Business Quotes · Page 257

By 11th grade, I was in show business as a professional.

— Chubby Checker

Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.

— Dave Barry

It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.

— Anonymous

“Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do.”

— Michel de Montaigne

I don't really plan on working a 9-to-5 job. I want to own my own business.

— Seimone Augustus

I like to encourage people who are entrepreneurs-in-waiting.

— Phil Bredesen

Economy: cutting down other people's wages.

— J. B. Morton

“It is very vulgar to talk about one's business.”

— Oscar Wilde

Good wages are pro business, since they reduce turnover, increase morale, produce better-skilled employees, and improve productivity.

— Jim Hightower

Competition makes you better, always, always makes you better, even if the competitor wins.

— Carlos Slim

Most business problems can be solved if you can teach yourself to look beyond the dollar sign.

— Harvey Mackay

If you don't invest in risk management, it doesn't matter what business you're in, it's a risky business.

— Gary Cohn

It may well be that you are in a bad state, but to keep company with someone worse than you would allow…

— Ibn Ata Allah

Free enterprise is a rough and competitive game. It is a hell of a lot better than a government monopoly.

— Ronald Reagan

Trump is beset by clear and alarming conflicts between his international business concerns and the national interest.

— Joy Reid

I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my…

— Andy Gibb

Nothing is more pleasant for me than to be on location in the country that I love, in any of our western…

— George Stevens

I served in all commissioned ranks from second lieutenant to major general. And during that period, I spent most of my time…

— Smedley Butler

I never close the door on my company. WWE always there for the legend, and I love my boss the Mr. Vince…

— The Iron Sheik

I think that on paper we did make so many of the classic mistakes that a punk band makes, signing to a…

— Laura Jane Grace

My opinion is that the movie business should show an accurate picture, but I think the responsibility lies in the educational system.…

— Michael Horse

There are very few black-and-white truths in management or in business, but one that I have found is that people either hire…

— Nancy Dubuc

Professional services industries like finance, consulting, and legal services are, by definition, meta-industries. That is, they serve to help large companies raise…

— Andrew Yang

I'm noticing generations that are coming up behind me that have gone to university or conservatory and, while they have beautiful technique…

— Ariana DeBose

But to truly transform our economy, protect our security, and save our planet from the ravages of climate change, we need to…

— Barack Obama

I think Donald Trump is very uninterested in his business. In the past he would be talking up his business, but since…

— Christopher Ruddy

Presidents may go to the seashore or to the mountains. Cabinet officers may go about the country explaining how fortunate the country…

— William Howard Taft

“If I could always find something to interest me the solution might be at hand, but with the same dreary prospect of…

— Wallace E. Baker

A cooperative enterprise is the key alternative to a traditional capitalist enterprise. All the workers, whatever they do inside an enterprise, have…

— Richard D. Wolff

I believe that we will see cases like these that will continue because we're talking about companies that are doing business with…

— Marco Rubio

Instead of working hard to keep their share of a shrinking pie, or working even harder to make sure the industry stays…

— Seth Godin

It's not that I believe women are more ethical. I will say that one of women's greatest weaknesses is probably our greatest…

— Vicki Donlan

I didn't need to depend on the record company to publish my records.

— Solomon Burke

Most of the people in my business, they're a lot different than I am.

— Bob Backlund

Entrepreneurs constantly confuse what they do with who they are.

— Howard A. Tullman

We applaud any company making business decisions that empower women.

— Whitney Wolfe Herd

Do not be deceived: bad company corrupts good morals.

— Bible

I grew up thinking of show business as a business.

— Toni Basil

Companies fail for lack of brains and effort.

— Mark Cuban

It's the hurt business, it's boxing. We're there to get it in.

— Anonymous