alone. It's no one elses' business as far as I can see, but every time that I go out the people stare at me, with me little ukulele in me hand. | 101 |
| Maksim Chmerkovskiy | I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from. | 101 |
| Red Buttons | If I lose show business - I'll really be an orphan! | 101 |
| Richard Chamberlain | 'Handsome' means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business. | 101 |
| Rod Blagojevich | A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy. | 101 |
| Roman Romanenko | Whenever we went on a trip, picnic, or business trip, I was always with my dad, and I would just always be in contact with cosmonauts, and I thought it would be always normal to be with them. | 101 |
| Blaine Lee | The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players. | 101 |
| Chuck Lorre | I believe that the Laws of Karma do not apply to show business, where good things happen to bad people on a fairly regular basis. | 101 |
| Cliff Robertson | Show business is like a bumpy bus ride. Sometimes you find yourself temporarily juggled out of your seat and holding onto a strap. But the main idea is to hang in there and not be shoved out the door. | 101 |
| Diahann Carroll | I've spent about that amount of time trying to tell the public that there was purpose in... my business, my career and the roller coaster ride... how the people I associated with worked together. | 101 |
| James Rouse | Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable. | 101 |
| Jeff Raikes | In business, the market gives you feedback in real time. Your sales figures tell you what's working, what isn't, and how you need to change. If you don't listen to the feedback, you go belly up. In philanthropy, there is no market. | 101 |
| Mian Muhammad Mansha | I realized early on, maybe better than some of my competitors did, that a textile business can run only if you have scale. I decided to horizontally and vertically integrate, adding everything from spinning, dyeing, weaving, and stitching to processing and packing. | 101 |
| Randy Hultgren | I think the big thing is to talk about getting people working again and addressing the issues that are keeping small business from being able to grow. | 101 |
| Richard Li | If achieving the Hong Kong dream becomes a vanishing hope, then our society will suffer. What would the Hong Kong dream be? It's no different from the American dream, whereby an everyday man on the street who works hard would be able to make good savings and use those savings as equity for their future small business. | 101 |
| Al Lopez | Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it. | 101 |
| Alexander Osterwalder | The same products, services or technologies can fail or succeed depending on the business model you choose. Exploring the possibilities is critical to finding a successful business model. Settling on first ideas risks the possibility of missing potential that can only be discovered by prototyping and testing different alternatives. | 101 |
| An Wang | Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change. | 101 |
| Collis Potter Huntington | Mark Hopkins was one of the truest and best men that ever lived. He had a keen analytical mind; was thoroughly accurate, and took general supervision of the books, contracts, etc. He was strictly the office man, and never bought or sold anything. I always felt when I was in the East that our business in his hands was entirely safe. | 101 |
| Jack Carroll | Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide, just take care of business here and now. | 101 |
| Jimmy Cliff | If you go out to Hollywood you'll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic. | 101 |
| Mel Smith | It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a pantomime cow. | 101 |
| Ron Howard | It was always my dream to be a director. A lot of it had to do with controlling my own destiny, because as a young actor you feel at everyone's disposal. But I wanted to become a leader in the business. | 101 |
| Steve Ross | You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing. | 101 |
| Malvinder Mohan Singh | There is a lot of opportunity sitting in global healthcare business. I think there is a strong opportunity to build upon for further growth. | 101 |
| Michael Moritz | It's obviously unfair to paint with a broad brush here, but the germ of an idea for a breakthrough in technology doesn't come out of a business school curriculum. It comes out of a laboratory or a math lecture or a physics tutorial. | 101 |
| Johnny Isakson | In the real estate business you learn more about people, and you learn more about community issues, you learn more about life, you learn more about the impact of government, probably than any other profession that I know of. | 101 |
| Mercer Reynolds | In 1979 I teamed up with my friend and business partner, Bill DeWitt, and together we formed an oil and gas company that invested through limited partnerships in oil and gas exploration. | 101 |
| James Goodnight | I don't keep up on a lot of the business trends. | 101 |
| James H. Boren | When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder. | 101 |
| Jordan Bridges | The way it works in our family is, it's the family business. Much like in the Mafia. Every child is given the opportunity to act at a young age and to learn what it's like to be in the business. | 101 |
| Jean Simmons | Every actress has to face the facts there are younger, more beautiful girls right behind you. Once you've gone beyond the vanity of the business, you'll take on the tough roles. | 101 |
| Jonathan Potter | The record industry is still pissed off that other people are making money off their business, even if it promotes their products and increases their sales. I think they're still mad about radio. | 101 |
| Julius Rosenwald | Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind. | 101 |
| Elon Musk | If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion. | 102 |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. | 102 |
| Leonardo da Vinci | I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death. | 102 |
| Mark Zuckerberg | I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress. | 102 |
| Aristotle Onassis | The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. | 102 |
| Beth Brooke | What is clear is that business leaders must commit to champion change - to be transparent about their goals for change, to align their incentives systems to drive the change, and to make sure their work environments are flexible in a way that allows men and women who choose to work to be able to achieve all of their potential. | 102 |
| Bobby Bowden | There's a saying in my business that there are two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired and those who haven't been fired yet. That's kind of like prostate cancer. Every man will have it if he lives long enough. | 102 |
| Carlos Slim | Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business. | 102 |
| Freeman Dyson | Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people. | 102 |
| George Cukor | Looking for love is tricky business, like whipping a carousel horse. | 102 |
| Helen Thomas | When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected. | 102 |
| J. Paul Getty | To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business. | 102 |
| Kate Middleton | I think I know I've been working very hard for the family business, sometimes those days are long days and I think if I know I'm working hard and pulling my weight, both working and playing hard at the same time, I think everyone who I work with can see I am there pulling my weight. | 102 |
| Kate Moss | I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others. | 102 |
| Kim Wilde | The record company really pissed me off when they told me to lose weight. I couldn't be bothered with looking a certain way. So I left the business. I don't regret it. | 102 |
| Leo Burnett | Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink. | 102 |
| Ludwig von Mises | Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business. | 102 |
| Nicholas II of Russia | I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling. | 102 |
| Nick Jonas | Having haters is just a part of the business, and the more haters you have, the more people like you - that's how I view it, because I try to see the positive in things. | 102 |
| Nolan Bushnell | I've always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonderful example. | 102 |
| Norm MacDonald | I don't have any ego about it, but I find there's not a great work ethic in show business. A lot of people are in it to make money, and coming from stand-up, you have to work so hard because almost nothing works, and if you lose the audience for three minutes, you're dead. | 102 |
| Olusegun Obasanjo | Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country. | 102 |
| Otis Redding | If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too. You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it. | 102 |
| Phil Knight | There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success. | 102 |
| Ricky Martin | When I was 9 years old, I really wanted to be in the show business. I really wanted to be an artist. I would grab a wooden spoon and I would start singing, even if it was for my uncles and my aunts. And I would just sing any lah-lah song. | 102 |
| Rod Stewart | You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing. | 102 |
| Sam Walton | We're all working together; that's the secret. | 102 |
| Theodore Parker | It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business. | 102 |
| Tim O'Reilly | My original business model - I actually wrote this down - was 'interesting work for interesting people.' | 102 |
| Tom Brokaw | It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. | 102 |
| Tom Peters | Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures. | 102 |
| Tucker Max | Books are so cheap and easy to get that people don't bother stealing them, which is the essential rule of piracy that the music business learned much too late. | 102 |
| Ursula Burns | As I've progressed in my career, I've come to appreciate - and really value - the other attributes that define a company's success beyond the P&L: great leadership, long-term financial strength, ethical business practices, evolving business strategies, sound governance, powerful brands, values-based decision-making. | 102 |
| Vincent Tan | Every business I don't know, if I spend enough time - a couple of months - I will know a lot. I know quite a lot about football now. I know the value of players, and we won't do stupid things. | 102 |
| Vint Cerf | We have already discovered how quickly we become dependent on the Internet and its applications for business, government and research, so it is not surprising that we are finding that we can apply this technology to enable or facilitate our social interactions as well. | 102 |
| Ashwin Sanghi | What I have found is that, in a family business structure, sometimes what is needed is a sense of discipline rather than creativity. You have to take everyone's ideas and make it work. When you are dealing with money, there is a limitation on how creative you can be. | 102 |
| Barbara Corcoran | If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires. | 102 |
| Benny Hill | That's what show business is, sincere insincerity. | 102 |
| Bruce Forsyth | When you've been brought up in variety, I think timing is always important in your life. If I'm ever late for anything, whether it's personal or business, I always apologise. 'I'm sorry I'm late,' and all that. And if somebody is late meeting me, I expect them to say 'I'm sorry I'm late.' It's just, shall we say, showbiz etiquette of my day. | 102 |
| Charlie Munger | When someone takes their existing business and tries to transform it into something else - they fail. In technology that is often the case. Look at Kodak: it was the dominant imaging company in the world. They did fabulously during the great depression, but then wiped out the shareholders because of technological change. | 102 |
| Chip Conley | Business principles are only as good as the practices that back them up. | 102 |
| Chris D'Elia | Once I started doing stand-up, everything fell into place. That was when I started acting more; I felt like I'd found my place in the business. | 102 |
| Dalton Trumbo | Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility. | 102 |
| Eddie Bernice Johnson | All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business. | 102 |
| Edgar Bronfman, Sr. | During my many years in international business and public life, I have had the good fortune of sitting down for lunch with people with whom I completely disagreed, in practice and principle: Soviet communists, heads of state from various unsavory regimes, benighted religious figures, corrupt business leaders. | 102 |
| Edward Whitacre, Jr. | No partnership between two independent companies, no matter how well run, can match the speed, effectiveness, responsiveness and efficiency of a solely owned company. | 102 |
| Frank Lautenberg | Anybody who has ever been in business, anybody who has ever paid bills, anybody who has ever lived in a serious adult life knows that indebtedness is a killer. | 102 |
| Gayle Tzemach Lemmon | Entrepreneurship isn't for everyone, and not everyone is going to be an entrepreneur, but women who turn to business, turn to economics, because there are people depending on them, I think that their creativity, their resilience, their spirit, embody what's best about entrepreneurship. | 102 |
| George William Russell | When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality. | 102 |
| Glenn Turner | You can get too close as a team. You need time away from each other. You change in the same dressing room, you play on the same cricket field, you stay in the same hotel, you travel in the same planes and buses. C'mon - this business of everyone holding hands and being pally is nonsense. | 102 |
| Greg Brenneman | Burger King's business model was broken. But it was like sex in the '50s. Everyone knew it, but no one would talk about it. | 102 |
| Jim Barksdale | After all, it's the future of business communication that we're looking toward. | 102 |
| John Boehner | Every family in America knows they have to do a budget. Every small business in America knows they have to do a budget. Every local government, every state, knows they have to do a budget. | 102 |
| John Caudwell | Business gives you a massive high. Doing a great deal, coming up with an inspirational solution... It's very addictive. But it doesn't last long. In isolation, it's a bit sterile. It doesn't reward the soul. | 102 |
| Karen Mills | I grew up in a family business... that really has provided the core of my belief in American small business, and in America's ability to grow and operate important businesses that can compete and be successful. | 102 |
| Leos Carax | There's a real cowardice in the movie business. If you don't meet the right crazy people, you can't do it. | 102 |
| Maria Semple | We need to preserve our neighborhoods, our small business, our local economy. | 102 |
| Maya Lin | When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business. | 102 |
| Robert Fripp | Being a professional musician doesn't mean you spend 12 hours a day playing music. It means you spend up to 12 hours a day taking care of business, dealing with litigation, with the various characters who've stolen your interests, or fending off hostile lawsuits from former members of the band. | 102 |
