Business Quotes · Page 562

Organized force alone enables the quiet and the weak to go about their business and to sleep securely in their beds, safe…

— Alfred Thayer Mahan

Show business is like Champagne. You'll appreciate it more if you don't drink it everyday

— Jay Leno

If you are competing at a high level, you have to accept that there are going to be ups and downs, because…

— Carlos Condit

“I've got a business to run. Elmo's bringing over a new bed frame. Dora broke her's last night. That girl should be…

— Ruta Sepetys

Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business…

— Karen Mills

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Sometimes women entrepreneurs are their own challenge, [in terms of] believing in themselves. There is no need to apologise for being ambitious.

— Tory Burch

What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies.

— Gerry Spence

Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic…

— Michael Sheen

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the…

— Zora Neale Hurston

Now, on the other hand, if we booted all the men out of corporate America, and we had all women there, quite…

— Vicki Donlan

To me, conservative means believing in a minimum amount of government and a maximum amount of freedom - and keeping government out…

— Lyn Nofziger

I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a…

— Charles Bukowski

Because a God who is ultimately most focused on his own glory will be about the business of restoring us, who are…

— Matt Chandler

“She resolved conflicts by either agreeing or quietly going about her business and doing things her way. Conflict was too hard to…

— Deanna Lynn Sletten

I don't know that you can do it as a satire. I mean, the business is crazy enough as it is. It's…

— Barry Levinson

The early Rockefellers made their wealth from being in certain businesses and remained personally very wealthy. Tata's were different in the sense…

— Ratan Tata

I'm glad to be a part of the era which has witnessed a huge revolution. Be it politics, cinema, sports, business or…

— Sherlyn Chopra

There are two sure ways to fail: never get started and quit before you succeed. Many companies promote the language of risk-taking…

— Michael Josephson

The way I try to simplify my job is that I have two lists - I have a list of all the…

— Travis Kalanick

The world's moving; people move around the world. A lot of people coming to this country have terrific talent to bring to…

— Bob Brown

“He disliked English, not because they had invaded his country, but because of the effort required to understand their different languages and…

— Leila Aboulela

These issues of gender equity and diversity have been ongoing conversations throughout the decades. I remember even when I was just starting…

— Gabrielle Carteris

Avarice, the spur of industry, is so obstinate a passion, and works its way through so many real dangers and difficulties, that…

— David Hume

Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior', for by living up to it there is no such word as fail.

— P. T. Barnum

There is truly no other business in the world like making movies. It's unique, it's extremely demanding and difficult, but it's also…

— Gabriel Campisi

The state is a vast enterprise for declaring all sorts of things legal for itself that would be illegal for us.

— Llewellyn Rockwell

My best business decision is always to have been unembarrassed about negotiating a decent deal. Not being coy or shy about money…

— Anne Robinson

Even though I was in close proximity to everything, it never really dawned on me to pursue a career in show business.

— Vicki Lawrence

The company of good and true people is like entering a perfume shop. Whether you buy anything or not, you are bound…

— Punkinhead Abhishek

Government has learned a lot from the business world - and I hope that some companies will recognise they can learn from…

— David Lidington

I am a basic social activist with small-business experience, and you go where you need to go.

— Fred Eychaner

You know, I've always wanted to be a young Charles Kuralt. I started in this business with just a Winnebago and a…

— Jon Stewart

If there's something bothering me in the business end of things with people I work with, I just say it right out.

— Dolly Parton

The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years.

— Rupert Murdoch

People will pay for content ... Everybody is going to have to start charging. They'd be crazy not to.

— Lloyd Braun

I've never been good in the financial and business arenas. I handle the creative side of things

— Daryl Hannah

Empathy is the bridge to understand those who you may be lucky to one day lead, and it is - in my…

— Andy Dunn

After being on the road so much I want to spend more time with my family, who I hear are wonderful people.

— Howie Mandel

And the greeter is what sets the tone for this company and I've been on TV a little bit this morning.

— Lee Scott