Business Quotes · Page 720

The biggest opportunity for big companies has come by far in the digitization of internal processes.

— Jack Welch

Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle of our careers. It's the nature…

— J. Michael Straczynski

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

— Anonymous

Tastes are created by the business interests. How else can you explain the popularity of Al Hirt?

— Charles Mingus

I have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business, and I have to make serious decisions.

— Avril Lavigne

Always keep good company. Never waste an hour with anyone who doesn't lift you up and encourage you.

— Spencer W. Kimball

He [Steve Jobs] had more of the future vision: We can bring this to everyone; we can start a company; we can…

— Steve Wozniak

You must take risks, both with your own money or with borrowed money. Risk taking is essential to business growth.

— J. Paul Getty

“Pinochet shared one of the main aims of his ideological soulmates in Britain: to erase the working class as a concept. His…

— Owen Jones

Were the only major company in the U.S. that is solely in the professional beauty industry. We promised hairdressers when we started…

— John Paul DeJoria

No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance.…

— Steven Pressfield

I'm not in the business to make people aware of me, and publicists are very expensive - they're $3,500 a month! I…

— Debi Mazar

If you love helping people, and you love trying to bring comfort and peace to their life at a very, very difficult…

— Steve Southerland

Sometimes, you release an album and the record company just about ignores it, and so many people don't even know it's out.…

— George Harrison

We believe that business is the engine that drives the car. You've got to build your business base. That means creating more…

— John Hoeven

My upbringing was very un-Hollywood... I was born in New York and grew up on a ranch. I was never really smitten…

— Stephanie Zimbalist

You'll be on one team this minute, then the next day you get traded. So, I mean, I knew how the business…

— Derrick Favors

“There is no greater cause of melancholy than idleness, no greater cure than business.”

— Robert Burton

I took risks, and I did pay a price for it. I was made to answer because a 'Kaun' can't do business…

— Urmila Matondkar

“till thinking had worn out my enterprise, so stout at starting and so early lost.”

— Dante Alighieri

Football is a worldwide business consortium and to satisfy that best you need to find the best players.

— Sam Allardyce

People should mind their own business. This particularly applies to those who are inquisitive, and those who jump to conclusions.

— Arbaaz Khan

German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship.

— Suzanne Fields

There came a time when I had to decide between show business and devoting my full time to medical training. I chose…

— Barbi Benton

While I find that I can keep my nose out of other people's business, I do have a curiosity as to their…

— Robert Breault

I have been on the Urban Brew board for many years and assisted with the artistic evaluation of the various shows that…

— John Kani

Nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement,…

— John Green

What I have proposed would cut regulations and streamline them for small businesses.

— Hillary Clinton

You don't need to buy a $7 billion company to penetrate maritime security. The Mafia doesn't buy FedEx to smuggle.

— James Carafano

Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are.

— Andy Hargreaves

I don't have tiffs with people. I only mind my business, but whatever interferes my freedom of expression, I have always voiced.

— Kamal Haasan

I have a puppy purse, and it's named after my doggie named Sammie, who is at home. It's from Poochie and Company.

— Quvenzhane Wallis

The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It's much more interesting that…

— Biz Stone

My middle daughter is with the Royal Shakespeare Company and was on Broadway several years ago.

— Sam Wanamaker

I started off in Brooklyn, New York, with a small loan and built a business that today is worth well over $10 billion.

— Donald Trump

Know what your customers want most and what your company does best. Focus on where those two meet.

— Kevin Stirtz

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

— Patti Smith

“The Company of the Ring shall be Nine; and the Nine Walkers shall be set against the Nine Riders that are evil.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they…

— Abraham Lincoln

I think entrepreneurs have a great opportunity to think of how to make things more understandable, simple and beautiful.

— J. Christopher Burch