| Romain Rolland | It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails. | 102 |
| William Dampier | I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for a shower of rain now and then, that ushers in the wet season. | 102 |
| Aubrey McClendon | I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant. | 102 |
| Boman Irani | Nothing was planned in my career. I just went with the flow and took everything that came to me. Selling potato chips was obvious, as it was a family business. When friends suggested I should try theatre, I gave it a shot. Then I did a lot of advertisements, and then movies happened. | 102 |
| Cameron Mathison | I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It's been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two. | 102 |
| Charles Comiskey | To me, baseball is as honorable as any other business. It is the most honest pastime in the world. It has to be, or it could not last a season out. Crookedness and baseball do not mix. It has become immeasurably more popular as the years have gone by. It will be greater yet. This year, 1919, is the greatest season of them all. | 102 |
| Ferdinand Piech | If you fire people, you fire customers. | 102 |
| Harry Seidler | Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all. | 102 |
| Louie Anderson | I had been asking the universe and God to send me a way for me to help me. Show business has been so wonderful to me, and it came in the form of that. It's just so funny how things come into your life, and if you take a chance on them, it might give you a brand new life. | 102 |
| Mark Udall | Ranchers need clean water for their stock, farmers need it for their crops, every employer needs it to stay in business, and every living thing needs it for life... The law needs to be clear to protect water quality and the rights of landowners. | 102 |
| Melissa Bean | I am excited to rise today to support National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day. This celebration honors the husband and wife business owner teams whose work helps drive the economy and fuel job growth. | 102 |
| Robert Herjavec | Oh, I'm all about small business. I think what we've learned from big business and big Wall Street is that unchecked greed and the creation of false value gets us all in trouble. If we look at the American economy, who's really creating value? It's the small businesses. | 102 |
| Robert Osborne | Lana Turner was adorable and funny. Jimmy Stewart was such a nice person. I quickly realized that if you're not a nice person, you're not going to last in this business. I mean, once your box office starts to drop off, like Veronica Lake, they'll get rid of you fast. | 102 |
| Sanford I. Weill | Details create the big picture. | 102 |
| Stephen Breyer | And the problem is once you get into this campaign business and begin to have a lot of money, then the person on the bench begins to think - what's going to happen if I decide the case this way or that way? | 102 |
| Sue Kelly | Small businesses provide 75 percent of new U.S. jobs and are the backbone of our economy, and no outdated ban should be keeping small business owners from collecting the same interest their money could earn if it were held by an individual. | 102 |
| Aaron Patzer | Mint's business model became, 'We'll go for free, and then we'll find these savings opportunities for you.' You know, better interest rate on your credit cards, when should you consolidate your student loans, when does it mathematically make sense to refinance your mortgage, and Mint figures all that stuff out for you. | 102 |
| Broderick Crawford | I've made upwards of a million bucks in the cops-and-robbers business. | 102 |
| Evan Esar | Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. | 102 |
| Howard Aiken | Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. | 102 |
| John Morley | The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart. | 102 |
| Muhtar Kent | Coca-Cola is the only business in the world where no matter which country or town or village you are in, if someone asks what do you do, and you say you work for Coca-Cola, you never have to answer the question, 'What is that?' | 102 |
| Richard M. Daley | I've very proud to be mayor of our great city. It's a city with a heart and a soul. Chicago has a unique spirit. Our business community wants to give back. | 102 |
| Richard Marx | But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever. | 102 |
| Sanjay Kumar | So in 2000, when we changed the business model and started really focusing on that triangle and putting the customer in the center, we decided we should hold off - we've done enough consolidation; we've got enough critical mass. | 102 |
| Tadashi Shoji | Time flies so quick. I remember my second year in business when Bullocks Wilshire did a whole window of my white dresses. I was so excited, I went there at night and took pictures. | 102 |
| Adam Green | You may love football, but that doesn't mean you have any business trying to play the sport. It's the same thing with filmmaking... everybody has a great idea for a movie, but do you have the stamina to get good at your craft and deal with how heartbreaking it is? | 102 |
| Ali Larter | I'm in a stage where I feel like I need to retrain my mind, because since the beginning of my career, I've been such a fighter and a little hustler and someone who just tried to stay afloat in this business. | 102 |
| Christopher McDougall | I have the idea that running shoes are based on a kind of cult idea - that our feet are flawed and we need shoes to correct those flaws. The shoe companies are in the business of selling shoes. But there's no evidence from running shoe manufacturers that they're right. There's no scientific data that running shoes reduce injury. | 102 |
| Dan Levitan | You find that you can have the best business in the most exciting industry, but if the execution, if the torch-holder, if the value-creator isn't there, then we don't make it happen. | 102 |
| Edward Appleton | I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill. | 102 |
| Grenville Kleiser | 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. | 102 |
| John Paul DeJoria | I'm not a detail guy. I depend on accountants and administrators to do my detail stuff for me, but I do know the overall picture and I know that if you put business people together in a room, not just politicians, they could shrink the deficit tremendously by good business tactics. | 102 |
| Michael Eisner | In every business, in every industry, management does matter. | 102 |
| Michael Steele | Secure our borders first. Let us know and let us make sure the American people know that we're taking care of the important business of dealing with the illegal immigration into this country. You cannot begin to address the concerns of the people who are already here unless and until you have made certain that no more are coming in behind them. | 102 |
| Rebecca Pidgeon | City life is stressful. Everybody is running around like crazy, stuck in traffic jams trying to make meetings, trying to make ends meet, trying to meet deadlines, trying to get kids to and from activities. There aren't enough hours in the day for all this business. | 102 |
| Terry Gou | Businesses should be focused on business, and social responsibility should be government responsibility. | 102 |
| Alex Newell | Other than my sexuality, I am vulnerable regarding my physical appearance, as I am not what people considered ideal by most standards. For the entertainment business, I am not the body type of what is typically cast for television or movies. | 102 |
| Blaine Lee | The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself. | 102 |
| Jonathan Evison | I'm not in the business of meddling with people's destinies - and yes, my characters are real people to me. They have histories and thoughts and yearnings and hurts and misgivings and pleasures that don't belong to me. | 102 |
| Joseph P. Bradley | All cannot rule, nor can all be ruled. All cannot plow, nor can all sow, nor reap. No more can all neglect such employments, else the race would become extinct. Each has his business to perform, his part to act. It is a duty he owes to the rest as well as to himself. | 102 |
| Alexander Osterwalder | Once you understand business models you can then start prototyping business models just like you prototype products. | 102 |
| Alexis Ohanian | Being effective at social media, whether for business or personal use, means capturing people who have short attention spans. They're only a click away from a picture of a funny cat, so you have to make your thing more compelling than that cat. And that can be a high bar. | 102 |
| Jimmy Smits | There are no right and wrong ways to work in this business, but there are some basic common-sense practices. Work very, very hard and always be prepared; never give up; and once you get the job, give them more than they ever expected: - Shine! | 102 |
| Mohammed Reza Pahlavi | Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches. | 102 |
| Jann Wenner | To rush to throw away your magazine business and move it on the iPad is just sheer insanity and insecurity and fear. | 102 |
| Jack Anderson | The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark. | 102 |
| Jacqueline Cochran | I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit. | 102 |
| Colin Powell | There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. | 103 |
| Adam Smith | It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. | 103 |
| David Ogilvy | Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. | 103 |
| Jack Welch | An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage. | 103 |
| Steve Harvey | You've got to quit lowering your standards. Set your requirements up front so when a guy hooks you, he has to know this is business. | 103 |
| Alfred A. Montapert | All lasting business is built on friendship. | 103 |
| Charles Kettering | If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it. | 103 |
| Daymond John | Fortunately, right now 'entrepreneurship' is one of the business world's biggest buzz words and so many young people in our country are looking up to this new generation of CEO's as their modern day rock stars. Whenever you have that effect, it makes the job of promoting entrepreneurship much easier. | 103 |
| Edna Ferber | Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way. | 103 |
| Florence Scovel Shinn | No man is a success in business unless he loves his work. | 103 |
| Fred Wilson | Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible. | 103 |
| Harry Emerson Fosdick | Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. | 103 |
| Harry Houdini | My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business. | 103 |
| Jesse Ventura | Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business. | 103 |
| Kevin Plank | My first real business was bootlegging T-shirts - I was just a dumb kid. You go to a concert and pay $25 for a cotton T-shirt that says 'Rolling Stones,' 'Lollapalooza,' or whatever. On the outside they're 10 or 15 bucks. We were the guys selling them for 10 or 15 bucks. | 103 |
| Martha Stewart | All the things I love is what my business is all about. | 103 |
| Michael Douglas | People are goofy about the movie business, so you end up counting on friends you knew before you were successful. It is harder to make new friends because you are a little more cautious. | 103 |
| Miroslav Volf | For Christian faith not to be idle in the world, the work of doctors and garbage collectors, business executives and artists, stay-at-home moms or dads and scientists needs to be inserted into God's story with the world. That story needs to provide the most basic rules by which the game in all these spheres is played. | 103 |
| Nicholas Negroponte | My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business. | 103 |
| Ray Kroc | We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else. | 103 |
| Reese Witherspoon | Confidence is everything in this business. | 103 |
| Roy Rogers | I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me. | 103 |
| Susan Cain | To some extent, we've always had an admiration for extroversion in our culture. But the extrovert ideal really came to play at the turn of the 20th century when we had the rise of big business. | 103 |
| Thomas Carlyle | Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. | 103 |
| Tom Douglas | Sustainability includes how you run your business, and my bottom line includes how you treat your people. Sustainability starts with your staff. | 103 |
| Tony Blair | My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform. | 103 |
| Upamanyu Chatterjee | Amidst one's daily clutter, one doesn't usually reflect on the splendour of being free because - naturally - one has to get on with the business of living. | 103 |
| Vince McMahon | I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to. | 103 |
| William Graham Sumner | The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay. | 103 |
| William Wilberforce | My walk is a public one. My business is in the world, and I must mix in the assemblies of men or quit the post which Providence seems to have assigned me. | 103 |
| Adam Carolla | If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and you'll have a good life. | 103 |
| Apolo Ohno | My life has always been compartmentalized into different aspects. I have my speed skating Olympic pursuits, I have my personal life and have my business life and have my entertainment - TV - Hollywood - whatever have you - always compartmentalizing every aspect of my life. | 103 |
| Ashwin Sanghi | Writing is a intensely personal activity. I can pen down my best thoughts when I'm alone. But when one is elevated into the stature of an author, you have to think about your books in terms of their business angle. | 103 |
| Christine Lagarde | I'm not in the business of reading tea leaves. I don't have a crystal ball. | 103 |
| Fred Savage | I would suggest maintaining a life and a career outside the Industry. This is a fickle business and a lousy one to make a steady living in, so it's important to have a good family, friends, job and education to fall back on. | 103 |
| Greg Brenneman | Business is a team sport. | 103 |
| Howard Hughes | My father told me, never have partners. | 103 |
| James Patterson | Commercial books don't even get covered. The reason why so many book reviews go out of business is because they cover a lot of stuff that nobody cares about. Imagine if the movie pages covered none of the big movies and all they covered were movies that you couldn't even find in the theater? | 103 |
| John Caudwell | Business is about being the best that you can be, and there are always glowing examples of people that we can all learn from. | 103 |
| Kim Dotcom | If you create something, you don't want someone else to go and profit from it; you have your right to make a living and everything. So I respect copyright. What I don't respect is copyright extremism. And I what I don't respect is a business model that encourages piracy. | 103 |
| Larry Holmes | I don't really make plans and I just want to be happy and continue with my business and take care of my wife and kids. I want to sit back, relax and enjoy life. | 103 |
| Mario Balotelli | When people talk about my business, my life, I'm really private. Maybe someone thinks I'm arrogant or something, but it's just me. | 103 |
