Business Quotes · Page 397

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

— Claudette Colbert

I think entrepreneurship is combining a passion with the tenacity to problem-solve and the fearlessness to fail.

— Julia Hartz

When you get put in a position like that, to shave off the hair of the boss of the company, they're putting…

— Bobby Lashley

I don't think I have had a big break, although joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1986 opened up new horizons.

— Richard McCabe

“A powerful process automatically takes care of progress, productivity and profits.”

— Amit Kalantri

“sometimes people get a burst of strength. It's a gift from God, I guess. So they can finish their business.”

— Kathryn Stockett

“the madness business is filled with people like Tony, reduced to their maddest edges.”

— Jon Ronson

I recorded with Sinatra, but the recording business is a very strange strata right now.

— Skitch Henderson

Nobody wants to hear my political views... so I won't be talking about that. But on diversity, nobody in this company has…

— Brian France

“churches and denominations must be in the business of actively helping to create disciples. Disciples, people who are actively being transformed by…

— Emily C. Heath

I used to drive around looking at the big houses, wondering how they got there. I used to love biographies about successful…

— Mark Cuban

Companies will need to pursue a more diversified business model, but I think those companies that have what I call a focused…

— Kenneth Chenault

I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet…

— Aaron Yoo

I am in a traditional financial services business - but we at Fidelity can see that the evolution of technology is setting…

— Abigail Johnson

“The simple fact is that neither an efficiently successful HOW nor a compelling persuasive WHY is sufficient on its own..without the other…

— Robert M. Olsen

Everyone tries to talk you out of going to college. The consensus being that people are just gonna forget about you, you…

— Larisa Oleynik

My take on the whole dot-com bubble was that a lot of people who wanted to make a lot of money got…

— Craig Newmark

I tend to share whatever I know in general. I've never been a person to horde information for the sake of my…

— Queen Latifah

To some extent, the idea that rock 'n roll used to have this sort of free antediluvian identity, frolicking in the 1950s…

— Ann Powers

Having the ability to be brutally honest with yourself is the greatest challenge you face when creating a business model. Too often…

— Mark Cuban

“Much of what I have done is left unfinished- not because I left it too soon, not because I was lazy, but…

— Jeanette Winterson

Through an unwieldy combination of big government, big military, big business, big labor and big cities, we have created an unworkable mega-nation…

— Thomas Naylor

My mother was a writer. She acted in one film before she decided that Bollywood wasn't good enough for her. My two…

— Anand Mahindra

“I’m acquiring handshakes left and right. I collect introductions, and the best place to procure them is at chamber of commerce networking…

— Jarod Kintz

“True wealth, success, and happiness can only be achieved by balancing our business life with the duty we have to our self…

— Joseph C. Kunz Jr

Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family working as…

— Bernard Arnault

“History is a slippery business; the past is not a constant but a landscape that mutates according to argument and opinion.”

— Penelope Lively

Dear, Heart Please stop getting all up in my business. Your job is to pump blood, that's it. Sincerely, Brain.

— Ash Sweeney

My personal life is only my business and the business of the people who are close to me.

— Ileana D'Cruz

Lust is a captivity of the reason and an enraging of the passions. It hinders business and distracts counsel. It sins against…

— Jeremy Taylor

I myself am a builder and get totally excited about building Yahoo! as a brand and building it into a bigger and…

— Terry Semel

Sometimes when you follow your dream; it opens the door for others to be able to follow theirs.

— Neil Patel

I know that things change and markets change. Those are the realities of the business.

— Michael McDonald

I remember spending time in Stratford growing up with all that company running round and putting on silly hats and just having…

— Tom Burke

“I'm not a dream crusher. The real world already does enough of that without me getting into the business”

— Tim Tharp

If WikiLeaks were a for-profit company, determining its real value would be a nearly impossible task.

— Evgeny Morozov

After 39 years of business, I'm still learning. I go through this every year -identifying new strategies that are extremely important.

— Fred DeLuca

If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

— Larry Page

The business of America is business, but it's about high-integrity business. It's about a business where you keep your word, where you…

— Reid Hoffman

If you run a business, put on top your employees, then your consumers, and then your shareholders.

— Richard Branson