Business Quotes · Page 575

One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'

— Gabourey Sidibe

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

— Martin Luther

Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.

— Horace Greeley

We have to get away from the class warfare and recognize that we are growing jobs by helping small business.

— Norm Coleman

“Man is indisputably endowed with reason; the problem is only how he uses his reason in the company of others.”

— Robert Musil

Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being…

— John Adams

I feel relief about the Oscars. You know, you're not in this business for prizes but, okay, I missed one.

— Philippe Falardeau

Today's business model is bad for people, bad for the economy and bad for stability and democracy,

— Sharan Burrow

“The beautiful thing about social is that if you’ve got great stuff, [readers will] share it on their own. It’s not that…

— Anonymous

'Empire' was already given its green light. I was like, 'Alright, this makes perfect sense. They wouldn't be going this hard on…

— Rotimi

Copyright's democratising effect is seen most clearly in the music business. Anyone who can speak, sing, rap or hum and operate a…

— Mick Hucknall

I think 'Y&R's future is contingent upon the ratings. Obviously, none of the soaps are kept alive for the sake of loyalty.…

— Eric Braeden

My best friend Jerry started a boat-washing business, and it was one of the most critical experiences of my life. I got…

— Bill Rancic

When you come from a family of actors, people in show business, they really know to celebrate good news and to celebrate…

— Katherine Waterston

I'd watch my father get up at 5 o'clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping…

— Ed Bradley

War is big business. It's a lot of money going to and fro, and unfortunately a lot of angst, and a lot…

— Jon Anderson

“I see,” she said softly, nodding her head as though she really did. “Well, it’s your business, of course.” She turned her…

— Diane Setterfield

I assisted Bobby Houghton at Halmstads, and we were both just under 30. We'd say, 'Wouldn't it be great to do this…

— Roy Hodgson

“You shouldn’t spend your time listening to the advice of people who have never done what you want to do. You should…

— Clay Clark

“Something about the occasion makes me think I'm at my own wake. Sitting for a picture is morbid business. A portrait doesn't…

— Don DeLillo

“The Four Actions Framework consists of four questions that are designed to challenge an industry’s established structure and business logic: (1) Which…

— Anonymous

When I hear that Jennifer Lopez is such a role model for Latinas, on the one hand I respect her for her…

— Ana Castillo

“Obviously it won’t do to love somebody and enjoy that person’s company but then, when things between you get difficult, to abandon…

— Norman Fischer

If you're going to go into the movie business it is so full of heartbreak and you get so close and it…

— John Buffalo Mailer

There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to…

— Norman Ralph Augustine

Desire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success.

— Zig Ziglar

We play the right way at the Spurs. We don't go about business the wrong way, we play hard and represent the…

— Patty Mills

Cultivating diversity in all its forms - of our content, products, and people - is one of our most important business imperatives.

— Jeff Bewkes

For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.

— Wilfrid Laurier

Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought…

— Bruce Barton

The business of working at getting work is pretty intense. But you don't get the rewards of actually working.

— Didi Conn

We've got to start making people realise that it's a proud thing to run a business, to export your goods around the…

— Karren Brady

I have fantasies of burning down an insurance company just so THEY have to make a claim.

— Alonzo Bodden

“The risk management needs to lift up from risk control to risk intelligence which can identify the potential business growth opportunities.”

— Pearl Zhu

In the simplest terms, a fast-growing company can't keep growing at the same fast rate forever. It eventually has to slow down.

— Om Malik

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.

— Aristotle

Boy you know you love it. How we're smart enough to make these millions. Strong enough to bare the children. Then get…

— Beyonce

I don't do a lot of things business-wise. For the most part, I focus on what my job is and do that.

— Jim Boeheim

“Aboard a boat of leaves I float, allowing new stories to unfold. Of cresting and falling winds, streaking words across the sky.…

— Susan L. Marshall

It wasn't until I'd turned 50 and had been in the business 25 years that I realized I might actually have a…

— James Garner