| Marsha Blackburn | Republicans are for clean water, clean air, and clean energy. We are not for taxing people out of their house, home and business to pay for it. And that is the fundamental difference between the Democrats and Republicans on this issue. | 103 |
| Paula Abdul | Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with. | 103 |
| Pierre-Joseph Proudhon | I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world. | 103 |
| Reid Hoffman | One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it's making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it's the people who already have strong trust relationships with you, who know you're dedicated, smart, a team player, who can help you. | 103 |
| Rick Perlstein | Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture; it flows from that calcified image, and it provides the substance for the story that keeps getting told about the inevitability of American progress. | 103 |
| Roy L. Smith | The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do. | 103 |
| Chetan Bhagat | While I am a capitalist at heart and I have no problems with commercialization as such, I believe that while it's okay if education becomes a profitable business, it's not okay if it becomes corrupt. | 103 |
| Elizabeth Holmes | At a relatively early age, I began to believe that building a business was perhaps the greatest opportunity for making an impact, because it's a tool for making a change in the world. | 103 |
| Robert Herjavec | Business is a sprint until you find an opportunity, then it's the patience of a marathon runner. | 103 |
| Shari Arison | Business is not a spiritual matter, and my business decisions are not based on spiritual considerations. When I founded the Essence of Life, a project aimed at teaching tolerance and respectful dialogue, the person appointed to head it was Irit Atzmon, a former colonel in the army. Can anything be more down-to-earth than that? | 103 |
| Thomas G. Stemberg | At the Harvard Business School, I really felt I had gained the ability to resolve difficult issues. But I also felt that I wasn't in the mainstream with my fellow students. During job-hunting season, for example, everybody shaved their beards for interviews. I thought, 'This is crazy.' So I grew a beard. | 103 |
| Douglas Wood | That said, I should also add that I learned a great deal from being allowed in these privileged circles and am grateful for the opportunity to have worked closely with some of the most powerful and successful people in the business including Steven Spielberg and Ted Turner. | 103 |
| Lakshmi Mittal | This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing. | 103 |
| Laurence D. Fink | What Wall Street is, they're market makers. Wall Street's business model is making money on velocity of money. They're a click industry. That's what Wall Street is. They make a lot of money when there's a lot of turnover. And they make a lot of money when that velocity is fast. | 103 |
| Marc Davis | At that time, the people that were in the animated film business were mostly guys who were unsuccessful newspaper cartoonists. In other words, their ability to draw living things was practically nil. | 103 |
| Ralph Steadman | Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason. | 103 |
| Edgar Fiedler | The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers. | 103 |
| James F. Cooper | The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world. | 103 |
| Monica Raymund | The love, support, and respect the members of the theater community have for one another is unparalleled. Say what you want about us wacky drama-types, but one thing that makes our business special is our loyalty, our fierce commitment to one another, and our mutual respect. | 103 |
| Dale Dauten | There aren't too many principles of proper business conduct with which just about everybody will agree. Two come to mind: 1. Unless you're a professional athlete, don't offer co-workers encouragement by patting them on the butt, and 2. Don't burn bridges. | 103 |
| J. C. Ryle | There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world. | 103 |
| Alvin Dark | A manager doesn't hear the cheers. | 103 |
| Anne F. Beiler | I never went to college. But the structure I grew up with was planted so deep that when it came to doing business, I knew how to be disciplined, create teamwork, and persevere. It set me up to be an entrepreneur and a successful franchiser. | 103 |
| Blaine Lee | What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful. | 103 |
| Jimmy Smits | I like the gypsy aspect of this business. | 103 |
| Steve Jobs | Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people. | 104 |
| Gary Vaynerchuk | When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals. | 104 |
| Lucius Annaeus Seneca | If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. | 104 |
| Warren Buffett | In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield. | 104 |
| Nas | I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out. | 104 |
| Aristotle Onassis | To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them. | 104 |
| Catherine the Great | I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all. | 104 |
| Edward Kennedy | It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priority as unfinished business from the first Bush Administration. His agenda was clear: find a rationale to get rid of Saddam. | 104 |
| Frank Lampard | Everyone's got unfinished business with Barcelona. They're the greatest team in the world. | 104 |
| Henry Cabot Lodge | The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their faults and their - shortcomings, but they were not slothful in business and they were most fervent in spirit. | 104 |
| Joni Mitchell | I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate. | 104 |
| Kathy Ireland | If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because no one can guarantee that we'll have them tomorrow. | 104 |
| N. T. Wright | One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what's in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business. | 104 |
| Niklas Zennstrom | When we started Skype, if you look at analyst reports, no one forecasted it as a big business. Also when Google started, it was not fashionable to be in search. It's not trying to do the obvious - that's the hard part. | 104 |
| Olympia Snowe | In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner. | 104 |
| Robin S. Sharma | The business of business is relationships; the business of life is human connection. | 104 |
| Scott Adams | Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. | 104 |
| Thurgood Marshall | If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. | 104 |
| Tim Berners-Lee | Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch. | 104 |
| Tony Abbott | For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family. | 104 |
| Valentino Garavani | I am especially grateful that I have been able to keep my own style over the decades, in spite of the many changes that have taken place in the world of fashion and in its business. | 104 |
| Walter Kirn | In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like medicine or engineering, it had a definite, valuable purpose: to foster 'comprehension.' | 104 |
| Andre Malraux | To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less. | 104 |
| Bob Woodward | There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can. | 104 |
| Bradley Cooper | If you're a single man and you happen to be in this business, you're deemed a player. But I don't see myself as a ladies' man. | 104 |
| Cilla Black | I loved everything about show business, meeting the stars, the whole ambience. I was living every young kid's dream. I was told a pop singer's life was three years, but I was still making money seven years later. | 104 |
| James Altucher | I loved Internet businesses, having built and sold one. And I loved the financial business, despite the fact that it was almost all a scam. | 104 |
| John Caudwell | My second business would have succeeded but for competitors' jealousy. I was selling motorbike gear cheap, but the people I was undercutting complained to the manufacturer and cut off my supply. It showed me how corrupt business can be. When I sold phones, the same thing happened, but this time I was ready. | 104 |
| Laura Wasser | Once you do embark upon the separation or divorce process, it is very important to remember three key things: Be kind, be reasonable, be brief. Remember that this person will no longer be your spouse, but he or she will continue to be your co-parent, family member, and perhaps business partner in certain assets or entities. | 104 |
| Michael Dell | Every breakthrough business idea begins with solving a common problem. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity. I discovered a big one when I took apart an IBM PC. I made two interesting discoveries: The components were all manufactured by other companies, and the system that retailed for $3,000 cost about $600 in parts. | 104 |
| Neil Cavuto | I don't think business news is just for old white men with money. | 104 |
| Rivers Cuomo | I found that so many people in the music business started out as metalheads in the Eighties - whether they're songwriters, producers, engineers or executives, and no matter what they look like, with short hair, suits or whatever. I feel like my generation of metal kids really tends to populate the music world to a large extent. | 104 |
| Siri Hustvedt | Having children is one of the most passionate and involving bits of business in human life. | 104 |
| Steve Ballmer | What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?' | 104 |
| Andrew Mason | Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That's not a criticism; they're passionate about cutting hair or cooking food, and that's why they got in the business, not because they have an MBA. | 104 |
| Ann Bancroft | A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker. | 104 |
| Benjamin Jowett | The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them. | 104 |
| James Stockdale | Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy. | 104 |
| Mark Skousen | The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy and the stock market. If you want to know where the stock market is headed, forget about consumer spending and retail sales figures. Look to business spending, price inflation, interest rates, and productivity gains. | 104 |
| Tony Fernandes | Winning is an amazing feeling. You don't get that in business; you don't get that in many things. | 104 |
| Alan Ladd | I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me. | 104 |
| Andre Balazs | I don't think it ever does any harm in any business to feel that there is someone there who cares about it. If you look at any business, fashion being the most obvious, the aura, or the reality of the designer, is part of what creates it. It's true in luxury goods stores and in good food stores. It leaves a palpable sense that someone cares. | 104 |
| Jerry Greenfield | So much business is based on the belief that we should do whatever we can within legal limits to make as much money as we can. Ben & Jerry's was based on values, and we try to operate a business that not just sells ice cream but partners with all our stakeholders - whether that's suppliers or customers - to bring about a more sustainable world. | 104 |
| Edgar Fiedler | If you have to forecast, forecast often. | 104 |
| John Paul DeJoria | The biggest hurdle is rejection. Any business you start, be ready for it. The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is the successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don't want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your face, go to door number 11 enthusiastically, with a smile on your face. | 104 |
| Martin Mull | Show business is just like high school, except you get paid. | 104 |
| Michael Eisner | Many people you think are individual achievers in fact have either a strong spousal partner over many years or a business partner who's either in the background, not given enough publicity or less egocentric. | 104 |
| Dale Dauten | It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain. | 104 |
| Stanislaw Lem | Cannibals prefer those who have no spines. | 104 |
| Mitchell Kapor | Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network. | 104 |
| Jimmy Reid | From the very depth of my being, I challenge the right of any man or any group of men, in business or in government, to tell a fellow human being that he or she is expendable. | 104 |
| Bill Gates | The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. | 105 |
| Elon Musk | Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product. | 105 |
| Henry Ford | A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. | 105 |
| Thomas Paine | I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. | 105 |
| P. T. Barnum | Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain. | 105 |
| David Ogilvy | If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative. | 105 |
| Jack Welch | Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. | 105 |
| W. Edwards Deming | Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them. | 105 |
| Anita Roddick | Over the past decade... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda. | 105 |
| Clayton Christensen | There is no evidence that success in business will make us happy people or allow us to have happy families. | 105 |
| Dave Chappelle | I want to tell my jokes. I want to have time with my children. I want to entertain people. And at one point, I'll walk away from show business. But I don't want to walk away empty-handed. | 105 |
| David Letterman | There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting. | 105 |
| Daymond John | If you go out there and start making noise and making sales - people will find you. Sales cure all. You can talk about how great your business plan is and how well you are going to do. You can make up your own opinions, but you cannot make up your own facts. Sales cure all. | 105 |
| Don Marquis | Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. | 105 |
| Frank Luntz | So often corporate America, business America, are the worst communicators, because all they understand are facts, and they cannot tell a story. They know how to explain their quarterly results, but they don't know how to explain what they mean. | 105 |
| Gisele Bundchen | Some people start modeling because they want to be models and they want the parties and the recognition, and then there are people like me. I come from a simple family, and for me getting into modeling was a chance to make money and create a business. | 105 |
| Harold S. Geneen | In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. | 105 |
| Harrison Ford | It doesn't interest me to be Harrison Ford. It interests me to be Mike Pomeroy and Indiana Jones and Jack Ryan. I don't want to be in the Harrison Ford business. I take what I do seriously, but I don't take myself seriously. | 105 |
| Harvey S. Firestone | If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset. | 105 |
| Heidi Klum | What are you going to do if you have all the money in the world and all the things that you wanted to achieve in your business and you have no one to share it with? You come home alone at the end of the day. And then what? | 105 |
| Irvine Welsh | I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information. | 105 |
| Larry King | The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business. | 105 |
