Business Quotes · Page 669

It's strange how extras have become such a big part of the business. I don't know what I think of it. I…

— John Landis

As a person, I've been in the business since 1969, and I never remember getting an honest count based upon how many…

— Burning Spear

“The chaos around you is none of your business: your business is how you feel about it.”

— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA

It's too much show business and too much prompting, too much artificiality, and not really debates. They're rehearsed appearances.

— George H. W. Bush

Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.

— Eric Hoffer

The Indian television industry has catapulted into a huge business. Films, however, have not lost one shred of charisma or commercial lucrativity.

— Sushmita Sen

What's so wonderful about business is that every time I start thinking I'm special, I get knocked on my ass.

— Fran Tarkenton

There are lots of people who say you are born an entrepreneur - you either have that gene or not. I really…

— Peter Jones

My advice to fledgling entrepreneurs is always the same: build a company that you plan to be with for the next 10…

— Vivek Wadhwa

“For every reader who finds a piece of themselves within these chapters, I hope I might inspire you to practice smarter business…

— Kelli Christina

For me, it really doesn't make much difference whether you work with someone two hours or two months. We're there to do…

— Ken Wahl

We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders ... In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force…

— Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

Many business leaders are asking fundamental questions about what business they're in, why they are doing it and how it can be…

— Amory Lovins

The battle over genetically modified crops is rife with business interests and political opportunism. When GMOs were first produced in laboratories around…

— Richard J. Roberts

Trade is very good for the country. It's very good for the GDP. It's good for wages, but it doesn't mean it's…

— Jamie Dimon

Roughly speaking, when you are dealing with business firms operating in a competitive system, you can assume that they're going to act…

— Ronald Coase

“Mistakes can be avoided when you start asking the right questions. The more complicated the problem, the more crucial it is that…

— Sarah K. Ramsey

“Consider Mr. Spock of Star Trek, a naive archetype of rationality. Spock’s emotional state is always set to “calm,” even when wildly…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

“Pretty quickly, I stopped seeing the company as an engine of community. Instead, I saw it as a mythmaker offering only an…

— Bryant Simon

There are so many businesses that are succeeding on Yelp that don't pay us a dollar, and we're really excited about that.

— Jeremy Stoppelman

Make it your business to draw out the best in others by being an exemplar yourself.

— Epictetus

I think art maybe has just become very consumer-oriented, and maybe it's always been that way because it is a business.

— Noel Wells

I am a huge fan of Alan Furst. Furst is the best in the business--the most talented espionage novelist of our generation.

— Vince Flynn

Showed good business judgment, knowing that these continued lawsuits would be the untimely death of the gun industry.

— Andrew Cuomo

Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them.

— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.

— Steve Blank

I see this [biodiesel] as a way for the farmer to grow fuel and food and put him back in business again

— Willie Nelson

In many ways, that affection is the real reward for 56 years in the business. Although the money ain't exactly bad either.

— Perry Como

“If people often judge you by the company that you keep...then choose your company wisely my friend, choose wisely!”

— Timothy Pina

There are no quick wins in business - it takes years to become an overnight success.

— Richard Branson

I love performing, and it's important that I do it at my own club, absolutely. It's good for me. It's good for…

— Brad Garrett

People are gonna get tired of Linda Perry the producer, but I will always be in the music business. And I will…

— Linda Perry

It seems to me probable that of all our economic life the element on which we are inclined to place too low…

— Calvin Coolidge

“Across clearings, an eye, A widening deepening greenness, Brilliantly, concentratedly, Coming about its own business.”

— Ted Hughes

No one gave me a recipe for how to create company culture. I wish I had had one.

— Andy Dunn

I'm not the guy to get big record company budgets. My budget is Britney Spears' catering money.

— Shaggy

“I speak the truth. Not everyone who says they are ready to hear it really are.”

— Monika Zands

I'm still a woman of color in this business and there are times when you still have to walk through extra doors…

— Jasmine Cephas Jones

“If you are in a position where you can reach people, then use your platform to stand up for a cause. HINT:…

— Germany Kent

Yeah, me and Q-Tip is cool outside of the business, but you know, within the business sometimes it can get ugly, you…

— Phife Dawg