| Leo Burnett | What helps people, helps business. | 105 |
| Louise Nurding | My business partner and make-up artist Kim Jacob and I have employed every member of staff, decided where every desk in the office should go, tried every product on our faces. | 105 |
| Mark Wahlberg | Producing suits me because I have a business mind and a business sensibility. I was a street hustler. I did whatever it took. I sold whatever I could sell. I'm a good organiser. | 105 |
| Michael Porter | I teach in the medical school, the School of Public Health, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Business School. And it's the best perch... because most of my work crosses boundaries. | 105 |
| Milan Kundera | Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation. | 105 |
| Paul Hawken | We need to revise our economic thinking to give full value to our natural resources. This revised economics will stabilize both the theory and the practice of free-market capitalism. It will provide business and public policy with a powerful new tool for economic development, profitability, and the promotion of the public good. | 105 |
| Paul McCartney | To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved. | 105 |
| Ron Paul | I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas. | 105 |
| Simon Cowell | I think if you're an unhappy person, you're always going to be an unhappy person. You're probably going to be less unhappy if your business is doing well, if I'm being honest. | 105 |
| Ted Turner | My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job. | 105 |
| Tommy Hilfiger | I thought, if I went into business I'd be able to control my own destiny. | 105 |
| Uma Thurman | Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan. | 105 |
| William Bennett | Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap. | 105 |
| William Bernbach | Word of mouth is the best medium of all. | 105 |
| William Wilberforce | I would suggest that faith is everyone's business. The advance or decline of faith is so intimately connected to the welfare of a society that it should be of particular interest to a politician. | 105 |
| Alexandre Dumas | Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money. | 105 |
| Birdman | I had to give Justin Bieber a lot of shirts - he's a friend of the team, and we got a lot of love for Justin Bieber. I like the apparel business. That's another $100 million per year, easy. | 105 |
| Matt Taibbi | What we have now is a situation where politicians get a whole bunch of money from mainly business interests. Then once they hold that office, they spend all their time in office paying back over and over again those campaign contributions through various favors and contracts and that sort of thing. | 105 |
| Meg Whitman | Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net. | 105 |
| Paul Tournier | Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. | 105 |
| Paul Tsongas | No one on his deathbed ever said, I wish I had spent more time on my business. | 105 |
| Biz Stone | I'm convinced that there's a new way to define capitalism, and that the definition should include three ingredients - that we love our work, that we are building a traditionally successful business, and that we are having some positive impact in the world, whether it's local or global. | 105 |
| Douglas Conant | On a personal level, I send out about 20 thank-you notes a day to staffers, on all levels. And every six weeks I have lunch with a group of a dozen or so employees, to get their perspective on the business, to address problems and to get feedback. | 105 |
| John Sununu | Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street. | 105 |
| Margaret Sanger | Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries. | 105 |
| Mark Udall | It's the uncertainty, the challenge and the willingness to put it all on the line that draws a lot of people to climb mountains. That can also apply to a lot of other challenges in life, whether it's running for office, starting a family, going to grad school or taking all of your cash and assets and starting a business. | 105 |
| Rachel Roy | Because my business life is so busy, my home is really my sanctuary. That is where I reflect and spend quality time with my girls. | 105 |
| Sanford I. Weill | So it's the kind of business where you can't wait to get up in the morning and read the papers, or listen to what's on the news, and you know, how the world's going to change. | 105 |
| Suresh Raina | As and when I get into a relationship, I'll flaunt her to the world. I'm looking for a soul mate, and in any case, I'm not very much for casual dating. I'm such a simple guy away from this dating-shating business. | 105 |
| Jerry Greenfield | It's good to stand for something, to believe in something and base your business on values. | 105 |
| Joey Ramone | When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business. | 105 |
| Ernst Fischer | If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time. | 105 |
| Jeff Dunham | I taught myself computer. Then Macintosh came along, and it became a really bad addiction. If I wasn't in show business, I'd have pocket protectors growing out of my chest. I do everything on it. It's kinda sick. | 105 |
| James Chanos | The Macau casinos have a wonderful business, it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsewhere who send it through junky companies to casinos to gamble. The growth continues and they have basically western managers and western accounting, so we trust the numbers a little bit more. | 105 |
| Stanislaw Lem | Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness. | 105 |
| Peter Drucker | The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. | 106 |
| Isak Dinesen | Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. | 106 |
| Dwayne Johnson | I love making people laugh and feel good, and that's awesome and special for me to be able to do that, but there really is nothing like kicking ass whether it's on a major scale, or whether it's in more of a dramatic fashion. Being physical and taking care of business the old-fashioned way is something that I love doing. | 106 |
| Jeff Bezos | There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second. | 106 |
| Alex Ferguson | The time I have already spent at Harvard has been a stimulating experience, and I look forward to developing my relationship and activities with the students, faculty and friends of the Harvard Business School community. | 106 |
| Alexander McQueen | There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person. | 106 |
| Arnold H. Glasow | One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. | 106 |
| Beth Brooke | I find it fascinating that sport has such a strong connection to success in business. Arguably, C-suite women are some of the most successful women, and more than half of them played at a more advanced level than just the general population of women in business that had sport in their background. | 106 |
| Billie Holiday | I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own. | 106 |
| Dave Ramsey | People are in such a hurry to launch their product or business that they seldom look at marketing from a bird's eye view and they don't create a systematic plan. | 106 |
| Daymond John | No matter what business you're in, business is business, and financing and money are critical. I would have made a lot fewer mistakes if I had more schooling in that area. | 106 |
| Deepika Padukone | I have always been focused on my job. No profession allows you the luxury of being half-focused. If you're not into it, you're not there. And the film industry is all the more harsh in these cases, perhaps because it's a business of the limelight. | 106 |
| Desi Arnaz | Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it. | 106 |
| Erykah Badu | Music and the music business are two different things. | 106 |
| Harold S. Geneen | It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality. | 106 |
| Harvey S. Firestone | I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business. | 106 |
| Howard Schultz | Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy. | 106 |
| Hugh Jackman | I'm not a kid. You don't get in this business for anonymity. It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall, but at the same time, I'm kind of ready for a little bit of it, but I worry for my little one, and my family - their privacy. That's what I'm more protective of. | 106 |
| Ian MacKaye | Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money. | 106 |
| Ibrahim Babangida | Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions. | 106 |
| Irving Berlin | There's no business like show business. | 106 |
| Luke Bryan | Just really, really believe in what you're trying to do. Don't let people alter that. Let people advise you and lead you down paths to make smart business decisions. But trust your instinct and trust that overwhelming drive that made you put all your dreams and everything on the line. | 106 |
| Mike Rowe | I wouldn't wish any specific thing for any specific person - it's none of my business. But the idea that a four-year degree is the only path to worthwhile knowledge is insane. It's insane. | 106 |
| Muhammad Yunus | I dismiss personal profit and focus exclusively on people and planet. That's what I call social business: a nondividend company dedicated to solving human problems. You can go all the way, forgetting about personal profit, being single-minded about solving problems. The company makes profit, but profit stays with the company. | 106 |
| Nolan Bushnell | Selling Atari when I did - I think that's my biggest regret. And I probably should have gotten back heavily into the games business in the late Eighties. But I was operating under this theory at the time that the way to have an interesting life was to reinvent yourself every five or six years. | 106 |
| Paul Hawken | Commercial institutions, proud of their achievements, do not see that healthy living systems - clean air and water, healthy soil, stable climates - are integral to a functioning economy. As our living systems deteriorate, traditional forecasting and business economics become the equivalent of house rules on a sinking cruise ship. | 106 |
| Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either. A man of business should always have his eyes open, but must often seem to have them shut. | 106 |
| Publilius Syrus | The opportunity is often lost by deliberating. | 106 |
| Shirley Manson | How you present yourself is nobody's business but your own. The stylists have an opinion. The hair people have an opinion. The fans and the management have opinions. Ultimately, you have to trust that you are the safe-keeper of yourself. | 106 |
| Stephen Kinzer | Adroit geo-strategists take new realities into account as they try to imagine how global politics will unfold. In the foreign policy business, however, inertia is a powerful force and 'adroit' a little-known concept. | 106 |
| Stuart Scott | You gotta know that you're better than anybody, 'cause to me, if you don't go in like that, you're gonna lose! They're gonna punk you out! On any stage, court, business venture, on the anchor desk - whatever. You've got to go in believing, 'I can do this better than anybody.' | 106 |
| Ted Cruz | One of biggest lies in politics is the lie that Republicans are the party of big business. Big business does great with big government. Big business is very happy to climb in bed with big government. Republicans are and should be the party of small business and of entrepreneurs. | 106 |
| Vivek Wadhwa | Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics, and there are no easy shortcuts to success. Ethics need to be carefully sown into the fabric of their companies. | 106 |
| Wes Craven | I learned to take the first job that you have in the business that you want to get into. It doesn't matter what that job is, you get your foot in the door. | 106 |
| Donald Johanson | Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology. | 106 |
| Jeffrey Gitomer | Your customers are judging every aspect of every transaction and rating everything, from friendliness of people to ease of doing business to quality of product to service after the sale. | 106 |
| Joseph P. Kennedy | Whenever you're sitting across from some important person, always picture him sitting there in a suit of long red underwear. That's the way I always operated in business. | 106 |
| Mehmet Oz | In my business, if I get too close to you and you die, it hurts me. And so you develop a natural inclination not to be close to the patient, so that if things don't work out ideally, you can still get up the next day and care for the next patient. | 106 |
| Michael Korda | The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own. | 106 |
| Sinclair Lewis | People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.' | 106 |
| Suge Knight | People don't know how hard it is to have your own business. | 106 |
| Tom Allen | Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities. | 106 |
| Garet Garrett | Business is in itself a power. | 106 |
| John Ridley | When I go to business meetings, I'm still told way too often by some receptionist, 'The mail room is downstairs,' to believe that racial perceptions don't still exist. But I figure there are always going to be knuckleheads no matter how many of their herd get stuck in the tar pits of progress. | 106 |
| Jon Huntsman, Jr. | We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility that we can come up, we can pursue our dreams and our aspirations and we won't be blocked by government regulation, by the inability to get a loan as a small business to make our dreams come true. | 106 |
| Samuel Pepys | Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is. | 106 |
| Gary Ryan Blair | Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile. | 106 |
| Joel Madden | I'm just a really normal, sensitive kind of go-about-my business everyday kinda guy. People see the tattoos, and they either read things or they see things and they don't really know that I'm just this guy that gets up and makes coffee in the morning and hangs out with his friends and walks his dog and reads his Bible and goes about his day. | 106 |
| Elon Musk | When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked. | 107 |
| Jack Welch | 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. | 107 |
| Jeff Bezos | A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well. | 107 |
| Action Bronson | The restaurant business is something that you have to treat like a baby. You have to constantly be there. You can't trust it to anybody else, because no one's going to love it like you do. | 107 |
| Ambrose Bierce | Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. | 107 |
| Barry Goldwater | I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine. | 107 |
| Bryan Cranston | The TV business is like the produce section of the market. Today everything is fresh and glistening and firm. And tomorrow, when they find a bruise on you, they toss you out. | 107 |
| Clara Barton | Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business. | 107 |
| Clarence Darrow | The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business. | 107 |
| Clayton Christensen | The reason why it is so difficult for existing firms to capitalize on disruptive innovations is that their processes and their business model that make them good at the existing business actually make them bad at competing for the disruption. | 107 |
| Danny Meyer | It's the job of any business owner to be clear about the company's nonnegotiable core values. They're the riverbanks that help guide us as we refine and improve on performance and excellence. A lack of riverbanks creates estuaries and cloudy waters that are confusing to navigate. I want a crystal-clear, swiftly flowing stream. | 107 |
| Dick Cheney | It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it's a - very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so well to finally get it done. | 107 |
| Ethel Waters | Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me. | 107 |
| Herbert A. Simon | Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design. | 107 |
| J. Paul Getty | The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights. | 107 |
| Johnny Carson | My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day. | 107 |
| Leo Burnett | The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders. | 107 |
| Lord Acton | I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. | 107 |
| Marissa Mayer | Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do - and the business side. | 107 |
| Mark Cuban | I love to compete. To me, business is the ultimate sport. It's always on. There is always someone trying to beat me. | 107 |
| Michael J. Fox | I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business. | 107 |
| Muhammad Yunus | By simply capitalizing on core strengths and knowledge, companies and entrepreneurs can engage in an emerging business model that will enable them to create - and demonstrate - real, sustainable social impact in society. | 107 |
| Nathan Myhrvold | Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors. | 107 |
| Naveen Jain | Apple Computer would not have reached its current peak of success if it had feared to roll the dice and launch products that didn't always hit the mark. In the mid-1990s, the company was considered washed up, Steve Jobs had departed, and a string of lackluster product launches unrelated to the company's core business. | 107 |
| Neil Patrick Harris | Rather than ignore those who choose to publish their opinions without actually talking to me, I am happy to dispel any rumors or misconceptions and am quite proud to say that I am a very content gay man living my life to the fullest and feel most fortunate to be working with wonderful people in the business I love. | 107 |
| Nolan Bushnell | I founded Atari in my garage in Santa Clara while at Stanford. When I was in school, I took a lot of business classes. I was really fascinated by economics. You end up having to be a marketeer, finance maven and a little bit of a technologist in order to get a business going. | 107 |
| Ray Kroc | If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business. | 107 |
| Ross Perot | Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers. | 107 |
| Samuel Adams | We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them. | 107 |
| Sharon Stone | Some people work hard in this business and become really popular, really big stars but they never receive an award from within the business. Somehow, when your colleagues and friends believe in you to the point of handing you an award it means so much more. | 107 |
| Smedley Butler | The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits - ah! that is another matter - twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent - the sky is the limit. | 107 |
| Thomas J. Watson | Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. | 107 |
| Vince Cable | Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences. | 107 |
| Wesley Snipes | I didn't go into this business to do action because I'm a classically trained actor. But I'm good at kicking and punching. | 107 |
| Wolfman Jack | Bob Smith from Brooklyn is a guy who sometimes gets hung with problems and fears. Wolfman Jack is a happy-go-lucky guy who knows how to party. The challenge of my life has been letting more and more of Bob Smith go, becoming the Wolfman on an almost full-time basis, while still taking care of business. | 107 |
| Abhishek Bachchan | Movie-making is serious business. The director and the crew are already under a lot of pressure to give their best to the audience. Therefore, the best part for me as an actor is to act well in the movies and make a jolly atmosphere with the co-stars on the sets. | 107 |
| Barbara Corcoran | I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun. | 107 |
| Jacqueline Novogratz | Many business leaders are seeing the relationship between long term success and sustainability, and that's very heartening. | 107 |
| John Legend | In terms of the technology I use the most, it's probably a tie between my Blackberry and my MacBook Pro laptop. That's how I communicate with the rest of the world and how I handle all the business I have to handle. | 107 |
| Mahendra Singh Dhoni | You may earn whatever money you earn as a cricketer, but you want to play for your country. At the end of the day, you want to do something special. There are plenty of people who earn 50 crores or 100 crores as businessmen or big professionals or who are really doing well in business. But what gives pleasure to your mom and dad is the fame. | 107 |
| Steve Ballmer | We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference. | 107 |
| Thomas Perez | Employers have recognized for some time that it's smart business to have a diverse workforce - one in which many views are represented and everyone's talents are valued. Well, disability is part of diversity. | 107 |
| William Wycherley | Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business. | 107 |
| A. C. Benson | One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do. | 107 |
| Douglas Conant | I have found that the more I honored others, the more they honored me and the more fulfilling my career became. In the business arena, I have been surrounded by people with awesome skills. The difference between good and great is determined by the mindset you choose to bring to the work. The concept of honor should be part of that mindset. | 107 |
| Karolina Kurkova | Unfortunately, modeling takes you with no transition from being a girl to being a business woman. | 107 |
| Jerry Greenfield | Business can be a source of progressive change. | 107 |
| John Ray | Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left. | 107 |
| Bernard Meltzer | If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself. | 107 |
| W. Clement Stone | Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything. | 108 |
| Anita Roddick | Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer. | 108 |
| Ayrton Senna | Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles. | 108 |
| Eric Clapton | I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone's got their own definition. Mine, I suppose, is to know myself. | 108 |
| Gabe Newell | As somebody who participates in the overall PC ecosystem, it's totally great when faster wireless networks and standards come out or when graphics get faster. Windows 8 was like this giant sadness. It just hurts everybody in the PC business. | 108 |
| Gail Collins | You know, I really miss sex scandals. They're generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they're going on, the people who actually keep the government running are let alone to go about their business. Good old sex scandals. | 108 |
| Huston Smith | Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet. | 108 |
| J. Paul Getty | I buy when other people are selling. | 108 |
| Jack Ma | I like to play cards. I'm not very good, because I don't want to calculate, I just play by instinct. But I've learned a lot of business philosophy by playing poker. | 108 |
| Michael Douglas | When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move. | 108 |
| Michael Porter | As a multisport athlete, I was always fascinated with competition and how to win. At HBS and later at the Harvard Department of Economics, I was drawn to the field of competition and strategy because it tackles perhaps the most basic question in both business management and industrial economics: What determines corporate performance? | 108 |
| Natalie Massenet | To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you're a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your business through investment, considering everything from start-up funds to your exit plan or what it takes to go public. | 108 |
| Nathan Myhrvold | Anybody who can afford a box of business cards can afford a Web site. Any company with an 800 number can move its services to the Web for peanuts by comparison. The extreme case of corporate promotion is to strip away all other aspects of your business and sell goods or services via the Net alone, as amazon.com has done with books. | 108 |
| Peter Lynch | Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it. | 108 |
| Ross Perot | 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. | 108 |
| Scott Walker | I still remember, as a kid, tying a yellow ribbon around a tree in front of my house during the 444 days that Iran held 52 Americans hostage. Iran is not a place we should be doing business with. | 108 |
| Smedley Butler | I served in all commissioned ranks from a second Lieutenant to a Major General. And during that time, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street, and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism. | 108 |
| Walter Scott | Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. | 108 |
| Willie Geist | I guess it turns out choosing your life partner from a group of men trying to get their break in show business by sitting around shirtless in a swimming pool while cameras watch around the clock isn't the path to a soulmate after all. | 108 |
| Jon Meacham | A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play. | 108 |
| Maurice Sendak | Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong. | 108 |
| Melinda Gates | My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education. | 108 |
| Anita Brookner | Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of. | 108 |
| Evan Esar | Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either. | 108 |
| Alphonsus Liguori | Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you. | 108 |
| Andy Warhol | Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible. | 109 |
| Richard Branson | Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming. | 109 |
| Tupac Shakur | There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me. | 109 |
| John D. Rockefeller | A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. | 109 |
| Alvin Toffler | To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke. | 109 |
| Anita Roddick | Look at the Quakers - they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole; they cared for their employees and the community which gave them the wealth. They never took more money out than they put back in. | 109 |
| Billie Jean King | When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman. | 109 |
| Bobbi Brown | I never learned management. I never went to business school. I'm an artist. I happened to have really clear ideas of what I thought my business should be. | 109 |
| Brendon Burchard | We all have a life story and a message that can inspire others to live a better life or run a better business. Why not use that story and message to serve others and grow a real business doing it? | 109 |
| Chris Hadfield | Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it's starting a new business, whether it's leaving home, whether it's getting married, or whether it's flying in space. | 109 |
| David Chang | Be careful what you wish for - getting to be a successful business and maintaining it is so hard. Anyone can be good one night; being good over several years is incredibly difficult. | 109 |
| Dick Gregory | You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'? | 109 |
| Francis Collins | A cardinal principle that we must not stray from - no exceptions - is that your genetic information is your business in terms of who sees it. Nobody should be gaining access to that information without your explicit permission, and nobody should be requiring you to take a genetic test unless you decide that that's what you want to do. | 109 |
| John Kenneth Galbraith | Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. | 109 |
| Kevin O'Leary | Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we're going to win. | 109 |
| L'Wren Scott | I don't really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely. | 109 |
| Malcolm Forbes | Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business. | 109 |
| Mark Wahlberg | I've always wanted to be in the health and wellness business. I try to encourage people to live a healthy lifestyle. | 109 |
| Naveen Jain | In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road. | 109 |
| Paul Ryan | Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores - these didn't come out of nowhere. | 109 |
| Rand Paul | As president, I would promote a Fair and Flat Tax plan, known as the 'EZ Tax.' My tax plan would be the largest tax cut in American history, reforming individual, business, and worker taxes. | 109 |
| Rihanna | I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to. | 109 |
| Rupert Murdoch | If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something. | 109 |
| Victoria Beckham | I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way. | 109 |
| Will Ferrell | By the time I was ready for college, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I think I secretly wanted a show business career, but I was suppressing it. | 109 |
| William S. Burroughs | Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has. | 109 |
| Willie Mays | I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and you'll never have a problem. That's what I did. | 109 |
| Barbara Corcoran | In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand. | 109 |
| Julia Cameron | For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase 'the play of ideas' and think that they need to knuckle down and work more. Often, the reverse is true. They need to play. | 109 |
| Meghan Trainor | I'm from a little island off of Massachusetts, Nantucket. It's hard getting into the music business from there, but my parents took me to songwriting festivals because I would write and produce my own music. | 109 |
| Shilpa Shetty | I believe we move in soul groups; we meet the same people over different lifetimes; we have to finish the unfinished business with those people. And when we do, they walk away from our lives. | 109 |
| John Carpenter | I never got in this business, in cinema, to make horror movies. They arrived on my doorstep and I got typecast. Which was fine, I enjoy it, but I got into this business to make westerns. And the kind of westerns I used to see, they died. So that didn't work out. | 109 |
| Colin Powell | Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it. | 110 |
| Dale Carnegie | Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. | 110 |
| H. P. Lovecraft | I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams. | 110 |
| Thomas A. Edison | Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. | 110 |
| Andrew Carnegie | No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit. | 110 |
| Jack Welch | Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while. | 110 |
| Jeff Bezos | I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate. | 110 |
| Jerry Seinfeld | When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have to humiliate myself. | 110 |
| Anita Roddick | If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management. | 110 |
| Bobby Flay | Even if the chef has a good business head, his focus should be behind kitchen doors. A business partner should take care of everything in front of the kitchen doors. | 110 |
| David Chang | My dad was in the restaurant business, but I didn't really think about following him. Had I done better at school, I don't know if I would have been a chef. | 110 |
| David Lynch | Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs. | 110 |
| Eartha Kitt | When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business. | 110 |
| Eli Broad | Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts. | 110 |
| Hill Harper | Since I'm in the entertainment business, I think I have to hold a mirror up to myself and say, 'Am I complicit in miseducating and misinforming our youth by participating in this business, or can I use this business to re-educate and uplift?' | 110 |
| J. Paul Getty | If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem. | 110 |
| John Cleese | My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn't doing this I'd be making documentaries about wildlife and other subjects that interest me. | 110 |
| Lucille Ball | I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off. | 110 |
| Muhammad Ali Jinnah | You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place or worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed - that has nothing to do with the business of the State. | 110 |
| N. R. Narayana Murthy | When you run a part of the relay and pass on the baton, there is no sense of unfinished business in your mind. There is just the sense of having done your part to the best of your ability. That is it. The hope is to pass on the baton to somebody who will run faster and run a better marathon. | 110 |
| Robert Orben | Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. | 110 |
| Thomas J. Watson | To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart. | 110 |
| Tim Howard | I think there's a lot of things that need fixing at Manchester United apart from David Moyes, but in this business, you also realize the head coach is always going to be the first to go, unfortunately. | 110 |
| Tom Robbins | Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. | 110 |
| V. S. Naipaul | The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next. | 110 |
| Wiz Khalifa | My dad has been a big influence on me, because he's always had his own business. He really taught me business sense and how to be a focused individual, but also how to have fun and make everyone around you have fun. | 110 |
| James Cash Penney | The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress. | 110 |
| Chloe Grace Moretz | No matter how big you are in the business, at the end of the day it's still work. | 110 |
| Stephen Harper | We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs. | 110 |
| Napoleon Hill | Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. | 111 |
| Peter Drucker | Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done. | 111 |
| Richard Branson | One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes. | 111 |
| Will Rogers | It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts. | 111 |
| Kevin Mitnick | Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business. | 111 |
| Herbert Hoover | Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves. | 111 |
| Jim Valvano | No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won. | 111 |
| Michael Jackson | I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work. | 111 |
| William Wordsworth | In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing. | 111 |
| B. C. Forbes | A shady business never yields a sunny life. | 111 |
| Brendon Burchard | Business coaching and the personal development and self-help industry is considered to be one of the booming industries today. | 111 |
| Daymond John | I've learned, like with anything else, business is only as good as your connections and your resources. And some of the resources that I have are the fact that I work with huge artists. | 111 |
| Don Marquis | Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. | 111 |
| Jack Ma | Chinese people, young people, they don't go shopping a lot in department stores. All department store guys hate me. They say business is bad because of Jack. | 111 |
| Lee Iacocca | A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business. | 111 |
| Robert H. Schuller | Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet. | 111 |
| Sonia Sotomayor | Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people. | 111 |
| Thomas J. Watson | Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself. | 111 |
| Tom Peters | 'In Search of Excellence' - even the title - is a reminder that business isn't dry, dreary, boring, or by the numbers. Life at work can be cool - and work that's cool isn't confined to Tiger Woods, Yo-Yo Ma, or Tom Hanks. It's available to all of us and any of us. | 111 |
| Winona Ryder | That's an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much of what does get printed is often about personal things that you don't want to have other people read about. | 111 |
| David Brainerd | Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others. | 111 |
| Garry Shandling | 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. | 111 |
| Herb Caen | A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author... if it doesn't sell any papers, it's not a good column. It's a terrible yardstick to use, but in the newspaper business, that's the whole thing. | 111 |
| James Cash Penney | A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition. | 111 |
| Jane Fonda | If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them. | 111 |
| John Boehner | I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office. | 111 |
| Mark Twain | Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. | 112 |
| Steve Jobs | Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations. | 112 |
| Ray Bradbury | If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. | 112 |
| George Muller | The more I am in a position to be tried in faith with reference to my body, my family, my service for the Lord, my business, etc., the more shall I have opportunity of seeing God's help and deliverance; and every fresh instance, in which He helps and delivers me, will tend towards the increase of my faith. | 112 |
| Gordon Bethune | A bankruptcy judge can fix your balance sheet, but he cannot fix your company. | 112 |
| Hulk Hogan | You can have a wrestling idea, but you need to have these momentum-shifting moves. We had the Hulkamania movement, then it shifted to the beer-drinking, Stone Cold era, we reinvented the business with growing the black beard and becoming the bad guy, what's that next level. | 112 |
| Magic Johnson | When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone. | 112 |
| Mick Jagger | I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way. | 112 |
| William Shatner | You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know quite what is going to happen. | 112 |
| Zac Efron | In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted. | 112 |
| Catherine Zeta-Jones | I think, especially in our business we meet a lot of people, and sometimes you spend so much time being nice to strangers, and so, you know, keeping a clear head and just being nice to each other. And that's all the advice I can give. | 112 |
| Hosea Ballou | No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work. | 112 |
| Walt Disney | A man should never neglect his family for business. | 113 |
| Hillary Clinton | I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century. | 113 |
| Alexis de Tocqueville | We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. | 113 |
| Jane Goodall | I don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don't want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There's so much mystery. There's so much awe. | 113 |
| Francis Ford Coppola | If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business. | 113 |
| Marjane Satrapi | The movie business is not about the money. Of course, you need money to make the movie. If you have a small budget, adapt yourself. Having $200 million dollars doesn't ensure that you're definitely going to make a good movie. There's so many examples that prove that. | 113 |
| Mark Wahlberg | In my movies, I'm not trying to erase any old image of myself, really. And also I'm not trying to imitate anyone or follow in their footsteps, because I know, Burt Reynolds was just one of the people that told me this, I know how you can only last in this business if you got something special to offer, just by being yourself. | 113 |
| Matthew Henry | It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with. | 113 |
| Noel Gallagher | If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors. | 113 |
| Paul Hawken | When cattle ranchers clear rain forests to raise beef to sell to fast-food chains that make hamburgers to sell to Americans, who have the highest rate of heart disease in the world (and spend the most money per GNP on health care), we can say easily that business is no longer developing the world. We have become its predator. | 113 |
| Salman Rushdie | This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism. | 113 |
| Thomas J. Watson | Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people. | 113 |
| Venus Williams | Interior design is a business of trust. | 113 |
| William J. H. Boetcker | 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. | 113 |
| Hillary Clinton | In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it. | 114 |
| Les Brown | In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait. | 114 |
| William Butler Yeats | The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart. | 114 |
| Calvin Coolidge | Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business. | 114 |
| P. J. O'Rourke | There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it. | 114 |
| Snoop Dogg | The most important decision I've made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought everybody with me, my homies from the neighborhood, criminals. I just said, 'Come on everybody, we made it.' Then I had to realize we didn't make it. I made it. | 114 |
| W. Clement Stone | Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect. | 114 |
| Anna Wintour | I want 'Vogue' to be pacy, sharp, and sexy - I'm not interested in the super-rich or infinitely leisured. I want our readers to be energetic executive women, with money of their own and a wide range of interests. There is a new kind of woman out there. She's interested in business and money. | 114 |
| Celine Dion | I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business. | 114 |
| Colin Farrell | I'm in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't have any plans. I don't have a map. If you did in this business, you'd destroy yourself. | 114 |
| Dave Ramsey | We are all in the business of sales. Teachers sell students on learning, parents sell their children on making good grades and behaving, and traditional salesmen sell their products. | 114 |
| Harvey Mackay | To me, job titles don't matter. Everyone is in sales. It's the only way we stay in business. | 114 |
| Khloe Kardashian | I'm strong and fearless and not afraid to take risks in business. | 114 |
| Marco Rubio | No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community. | 114 |
| Myles Munroe | The Kingdom is the love of God prevailing in politics, in business, in government, in media. It is all the impact of the laws of God creating a social environment where the strong help the weak, where those who have give to those who don't. It's a society where relationships are built on love. | 114 |
| Nicole Scherzinger | Love makes me vulnerable. In business I'm tough on myself - I'm like a drill sergeant. If I'm down, I'm used to getting right back up, but when it comes to love, your heart can't do that. | 114 |
| Paul Watson | Sustainable fishing is a fraud. It's a marketing term that really means 'business as usual.' | 114 |
| R. Kelly | Always believe what you see - with your own eyes, that is. Always believe what you see. That's the best way to go about this business. I've heard a lot of things about a lot of people, and it was never true. | 114 |
| Robert Kiyosaki | When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge. | 114 |
| Simon Cowell | For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom and you have to spend millions of pounds on marketing and this and that, you have this amazing thing now called fan power. The whole world is linked through a laptop. It's amazing. And it's free. I love it. It's absolutely brilliant. | 114 |
| Virginia Postrel | When 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' premiered on the WB Network in 1996, American culture was in trouble. Americans were bowling alone, pursuing individual interests to the detriment of the communal good. Business leaders were celebrating creativity and neglecting discipline. Nike's 'Just do it' ads were teaching young people to break the rules. | 114 |
| Jerome K. Jerome | People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained. | 114 |
| Moby | Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works. | 114 |
| Ayn Rand | Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off. | 115 |
| Dale Carnegie | Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. | 115 |
| Niccolo Machiavelli | No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution. | 115 |
| Peter Drucker | Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed. | 115 |
| Prince | Doing a residency in any particular city requires a large repertoire to ensure repeat business. | 115 |
| Richard Branson | To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials. | 115 |
| William Arthur Ward | Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority. | 115 |
| P. T. Barnum | Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him. | 115 |
| Ben Carson | Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money. | 115 |
| Britney Spears | I still have a lot to learn - about the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting. | 115 |
| Cat Stevens | I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home. | 115 |
| Fred Allen | An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission. | 115 |
| George Soros | Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society. | 115 |
| Mark Cuban | I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always. | 115 |
| Martha Stewart | Every entrepreneur talks about the passion you have for your work, and I think that's what's missing with a lot of women in business. | 115 |
| Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request. | 115 |
| Sam Walton | You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient. | 115 |
| Shaquille O'Neal | And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business. | 115 |
| Shirley Manson | And then there's all these other creeps that surround your band and suck off you like leeches and try to manipulate you and your business. You have to watch like a hawk. I'm always ready to fight. I see it very much as a battle. | 115 |
| Thomas J. Watson | If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid. | 115 |
| Warren Bennis | Learning options will indeed mushroom for business students and leaders, but it will take prudence and shrewdness to find and utilize the best option. | 115 |
| Andre Maurois | Business is a combination of war and sport. | 115 |
| James Surowiecki | If someone really wants my company's business, why shouldn't he be able to do everything he can - including paying me off - to get that business? Because bribery encourages people to make decisions based on the wrong criteria, which means in the business world that it distorts the efficient allocation of resources. | 115 |
| Robin Williams | Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work! | 116 |
| P. T. Barnum | The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy. | 116 |
| David Ogilvy | In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. | 116 |
| Anthony Hopkins | My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. | 116 |
| Arnold H. Glasow | A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee. | 116 |
| Billie Holiday | There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up. | 116 |
| George Lucas | I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in. | 116 |
| Kendall Jenner | You can't take anything personally in this business. Follow your dreams, but there is a lot of criticism. You have to brush it off. Everybody is looking for something different. | 116 |
| Martha Stewart | I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed. | 116 |
| Steven Pinker | There's a misconception that survival of the fittest means survival of the most aggressive. The adjective 'Darwinian' used to refer to ruthless competition; you used to read that in business journals. But that's not what Darwinian means to a biologist; it's whatever leads to reproductive success. | 116 |
| Shari Arison | As the owner of the Arison Group, a philanthropic and business enterprise that spans across 40 countries in 5 continents, my ongoing challenge is to bridge the gap between what I envision and its understanding and practical implementation. The Arison Group operates to realize the overall vision of Doing Good. | 116 |
| Erma Bombeck | Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago. | 117 |
| P. T. Barnum | No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience. | 117 |
| ASAP Rocky | I don't care what straight people do, I don't care what gay people do. I don't care what nobody do. That's they business. I just care about what I do. You know what I'm saying? | 117 |
| Brian Tracy | The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance. | 117 |
| John Greenleaf Whittier | As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth. | 117 |
| Rose Kennedy | More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause. | 117 |
| Andre Maurois | The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force. | 117 |
| Avril Lavigne | I'm very free-spirited and crazy. I love to have fun, and I like doing stupid things. At the same time, I'm like a 35-year-old. I have a house. I have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business, and I have to make serious decisions. | 117 |
| Henry Ford | The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. | 118 |
| Peter Drucker | Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. | 118 |
| Lady Gaga | Being beautiful is not so fun when you're in a business with all men. | 118 |
| Morgan Freeman | As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less. | 118 |
| Arnold Palmer | What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do. | 118 |
| Betty White | I am interested in a lot of things - not just show business and my passion for animals. I try to keep current in what's going on in the world. I do mental exercises. I don't have any trouble memorizing lines because of the crossword puzzles I do every day to keep my mind a little limber. I don't sit and vegetate. | 118 |
| Brian Tracy | If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger. | 118 |
| Lee Iacocca | Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss. | 118 |
| Madeleine Albright | Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist. | 118 |
| Neil Young | Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying. | 118 |
| Samuel Butler | All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. | 118 |
| Thomas Huxley | The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. | 118 |
| Bobby Darin | A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his. | 118 |
| Leo Rosten | First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people. | 118 |
| Bill Gates | The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same. | 119 |
| Hunter S. Thompson | I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride. | 119 |
| Nicki Minaj | It's not hard to get your way when it's your way or the highway. People either follow suit or they're not around. I don't really like the sound of that, 'cause that sounds like a temper tantrum. I'm just very black and white when it comes to my business. There's really no gray area. | 119 |
| Kofi Annan | Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community. | 119 |
| Jeff Bezos | The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?' | 119 |
| Harrison Ford | 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. | 119 |
| John Cleese | I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me. | 119 |
| Mary Kay Ash | People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps. | 119 |
| Tom Hiddleston | Some of the greatest actors have turned superheroes into a serious business: Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson in 'Batman'; Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, the first venerable knights of the X-Men, who have now passed the baton to Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy. | 119 |
| Tyra Banks | I've helped some of my classmates on how to strategize to get to the next level of their businesses. And it's interesting, because here I am sitting there from the entertainment industry and the fashion industry, and I'm giving a billionaire that has a business that's been in his family for 300 years - I'm giving him advice about strategy! | 119 |
| James Surowiecki | The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the digital-music business; Blockbuster refused to buy Netflix for a mere fifty million dollars; Excite turned down the chance to acquire Google for less than a million dollars. | 119 |
| David Ogilvy | Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon. | 120 |
| Herbert Hoover | It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business. | 120 |
| Justin Bieber | Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me. | 120 |
| Zig Ziglar | I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles. | 120 |
| Dennis Miller | What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign. | 120 |
| Erykah Badu | Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business. | 120 |
| J. Paul Getty | Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying. | 120 |
| Laurence J. Peter | An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. | 120 |
| Mary J. Blige | I've done well, I've been disappointed, and I think it all goes back to you. Of course the labels are going to be the labels. It's the music business. You are a business. That's what they do. So you've got to protect yourself. | 120 |
| Mary Kay Ash | A company is only as good as the people it keeps. | 120 |
| Muhammad Yunus | Business is a very beautiful mechanism to solve problems, but we never use it for that purpose. We only use it to make money. It satisfies our selfish interest but not our collective interest. | 120 |
| Tom Peters | Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas. | 120 |
| James Surowiecki | In the business world, bad news is usually good news - for somebody else. | 120 |
| Donald Trump | I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business. | 121 |
| Andrew Jackson | The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none. | 121 |
| Bill Gates | Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other. | 121 |
| Michelle Obama | I'm not asking any of you to make drastic changes to every single one of your recipes or to totally change the way you do business. But what I am asking is that you consider reformulating your menu in pragmatic and incremental ways to create healthier versions of the foods that we all love. | 121 |
| Tupac Shakur | I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable. | 121 |
| Snoop Dogg | I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap. | 121 |
| Zig Ziglar | Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business. | 121 |
| Christina Aguilera | I've been through my highs, I've been through my lows; I've been through the gamut of all things in this business. Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale. It's noise I block out automatically. I love my body. | 121 |
| Howard Schultz | Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy. The other side of it is that you can't cut enough costs to save your way to prosperity. | 121 |
| Kevin Spacey | If you're watching a film on your television, is it no longer a film because you're not watching it in a theatre? If you watch a TV show on your iPad, is it no longer a TV show? The device and the length are irrelevant; the labels are useless, except perhaps to agents and managers and lawyers, who use these labels to conduct business deals. | 121 |
| Mary J. Blige | From being a little girl in the projects, going through all of the mess that I was going through, to ending up at the Inauguration for the first African-American president, I'm speechless right now because I never thought I'd - I never ever - I couldn't even see that far. Even when I ended up in the music business, I couldn't see that. | 121 |
| Mitt Romney | Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world. | 121 |
| Muhammad Yunus | Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business. | 121 |
| Nassim Nicholas Taleb | We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So you end up with dentists who are more traders than dentists. A dentist should drill teeth and use whatever he does in the stock market for entertainment. | 121 |
| Robert Browning | Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. | 121 |
| Robin S. Sharma | The fears you do not face become your walls. Most people in business, and in their personal lives, design everything so they can avoid doing what makes them feel uncomfortable. Yet any good business person knows we are not only paid to work, but also we are paid to be scared. | 121 |
| Sam Walton | I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them. | 121 |
| Sophia Bush | I'm not going to dinner with somebody who eats like a bird, nor do I want to eat like a bird. But its weird: In our business, I'm a size 2 and considered curvy. Its important to remind young women, 'Listen, even skinny girls have cellulite, even Halle Berry has cellulite, and what you see in photos isn't totally real.' | 121 |
| Walt Disney | I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment. | 122 |
| Thomas Paine | 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. | 122 |
| Alexis de Tocqueville | The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality. | 122 |
| D. H. Lawrence | The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment. | 122 |
| David Ogilvy | The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife. | 122 |
| J. Paul Getty | A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement. | 122 |
| Katrina Kaif | My relationship with Salman Khan is too personal to talk about. I take my work like any other regular job, and what I do in my personal life is no one's business. I'd rather let my work do all the talking. | 122 |
| Mitt Romney | And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare. | 122 |
| Tim Berners-Lee | Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design. | 122 |
| Walter Lippmann | The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully. | 122 |
| James Cash Penney | I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier. | 122 |
| Helen Keller | Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others. | 123 |
| Ernest Hemingway | It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way. | 123 |
| George Foreman | The greatest asset, even in this country, is not oil and gas. It's integrity. Everyone is searching for it, asking, 'Who can I do business with that I can trust?' | 123 |
| Howard Schultz | The growth of the company and the license that Starbucks has is to participate in other food and beverage opportunities. We have a global business... and in many parts of the world, tea is much, much bigger than coffee, and we're going to bring tea and bring our capability and our understanding of what we've done for coffee to tea. | 123 |
| Mary Kay Ash | Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people. | 123 |
| Robert Kiyosaki | Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing. | 123 |
| Marc Jacobs | In terms of having a business, I wanted to let it go beyond what my personal taste is. Basically, I'm in a kilt and a white shirt every day. So, you know, I don't have a lot of scope, and I'm really picky about what I wear. | 123 |
| Richard Branson | Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line. | 124 |
| Walt Whitman | After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains. | 124 |
| Dave Barry | Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business. | 124 |
| Jeff Bezos | If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail. | 124 |
| Samuel Beckett | No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found. | 124 |
| Erykah Badu | The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings. | 124 |
| Fran Lebowitz | Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure. | 124 |
| Jim Carrey | Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority. | 124 |
| Walt Disney | Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money. | 125 |
| Charlie Chaplin | I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth. | 125 |
| Peter Drucker | Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money. | 125 |
| Warren Buffett | When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact. | 125 |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you. | 125 |
| William Wordsworth | When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude. | 125 |
| Eric Schmidt | The characteristic of great innovators and great companies is they see a space that others do not. They don't just listen to what people tell them; they actually invent something new, something that you didn't know you needed, but the moment you see it, you say, 'I must have it.' | 125 |
| Matthew McConaughey | I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities. At the same time, when I can go off with a backpack or off on a surfboard or even off on a run somewhere in the woods - that's where I'm really happy. | 125 |
| Ralph Nader | I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations. | 125 |
| Robert H. Schuller | If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. | 125 |
| Rupert Murdoch | The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks. | 125 |
| Warren Bennis | Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work. | 125 |
| Thomas Jefferson | I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. | 126 |
| Robert Kennedy | What is learned on the athletic field is not forgotten, nor are the lessons of character that are forged there ever lost. Consider the contributions in the field of public life, business, law, medicine, and the military of those who actively participated in athletics. | 126 |
| Ashton Kutcher | In the movies, you want a good story and characters that are honest, but you are also looking for a good director who can lead the ship. That's how we look at business. Everybody has a great idea for a start-up, and so do their relatives, and they tell me, 'You gotta build it.' I say, 'I have to believe in it.' | 126 |
| Kevin O'Leary | The only reason to do business is to make money; that's the only reason for doing business. | 126 |
| Orison Swett Marden | No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation. | 126 |
| Elon Musk | Great companies are built on great products. | 201 |
| Elvis Presley | A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts. | 201 |
| Eminem | Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business. | 201 |
| Napoleon Hill | The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail. | 201 |
| Woodrow Wilson | Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. | 201 |
| Alexander Pope | A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. | 201 |
| Anthony Bourdain | If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business. | 201 |
| Thomas A. Edison | Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. | 202 |
| Jane Austen | Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of the mouths of other people. | 202 |
| Robert Kiyosaki | If you or I fail at business, we fail. If we cheat and fail, we go to jail. But if you're rich and politically connected, your incompetence may be protected by a government bailout. | 202 |
| Simon Mainwaring | Not since the digital revolution in the early '90s has technology placed such a comprehensive burden on business, employees and individuals to reinvent their business plans, services and products, and themselves to keep pace with the changing marketplace. | 202 |
| Warren Buffett | Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business. | 203 |
| Iyanla Vanzant | I have learned the hard way to mind my business, without judging who people are and what they do. I am more troubled by the lack of space being provided for the truth to unfold. Humans cannot seem to wait for or honor the truth. Instead, we make it up based on who we believe people should or should not be. | 203 |
| Michel de Montaigne | Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do. | 203 |
| Stephen Covey | If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty. | 204 |
| Vladimir Putin | We need business to understand its social responsibility, that the main task and objective for a business is not to generate extra income and to become rich and transfer the money abroad, but to look and evaluate what a businessman has done for the country, for the people, on whose account he or she has become so rich. | 204 |
| Tom Peters | Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast. | 204 |
| Drake | Rappers aren't the really rich ones. We all have nice houses with studios and cars, but you need a piece of someone's business to be super wealthy. | 205 |
| Elon Musk | The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative. | 205 |
| Jeff Rich | Never argue with a profit. | 205 |
| Elon Musk | It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket. | 206 |
| H. Jackson Brown, Jr. | Put a love note in his shaving kit before he leaves on a business trip. | 206 |
| Leonardo DiCaprio | I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera. | 206 |
| Thomas Carlyle | The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. | 206 |
| Steve Jobs | I want to put a ding in the universe. | 207 |
| Henry Ford | Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs. | 207 |
| Thomas A. Edison | Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward! | 207 |
| Thomas Sowell | If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly. | 207 |
| Scott Adams | Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart. | 207 |
| Ted Turner | Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million. | 207 |
| Donald Trump | So we really need jobs now. We have to take jobs away from other countries because other countries are taking our jobs. There is practically not a country that does business with the United States that isn't making - let's call it a very big profit. I mean China is going to make $300 billion on us at least this year. | 208 |
| Henry Ford | A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large. | 208 |
| Steven Pinker | Racism, because it favors color over talent, is bad for business. | 208 |
| Maya Angelou | I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy - it's serious business. | 209 |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything. | 209 |
| Peter Drucker | People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. | 209 |
| Glenn Beck | When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me? | 209 |
| Mitt Romney | The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government. | 209 |
| Robin S. Sharma | Just imagine how fast, innovative and excellent your business will be once every single teammate - from the janitor to the executive - begins to see themselves as the CEO of their own area of responsibility. | 209 |
| Bill Gates | In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that. | 210 |
| Coco Chanel | There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time! | 210 |
| Norman Cousins | Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country. | 210 |
| Robin S. Sharma | The best of the best understand that people do business with people they like. People do business with people they trust, and people do business with those who make them feel special. | 210 |
| Andy Warhol | Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. | 211 |
| Tiger Woods | I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love. | 211 |
| Jane Austen | Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does. | 212 |
| Orison Swett Marden | The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.' | 212 |
| Isaac Asimov | It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics. | 213 |
| Lewis Black | I've been very lucky. There are guys I know who are really terrific in this business of stand-up who have not gotten the recognition they deserve. And it's nice, if you've put in the time, to achieve that recognition. | 213 |
| Zig Ziglar | I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales. | 214 |
| Robert Kiyosaki | Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job. | 214 |
| Calvin Coolidge | The business of America is business. | 215 |
| Dave Barry | Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes. | 215 |
| James Cash Penney | Exchange ideas frequently. | 215 |
| Walt Disney | Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner. | 216 |
| Pablo Picasso | The people who make art their business are mostly imposters. | 216 |
| Warren Buffett | Our favorite holding period is forever. | 216 |
| Mark Twain | Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks. | 217 |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger | The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams. | 217 |
| Francois de La Rochefoucauld | What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love. | 217 |
| Elbert Hubbard | Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. | 217 |
| George Washington | Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive. | 218 |
| Henry Ford | The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. | 218 |
| John Wooden | I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful. | 218 |
| Robert Kiyosaki | While the Chinese people, as a rule, are good people, my business dealings with Communist Chinese officials have left me disturbed and concerned about the rise of the Chinese Empire. | 218 |
| Hunter S. Thompson | Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope. | 219 |
| J. K. Rowling | No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing. | 219 |
| John Wooden | I worry that business leaders are more interested in material gain than they are in having the patience to build up a strong organization, and a strong organization starts with caring for their people. | 219 |
| P. J. O'Rourke | I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember how the car workers lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in. My father was a car salesman, and I remember how we lived. I remember how modestly we lived. | 220 |
| Barack Obama | If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen. | 221 |
| Steve Jobs | When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. | 221 |
| Margaret Thatcher | I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together. | 221 |
| Zig Ziglar | The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip. | 221 |
| Khalil Gibran | If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. | 222 |
| Andy Warhol | Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. | 222 |
| Dolly Parton | Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman. | 222 |
| Elon Musk | I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done. | 222 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country. | 223 |
| James Surowiecki | If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars. | 223 |
| Abraham Lincoln | If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance. | 224 |
| Steve Jobs | Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost. | 224 |
| Bill Gates | In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone. | 224 |
| Samuel Johnson | Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. | 224 |
| Bill Gates | 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. | 225 |
| Paulo Coelho | When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business whether people like or dislike it. | 225 |
| Charles Baudelaire | For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation. | 225 |
| Will Rogers | If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable. | 226 |
| Jennifer Aniston | I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act. | 226 |
| Kurt Vonnegut | I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us. | 301 |
| Henry Ford | Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets. | 302 |
| Hunter S. Thompson | The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. | 302 |
| Mitch Hedberg | I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, 'You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit.' As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit. | 302 |
| H. Jackson Brown, Jr. | In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely. | 303 |
| Will Rogers | We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business? | 303 |
| Robert Frost | Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market. | 304 |
| Ronald Reagan | The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. | 305 |
| Marc Andreessen | There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it. | 305 |
| Stephen Covey | Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems. | 306 |
| P. J. O'Rourke | Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants. | 306 |
| Steve Jobs | My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts. | 307 |
| Steve Jobs | Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: 'Oh, that's just the way things are done around here.' Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business. | 309 |
| Zig Ziglar | If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you. | 309 |
| Stephen Covey | A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships. | 310 |
| William Blake | I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. | 311 |
| Benjamin Disraeli | My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles. | 312 |
| C. S. Lewis | Joy is the serious business of Heaven. | 313 |
| Ronald Reagan | Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close. | 313 |
| Elon Musk | I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company. | 313 |
| Francis Bacon | Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business. | 313 |
| Kin Hubbard | Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. | 313 |
| Abraham Lincoln | Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. | 314 |
| Donald Trump | But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it's virtually impossible. It's very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms. | 314 |
| Confucius | To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons. | 315 |
| Bill Gates | Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires. | 315 |
| Henry Ward Beecher | Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality. | 315 |
| Robin Williams | Carpe per diem - seize the check. | 316 |
| Peter Diamandis | Your mission is to find a product or service that can positively impact the lives of 1 billion people because that's the game we're playing today. | 317 |
| Confucius | The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. | 319 |
| Noam Chomsky | Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It's a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can't get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy. | 320 |
| Donald Trump | I have used the laws of this country just like the greatest people that you read about every day in business have used the laws of this country, the chapter laws, to do a great job for my company, for myself, for my employees, for my family, et cetera. | 322 |
| Donald Trump | If I don't get along with Democrats, I'm sort of, like, out of business. | 323 |
| Hunter S. Thompson | There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners. | 325 |
| Plato | Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns. | 407 |
| Noam Chomsky | I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven - that's none of my business, ultimately. I won't lecture her on the philosophy of science. | 407 |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | If I love you, what business is it of yours? | 410 |
| Joel Osteen | Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business. | 410 |
| Noam Chomsky | A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a long time with some fluctuations. And even part of the business world is in favor of it, too. But the government won't allow it. | 414 |
| Mahatma Gandhi | It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business. | 417 |
| Winston Churchill | Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon. | 419 |
| Bill Gates | Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. | 420 |
| Aristotle | It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition. | 505 |
| Ambrose Bierce | The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. | 508 |
| Benjamin Franklin | Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion. | 509 |
| Winston Churchill | Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. | 513 |
| Will Rogers | An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's. | 513 |
| Elon Musk | You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place. | 520 |
| George Bernard Shaw | The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business. | 520 |
| Joyce Meyer | Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself. | 521 |
| Winston Churchill | I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod. | 610 |
| Henry David Thoreau | Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him. | 611 |
| Henry David Thoreau | I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. | 723 |
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